Series is made up of the various periodicals, books and textual items which Banana published over the course of her career. Most of these were published under the aegis of Banana Productions, a company first created while Anna was living in San Francisco. Project files contain magazines, newsletters, and artistamp editions; documents related to the creation of these publications, press and promotional materials; books and binders.

Series is arranged into seven subseries: VILE Magazine, Encyclopedia Bananica, Banana Rag, OOK (One Of a Kind) Books, Artistamp News, International Art Post, and Other publications.

Subseries is made up of publications collected by Anna Banana, especially books and catalogs, pertaining to exhibitions and collections of artists’ work. Banana’s involvement with the Mail Art Network often included showing her own work all over Europe and North America, by sending mail art, artistamps, drawings and other works to invitational shows and exhibits. Most of those shows in which she partook are noted with small bookmarks, often in yellow, showing those pages where her work is referenced, although not all of the files in this series pertain to her, or even the mail art network. This subseries spans across genres.

Subseries includes exhibition catalogues, publications relating to specific exhibitions, catalogues by artists, product catalogues, directories, some mail art projects which resulted in an exhibit or show, books published in tandem with an exhibit, as well as documentation about invitational shows or competitions. Banana did not distinguish between any of these items and generally categorized them under “Exhibit Catalogs,” “Mail Art Catalogs” or “Artist Catalogs.” The distinction between the items in this subseries and those of Books or Zines often seem superfluous and depend greatly on the whims of Banana’s own boxing system.

Series documents the installation, display, and reception of Or Gallery exhibitions and projects. It consists of materials created once the exhibitions are on display, and includes photographic documentation of exhibitions, press response, and assorted ephemera created as part of the exhibitions.

Records include photographic materials, ephemera, exhibition catalogues, press clippings, correspondence, guest books, and other material produced during the runs of Or Gallery exhibitions.

Materials are generally arranged in files according to curator, year, or exhibition.

Exhibitions curated by Laiwan represented in this series include:

• Ian Wallace, “At Work” (April 16-30, 1983)
• Mark Grady, “You could be one of us (Pantheon 2)” (September 2-14, 1983)
• Ken Lum, “World Portraits“ (October 3-15, 1983)

Exhibitions curated by Ken Lum represented in this series include:

• Julia Blushak, Arni R. Haraldsson, Laiwan, Sarah Leydon, Robert Mulvin, Don Murray, Mady No, “Or Bookwork”, co-curated with guest curator Laiwan (December 2-15, 1983)
• Roy Arden, “Photographs” (December 18-31, 1983)
• Evi Staikos, “Mythistorimata” (1984)
• Greg Snider, “A representation of the Great Lakes in inch and a half galvanized steel arranged in a space like this” (January 4-15, 1984)
• Jacques Andre, “Transitions” (February 3-14, 1984)
• Elspeth Pratt, sculpture (February 17-28, 1984)
• Ellen Ramsey, “Scanning for Recognizable Constructs” (March 20-31, 1984)
• Arni Runar Haraldsson, “Third Hand” (April 4-15, 1984)
• Coquitlam Senior Secondary students, “Poco Rococco” (June 1984)
• Mowry Baden, “Chicken Feed” (June 5-16, 1984)
• Works of conceptual art from the Collection David Bellman, guest curated by Ian Wallace (August 1984)
• Marian Penner Bancroft, “Transfigured Wood Part 2” (September 8-20, 1984)

Exhibitions curated by Arni Runar Haraldsson represented in this series include:

• Peter Legris, prints/photo collage (January 2-14, 1985)
• Mina Totino, “Stumps” (March 4-16, 1985)
• Stan Douglas, “Panoramic Rotunda” (March 18-30, 1985)
• Robin Peck, “Memorial” (May 20 - June 1, 1985)
• Michelle Normoyle, “Key Actions”, cibachromes (September 2-14, 1985)
• Garry Neill Kennedy, “Finchwell continued” (November 18-30, 1985)

Exhibitions curated by James Graham represented in this series include:

