Vancouver Art Gallery

Name: Vancouver Art Gallery
Telephone: 604-662-4700
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750 Hornby St, Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2H7

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Address750 Hornby St, Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2H7

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Wed to Mon 10 am - 5 pm; Thurs and Fri until 8 pm; closed Tues (Summer Hours: Daily 10 am - 5 pm, except Tues noon - 5 pm and Thurs, Fri till 8 pm)

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The largest art gallery in Western Canada is a focal point of downtown Vancouver. Presenting a full range of contemporary artists and major historical masters, it is recognized internationally for its superior exhibitions and excellent interactive education programs and houses a permanent collection of almost 7,000 works of art. Wed to Mon 10 am - 5 pm; Thurs and Fri until 8 pm; closed Tues. (Summer Hours: Daily 10 am - 5 pm, except Tues noon - 5 pm and Thurs, Fri till 8 pm)

Dominican-American Artist Firelei Báez at Vancouver Art Gallery

Imagining “postcolonial futurity”

Dec 6, 2024
Vancouver Art Gallery Pauses Plans for New Space, Goes "Back to Drawing Board"

Design scrapped, gallery suspends deal with architects

Dec 4, 2024
Vancouver Art Gallery Receives $1.6 Million

Nov 20, 2024
Rachel Morris Photography

Vancouver Art Gallery Launches New Program for Seniors

Free series aims to encourage creativity, enrich lives through art

Sep 20, 2024
Vancouver Art Gallery Construction Costs Balloon, New Art Added

Aug 30, 2024
Digging for Truth

Unraveling the mystery behind J.E.H. MacDonald’s contested sketches

Jan 9, 2024
J.E.H. MacDonald oil sketches declared fake

Dec 14, 2023
RBC donates to Vancouver Art Gallery

Nov 2, 2023
Vancouver Art Gallery gets $5 million donation from Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation

Sep 26, 2023
Vancouver Art Gallery Schedules Ground Awakening for New Home

The Vancouver Art Gallery is planning a "ground awakening" ceremony on Sept. 15 on the site of its long-awaited future home.

Aug 14, 2023
Sculpture Meets Poetry

Parviz Tanavoli and the birth of modern Iranian sculpture.

Jul 31, 2023
Eva Respini Joins Leadership Team at Vancouver Art Gallery

Eva Respini has been appointed as deputy director and director of curatorial programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery, effective Aug. 1.

Jul 28, 2023
Fashion Fictions

Futuristic experiments also nod to the past.

Jul 3, 2023
Alanis Obomsawin

Exhibition shines a light on a legendary Indigenous filmmaker.

Apr 24, 2023
Vancouver Art Gallery Offers Free First Friday Night Admission

The Vancouver Art Gallery is offering free public admission the first Friday of the month from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., starting May 5.

Apr 23, 2023
Vancouver Art Gallery to Close on Tuesdays

The Vancouver Art Gallery is eliminating its popular by-donation Tuesday evenings starting in May and introducing a $5 monthly pass with unlimited gallery access.

Apr 4, 2023
Carmen Papalia and Co-Conspirators

Artists with disabilities offer education about cultural ableism.

Jan 16, 2023
Climate Activists Throw Maple Syrup on Painting at Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery has condemned two climate activists who threw maple syrup on a painting by Emily Carr.

Nov 13, 2022
Vancouver Art Gallery Names Sirish Rao as New Head of Public Engagement

The Vancouver Art Gallery has hired writer, arts leader and cultural innovator Sirish Rao as its director of public engagement and learning, effective Jan. 16.

Oct 31, 2022
B.C. Pledges Another $50 Million for Vancouver Art Gallery's New Home

The B.C. government will provide another $50 million for construction of the Vancouver Art Gallery's new home, bringing its total contribution to $100 million.

Oct 15, 2022
Feds Give Vancouver Art Gallery $30 Million for New Home

The Vancouver Art Gallery will receive almost $30 million in federal funding to help build its new $400-million home.

