The Power Plant

In Conversation: Howie Tsui with Justine Kohleal

Thu May 20 2021

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

FREE

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 Howie Tsui: from swelling shadows, we draw our bows

Artist Howie Tsui will be in conversation with Assistant Curator Justine Kohleal, curator of the exhibition From swelling shadows, we draw our bows. Tsui and Kohleal will discuss Tsui's artistic process, elaborating on the materials, methods, and meanings of works in the exhibition. The program will end with questions from the audience.

For a virtual tour of the exhibition, please click HERE.


Howie Tsui

Howie Tsui (Tsui Ho Yan / 徐浩恩, b. 1978 in Hong Kong and raised in Lagos, Nigeria and Thunder Bay) currently lives and works in Vancouver, Canada. Recent solo exhibitions include the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida (2020); Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver (2020); Ottawa Art Gallery (2019); OCAT Museum, Xi’an, China (2018); and Vancouver Art Gallery (2017). Select group exhibitions include the Asian Art Fair, Paris (2019); Ottawa Art Gallery (2018); Art Labor, Shanghai (2015); Dalhousie Art Gallery, Nova Scotia (2015); Para Site, Hong Kong (2014); and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2014). Tsui received Canada Council's Joseph Stauffer Prize in 2005 and was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award in 2018. He holds a BFA (2002) from the University of Waterloo.