DIRECTOR & Curator
Steven Dragonn
Steven Dragonn is a visual artist beyond Conceptualist and Neo Hyper-real Pictorialist across Communicatics and personal visual experience. Specifically, political and social injustice is the main field where he’s working on, while several specific interests of Curatorial, such like individual experience, immigration of minorities, minor gender, identities, social political sufferance appeared to Dragonn’s studies. His practice involves a wide range of forms, including photography, video, sculpture and new media art such as immersive installation, video installation, image-sculpture, digital art and interactive art.
In 2005, he graduated from the Sculpture Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art with a BFA and went to France. In 2009, he received his master degree in the Film and Multimedia Art Department of the Université de Paris-Est, France. He was the former curator to the Contemporary Art Program in Memorial Hall of Lingnan School of Painting in Guangzhou, China (2010-2016), chief curator of Kids’ Triennial of Canton (2015), Guangzhou, China, art director of R Space in Vancouver, Canada (2016-2018). He currently works as an independent curator and Multimedia Artist in both Guangzhou and Vancouver. He is founder, Director and Curator of Canton-sardine, Visiting lecturer of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art.
Senior curator
Xiaoyan Yang
Xiaoyan Yang is Mainland China national-wide esteem art critic and senior curator, he immigrated to Canada in 1999 and then become citizen of Canada. In 1987, he received his Master degree of Art history in the Department of Art History of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China. In 2004, he received his PHD of Architectural Theory and History in the School of Architecture, of South China University of Technology, China. Now he is Ph.D. Advisor to Sun Yat-Sen University, China, Master Degree Advisor to Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Visiting Professor and Master Degree Advisor to Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He is also the co-founder of Canton-sardine.
Associate curator
Lam Wong
Lam is a visual artist, designer and curator based in Vancouver BC. His curatorial interest is primarily rooted in regional West Coast art history, with an emphasis on the development of painting and its avant-garde narrative. He moved to Canada from Hong Kong during the 1980s. Lam studied design, art history and painting, both in Alberta and British Columbia. He is currently practicing painting as his main medium. Lam sees art making as an on-going spiritual practice. His main subjects are the perception of reality, the meaning of art, and the relationships between time, memory and space. Lam lives and works in Vancouver, Canada since 1998.
Guest-curator
Pongsakorn Yananissorn
Pongsakorn Yananissorn’s practice expands on naturalized experiences and unobserved paradoxes in which ideologies are at their most potent. Employing various mediums that correlates to their own socioeconomic and historical specificities his projects often take form in subtle interventions, negotiations and a proposition to another mode of being of opening up spaces. This engagement applies to both his artistic and curatorial practice. Where he co-founded and directed Plaza Projects and Number 3 Gallery, after graduating from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. After studying and working in Vancouver, Canada he is now currently based in Bangkok. His project includes PostScripts, a public art exhibition as part of the 2018 Bangkok Biennial.
CANTON-SARDINE 