• Phillip McCrum, “Simulacrum” (February 3-15, 1986)
• 25 Young Artists, curated by Petra R. Watson, international youth year project (February 17 – March 1, 1986)
• Max Dean, “Prototype” (Project for Luminous Sites), one of ten luminous sites projects (March 6-29, 1986)
• Judson Beaumont and Patrick Foley, “Walls” (June 30 – July 12, 1986)
• Harold Herbert Eliot (1890-1968), “Painting against Time”, guest curated by John Anderson and Jennifer Kostiuk (July 1986)
• Howard Mussells (Quebec), “Caddis Case” (August 4-16, 1986)
• Roderick Quin, “Section D’Or, A Grey Scale Sunday on the Isle of the Grande Jatte” (September 1-13, 1986)

Exhibitions curated by Ellen Ramsey represented in this series include:

• Debra Klyman-Mowkszan, “Three Forms” (November 5-15, 1986)
• Arni R. Haraldsson, Roy Arden, Jeff Wall, Stan Douglas, Kati Campbell, Don Gill, Ian Wallace, Phillip McCrum, Sheila Hall, Katheryne Cowie, “Camera Works” (December 3-20, 1986)
• Warren Murfitt, “The Little Red School House” (January 7-17, 1987)
• Laiwan, “A mythology from the earth/modor” (January 21-31, 1987)
• Jack MacColl, new paintings (February 4-14, 1987)
• Daniel Laskarin, “Cromlech” (February 18-28, 1987)
• Gary Brooks, Keith Higgins, William Nevens, Adrian Walker, Daniel Jans, Barbara Miller, Nancy Shaw, Deanna Ferguson, Kathryn McLeod, “Work from the Centre” (March 11-28, 1987)
• Ann Kipling, David MacWilliam, John Scott, “Abstraction/Drawing”, guest curated by Gary Pearson (April 1-15, 1987)
• Catherine Jones, “One Painting Period” (May 13-23, 1987)
• Sara Beech, “Ordinary Things” (May 1987)
• Dave MacNab, Gary Ouimet, Bill Rennie, Garry Ross, Hillary Wood, Daniel Congdon, Sheila Hall, Catherine Jones, Warren Murfitt, Lorna Brown, Laura Lamb, Doug Munday, Reid Shier, Nancy Shaw, Deanna Ferguson, Kathryn MacLeod, “Grunt Or Artspeak”, curated by Glenn Alteen, Ellen Ramsey, Cate Rimmer, presented at Charles H. Scott Gallery (June 5-29, 1987)

Exhibitions curated by Phillip McCrum represented in this series include:

• Michael Lawlor, “Kitchen” (October 2-24, 1987)
• David Ostrem, “Psychedelic Pictures” (October 27 – November 7, 1987)
• Henry Tsang, “Victory Square” (November 10-21, 1987)
• Reid Shier, “Cartoons (November 24 – December 5, 1987)
• Ruth Scheuing, “13 Men: A Penelopean Approach” (December 8-19, 1987)
• Arni R. Haraldsson, Nan Legate, Eric Fiss, Michelle Normoyle, Cornelia Wyngaarden, “In the Vernacular”, guest curated by Petra Watson at the Arts, Sciences and Technology Centre (January 12 – February 13, 1988)
• Julie Duschenes and Mark Grady, “Dialogue”, guest curated by Todd Davis (January 4-30, 1988)
• Susanna Ruebsaat, “Silence vs. Voice: Speak No Evil” (February 2-13, 1988)
• Terry Ewasiuk, “Whos Eros” (February 16-27, 1988)
• Dyan Marie, “Lodestone: an installation” (March 5-19, 1988)
• Cheryl Sourkes, “The Environmental Unconsciousness” (March 22 – April 9, 1988)
• Robin Peck, “Factory Model: Construction = Consumption” (April 12-30, 1988)
• Persimmom Blackridge, Kris Bergthorson, Carol Williams, “Mayworks, A Festival of Culture and Working Life”, juried by Sara Diamond, Margot Butler, Elspeth Sage (May 7-28, 1988)
• Skai Fowler, “Presence/Observing” (May 31 – June 18, 1988)
• Carel Moiseiwitsch, “B/W Repro” (June 28 – July 16, 1988)
• Michelle Normoyle, “Faithful Portraits” (September 21 – October 8, 1988)
• Erin O’Brien, “Object” (October 12-29, 1988)
• Ian Wallace, “New Work” (November 2-20, 1988)
• Robert Wiens
• Kris Bergthorson, “Broken Race” (February 14 – March 4, 1989)
• Kati Campbell, “Recent Work” (April 5-22, 1989)
• Reid Shier, Mina Totino, Michelle Normoyle, Stan Douglas, Erin O’Brien, Wendy Dobereiner, Henry Tsang, Phillip McCrum, Nancy Shaw, “The Vancouver Exchange” at the Cold City Gallery, Toronto (May 27 – June 21, 1989)

