November 2024

Alexandra Bischoff (Long Term Artist, Onsite Coordinator 2023-24)

Alexandra Bischoff (b. 1991, Amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton, AB) holds a Fine-Arts Diploma from MacEwan University (2012), a BFA in Visual Arts Studio from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2015), and an MFA from Concordia University in Intermedia (2021). Bischoff’s artworks manifest as multimedia installations, sculptures, and writing; their art-making processes as a whole are based in durational performance. While in residency at SAR, Bischoff has been researching family archives and Canada’s homesteading histories to investigate what it means to be a housing-insecure settler on stolen Indigenous land.

Christina Dommer

Christina Dommer (any pronouns) was born, lives, and works on the traditional, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people (i.e. Vancouver, B.C.), and works predominantly in drawing and painting. Their practice explores humour and absurdism, social commentary through satire, and internet culture. She also has a deep interest in interrogating the hierarchy of images and the boundaries between ‘high’ and ‘low’ art. He has a diploma in Journalism from Langara College and a BFA from Emily Carr University.

Anneke Dresselhuis (they/them)

Anneke is a learner and artist of mixed Dutch and Scottish-Ukrainian descent currently based on unceded Coast Salish territories. A recent graduate of UBC’s BFA program, their interdisciplinary, research-based art practice examines how our bodies experience the abstraction of living in digital, information-based economies. Engaging with the growing confluences of epistemic imperialism, neo-colonial power relations, human exceptionalism and technological determinism being conjured in this contemporary moment, Anneke’s practice is concerned with querying and queering dominant knowledge systems that hold us back from embracing and seeing each other in our multiplicity. Anneke’s artistic and community work is driven by a commitment to honouring, learning from and integrating diverse ways of making and sharing knowledge.

Michael Hepher (he/him)

Michael Hepher is an interdisciplinary artist working as an oil painter, printmaker, and illustrator. Michael creates with a unique sense of colour, oblique interpretation of the common, and a relentless pursuit of quality. He strives to show the machinery of our natural world in contemporary ways that reveal an innate interconnectedness in a way that makes them discoverable by a diverse set of viewers. Notable works include All Kinds of Beauty, a 16 x 96’ mural illuminating the diverse facets of his home town. (2019) and Backroads BC, a travelog of oil paintings shown at the Fernie Museum Gallery (2018) and Smithers Art Gallery (2019), as well as In This Together: A touring body of work borne of the pandemic and exhibited at 6 galleries around the Kootenays in 2021-2022. His most recent solo exhibition, Living Colour, a new body of large works in oil, opened to critical and commercial acclaim in October 2023 at Elevation Gallery. Michael and his family live and work in Fernie, BC.

Jude Pachiorka (he/him)

Recently graduated from the BFA program at UBC, Vancouver–based artist Jude Pachiorka (b. 2002, Regina, SK) is a unique pop art style creator. He is known for his bright, energetic methods, creating a narrative for the viewer to follow. Having a cast of eccentric characters inspired by nostalgic imagery and the desire to separate the appreciation of the work and the appreciation of the idea behind it has allowed Pachiorka to dip his artistic abilities into many different forms of media. Some of these forms include painting, drawing, screen-printing, and sculpture. Alongside his personal projects, Pachiorka has also exhibited artwork at UBC’s AHVA Gallery, the Slice of Life Gallery in Vancouver, and The Holy Art Gallery in London, UK.