Photo by: Rita Taylor, Banff Centre 2023
Sylvan Hamburger is a visual artist working in printmaking, installation and public art. His practice often engages community collaboration, discarded objects and demolished architecture to explore notions of belonging, memory and placemaking amidst changing landscapes and cultures. Sylvan’s work is shaped by specificities of place, notably his community of East Vancouver within the unceded homelands of the the Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Selílwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Contact: sylvanhamburger@outlook.com
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EDUCATION
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Printmaking Studio Practicum, 2019
Mount Allison University, BA, 2018
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Aural Bodies, Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver Civic Theatres, Vancouver BC, 2023
Exit Strategies, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton AB, 2021
Open House Press, Port Moody Arts Centre, Port Moody BC, 2020
New Works, Project Space, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff AB, 2019
Prize Heater, Thunder & Lightning Gallery, Sackville NB, 2018
A Foundry Town, Struts Gallery, Sackville NB, 2017
A Barn on the Marsh, Waterfowl Park, Sackville NB, 2017
PUBLIC WORKS
Adventurer & August, Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City YT, 2023
Ghosts Don’t Always Know They’ve Disappeared, Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, Vancouver BC, 2023
Main Street Car Free Day, Vancouver BC, 2022
Flotsam, Vancouver Maritime Museum, Vancouver BC, 2023
Cranky, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s NL, 2022
Union House Arts, Port Union NL, 2022
Terra Nova National Park, NL, 2022
Mudflats, False Creek Community Centre, Vancouver BC, 2022
Art in the Park, Andy Livingstone Park, Vancouver BC, 2022
Heart of the City Festival, Carnegie Community Centre, Vancouver BC, 2022
Round House Community Centre, Vancouver BC, 2023
Dear Beloved, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver BC, 2022
St. Michael’s Printshop, St. John’s NL, 2022
The Our Park Project, Andy Livingstone Park, Vancouver BC, 2021
Carnegie Community Centre, Vancouver BC 2021
Round House Community Centre, Vancouver BC, 2021
A Barn on the Marsh, Waterfowl Park, Sackville NB, 2017
Landmarks, Fundy National Park NB, 2017
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
House of 9 Dragons, Lim Benevolent Association, VALU Co-op, Vancouver BC, 2022
BMO 1st Art! Award Exhibition, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto ON, 2018
Swan Song, Owen’s Art Gallery, Sackville NB, 2018
Fourth-year Hall Show, Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts, Sackville NB, 2017-18
Summer in Sackville, Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts, Sackville NB, 2017
For the Birds, Cape Jourimain Nature Centre, Bayfield NB, 2016
Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau QC, 2016
Embassy of Canada, Washington DC, 2016
Canadian Wildlife Service, Sackville NB, 2016
Conflict & Reaction: Exquisite Woodcut, Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts, Sackville NB, 2016
Art in Activism, Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts, Sackville NB, 2016
Faces, The University Club, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB, 2015
RESIDENCIES
Print and Publishing Festival, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Dawson City YT, 2023
Banff Artist in Residence - Emerging, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff AB, 2023
Artist in Residence, The Rooms Museum, Terra Nova National Park NF, 2022
Artists in Communities Residency, False Creek Community Centre, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, Vancouver BC, 2022
Visiting Artist Residency, St. Michael’s Printshop, St. John’s NL, 2021
Andy Livingstone Park Artist-in-Residence, Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, Vancouver BC, 2021
Scholarship Residency, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver BC, 2019-2020
Waterfowl Park Artist-in-Residence, Town of Sackville, Sackville NB, 2017
SELECT AWARDS & GRANTS
Individual Arts Award - Visual Artist, BC Arts Council, 2023
Explore and Create Grant, Canada council for the Arts, 2023
Mentor, Shumka Centre Artist Apprenticeship Network, Emily Carr University, 2023
Explore and Create Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2021
Commission, Broadway Subway Project Public Art Program, Vancouver BC, 2020
Explore and Create Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2020
Kwi Am Choi Scholarship, Port Moody Arts Centre, 2020
BMO 1st Art! Award, 2018
Graham Atlantic Creative Writing Prize, 2018
Crake-Sawdon Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Journalism, 2018
J.E.A. Crake Foundation Arts Internship, Mount Allison University, 2017
Ogden Memorial Prize, Mount Allison University, 2017
Independent Student Research Grant, Mount Allison University, 2017
R.H.W. Foundation Scholarship, Mount Allison University (annual), 2014-2017
James Arthur Gairdner Scholarship, Mount Allison University, 2016