Exhibitions curated by Nancy Shaw represented in this series include:

• Roy Arden, recent work (June 6-24, 1989)
• Matt Crossin, “Matrices” (July 4-22, 1989)
• Joanne Tod, “Purple Heart” (October 3-21, 1989)
• Terry Ewasiuk, “Company Types: Two New Sculptures” (September 5-23, 1989)
• Rodney Graham, “Are you a doctor, Sir?” (October 31 – November 18, 1989)
• Mark Lewis, “Tyrannies of Intimacy” (November 28 – December 16, 1989)
• Nancy Frohlick, “Site/Sight” (January 16 – February 3, 1990)
• Susan Kealey, “Revision” (February 13 – March 3, 1990)
• Wendy Elliot, “News” (March 13-31, 1990)
• Skai Fowler, “Phryne” (April 10-28, 1990)
• Roy Kiyooka, co-curated by Artspeak and Or Galleries (May 8-26, 1990)
• Larry Cohen, sculpture (June 5-23, 1990)
• Roy Arden, “Frontenac” (August 16 – September 8, 1990)
• Andrew Levy, Jessica Grim, Melanie Neilson, David Sternbach, “Poetics Exchange”, Vancouver, New York, San Francisco (August 17-19, 1990?)
• Brenda Petays, “Affectionate Objects” (September 11-29, 1990)
• Daniel Congdon, “Praktik” (October 2-20, 1990)
• William Nevens, paintings (October 30 – November 17, 1990)
• Lorraine Gilbert, “Allowable Cuts” (November 27 – December 15, 1990)
• Don Gill, “Sites of Production” (January 8-26, 1991)
• Fran Benton, “Impositions” (February 5-23, 1991)
• Jan Koot Westendorp, “The Garden” (March 6-23, 1991)
• Katherine Kortikow, “Cypher” (April 2-20, 1991)
• “Yellow Peril: Reconsidered”, co-curated with guest curator Paul Wong (May 10 – June 8, 1991)
• Philippe Raphanel, “Lip Sync” (June 18 – July 13, 1991)

Exhibitions curated by Susan Schuppli represented in this series include:

• Bill Burns, “When Pain Strikes” (September 10-28, 1991)
• Laura Lamb, “There are more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Horatio” (October 8-26, 1991)
• Marian Penner Bancroft, “Holding” (November 5-23, 1991)
• Sutapa Biswas, “Synapse” (December 3-21, 1991)
• Jamelie Hassan, “The Conference of the Birds” and “Baghdad Commemorative Billboard Project” (January 14 – February 1, 1992)
• Marianne Nicolson, “A House of God” (February 4-22, 1992)
• Henry Tsang, “Love Stories” (March 3-22, 1992)
• Lisa Kokin (USA), “Unearthing”, installation (April 7-25, 1992)
• Paul Landon, “Heavy Weather”, (May 12-30, 1992)
• Jean Macrae, “Two Walking Days” (June 9-27, 1992)
• Kathryn Walter, “Regarding Places”, installation in an office space on the 7th floor of the Dominion Building, and “A Working Project”, Gallery installation (July 7-25, 1992)
• Deborah Koenker, “Bar-ba-loot” (September 8 – October 3, 1992)
• Frances Grafton, “Stripped of Sense” (October 8-30, 1992)
• Patrick Mahon, “Spectacular Viewhome” (November 10-28, 1992)
• Clare Gomez-Edington, “Don’t Let Them See You Coming” (December 8-23, 1992)
• Gary Flook, “In Search of Someone Else’s House”, book work (January 30, 1993)
• Julie Arnold, “List” (February 9-27, 1993)
• Holly Owen, “Les Demoiselles de la Transfiguration; How Will We Recognize our Allies?” (March 2-27, 1993)
• Andrew Forster, “my favourite things” (April 6 – May 1, 1993)
• Carol Sawyer, “Vessels” (May 11 – June 5, 1993)
• Wayne Arsenault, Deanna Ferguson & Philip McCrum, Frances Grafton, Lucy Hogg, Oliver Kellhammer, Katherine Kortikow, Sara Leydon, Carol Sawyer, Susan Shuppli, Reid Shier, Warren Murfitt, “Roadside Attractions”, artwork in eleven transit shelters (June 1993)
• Sarindar Dhaliwal, “Heart, Home & Hearth” (June 9 – July 3, 1993)
• Ingrid Bachmann, “Berlin Stories” (July 6-31, 1993)
• Laurel Woodcock, “bleuira” (September 7-25, 1993)
• Susan Stewart, “Lovers and Warriors: Aural/Photographic Collaborations” (October 2-30, 1993)
• Donna Nield, “Cicatrix” (November 9 – December 4, 1993)
• Kathy Slade, “by dint of groping” (December 7-31, 1993)

