Curriculum Vitae
Russel Kwan and Wendy Kwan
Exhibitions
- 2009 - Group Exhibit: "Luminatii", Main Artery Gallery, Vancouver, click here for installation pictures.
- 2009 - Group Exhibit: "Cheer", Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver
- 2008 - Group Exhibit: "Soleil", Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, click here for installation pictures.
- 2008 - Solo Exhibit: "Vanishing Silver", Main Artery Gallery, Vancouver, click here for installation pictures.
- 2007 - Solo Exhibit : "Vanishing Silver", Galleons Lap Photography Gallery, Salt Spring Island, Canada, click here for installation pictures.
- 2007 - Solo Exhibit: "Chasing Light Stranger and Beyond", Troy University Department of Art and Design, Malone Gallery, Troy Alabama, click here for installation pictures.
- 2007 - Solo Exhibit: "Chasing Light Stranger", Main Artery Gallery, Vancouver
- 2006 - Solo Exhibit: "Chasing Light Stranger", Vancouver Gallery of Photography, click here for installation pictures.
- 2006 - Solo Exhibit: "Chasing Light Stranger", Galleons Lap Photography Gallery, Salt Spring Island Canada
- 2004 - Group Exhibit: Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver
- 2004 - Solo Exhibit: "Points of Departure", The Creative Framing Company, Vancouver
- 2004 - Solo Exhibit: "Points of Departure", Gerry Thorne Exhibition Hall, Vancouver Roundhouse
- 2002 - Group Exhibit: "Summer Salon", Exposure Gallery, Vancouver
Presentations, Workshops and Community Service
- 2010 - Jurist, North Shore Photographic Society Print Night
- 2010 - Jurists, Langley Camera Club Fraser Valley Invitational Competition
- 2010 - Jurists, Crescent Beach Photography Club Black and White Invitational Print Competition.
- 2010 - Guest Lecture, Lions Gate Camera Club
- 2009 - Guest Lecture, Abbotsford Photo Arts Club
- 2009 - Jurist, North Shore Photographic Society Print Night
- 2009 - Jurists, Crescent Beach Photography Club Black and White Invitational Print Competition. click here for juror's report.
- 2009 - Jurists, Photography, Vancouver Alternate Schools' "Speaking From Our Art" Exhibition
- 2009 - Guest Lecture, Royal City Photography Club
- 2009 - Guest Lecture, New Westminster Photography Club
- 2009 - Guest Lecture, Crescent Beach Photography Club
- 2008 - Guest Lecture, Photo Club Vancouver
- 2008 - Guest Lecture, Vancouver Institute of Media Arts
- 2008 - Instructors, Full Time Diploma Program, Focal Point, Vancouver
- 2008 - Jurists, Crescent Beach Photography Club Black and White Invitational Print Competition. click here for juror's report.
- 2008 - Guest Lecture, Focal Point, Vancouver
- 2007 - Guest Lectures, Troy University Department of Art and Design, Troy Alabama
- 2007 - Workshop Leaders, Galleons Lap Photography Gallery, Salt Spring Island Canada
- 2007 - Guest Lecture, Focal Point, Vancouver
- 2007 - Jurists, Photography and Digital Art, Vancouver Alternate Schools' "Speaking From Our Art" Exhibition
Publications and Media
- 2010 - Spiritus, Vol 10 No 1, The Johns Hopkins University Press (cover photograph & inside photograph)
- 2009 - Feature on CBC Radio's North By Northwest... listen to clip 27 Dec 2009
- 2009 - Feature in PhotoEd magazine, "Black & White" winter edition
- 2009 - Feature on Global TV morning News.... see clip
- 2009 - Spiritus, Vol 9 No 1, The Johns Hopkins University Press (cover photograph)
- 2009 - click here for an interview in the Peace Arch News.
- 2008 - "Chasing Light Stranger" selected to the reference library of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, an affiliate of the National Gallery of Canada
- 2007 - click here for press clippings from Vanishing Silver.
- 2007 - Interview on Troy, Alabama TV
- 2007 - Interview on Troy, Alabama Radio
- 2007 - Feature on Global TV morning news... see clip
- 2007 - Feature on Shaw TV evening news... see clip
- 2007 - Feature article: "Chasing Light Stranger", Camera Arts magazine Mar/Apr issue
- 2006 - click here for press clippings from Chasing Light Stranger.
- 2006 - Book released: "Chasing Light Stranger", brown sock books, Vancouver Canada
Awards
- 2009 - 3 Honorable Mentions, Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards, "Hard of Housing"
- 2008 - 2nd Place, Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards, "Vanishing Silver"
- 2008 - 2nd Place, Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards, "Ephemeron"
- 2008 - Honorable Mention, Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards, "Interwoven"
- 2008 - Honorable Mention, Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards, "Heartwood"
- 2008 - Honorable Mention, Prix de la Photographie Paris, "Vanishing Silver"
- 2007 - 3rd Place Fine Art Book , Prix de la Photographie Paris, "Chasing Light Stranger"
- 2007 - Honorable Mention Fine Art Book , Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards, "Chasing Light Stranger"
Reviews
- "Vanishing Silver ... combines a reverence for the past with a desire to hold on to the basis of fine photography. Their work is crisp and clear, capturing the details of light and shadow exquisitely."
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- Gulf Islands Driftwood, 2007
- "Russel and Wendy Kwan... photograph a world in which light is paramount. The light becomes the subject itself, just as much as the objects it illuminates and the contemplative moods it enlightens."
- Malone Gallery, Troy University, Alabama USA, 2007
- "In the hands of committed, sensitive and talented esoteric individuals such as Russ and Wendy Kwan, photography has the power to evoke emotions, take you to another time and place and create the desire to own such images."
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- Anthony Matthews, Salt Spring Arts Council Newsletter, 2007
- "The Kwan's visual reality is subtle, rich with texture and light, and filled with beauty."
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- Gulf Islands Driftwood, 2006