Art Gallery Past Exhibition

C.D. Hoy, Untitled, c.1910s. Photo courtesy of Barkerville Historic Town

First Son: Portraits by C.D. Hoy

(October 6 - November 27, 2005)

First Son: Portraits by C.D. Hoy, an exhibition of portraits by photographer Chow Dong Hoy, is ultimately a celebration of one man's indomitable will and spirited sense of adventure. The exhibition consists of 81 black and white photographs, all extraordinary portraits of First Nations, Chinese and Caucasian people taken in British Columbia from the 1910s and early 1920s.

The exhibition is curated by Faith Moosang, and organized and circulated by Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver.

Preview the exhibition by viewing a Photo Gallery of C.D. Hoy.

Curator's Talk
Sunday, November 20, 2005
5:30pm - 7:30pm

Curator Faith Moosang will give a talk in the Studio Theatre followed by the screening of "Chow Dong Hoy: Portraits from the Frontier" a film by Lynn Booth, Faith Moosang, and Heather Frise.

Enter the world of Chow Dong Hoy, a photographer with a rare vision of life in a frontier culture. C.D. Hoy moved from China to BC at the turn of the century. The documentary film chronicles his extraordinary life from Vancouver in 1902 to the gold mines, forts and settlements of early BC. We follow the footsteps of this impoverished Pioneer as he seeks to establish a life for himself in the wilderness of the Cariboo... Canada's Wild West.