Uniforms were designed in collaboration with Asics the Dutch team sponsor and Vancouver-based First Nation's Artist Alano Edzerza found his calling as an artist before he was a teenager, and received his first award for sculpture at the age of 13. Alano started learning about Northwest Coast art through his family, often going with his mother Lynda to her job at the Royal BC Museum. Over the few years that followed, Alano has emerged as one of the area’s leading contemporary artists / entrepreneurs.
In 2008, Alano spotted an opportunity to open his own gallery in Vancouver, and that August, Alano celebrated the grand opening of Edzerza Gallery with a show titled “Black Ice”. This event featured grayscale works of art by Alano and other talented Northwest Coast artists. Over the past two years, Alano has been working with art consultants, engineers and designers to accomplish some large-scale installations throughout Vancouver and Edmonton.
He has created custom-designed large scale works in steel and glass for places like Sonora Fishing Lodge on Vancouver Island as well as creating many unique pieces for clients’ homes. Last year, Alano created 10 monumental glass panels for a Vancouver Coastal Health office and more recently provided Vancouver’s GM Place with an eight foot glass Orca mural as a part of their preparation for the Olympics and beyond. This year, Alano was selected to participate in the international traveling exhibition “Challenging Traditions”. Currently, Alano has two works of art in the exhibition at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Ontario. The exhibition will be traveling to Switzerland in 2010 before returning to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology in 2011.
In 2009, Alano was honored with the prestigious BC Aboriginal Business Award for Male Entrepreneur as well as winning First and Second Place prizes for his glass sculpture at the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market in Phoenix, Arizona.
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