Exhibitions curated by Janis Bowley represented in this series include:

• Michael Banwell, “Development and Desire” (January 15 – February 12, 1994)
• Douglass Scott, “July, August, September” (February 19 – March 19, 1994)
• Kati Campbell, Daniel Laskarin, Phillip McCrum, “New Works”, co-curated with guest curator Warren Murfitt (March 22 – April 16, 1994)
• Laura Vickerson and Helen Sebelius, “Camera Florae” (April 23 to May 21, 1994)
• David Acheson, “Zoophytes” (May 28 – June 25, 1994)
• Gwen Boyle, “Arc” (July 2-30, 1994)
• Sheila Ayearst, Laura Baird, Bob Boyer, Naoko Furue, Mindy Van Miller, Louise Noguchi, Ted Rettig, Robert Windrum, “Textiles, That is to Say”, co-curated with guest curators Sarah Quinton and John Armstrong (September 9 – October 7, 1994)
• Doug Buis, “Home and Oasis” (October 15 – November 12, 1994)
• Julie Andreyev, “Katabasis” (November 26 – December 23, 1994)
• Donna Brunsdale, “Ambivalencia” (January 7 – February 4, 1995)
• Stan Denniston, “fictions” (February 11 – March 11, 1995)
• Luke Blackstone, “Not to Code” (March 18 – April 15, 1995)
• Gillian Collyer, Catherine Heard, Germaine Koh, Roxane Permar & Wilma Johnson, Ruth Scheuing, Needle Arts Show (April 22 – May 20, 1995)
• Reid Shier, “Cheap” (May 26 – June 24, 1995)
• Kevin Kelly, “Building Natural History” (September 9 – October 7, 1995)
• Carole Itter, “The Float” (October 21 – November 18, 1995)
• Gaye Jackson “Travelogue”, Monique Dykstra, “Too Thick To Drink, Too Thin To Plow” (November 25 – December 23, 1995)
• Margaretha Bootsma and Jill Sabre, “Alterations: Reprotecting the Space” (January 6 – February 3, 1996)
• Anne Mosey, “A Paradise, A Veritable Garden” (March 16 – April 13, 1996)

Exhibitions curated by Reid Shier represented in this series include:

