The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced the full list of 40 artists who will be participating in its new triennial exhibition Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures (December 3, 2016 to April 17, 2017).

Art-lovers will be offered a comprehensive survey of the city’s contemporary art scene and its changes since the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Co-curated by Daina Augaitis, Chief Curator and Associate Director at Vancouver Art Gallery, and guest curator Jesse McKee, Head of Strategy at 221A, Vancouver, the exhibition will feature artworks ranging from paintings to drawings, animation to ceramics, and textiles to audio, among others.

The curators conducted over 90 studio visits over a four-month period this spring, interacting with mostly emerging artists and a few established artists who are either re-emerging or under-recognized in Vancouver.

“Vancouver Special echoes the archetypal housing style that was popular in Vancouver between the 1960s and 80s, and has been embraced again as an iconic symbol of the city. The title of the inaugural exhibition within this new triennial format, Ambivalent Pleasures, points to the ever-present gap between where we are and where we’d like to be,” said co-curators Daina Augaitis and Jesse McKee in a press statement.

“The artworks in the exhibition offer many possibilities for visitors to negotiate today’s complex world and these works remind us to locate the pleasures in our own experiences of encountering, considering and navigating the pluralistic conditions of today’s city.”

Here is the full list of participating artists in Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures:

• Derya Akay
• Maya Beaudry
• Raymond Boisjoly
• Eli Bornowsky
• Rebecca Brewer
• Colleen Brown
• Matt Browning
• Mark Delong
• Kim Dorland
• Barry Doupé
• Michael Drebert
• Julia Feyrer
• Jeneen Frei Njootli
• Tamara Henderson
• Colleen Heslin
• Julian Hou
• Allison Hrabluik
• Gareth James
• Garry Neill Kennedy
• Tiziana La Melia

• Khan Lee
• Arvo Leo
• Lyse Lemieux
• Glenn Lewis
• Anne Low
• Elizabeth McIntosh
• Jordan Milner
• Antoni Oko
• Ryan Peter
• Sylvain Sailly
• Rachelle Sawatsky
• Walter Scott
• Krista Belle Stewart
• Angela Teng
• Mina Totino
• Ron Tran
• Tristan Unrau
• Charlene Vickers
• Brent Wadden
• Alison Yip