Douglas Watt

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Please join us for a talk at the gallery between Douglas Watt and Connor Crable on the occasion of Watt's exhibition *Mayor of the Village*.

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### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### Biographies
Douglas Watt (b. 1990, St. Catharines) is an artist living and working in Vancouver's Davie Village on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He holds a BA (Art History) from Carleton University, Ottawa; an MFA from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; and was a visiting student in Criticism & Curatorial Practice at OCAD University, Toronto. He has presented solo exhibitions at Unit 17, Vancouver (2019), Tara Downs, New York (2021), and Pumice Raft, Toronto (2024). His work has been featured in *Artforum* and *BlackFlash Magazine*. Watt co-edits the publication *Porthole* with Hamish Hardie.

Connor Crable is an art historian and former artist currently completing his PhD in art history and theory at the University of British Columbia. Crable holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MSc with Distinction in Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of Edinburgh.

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Douglas Watt & Connor Crable

In Conversation

Please join us to celebrate the opening of CAG's spring 2026 exhibitions: [*Ser Serpas: rent*](/exhibition/ser-serpas), [*Douglas Watt: Mayor of the Village*](/exhibition/douglas-watt) and [*Rafik Greiss: Public Image*](/exhibition/rafik-greiss).

All ages welcome. Cash bar.

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Spring 2026

Opening Reception

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In October, we welcome Douglas Watt to speak on the work of Charles Atlas.

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

### RSVP
No advance registration required.

### Biography
Douglas Watt (b. 1990, St. Catharines) is an artist living and working in Vancouver's Davie Village on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He holds a BA (Art History) from Carleton University, Ottawa; an MFA from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; and was a visiting student in Criticism & Curatorial Practice at OCAD University, Toronto. He has presented solo exhibitions at Unit 17, Vancouver (2019), Tara Downs, New York (2021), and Pumice Raft, Toronto (2024). His work has been featured in Artforum and BlackFlash Magazine. Watt co-edits the publication *Porthole* with Hamish Hardie.

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Douglas Watt on Charles Atlas

Saturday Session

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We are pleased to announce our latest installment of CAG Reads, a book club where artists invite us to read alongside them. Each month an artist proposes text for our collective reading pleasure, culminating in a virtual hangout where the artist leads a wide-ranging discussion grounded in their chosen reading material. 

This month, CAG Reads will be hosted by Douglas Watt. Douglas has chosen to read Derek McCormack’s satiric novella *Castle Faggot* (2020). 

Douglas Watt is an artist living and working in Vancouver's Davie Village on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people. He received a BA in Art History from Carleton University, and studied Criticism & Curatorial Practice at OCAD University, Toronto. He is currently pursuing his Master's of Fine Art in Interdisciplinary Arts from Simon Fraser University. Recent solo exhibitions include *Stunning Evidence*, Unit 17, Vancouver (2020) and *Deep End Epiphany*, Downs & Ross, New York (2021). Most recently, he was included in *Some say the soul is made of wind*, Downs & Ross, New York (2021); *Spirit Off*, Yaby, Madrid (2021); and *Infinity Ball* with Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes, Unit 17, Vancouver (2022).

### Getting the book

Copies of the book can be ordered through [Massy Books](https://www.massybooks.com/). Please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery.

### RSVP

Registration for this event is free, but limited. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-iqrDMvEtSW7IoPeCsZDTD8PF6b9tMh).

Questions? Send us a note at [cagreads@cagvancouver.org](mailto:cagreads@cagvancouver.org).

### CART Captions

This event will be live captioned (CART). For more information please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org)

### ASL interpretation

ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

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Douglas Watt presents Derek McCormack

CAG Reads

Known for his meticulously rendered sculptures of social architectures — from bars and bookstores to clinics and changerooms — Douglas Watt’s work takes up the complex relationship between public space and the construction of self. Building on legacies of appropriation, assemblage and the readymade, Watt’s practice draws on quotidian materials and forms, producing model, set and prop-like works that engage questions about the performance of everyday life.

In *Mayor of the Village*, Watt brings together a series of new and recent works that find their point of departure in Vancouver’s Davie Village, a historically significant centre of queer life in the city. Loosely staging the gallery as a café, Watt hangs within this environment a “survey” of his miniaturized model works from the past several years. Referencing tropes of the café art display, the resulting show-within-a-show at once evinces the ways that community is imagined and constructed in the public sphere — aesthetically, politically and otherwise — while nodding to the inevitable failures, fragilities and exclusions of these same structures.

### Biography
Douglas Watt (b. 1990, St. Catharines) is an artist living and working in Vancouver's Davie Village on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He holds a BA (Art History) from Carleton University, Ottawa; an MFA from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; and was a visiting student in Criticism & Curatorial Practice at OCAD University, Toronto. He has presented solo exhibitions at Unit 17, Vancouver (2019), Tara Downs, New York (2021), and Pumice Raft, Toronto (2024). His work has been featured in *Artforum* and *BlackFlash Magazine*. Watt co-edits the publication *Porthole* with Hamish Hardie.

### Acknowledgements
*Douglas Watt: Mayor of the Village* is generously supported by the Deux Mille Foundation.

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