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• February 14 - March 29, 2014 (Satellite Gallery, 560 Seymour Street)
• The private collection of Vancouver-based arts patrons Michael and Inna O'Brian is the focus of this first collaborative exhibition by the four partner institutions at Satellite Gallery. Cindy Sherman meets Dzunuk'wa is a rare opportunity for the public to see selected highlights from the collection, including works by such key Canadian and international artists as Brian Jungen, Ann Kipling, Mary Pratt, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Victor Vasarely, and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. Formed over a period of 25 years, the O'Brian collection is both eclectic and unpredictable in its breadth and range of media, from paintings and sculptures to ceremonial regalia and conceptual photography. It emphasizes regional art from the postwar era to the present day, revealing the collectors’ special interest in local and emerging artists, many of whom have become personal friends. "My passion for the visual arts is not just about owning and collecting art," says Michael O'Brian; "The work must create within me a desire to feel and understand what was in the artist's mind at the time of its creation." Taking an experimental approach to the exhibition, the curators—Karen Duffek (Museum of Anthropology, UBC), Helga Pakasaar (Presentation House Gallery), Cate Rimmer (Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University), and Keith Wallace (Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, UBC)—have avoided chronological and thematic categories by placing the diverse works into unexpected juxtapositions. Just as New York artist Cindy Sherman’s untitled portrait of vanity and the grotesque comes face to face with Kwakwaka’wakw artist Beau Dick’s mask of Dzunuk’wa, the Giant of the Woods, artworks in the exhibition are presented as a series of conversations, from intimate to confrontational. “We have each brought different perspectives into the process of assembling the exhibit,” says Duffek, “and want to honour the vision of the Michael O’Brian Family Foundation, which founded Satellite Gallery as a space for new and temporary projects, collaborations, and experiments in the arts.”
• CURATOR: Karen Duffek (Museum of Anthropology, UBC), Helga Pakasaar (Presentation House Gallery), Cate Rimmer (Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr University), and Keith Wallace (Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, UBC)

• [1986]

• Exhibition featured goods borrowed from individual owners, under direction of Dr. Ping-ti Ho, 1961

• October 9 - 31, 1977

• April 12 - June 15, 1977
• Student exhibition

• November 1979

• February 26 – May 4, 1981 (Gallery 5)

• September - November 1994
• These ceramic figurines portraying people and animals were placed in tombs to accompany the deceased to the afterworld. Some of these figurines have been in the museum’s collection since 1982, but were too fragile to be exhibited. They were recently conserved by the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa, Ontario. The ceramics are gifts from Dr. Walter C. Koerner and from Mrs. Helen Heaney in memory of Helen Nordham Battle.

• [199-?]

• March 28, 1980 – January 3, 1981
• Student exhibition

Use for: Kids

• February 27 - September 29, 1985 (Gallery 5)
• Student exhibition: Exhibit on the development of archaeological research in British Columbia’s Fraser Delta Region. Assisted by a grant from the Museum Assistance Programmes of the National Museum of Canada.

Use for: Faces on Ceramic Vessels

• 1993
• Student exhibition

Use for: Eye of the Beholder

• September 8, 1991
• Student exhibition

Use for: Graveyards

• April 3, 2003
• Student exhibition: This year’s class of Anthropology 432 students are looking at celadon (a variety of ceramic glazes that range in colour from grey-green to blue-green to jade-green) through the eyes of the potter, the art historian, the anthropologist, and the geologist. The exhibition features contemporary and historic ceramics from the museum’s collections.

• October 16, 1984 - February 1985 (Gallery 9)
• An introduction to how cedar was traditionally used by the Northwest Coast Indians. It traveled to Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife NWT, and Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature in WInnipeg, MB in 1988.