April 2025
Sean Bosman
Born in South Africa and raised between there and New Zealand, Sean Bosman is a visual artist with a BFA in Sculpture from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Having immigrated to Canada in 2017, he now lives and works on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations in Vancouver.
His practice explores “in-between” states of mediums, and the marginal distinctions that separate art object from art material or the performance of art-making from its outcome. Currently this is expressed through printmaking, painting, mold-making, photography and digital image manipulation. This results in works incorporating various combinations of plaster, fabric, paint, digital image, clay, and gold-leaf. By embracing these interactions between diverse media and allowing them to inform each other he examines our relationships to contemporary and classical materiality and subject, and our relationship to religious iconography.
Alexandra Bischoff (Long-Term Artist in Residence, 2022–current; Residency Manager, 2023-Current)
Alexandra Bischoff is a prairie-born artist of settler descent. They hold 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.
carlee thompson
Carlee Thompson (she/they) is an emerging artist working as a guest on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, Vancouver, BC. Her artistic practice spans across multiple mediums, including ceramics, sculpture, photography and painting. As a production potter, Thompson uses both wheel throwing and slip casting methods to create functional wares, emphasizing repetition and uniformity. In contrast to utilitarian design her sculptural work explores the interaction between interior and exterior spaces, investigating the intimacy and physicality of objects in relation to the human body through fragmentation and abstraction.
Connective forms, vibrant color palettes, sharp-edged shapes, and observations of human behavior are hallmarks of Thompson's visual language. These recurring motifs intersect to create a blend of satirical chaos and repetitive patterns, probing themes of identity and industry. Thompson received their BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2022 and has been the recipient of Renée Van Helm + Pietro Widmer Graduation Award for Visual Arts (2022), the Jessie Allan Forsyth Memorial Scholarship (2019) and, the Clay Foundation Visual Arts Award (2018).
Niki Singleton is a Canadian painter, illustrator, and sculptor currently based in Vancouver CAN and Brooklyn NY. She has undertaken residencies at Lanchonete in Sao Paulo, Brazil, La General en Manufacture in Paris, France, Hotel Maria Kappel in the Netherlands and Triangle in Brooklyn, New York. She has had solo exhibitions at GALLERY during Spring/Break Art Show and at Undercurrent Projects in NYC, the Holocaust Museum in Dallas, TX and Imagine IC in Amsterdam, NLS.
Singleton’s work has been shown at the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Biennial, Chelsea Art Museum, White Box Gallery, Dixon Place, Bowery Poetry Club, Center For Performance Research, TSA Gallery, Underdonk Gallery, DAVID&SCHWEITZER Contemporary, Kustera Projects, The Knockdown Center, Studio 10, Norte Maar, Sideshow Gallery, Nurture Art, Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, Triskelion Theater, and the AiOP Festival in Manhattan and Brooklyn. She holds an MFA in painting from the New York Studio School.