In this episode, The Polygon's Assistant Curator Justin Ramsey is in conversation with artists Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes and Maya Beaudry about their exhibition Everything Leaks.
Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes (b.1991, Hong Kong) is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in photography, but whose mediums also encompass sculpture and music. Recent exhibitions include Open Heart, Run Off, Sibling Gallery, Toronto; and Green Glass Door, Trapp Projects, Vancouver. Other projects include a current public art commission with the City of Vancouver’s Platforms 2020 program, as well as a forthcoming exhibition with Cuedlice Brazelton at Blinkers, Winnipeg, in July 2021. Kriangwiwat Holmes holds a BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and was the 2017 recipient of the Philip B. Lind Prize.
Maya Beaudry (b. 1988, Vancouver) received a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2013 and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2017. She has exhibited work in Vancouver, Montréal, St. John’s, and Los Angeles, with solo exhibitions in Berlin and Marseille. She was the recipient of the Hnatyshyn Foundation William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts/CD Howe Award, and has participated in residencies at Triangle France in Marseille and September Spring at the Kesey Farm. She lives and works on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Everything Leaks is on view at The Polygon until February 7.
