Charles Atlas

#### Biography
Charles Atlas (b. 1949, St. Louis, MO) has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1970s. In 2024, the ICA Boston presented *About Time*, the first U.S. museum survey devoted to Atlas’ work. Other recent solo exhibitions include *The Mathematics of Consciousness*, a 100-foot long video installation commissioned by Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2022); *Charles Atlas: Ominous, Glamorous, Momentous, Ridiculous*, Fondazione ICA Milano, Italy (2021); and *Charles Atlas: The past is here, the futures are coming* and *The Kitchen Follies*, The Kitchen, New York (2018). Atlas’ work is included in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Modern, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich; and De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands. In 2024, Atlas’ archive was acquired by The Getty Research Institute.

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Hail the New Puritan

Sojourner Truth Parsons

#### Biography
Sojourner Truth Parsons (b. 1984, Vancouver) lives and works in New York and the Southern Catskill Mountains. Her recent solo exhibitions include Pilar Corrias, London; Esther Schipper, Berlin; Foxy Production, New York; Various Small Fires, Seoul; The Journal Gallery, New York; and Oakville Galleries, Canada. Recent group exhibitions include *Painting Energy: The Alex Katz Painting Foundation Collection*, Portland Museum of Art; *The New Bend*, curated by Legacy Russell, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Los Angeles & Somerset; *Downbeat*, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; *Springweather and people*, Bortolami, New York; and *This is America*, Kunstraum Potsdam. Parsons was artist in residence at Denniston Hill; the Santa Fe Art Institute; The Rooms, Newfoundland; and the Ross Creek Center for the Arts, Bay of Fundy. Among other collections, her work is held by the Long Museum, Shanghai; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Portland Museum of Art; Royal Bank of Canada; and the Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels.

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Louise

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Closed for installation

Please join us to celebrate the opening of CAG's fall 2025 exhibitions: *Sojourner Truth Parsons: Louise* and *Charles Atlas: Hail the New Puritan*.

All ages welcome. Cash bar.

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Fall 2025

Opening Reception

The Contemporary Art Gallery is thrilled to announce the 2025 CAG Gala, a lively four-course dinner helmed by one of Vancouver’s most prominent chefs.

Led this year by Jean-Christophe Poirier, acclaimed chef and owner of Michelin-starred restaurant St. Lawrence, the CAG Gala offers guests a singular dining experience in an intimate environment. Bringing together arts patrons, business leaders, philanthropists, and friends from across the region in support of CAG, this one-of-a-kind event is not to be missed.

Saturday, November 1, 2025
The Kent, 534 Cambie Street
$425 per guest

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Proceeds from this event support CAG’s artistic and educational programming, which the gallery has been committed to offering free of charge for more than fifty years.

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