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Curating in Collaboration: Artists as Interpreters of the Collection introduces the forthcoming exhibition One Hundred Artists Deep (2026) developed through Andrea Valentine-Lewis’s current Curatorial Fellowship at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art. She will share the personal influences and collaborative process behind her exhibition concept, which invites artists to select and respond to work in the Artists for Kids Collection, specifically by the Collection’s founders: Gordon Smith, Jack Shadbolt, and Bill Reid. By activating dialogue between past and present, the exhibition reimagines how collections can be engaged and (re)interpreted, exploring how artist-led approaches can shift institutional perspectives and centre contemporary voices.

Biography

(she/her) is a curator and writer based on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh people, also known as Vancouver. Her exhibitions have been presented at Access Gallery (2025), Equinox Gallery (2022), Burrard Arts Foundation (2022), Deluge Contemporary Art (2020), and Unit 17 (2019), with public art projects at Vancouver Art Gallery (2024) and Capture Photography Festival (2022). Valentine-Lewis works as a Curatorial Assistant at Vancouver Art Gallery where she most recently worked with Eva Respini on Postcards from the Heart: From the Brigitte and Henning Freybe Collection (2025) and Firelei Báez (2024). She received an MA in Art History from McGill University and a BA in Art, Performance and Cinema Studies from 91��ܽ. She was the 2022 recipient of the Emerging Alumni Award from SFU’s Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology, and was recently named the 2025/26 Curatorial Fellow at the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art.

is a sound artist/performance duo residing on unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Peoples (Vancouver, Canada). With on violin and on electronics, the duo utilizes sound-to-colour synaesthesia as a compositional tool. They work in a hybridized model, and aim to blur the distinction between acoustic and electronic sound. Sapphire Haze explores how sound can embody lived experiences and can be utilized to express oneself. They are alumni of the music and sound area at the SCA and their work has been presented at Vines Art Festival, Modulus Festival, Gateway Theatre, The Fox Cabaret, Firehall Arts Centre, and Lobe Studio. They were the featured artist for Music on Main’s 2021/2022 Emerge on Main program, and made their international debut at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival in June 2022. Recently, they designed sound with rice & beans theatre, collaborated with Clala Project, performed at active/passive festival on Galiano Island, and were in residence at The Dance Centre with dance artist Natalia Martineau. Their work was also featured in a recent presentation of in the wake of the sleeping machine vol 1 by choreographer Shion Skye Carter. Currently, they are working with Ruby Slippers Theatre for The Baking Show Show: The Play, written by Faly Mevamanana and directed by Jasmine Chen. They will be releasing their debut EP in early 2026, mixed and mastered by Murat Çolak.

Featuring films by Pablo Álvarez-Mesa, Sophia Biedka, Ryan Ermacora, Hayley Gauvin, Jessica Johnson, Stephanie Porter, Marianne Thodas, Adrian Underhill, Cassandra Virtue & Colin Williscroft. These films were chosen from the SCA’s archive by Professor Noé Rodrígues especially for screening in the lobby environment.

Approaching the 10-year anniversary of the last performance of Winners and Losers, writers and performers Marcus Youssef and James Long offer a verbatim reading of the work's final iteration. For this presentation Youssef and Long subject both the text and themselves to rigorous scoring and critique from a panel of students.

Winners and Losers was performed over 200 times internationally in 20 different festivals and venues (Berlin, New York, Washington DC, Toronto, Dublin, Reykjavik, Vancouver) and nominated for a Governor General's Award in 2016. The performance begins as a conversation between lifelong friends Marcus Youssef and James Long who sit at a table and play a game they made up, naming people, places and things, and debating whether they are winners or losers. But as the competition heats up, things get increasingly personal. The focus of debate shifts from Pamela Anderson, microwave ovens, and Goldman Sachs, to social class, race, family histories, and the ruthless logic of capitalism.

Biographies

Alumnus James Long is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance at 91��ܽ's School for the Contemporary Arts. His work, research, and teaching span a variety of contexts, including live performance, collaborative methods, community-engaged practice, urban intervention, and public art. His projects have been presented across North America, Europe, and Asia. From 2003 to 2022, James served as co-artistic director of Theatre Replacement with Maiko Yamamoto. In 2019, they became the first co-recipients of Canada's largest honour for performance-making, the Siminovitch Prize.

's plays include Winners and Losers, A Line in the Sand, Jabber, Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil, King Arthur's Night (now a feature film from Opus 59), because i love the diversity, Peter Panties, Adrift, and three iterations of Vancouver's East Van Panto. They have been produced across Canada and around the world, from Seattle to Portland to Edmonton to LA to New York to Reykjavik to London, Berlin, Frankfurt and Hong Kong. Known for his collaborative practice, Marcus' long-time co-creators include James Long, Niall McNeil, Veda Hille, Guillermo Verdecchia and Camyar Chai. Marcus is a recipient of Canada's largest theatre award, the Siminovitch Prize for Theatre for his body of work as a writer and mentor. He has also received Germany’s Ikarus Prize, the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award, the Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award, the Chalmers' Canadian Play Award, a Seattle Times Footlight award, the Vancouver Critics’ Innovation award (three times), and an Honorary Fellowship from Douglas College. 

Alumnus Stefan Smulovitz will move through the gallery with his violin, selecting artworks as inspiration for short improvised performances.

Biography

is an award-winning composer who is known for his creative use of technology and sound manipulation. He produces vast sonic worlds via violin, viola, theremin, electronics, and Kenaxis, the game-changing software he developed. Stefan’s craft has been honed through creating nearly 100 live film scores, innumerable dance and theatre scores, and hundreds of live performances with top improvisers from around the world. He has collaborated with filmmakers, dancers, theatre performers, poets, writers, visual artists, and theoretical particle physicists. His latest album can be heard on all major streaming services.

Alumna Justine A. Chambers and Josh Martin will perform a new work in the gallery.

Biographies

is a dance artist and educator living and working on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver, Canada. Her practice is a collaboration with her Black matrilineal heritage, and extends from this continuum and its entanglements with Western contemporary dance and visual arts practices. At the centre of her practice is a question often posed by her grandmother: “You feel me?” This question is both a declaration of one’s personal orientation, and an invitation to reorient and include what is held in our flesh. Chambers meets this question in her work by attending to individual and collective embodied archives, social choreographies of the everyday, and choreography/dance as otherwise ways of being in relation. Chambers’ work has been hosted at galleries, festivals, and theaters nationally and internationally including Portland Institute of contemporary Art, Portland, OR; Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Troy, NY; Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, ON; Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, QC; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany; National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON; Agora de la Danse, Montreal, QC; Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, PA; Artspeak, Vancouver, BC; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; Western Front, Vancouver, BC; The Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC; Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver, BC; and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Chambers is an Assistant Professor in Dance at the School for Contemporary Arts at 91��ܽ, Vancouver, BC, and Associate Artist to The Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC. Chambers is Max Tyler-Hite’s mother.

Originally from Alberta, Canada, Josh Martin (he/him) is a maker, performer and producer who has been based in so-called Vancouver for over 20 years. He is co-founder and current Artistic Co-Director of , and maintains an ongoing career as an interpreter and collaborator for dozens of dance companies and independent choreographers across Canada. Through both Josh’s independent practice, and with Company 605, his choreographic work has been presented throughout Canada and internationally, touring to numerous festivals and venues in over 15 countries worldwide. Josh is a past recipient of Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award and, alongside his partner Lisa Mariko Gelley, the 2024 Lola McLaughlin Legacy Award celebrating achievement in Dance.