CAG | In Conversation: Douglas Watt & Connor Crable

In Conversation: Douglas Watt & Connor Crable

Please join us for a talk at the gallery between Douglas Watt and Connor Crable on the occasion of Watt's exhibition, Mayor of the Village.

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Douglas Watt (b. 1990, St. Catharines) is an artist living and working in Vancouver's Davie Village on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He holds a BA (Art History) from Carleton University, Ottawa; an MFA from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; and was a visiting student in Criticism & Curatorial Practice at OCAD University, Toronto. He has presented solo exhibitions at Unit 17, Vancouver (2019), Tara Downs, New York (2021), and Pumice Raft, Toronto (2024). His work has been featured in Artforum and BlackFlash Magazine. Watt co-edits the publication Porthole with Hamish Hardie.

Connor Crable is an art historian and former artist currently completing his PhD in art history and theory at the University of British Columbia. Crable holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MSc with Distinction in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of Edinburgh.

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