The Audain Visual Artist in Residence (AVAIR) program brings artists and practitioners to Vancouver who have contributed significantly to the field of contemporary art and whose work resonates with local and international visual art discourses. The visiting artists interact with the students and faculty of the School for the Contemporary Arts as well as the broader visual arts and cultural communities and the community-at-large. In keeping with the experimental nature of the School for the Contemporary Arts the terms of engagement are open and change from artist to artist. The cornerstone of the residency is the sharing of artistic research. The program is generously funded by the Audain Foundation Endowment Fund. Kathy Slade has been the director of the AVAIR since 2020.
Irena Haiduk
Image: Cabaret Économique, The Night Cast, 2022. 3k image for various formats, directed by Irena Haiduk and Anna Shteynshleyger.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Image: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Once Removed, 2019. Two-channel video installation with sound. Courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley.
Ursula Johnson
Image: Heidi takes a selfie at the first ITHA Retail Outlet, Ursula Johnson, 2018. Central Art Garage, Ottawa ON. Photo by Leah Snyder.
Oliver Ressler: No Future is cancelled
Image: Oliver Ressler, Barrucading the Ice Sheets, 2019-2022
Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research)
Photo: Adam Ferguson for The New York Times
Heba Y. Amin
Heba Y. Amin, The Master’s Tools I (restaging of Herman Soergel’s portrait), 2018, Archival b/w print, edition of 5 + 1AP, 86 x 110 cm,
VISUAL ART FORUM
Pablo José Ramirez, Jeremy Deller, Sandra Brewster, Irena Haiduk, Sanja Iveković, Charles Gaines, Samson Young, and Tanya Lukin Linklater.
Alejandro Cesarco
Alejandro Cesarco, Dedication, Takes/Outakes (Layered), 2019. Screenshot, dimensions yet undecided.
Raven Chacon
Raven Chacon, For Carmina Escobar (score of For Zitkála-Šá), ongoing. Courtesy the artist.
Sarah Pierce
Sarah Pierce, Campus (2011). Commissioned by Georgina Jackson for the Mattress Factory. The Pittsburgh Press, October 15, 1969. Courtesy Civil Rights Archive, University of Pittsburgh.
taisha paggett
taisha paggett. i believe in echoes, 2018. Performance documentation on June 17, 2018 as part of Made in L.A. 2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Photo: Justin Sullivan.
![Ricardo Basbaum, collective-conversation, 2013. Text, voices, live reading, live recording (with Daniela Mattos, Faia Díaz, Jesus Lopez Vilar [Vili], María Asunción, Arufe Carredano, Pedro de Llano, Ricardo Basbaum, Rocío Figueroa Guisande).](/content/sfu/sca/projects---activities/audain-visual-artist-in-residence/_jcr_content/main_content/textimage_7/image.img.original.low.jpg/1599170032224.jpg)
Audain Visual Artist in Residence
2023
2022
2021
Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti (Decolonizing Architecture Art Research)
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
2010
Find out more about the SCA's Visual Art area HERE.