Steven Hubert is a Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist and educator whose practice spans painting, sculpture, performance, video, sound, and installation. Working with equal parts wit and curiosity, Hubert draws from the textures of everyday life—found objects, discarded materials, and playful technologies—to create works that transform the ordinary into the unexpected. His pieces often blur the line between improvisation and careful construction, inviting viewers to reconsider their relationship to the familiar.

Originally from Kelowna, BC, Hubert studied at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Langara before completing his MFA at Simon Fraser University. Over the past two decades, he has exhibited widely in Vancouver—at Artspeak, Or Gallery, CSA Space, Field, Duplex, and 221A—while also presenting work across Canada in Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, and Victoria, the U.S., and Mexico. His projects range from intimate gestures, like sweater patterns reimagined as narrative worlds, to immersive installations and performances that hum with humour and invention.

In addition to his studio practice, Hubert teaches painting, sculpture, and media at Langara College. His work has appeared in publications such as SETUP, Young Adult, Fillip, Decoy, and Akimbo, extending his creative voice into critical and experimental texts.

Whether diving stiffly into a swimming pool for a photograph, or wiring together an assemblage of e-cigarettes and Arduino boards, Hubert’s work radiates a sense of playful seriousness—an openness to chance, curiosity, and the poetic potential of the everyday. It is this spirit of improvisation and transformation that continues to make his voice a vital part of Vancouver’s contemporary art landscape.

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