Zvonar treats imagery as metaphor, establishing a referential context that calls into question popular conceptions and historical canons to address cultural constructions of power. She often uses a feminist perspective to illustrate how rules of engagement were unbalanced in the past and remain so today.
Zvonar has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions throughout Canada and in New York, Australia, Japan and Belgium. In 2022 she presented a new body of work in both sculpture and collage at the SFU Audain Gallery and participated in a group show rooted in practices that pay homage to Surrealism at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. Zvonar’s work was included in the 2021 Gestalten publication, The Art of Protest, Political Art + Activism and will be included in the upcoming 2023 Phaidon publication, Vitamin C+, Collage in Contemporary Art. Zvonar is represented by Daniel Faria Gallery in Toronto and lives in Vancouver.
Psych Eye, 2022
Rose Gothic, 2022
Johal has worked on a number of notable site-specific commissions including a recent mural for the Vancouver Art Gallery’s inaugural #SpotlightVanArtRental project (2021), a digital projection mapping for Facade Festival produced by Burrard Arts Foundation(2019), and a 4,000 sf collaborative mural project for Vancouver Mural Festival, which centred around the Komagata Maru Episode and involved the denaming of the federal building it was painted on (2019).
Johal’s clients include Apple, the Vancouver Canucks, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Holt Renfrew, Lululemon, and Earls Restaurant Group as well as the University of British Columbia’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Simon Fraser University’s Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue. She has been an artist-in-residence at Burrard Arts Foundation and Indian Summer Festival, and is the 2019 recipient of the Darpan Magazine Artistic Visionary Award.
Johal holds a Diploma in Fine Arts (honours) from Langara College (2007) and an Education Degree from the University of British Columbia (2002).
RAISE YOUR WORDS, NOT YOUR VOICE (2018)
ArtSmash x Vancouver Mural Festival
Photo credit: Maria Angerilli
WHAT HOPE SHALL WE GATHER, WHAT DREAMS SHALL WE SOW? (2022)
Vancouver Art Gallery x Vancouver Art Rental and Sales Program
Photo Credit: Ian Lefebvre
Brandon Gabriel was born and raised on the Kwantlen First Nation Reserve in Fort Langley BC, Canada. He was educated in Cultural Anthropology, Visual Art, and Marketing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, before receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in Visual Art from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (2006).