• “Works: Or Gallery Retrospective”, organized by Wendy Elliott, Helen Geddes, and Frances Grafton (April 26 – May 2, 1996)
• Geoffrey Farmer, “Home Alone: Building Your Own Spaceship” (June 1-29, 1996)
• Patricia Deadman, Stan Douglas, Deanna Ferguson, Philippe Raphanel, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, “Rough Bush” (July 13 – August 10, 1996)
• Robin Peck, “Sculptures of Gypsum Crystals” (September 14 – October 12, 1996)
• Corinne Carlson and Larry Krone (October 19 – November 16, 1996)
• Bruce Hugh Russell, “Sala dell’ermafrodito” (November 23 – December 21, 1996)
• G.B. Jones, “Bad. Good.” (November 23 – December 21, 1996)
• Ron Terada, “Grey Paintings” (February 8 – March 8, 1997)
• Tonel, Rene Francisco, Ponjuan, “New Art From Cuba: Utopian Territories”, co-curated by Keith Wallace of the Contemporary Art Gallery, Scott Watson of the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Eugenio Valdez, and Juan Molina (March 21 – April 19, 1997)
• Jason McLean, Lisa Prentice, Brian Jungen, Christine Corlett, “Buddy Palace”, co-curated with guest curator Geoffrey Farmer (May 3-24, 1997)
• Kevin Ei-ichi De Forest, “The Record Shop” (May 31 – June 28, 1997)
• Myfanwy Macleod, “My Idea of Fun” (May 31 – June 28, 1997)
• Tass Mavrogordato and Ann Newdigate, “Truth or Consequences”, co-curated with guest curator Anthony Kiendl (July 4 – August 2, 1997)
• Karin Geiger, “Plush Toys and Poster Boys” (September 13 – October 11, 1997)
• Neil Wedman, “Every Bus Stop From My Place to the Race Track”, co-curated with guest curator Patrik Andersson (September 13 – October 11, 1997)
• Jerry Allen (October 18 – November 15, 1997)
• Luanne Martineau, “Ryan’s Arcade” (October 18 – November 15, 1997)
• Lise Soskolne and Yunhee Min (November 22 – December 20, 1997)
• Nancy Davenport, “Accident Prone” (January 10 – February 7, 1998)
• Phillip McCrum, “Tear” (February 14 – March 14, 1998)
• Philip Dion, “Selected Projects for the Reconstruction of Vancouver” (February 14 – March 14, 1998)
• Tyler Ingolia, “Somewhere”, co-curated with guest curator Geoffrey Farmer (March 21 – April 18, 1998)
• Euan Macdonald (April 25 – May 23, 1998)
• Fiona Bowie, “Deliverance” (April 25 – May 23, 1998)
• Judy Radul, “Documents for Performance” (May 30 – June 27, 1998)
• Francis Alÿs, “Dog Rose” (July 4 – August 1, 1998)
• Christine Corlett, “Salon: As You Keep Hurting Me, I'm Leaving” (September 12 – October 10, 1998)
• Edith Dekyndt and Damian Moppett (October 17 – November 14, 1998)
• Karin Bubas, Trevor Mahovsky, Scott Myles, “Monument Valley” (November 21 – December 19, 1998)
• Emily Carr and Jack Shadbolt, “Heart of Darkness”, co-curated with Scott Watson of the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (January 16 – February 27, 1999)
• Priscilla Yeung, “No Matter What” (May 29 – June 26, 1999)
• Daniel Anhorn, Renée Burgess, Maura Doyle, Polly Gibbons, Kirsten Harry, Herman Kao, Alison MacTaggart, Nadine Nickull, Shauna Oddleifson, Ellen Pollard, Crystal Przybille, Kate Stefiuk, Kenneth Sherman, Donna E. Szokem, Maria Patricia Yam, “Helen Pitt Awards” (July 3-31, 1999)
• Martin Boyce, Martin Creed, Angela de la Cruz, Jeremy Deller, Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon, Lucy Gunning, Dean Hughes, Gareth Jones, Jeff Luke, David Shrigley, Jemima Stehli, T.S.U. Toronadoes, “Getting the Corners”, co-curated with guest curator Matthew Higgs (September 15 – October 23, 1999)
• Evan Lee, photographs (February 12 – March 11, 2000)
• Muu Blanco, Jose Gabriel Fernandez, Diana Lopez, Carlos Julio Molina, Alfredo Ramirez, Javier Tellez, Meyer Vaisman, “Demostrationräume: A Case Study”, co-curated with guest curator Jesus Fuenmayor (March 25 – April 22, 2000)
• Michelle Lopez, Peter Schuyff, Marina Rosenfeld, Sandeep Mukherjee, Marnie Weber, Alex Slade, “Philosophy in the Bedroom”, co-curated with guest curator Anne Walsh (May 5 – June 10, 2000)
• Stephen Shearer, “Swinging Lumpen” (July 8 – August 5, 2000)
• Brian Jungen, “Shapeshifter” (September 9 – October 14, 2000)
• David Carter, “Minimaler” (October 28 – November 25, 2000)
• Ron Terada, “Soundtrack for an Exhibition” (December 9, 2000 – January 14, 2001)
• Malin Bogholt, Karin Persson, March 21, “Curatorial Mutiny Part 3”, organized with Konstakuten, Stockholm (January 20 – February 24, 2001)
• Mark Lewis, “North Circular & After (Made for TV)” (March 3-31, 2001)
• Isabelle Pauwels (April 7 – May 5, 2001)
• “Knock-off Knock-off” (May 8-18, 2001)
• David Ostrem, “Smash Your Face In - photos 1977-79”, guest curated by Roy Arden (May 26 – June 23, 2001)
• Myfanwy Macleod, “The Tiny Kingdom” (September 8 – October 6, 2001)
• Kyla Mallett and Allison Hardy, Zin Taylor, “Secondhand”, guest curated by Damian Moppett (October 13 – November 10, 2001)
• Michael Euyung Oh, “192 National Flags” (November 17 – December 22, 2001)
• Shannon Oksanen, “Spins” (February 16 – March 16, 2002)

