Kelly Lycan


Lycan is a photo-based installation artist who resides in Vancouver, BC, Canada on the  traditional and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl’ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Lycan’s work investigates the way objects  and images are placed and displayed in the world and the cycle of value they experience.  She employs photography and sculpture in order to engage them beyond medium  specificity. Lycan received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and  Design and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Los  Angeles. Her work has been exhibited across Canada, the US, Europe, and the Middle East,  including solo exhibitions at Ag Galerie, Tehran, Iran (2018); Burrard Art Foundation,  Vancouver (2016); Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto (2015-16); Presentation House Gallery,  North Vancouver (2014); SFU Gallery, Burnaby (2014); Or Gallery, Vancouver (2011); and  Gallery TPW, Toronto (2009). Lycan also collaborated from 2005-2015 with the artist  collective Instant Coffee, a service-oriented artist collective that have exhibited widely. 

Artists in Residence

First Nations land acknowledegement

UBC VPRI acknowledges that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.


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