Kim Dorland

Kim Dorland
Some Paintings

Kim Dorland’s upcoming exhibition, Some Paintings, presents a focused series of small-scale paintings that are rich in symbolism and visual intensity. The natural world is a prevailing presence, rendered with a vividness that captures both its beauty and its unsettling mystery. Portraits of his wife, Lori, offer glimpses of personal connection, while snapshots of the Canadian landscape anchor the work in a distinct cultural and geographic context.

Click here to explore all the artworks in this exhibition

Click here to read Sarah Swan’s essay, Kim Dorland: Strange Fire

For further details, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com

Figures
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim

With works by Shuvinai Ashoona, Douglas Coupland, Kim Dorland, Rodney Graham, Angela Grossmann, Ernst Haas, Adad Hannah, Shawn Hunt, Eadweard Muybridge, Cindy Sherman, Renée Van Halm and Jeff Wall.

Equinox Gallery is proud to announce Figures, a group exhibition celebrating the enduring fascination with the human figure. Opening June 10th and running through September 1st, 2025, this show brings together a dynamic group of contemporary and historical artists to showcase the limitless ways artists capture, question, and reimagine the human form.

From the bold oil painting to intimate sketches to experimental photography, Figures explores representations of the body across a spectrum of styles and mediums. Diverse in their approaches, these artworks demonstrate the figure’s power as both subject and symbol, inviting viewers to reflect on identity, presence, vulnerability and the shared experience of being human.

For more details on this exhibition, please contact info@equinoxgallery.com.

This is an off-site exhibition located at The Pacific Gallery in the Fairmont Pacific Rim.

Location of this exhibition:
Fairmont Pacific Rim
1038 Canada Place
Vancouver BC
fairmontpacificrim.com

Kim Dorland

Published in conjunction with the exhibition You Are Here: Kim Dorland and the Return to Painting at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, October 26, 2013 – January 5, 2014.

Kim Dorland
The moment before the moment after

Equinox Gallery is pleased to present The moment before the moment after, an exhibition of new paintings by Kim Dorland.

Dorland’s interest in pushing the limits of paint has developed into a dramatic visual language, enticing the viewer into an enigmatic world that transforms visceral experience into a language of paint. Over a career spanning two decades, he has gradually refined a personal palette and vocabulary of images derived primarily from observations of the natural world and the tensions that manifest themselves when nature comes into confrontation with the human experience.

If you would like to see a list of works, or schedule an appointment to view in person, please contact us at info@equinoxgallery.com or (604) 736-2405

Kim Dorland
It Goes On

Kim Dorland’s paintings are accumulative, both in the way the paint is added to the surface, sometimes in thick impasto, other times delicately one layer atop another like a stamp placed on a letter, and in the psychological states they reveal and represent. Ultimately, the world created by Dorland in It Goes On is one where the natural world has begun to fight back, transforming forests and sunsets that were once sites of solace and contemplation into psychological states fraught with questions as to how we will find our way out of this mess.

Kim Dorland, The Night, 2023

Kim Dorland, Nests, 2023

Kim Dorland, White Fence, 2023

Kim Dorland, Disturbance, 2023

Kim Dorland, View, 2023