Exhibitions curated by Sydney Hermant represented in this series include:

• Emily Vey Duke, Cooper Battersby, Shary Boyle, “Perfect Nature World” (May 7 – June 8, 2002)
• Una Knox, Corrin Sworn, Jace Lacek, Amy Lockhart, Holly Ward, Warren Auld, Terrence Dawes, Sabine Bitter, Helmut Weber, “The Village” (June 15 – July 13, 2002)
• Johanna Burke and Matt Dilling, “Welcome to Vancouver” (July 20 – August 10, 2002)
• Jason McLean, Holly Ward, Scott Evans, Shayne Ehman, “The Log Family” (September 7-28, 2002)
• Maura Doyle, “The Money Collector” (September 6 – October 5, 2002)
• Lesley Hope Farley, “Moving and Shaking It” (October 19 – November 16, 2002)
• Shayne Ehman, “Free Jazz Pinball” (October 19 – November 16, 2002)
• Sonja Ahlers, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (January 11 – February 8, 2003)
• Samuel Roy-Bois, “j'ai entendu un bruit, je me suis sauvé (I heard a noise and I ran)” (January 11 – February 8, 2003)
• Una Knox, “In Love With Possibilities” (February 22 – March 2, 2003)
• Jason Breeden, Tony Romano, Corrin Sworn, “Explorations in Psychic Geography” (March 29 – April 26, 2003)
• Kim Austin, Stephanie Aitken, Tyler Brett, Marina Roy, Antik Sandor, Igor Santizo, Sam Shem, Rhonda Weppler, “Saturday Society: Explorations in Psychic Geography II” (May 10 – June 14, 2003)
• Danica Phelps, “Ten Day Trade” (June 18-28, 2003)
• Adalgisa Campos and Carol Sawyer (July 5 – August 2, 2003)
• Kathy Slade, “I Want it All I Want it Now” (September 6 – October 11, 2003)
• Kerri Reid, “The Agony and the Ecstasy” (December 6, 2003 – January 24, 2004)
• Natasha McHardy and Marina Roy (February 7 – March 6, 2004)
• Derek Root, Tim Lee, Maura Doyle, Kathy Slade, Sarah Edmonds, and Shannon Oksanen, “Confidence” (March 10 – April 16, 2004)
• Holly Ward, “The Future is Now” (May 1-29, 2004)
• Hannah Jickling and Valerie Salez, Demian Petryshyn, Eleanor Morgan, Jeremy Diggle, Leigh Bridges, Nadia Myre, Jen Weih, “Hurry Slowly” (March 20 – April 17, 2004)
• Dani Gal, “Holdup” (May 1-29, 2004)
• Shary Boyle, “Companions” (June 4 – July 3, 2004)
• Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, “Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky” (September 8 – October 2, 2004)
• Robert Arndt, Euan MacDonald, Kathy Slade, Ron Terada, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, Anne Walsh, Ed Ruscha, “2048 KM”, co-curated with guest curator Melanie O’Brien (October 16 – November 13, 2004)
• Doug Smarch, Jr., “Lucinations” (November 27, 2004 – January 15, 2005)
• Matilda Aslizadeh, “Office” (February 12 – March 12, 2005)
• Eleanor Morgan, “The Dreamer Fish”, curated by Michèle Faguet (March 19 – April 16, 2005)
• Vanessa Kwan, “Your Private Sky” (April 23 – May 2, 2005)
• Jen Weih, “The William H. Reynolds Rotunda” (June 4 – July 2, 2005)
• Anika Yuzak, “Pictures of Myself When I Think That I Look Good” (June 4 – July 2, 2005)
• Annie Dunning, “The Pigeon Homing Project” (July 1 – August 31, 2005)
• Daina Warren, “Transference” (July 6 – August 6, 2005)
• Robyn Laba, “Thinking/Judging” (July 9 – August 6, 2005)
• Sean Alward and Ryan Taber, co-curated with guest curator Philip Martin (September 10 – October 1, 2005)
• Leslie Grant and Al Bersch, Allison Hrabluik and Zin Taylor, Kathleen Ritter, Heather Docherty, Kevin Pollock, Shireen Taylor, “Arm in Arm” (October 15 – November 19, 2005)

