Laiwan

**Laiwan** ( bɛ dɔɣɔ la yuuni 1961) o nyɛla ŋun nyɛ  Zimbabwean interdisciplinary artist, art critic, gallerist, sasabira , curator n ti pahi karachi . O tuma nim pam nyɛla din jendiri poetics mini philosophy. O nyɛla ŋun be tiŋyuli booni  Vancouver, British Columbia.

## O mamaŋ taarihi
Laiwan nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so tiŋyuli booni  Harare, Zimbabwe yuuni  1961. O daŋ nyɛla ban zon kuli Canada yuuni  1977 ni bɛ gu bɛ maŋ ka che Rhodesia tɔbu la. 
## O tuma nima

### O konko  exhibition nim
**Laiwan: Traces, Erasures, Resists*, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Yuuni 2022
**How Water Remembers*, Massy Arts, Vancouver, yuuni 2021
**Fountain*, The Wall at the CBC Plaza, commissioned by the Vancouver Heritage Foundation, yuuni 2015  
**Loose Work*, Or Gallery, Vancouver, 2008  and also at On Main, yuuni  2008 
**Duet: Étude For Solitudes*, YYZ Artist’s Outlet / Images Festival, Toronto,yuuni  2006 
**Quartet for the year 4698 or 5760: Improvisation for four projectors*, with Lori Freedman, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, yuuni 2002 

### O mini shɛbi  exhibition nima
**Urban Screen*, with *PANDEMIA  — the movie*, Libby Leshgold Gallery, yuuni 2021- hali ni 2022
**Thought, outside*, Curated by Amy Kazymerchyk, Western Front, Vancouver, yuuni 2020
**Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT,* Curated by Lorna Brown, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, yuuni2018
**Through A Window: Visual Art and SFU yuuni 1965 ni yuuni2015*; SFU Galleries, Vancouver and Burnaby, BC, yuuni 2015 
**Da Bao: Take Out*, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC,yuuni  2013 
**Da Bao: Take Out*, Curated by Shannon Anderson / Doug Lewis, Varley Art Gallery, Markham, ON, Mississauga Art Gallery. ON, 2012  
**c.1983: Parts 1&2*, Curated by Helga Pakasaar, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, 2012 
**Everything Everyday*, Curated by Bruce Grenville, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 2010 
**How Soon Is Now:  Contemporary Art from Here,* Curated by Kathleen Ritter, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2009 
**Limits of Tolerance: Re-framing Multicultural State Policy*, Centre A Gallery, Vancouver, BC, yuuni 2007 
**Group Search: Art in the Library*, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC, yuuni 2007 
*rupture : rupture, Artspeak, Vancouver, BC 

## O Bibliography

### O Catalogue nima
*Kathleen Ritter, *How soon is now*, exhibition catalogue, Vancouver Art Gallery, yuuni 2009
*Liz Park, *Limits of Tolerance: Re-framing Multicultural State Policy*, exhibition catalogue, Centre Ayuuni  2007

### O Reviews of Laiwan's Work
**Queer Art Speaks to love, hate around world* by Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, silimiingoli July 31-August 7, yuuni 2014 Volume 48, number 2432
**QAF extending its reach, draws top talent* by Dana Gee, the Province newspaper, July 22, 2014
**Digital Art Reflections & 10 Seconds in Time ask audiences to stop and consider* by Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, August 21, yuuni 2012, pg. 33

### O sabbu nima
**LUNG: Toward Embodying* in DAMP, anthology on Vancouver’s media artists, Anvil Press, Vancouver, 2008 
**[[Ed Pien]]: Drawing Hauntology* feature article in Canadian Art, Summer Yuuni  2007, Vol. 24 #2 

## Kundivihira