2021 – Makiko Hara

2021 Alvin Balkind Curator’s Prize – Makiko Hara


Makiko Hara • photo by Paul Wong Projects


Architypes: Elspeth Pratt, Renee Van Halm, Sally Smart, Callum Morton, Yuichi Higashionna, Kyoco Taniyama, co-curated with Greg Bellerby and Felicity Fenner, view of installation by Yuichi Higashionna, Charles H. Scott Gallery, 2004, photo credit Cedric Bomford and Verena Kaminiarz


Kyohei Sakaguchi: Zero Yen House, Vancouver Art Gallery, part of NEXT: A series on emerging artists from the Pacific Rim, 2006, photo credit Tomas Svab


Ujino Muneteru: Plywood City, Vancouver Art Gallery, as a part of MashUp: The Birth of Modern Art, 2016


Koki Tanaka: Turning the Lights On, Centre A, 2007, photo credit William Ting


Koki Tanaka: Turning the Lights On, Centre A, 2007, photo credit William Ting


Beijing-Vancouver: Garry Neil Kennedy and Cathy Busby, installation and artists’ talk, Centre A, 2009, photo credit Hank Bull


Lani Maestro: “her rain,” Centre A, 2010, photo by Hua Jin


To|from: BC Electric Railway 100 years (with Annabel Vaughan), artists: Raymond Boisjoly, Stan Douglas, Ali Kazimi, Vanessa Kwan, Evan Lee and Cindy Mochizuki, Centre A, 2012, photo credit Trevor Brady


Nobuo Kubota: Sonorous Resonance, sound-based performance, Centre A, 2011, photo credit VANDOC, courtesy of LIVE International Performance Biennale


Stories in A Story, performance conducted by Le Brothers in collaboration with 22 local artists, VIVO, 2015, photo by VANDOC, courtesy of LIVE International Performance Biennale


Maiko Jinushi: Sound of Desires, performance, Western Front, 2017, photo credit VANDOC, courtesy of LIVE International Performance Biennale


Nile Koetting: first,class, performance, Western Front, 2017, photo credit VANDOC, courtesy of LIVE International Performance Biennale


Tari Ito: Before the 37 Trillion Pieces Get to Sleep, performance, EDAM, Western Front, Vancouver, 2019, photo credit VANDOC, courtesy of LIVE International Performance Biennale


Yoshihiro Suda: Weed, Another City, Centre A, collaboration between artists Yoshihiro Suda and Paul de Guzman and art critic Masashi Ogura, 2009, photo credit Hank Bull, the exhibition travelled to Musee d’art Joliette, Quebec, 2009-2010


Catastrophe Theory: Randy and Berenicci, interactive performance, multimedia installation, Scotia Bank Nuit Blanche, 2009, photo credit Dean Goodwin


World Tea Party, PR Image, Bryan Mulvihill, Centre A, 2010, photo: Debra Zhou


Sugar Cane Lady Project – Liar Ben at Meet and Speak Tour by Yoshie Yamada, Fictive Communities Asia, Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama (37 Artists and group of over 100 artists), 2014, photo credit Yasuyuki Kasagi


Ich Cho Shin Mu, Khan Lee: Temporary Outdoor Installation, Yonago City, Totori, Japan, 2015, photo credit Yuichi Kayano


Cindy Mochizuki: Rock Paper Scissors, Yonago City Museum, 2018, photo by Yuichi kayano


Elizabeth MacKenzie: Unlikeness, Teck Gallery, 2020, photo credit Rachel Topham Photography


Makiko Hara, My Kitchen Anthropology Museum, 2020-ongoing, photo credit Makiko Hara

 

Publications


The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture, published by Vancouver Art Gallery, 2002; contributor and research assistant


Another City/Une autre ville, 2009, published by Centre A; contributor and editor


Another City/Une autre ville (interior), 2009, published by Centre A; contributor and editor


Mutations – Perspective on Photography (English and French), Edited by Chantal Pontbriand, Paris Photo, Steidl, France, 2011


Fictive Communities Asia, Koganecho Bazaar, 2014; document contributor and editor


Rock Paper Scissors, K is for Kayashima, project document archive by Cindy Mochizuki; contributor and project curator


Rock Paper Scissors, K is for Kayashima (interior), project document archive by Cindy Mochizuki; contributor and project curator