Hank Bull

Co-founder of the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
Biography

Mr. Hank Bull co-founded the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A) in 1999, and served as its Executive Director until 2010. He has resided in Vancouver since 1973, when he joined the Western Front, one of Canada’s first artist-run centres. Between 1978 and 1986, he was one of a global network of artists who produced collective works using distance transmission of video and text. After an extended trip around the world in the early 1980s, Hank Bull co-founded with Robert Filliou the Afro-Asiatic Combine “to research the influence of African and Asian thought on Western culture.” From 2002 to 2008, he was a member of the Sectoral Committee for Arts and Culture of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, and from 2008 to 2009, he was a regular contributor to the Governor General’s committee on arts and culture.

Hank Bull is a graduate of the New School of Art in Toronto, and has produced more than 80 original exhibition projects by Canadian and international artists.

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