Catriona Jeffries Gallery
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Catriona Jeffries Gallery is an art gallery in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

 that has been in operation since 1994. It focuses on the post conceptual art practices which have emerged from Vancouver and the critical relationships between these practices and particular international artists.. It is recognized as one of the most important commercial contemporary art galleries in Vancouver, and one of the only ones that has an international reputation

It shows work by well-known Vancouver artists such as Ian Wallace
Ian Wallace (artist)
Ian Wallace in Shoreham, England, is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver. He won the 2004 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts...

, Brian Jungen
Brian Jungen
Brian Jungen is a Canadian artist from British Columbia with Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations ancestry...

, Geoffrey Farmer
Geoffrey Farmer
Geoffrey Farmer is a Canadian artist based in Vancouver. Farmer studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver and the San Francisco Art Institute...

.

The gallery has taken the work of Vancouver artists to curated art shows and fairs such as The Armory Show
The Armory Show (art fair)
The Armory Show, The International Fair of New Art, is the largest contemporary art fair in New York, and one of the largest in the world. It originally started in 1994 as the Gramercy International Art Fair, an art fair held in the rooms of the Gramercy Hotel in New York City, and was founded by...

 (2001), Artforum Berlin (2002), Art Basel Miami Beach (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009), Toronto International Art Fair
Toronto International Art Fair
Toronto International Art Fair is an international contemporary art exhibition held each year in Toronto, Canada at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The first Toronto International Art Fair was held in 1999. Since its inception, it has grown to become the pre-eminent forum for displaying...

 (2005, 2008), and Art Basel
Art Basel
Art Basel is an international contemporary art fair held each June in Basel, Switzerland. Similar to the Venice Biennale, it has been called "the Olympics of the art world". Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa...

(2008, 2009, 2010, 2011).
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