Speaker Series 3 | Artist Talk with Lucy Raven

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Capture Photography Festival presents its third Speaker Series talk with artist Lucy Raven in conversation with exhibition curator Anthony Kiendl. 

Join us for this opening celebration of Lucy Raven: Murderer’s Bar, beginning with a talk by Raven herself who will speak to her past work and the process of creating this newest work, which is the largest showing of her work to date.

Following this, Raven will sit down with Anthony Kiendl and together they will share their long-standing connections and the impulses which brought this work to be.

5:30PM – Doors and bar open

6:00PM – 7:00PM – Lucy Raven and Anthony Kiendl in conversation

7:00PM-9:00PM – Reception and exhibition preview

Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar is the first major presentation of work by multidisciplinary artist Lucy Raven in Vancouver and the artist’s largest exhibition in Canada to date. The exhibition takes its name from Raven’s newest work Murderers Bar (2025), the third installment in a series of moving-image installations and related works called The Drumfire. Co-commissioned by the Vancouver Art Gallery and The Vega Foundation, it features an ensemble of sculptural elements and a video, projected vertically on a tall, free-standing aluminum structure in the gallery space. Created between 2023 and 2025, the video centres around the recent removal of a century-old, concrete dam along the Klamath River in northern California—the biggest dam removal project in American history. The exhibition also presents previous and related works—including a selection from Raven’s series Depositions (2024) and Casters X-2 + X-3 (2021)—that provide further context to her practice and a broader appreciation of her ongoing investigations and visual language.

Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Anthony Kiendl, CEO and Executive Director, with Siobhan McCracken Nixon, Associate Curator.

Murderers Bar is co-commissioned and jointly acquired by the Vancouver Art Gallery and The Vega Foundation.

Presenting Sponsor: Bruno J. Wall.

Co-presented by the Vancouver Art Gallery and Capture Photography Festival as part of the 2025 Capture Speaker Series. Capture’s 2025 Speaker Series is generously supported by Wesgroup.

This event is free. If you would like to make a donation to support Capture Photography Festival, please donate via our registered charitable organization Vancouver Association for Photographic Arts here. Amounts greater than $20.00 will receive a tax receipt.

About Lucy Raven

Lucy Raven (b. 1977) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes film, photography, video, drawing, sculpture and sound. She is known for her works that examine the mechanics of film, photography and video—whether animated, digital, mechanical or cinematic. Originally from Tucson, AZ, Raven lives and works in New York City. She received a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Art History from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 2000, and an MFA from Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in 2008. Her work has been exhibited in solo presentations at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany (2024); Wiels, Brussels, Belgium (2022); Dia Chelsea, New York, NY (2021); Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (2016–17); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (2016); VOX centre del’image contemporaine, Montréal, QC (2015); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2014); Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (2014); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2012); and Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (2010). With Vic Brooks and Evan Calder Williams, the artist is a founding member of 13BC, a moving-image research and production collective. Raven teaches at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.

About Anthony Kiendl

Anthony Kiendl is the CEO & Executive Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery. He is an accomplished arts administrator, and award-winning curator and writer, an educator, and community builder with over 25 years of experience in the arts at the provincial, national, and international levels. Prior to the Vancouver Art Gallery, Anthony was the Executive Director & CEO of the Mackenzie Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, and the Artistic Director of Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg, Manitoba prior to that. He also led the Visual Arts Program and Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for almost five years. He has also participated in the Museum Leadership Program at the Museum Leadership Institute (formerly known as the Getty Leadership Institute) as a participant and mentor. Anthony is also a member of the Canadian Art Museums Directors Organization since 2002 and the American Association of Art Museum Directors. He was selected in 2024 as one of Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50.

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  Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar

  Apr 18 – Sep 28, 2025