Exhibitions curated by Michèle Faguet represented in this series include:

• Juan Cespedes, “Under Construction” (January 21 – February 18, 2006)
• Bas Jan Ader, Víctor Albarracín, Debra Baxter, Marianne Bos, Elkin Calderón, Dana Claxton, Derek Brunen, Wilson Díaz, Tomás Giraldo, Simón Hernández, Hadley + Maxwell, Khan Lee, Kelly Lycan, Juan Mejía, Jonathan Middleton, James Nizam, Anna Sew Hoy, Gabriel Sierra, Althea Thauberger, Francisco Toquica, Jeff Tutt, Giovanni Vargas, Rolando Vargas, and Neil Wedman, “Why I’m So Unhappy” (February 25 – March 25, 2006)
• Corin Sworn, “Adventure Playground”, curated by Corin Sworn (April 1-29, 2006)
• Instant Coffee, Jinhan Ko, Jenifer Papararo, Kate Monro, Jon Sasaki, and Cecilia Berkovic, Emily Hogg, Kelly Lycan, “One is Never Enough” (May 12 – June 10, 2006)
• Nicole + Ryan, “Sister, Sister” (June 24 – July 22, 2006)
• Phil Collins, “elm undo no escuchara” (September 9 – October 6, 2006)
• David Askevold, Stephan Dillemuth, Paul Gellman, Frauke Gust, Judith Hopf, Annette Kelm, Alice Könitz, Cristóbal Lehyt, Julie Lequin, Marriage (James Tsang/Math Bass), Reza Monahan, Arthur Ou, Katrin Pesch, Fredrik Strid, Stephanie Taylor, Michaela Wünsch, “New Ghost Entertainment-Entitled”, co-curated with guest curator Katrin Pesch (October 13 – September 11, 2006)
• Kristen Lucas, “If lost THEN found” (December 1, 2006 – January 13, 2007)
• Derek Brunen, “Plot” (January 25 – March 3, 2007)
• Jeremy Shaw, “Best Minds Part 1” (March 30 – May 5, 2007)
• Helena Producciones, “Cali en el espejo” (May 18 – June 23, 2007)
• Robert Arndt, Raymond Boisjoly, Matthew Booth, Heidi Johansen, Kyla Mallett, Jeremy Todd, “Between You and the Thing Itself”, guest curated by Dan Starling (June 29 – August 4, 2007)
• Andrea Stultiens, “Travels and Escapes”, co-curated by Jonathan Middleton and guest curator Michèle Faguet (October 26 – December 1, 2007)
• Chris Campbell Gardiner, “dia-bollein and sym-bollien abracadabra”, co-curated by Jonathan Middleton and guest curator Michèle Faguet (March 21 – April 26, 2008)

Exhibitions curated by Jonathan Middleton represented in this series include:

