K A R L M A T A H I P O L
About Me!
I am Karl Mata Hipol, a Philippine-born Canadian multidisciplinary artist living and creating on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, also known as North Vancouver.
I hold a BFA (2022) with a major in Visual Art and a minor in Curatorial Practices from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. I was awarded the OPUS Art Supplies Graduation Award BFA and Honourable Mention for the ECU Graduation Award for Anti-Racism + Social Justice. My other awards include the Visual Arts Award from the British Columbia Art Council (2023-24) and the inaugural Visual Arts Prize from Art Rapture (2023). I have also received artist residencies, including the AGO X RBC Emerging Artist-in-Residence 2024, Herschel Supply Co., Gastown, for their Infinity Room (2022), and Arts writing fellowship at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Asian Art (2022). I have been commissioned to create public artworks by Ferry Building Gallery (2024), and Vancouver Mural Festival (2022).
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Additionally, I my curatorial projects include "Walking to Know the Land" at the Deer Lake Gallery (2023), "Anak sa Lupang Hinirang" (Child on the Chosen Land) for Capture Photography Festival (2023), "Beyond the Horizon" for the Artists For Kids Fall exhibition at the Gordon Smith Gallery (2022), and "Ang Paglalakbay" (The Journey) at the Faculty Gallery, Emily Carr University (2022).
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The list of galleries I have exhibited includes The Reach Gallery Museum (2024), Access Gallery (2024), Deer Lake Gallery (2023), Gordon Smith Gallery (2023), Il Centro Museo (2023), Mackin House, Coquitlam Heritage (2023), Burnaby Village Museum (2022), Burrard Arts Foundation (2022), Centre A (2021), Headline Gallery (2021), Seymour Art Gallery (Honourable mention, 2021), Federation of Canadian Artist Gallery (Honourable mention award, 2020; Second placer, 2019). My artworks are collected locally and internationally in Canada, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Ireland, and the Philippines.
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