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