• Cedric and Nathan Bomford, “For Fools and Traitors – Nothing”, co-curated with guest curator Michèle Faguet (September 7 – October 13, 2007)
• Johanna Unzueta, “Work Dignifies”, co-curated with guest curator Michèle Faguet (11 January – February 23, 2008)
• Alejandro Cesarco, Germaine Koh, Micah Lexier, “This Particular Day of June” (May 9 – June 14, 2008)
• Aaron Carpenter, Steven Hubert, Kathy Slade, “Hold On” (June 6 – July 13, 2008)
• Laiwan, “Loose Work” (August 8-23, 2008)
• Miguel da Conceicao, Devon Knowles, Claude Zervas, “In the diagram below, line AB and line GH intersect at point D” (September 6 – October 11, 2008)
• Mat Bushell, Guido Molinari, Monique Mouton, Richard Tuttle, “Making Real”, co-curated with guest curator Eli Bornowsky (October 17 – November 22, 2008)
• Adel Abidin, Abbas Akhavan, A.S. Dhillon, Josephine Meckseper, Martha Rosler, Gail Wight, Retort, “shrink-wrapped”, co-curated with guest curator Alison Rajah (December 6, 2008 – January 24, 2009)
• Ahbyah Baker, Jason Froese, Dana Hawkes, Eric Roddy, Darius Stein, Dylan Wolney, “Danger in Paradise”, co-curated with guest curator Dana Claxton (January 31 – March 7, 2009)
• Lutz Bacher (Berkeley), Drakkar Sauna (Lawrence, Kansas), Heather and Ivan Morison (Wales), Oscar Tuazon (Paris/Tacoma), Jordan Wolfson (New York/Berlin), “Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods”, co-curated with guest curator Eric Frederickson (March 13 – April 18, 2009)
• Tacita Dean, Leslie Grant and Al Bersch, Jason Hendrickson, David Horvitz, Donald Lawrence, “The Wild So Close”, co-curated with guest curator Jennifer Cane (April 25 – May 30, 2009)
• Brady Cranfield, Robert Filliou, Mark Nakamura, Nicole+Ryan, Håvard Pedersen, Kate Sansom, Holly Ward, “Science Fiction 01” (June 27 – August 1, 2009)
• Debra Baxter, Dawn Cerny, Barb Choit, The Goggles (Michael Simons and Paul Shoebridge), “Death & Objects” (September 12 – October 17, 2009)
• Mariana Castillo Deball, Michele Di Menna, Until We Have A Helicopter, “Ginger Goodwin Way”, curated by Jesse Birth (January 27 – March 27, 2010)
• Rebecca Belmore and Terrance Houle, “Friend or Foe,” co-curated with guest curator Darrin Martens (April 24 – Mary 29, 2010)
• Kristina Lee Poseva, Brown Globe, at No Soul for Sale, Tate Modern (May 14-16, 2010)
• “Hold Still Wild Youth: The GINA Show Archive”, co-curated with guest curator Allison Collins (June 5 – July 10, 2010)
• Aleesa Cohene, Alex Da Corte, Jon Pylypchuk, Markus Vater, “Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time”, curated by Kim Nguyen (September 11 – October 23, 2010)
• C\R\I\T\I\C\S, Josh Rose, Absurdus, Christian Nicolay, Ya-chu Kang, “Clamour and Toll”, co-convened with guest curator Eli Bornowsky (February 17, 2010)
• Mark Soo, “Several Circles” (November 6, 2010 – January 29, 2011)
• Marina Roy, “What’s pushed out the door comes back through the window”, Or Gallery Berlin (December 4, 2010 – February 26, 2011)
• Matthew Buckingham, “Creative Destruction” (September 10 – October 22, 2011)
• Una Knox, 4 and a half feet to the left, behind me (April 14 – May 19, 2012)
• Mary Anne Barkhouse, Julie Andreyev, Bill Burns, “Facing the Animal”, co-curated with guest curator Tarah Hogue (May 26 – June 29, 2012)
• Duane Linklater, “Beothuck Building” (October 20 – November 24, 2012)
• Neil Campbell, Hanne Darboven, Nicole Ondre, Cheyney Thompson, “After Finitude”, co-curated with guest curator Eli Bornowsky (February 23 – April 20, 2013)
• Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Brian Jungen, Charles Stankievech, “Science Fiction 21: The Last Frontier”, curated with guest curator Candice Hopkins (December 14, 2013 – February 19, 2014)
• Jeremy Everett, Simone Jones, Richard T. Walker, Will Wilson, “Dust on the Lens”, co-curated with guest curator Michaela Rife (May 10 – June 28, 2014)

Series documents the process of curating exhibitions at the Or Gallery, from initial proposals and applications to exhibition installation. Records include artist proposals and applications, correspondence, photographic materials, exhibition condition reports, press clippings, grant applications, and other material documenting Director/Curators’ collaboration with artists to display exhibitions. Materials are generally organized in files according to exhibit.

Series is organized into nine subseries according to curator: Curator files, pre-1987; Phillip McCrum; Nancy Shaw; Susan Schuppli; Janis Bowley; Reid Shier; Sydney Hermant; Michèle Faguet; and Jonathan Middleton.

File contains 25 items.

Series consists primarily of family photographs. Other photograph subjects include scenes of Vancouver, particularly Stanley Park, as well as images and objects of historical interest. A small amount of textual material,a drawing, and a print are also included.Files names and order have been respected where they existed.