Rebecca Belmore

The photograph included in this year's auction, Untitled #2 (come in cielo cosi in terra), was included as part of the artist's retrospective exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2008.

Born in Upsala, Ontario, Rebecca Belmore is an artist currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia. She attended the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and is internationally recognized for her performance and installation art. Since 1987, her multi-disciplinary work has addressed history, place and identity through the media of sculpture, installation, video and performance. Belmore was Canada's official representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally including two solo touring exhibitions, The Named and the Unnamed, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2002); and 33 Pieces, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga (2001). Her group exhibitions include Houseguests, Art Gallery of Ontario (2001); Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1995); Land, Spirit, Power, National Gallery of Canada (1992); and Creation or Death: We Will Win, at the Havana Biennial, Havana Cuba (1991).

The Vancouver Art Gallery organized a survey exhibition of Belmore's work in 2008, Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion. The exhibition included an accompanying hardcover catalogue with texts by Kathleen Ritter, Marcia Crosby and Richard W. Hill.