Vanessa Kwan is a Vancouver-based artist, writer and curator. Her practice is often collaborative, site-specific and interdisciplinary. Recent projects include a permanent public artwork called Geyser for Hillcrest Park (with Erica Stocking), Sad Sack, a series of events + collaborations on the subject of melancholy, and This Creeping Root, a moonlight garden. She is a founding member of the performance collective Norma. She has received a number of grants and residencies, and was selected for the Canada Council's Asia Pacific Visual Arts Delegation in 2014. As performance curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, she produced FUSE, the gallery’s premiere performance event, from 2008 - 14. She currently works as Curator with grunt gallery, and as Producer/ Curator with Other Sights for Artists Projects. She writes regularly on art and visual culture, and is working on an artist book about sleeplessness, a telegraph station and twins.