Jul 1, 2022
The Imitation Game

Whether it’s quaint or creepy, Artificial Intelligence is shaping the way we see the world.

Apr 4, 2022
Shakespeare's First Folio on Display at the Vancouver Art Gallery

One of the world's most valuable literary masterpieces will be on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Jan 12, 2022
Audain Gifts $100 Million for new Vancouver Art Gallery

The Audain Foundation is donating $100 million to help construct a new building for the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Nov 4, 2021
Richard Hill Appointed as Curator of Canadian Art at Vancouver Art Gallery

Richard Hill has been appointed the Smith Jarislowsky senior curator of Canadian art at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Nov 1, 2021
Soul Power

Vancouver artist Jan Wade draws on personal history to showcase Black struggle.

Aug 9, 2021
Disorientations and Echo

The Vancouver Art Gallery takes a more inclusive look at contemporary art in the region.

Jun 14, 2021
Vancouver Art Gallery Establishes New Curatorial Position

The Vancouver Art Gallery has established a new curatorial position in Canadian art with the help of two $1-million gifts.

Apr 10, 2021
Sun Xun

Chinese animator mixes fantasy and reality to address history, culture and politics.

Mar 22, 2021
Matilda Aslizadeh

Video installation welds economy and culture in its critique of neoliberalism.

Aug 10, 2020
Saluting the Makers

Vancouver Art Gallery celebrates 30 years of post-war craft and design in British Columbia.

Aug 10, 2020
Tarah Hogue to be Indigenous Adviser at the Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery has appointed Tarah Hogue to a new role as Indigenous adviser.

Aug 9, 2020
Anthony Kiendl to Head Vancouver Art Gallery

Anthony Kiendl has been appointed as the new CEO and director of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Jun 24, 2020
New Stamps Feature Group of Seven

A new series of seven Canada Post stamps celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Group of Seven's first exhibition in 1920.

May 6, 2020
Shuvinai Ashoona

Inuit artist draws fantastical gonzo worlds of her own imagining.

Mar 20, 2020
Vancouver Art Gallery Receives Major Gift for New Building

Feb 23, 2020
Shuvinai Ashoona's Mapping Worlds at the Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Shuvinai Ashoona: Mapping Worlds from Feb. 22 to May 24.

Feb 22, 2020
Two Fundraisers Appointed at Vancouver Art Gallery

Elain Evans and Brynn Myers bring more than 50 years of fundraising, arts management and not-for-profit experience to the gallery.

Jan 29, 2020
Vancouver Art Gallery Announces Major Gifts of Art

The Vancouver Art Gallery has been given new works for its collection, including 36 pieces by 26 artists donated by photography collectors Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft.

Jan 16, 2020
Cindy Sherman’s Bawdy Parts

An artist renowned for her ability to morph into famous women makes a brief foray into darker territory.

Jan 13, 2020
Vancouver Art Gallery Announces Mandarin Lecture Series

The Vancouver Art Gallery’s Institute of Asian Art has launched a Mandarin-language series of art lectures.

Nov 17, 2019
Home and Away

Expansive show of Indigenous artists from the Pacific region – north and south – reflects on the loss of traditional territory.

Oct 20, 2019
Facade Festival Illuminates Vancouver Art Gallery

The Facade Festival, which runs from Sept. 8 to Sept. 14, will illuminate the Vancouver Art Gallery with evening projections.

Aug 31, 2019
Vikky Alexander

Artist examines links between advertising, design and desire.

Jul 27, 2019
Cindy Sherman Coming to Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery is hosting a major exhibition by American artist Cindy Sherman. Opening Oct. 26, it will be Sherman's first big show in Canada in some 20 years.

Jul 8, 2019
Top Curator Leaves Vancouver Art Gallery

Rochelle Steiner, hired a year ago as the associate director and chief curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery, has stepped down for undisclosed reasons.

Jun 17, 2019
Kathleen Bartels Leaving Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery announced today that Kathleen Bartels is leaving the gallery after 18 years as director 'to pursue other professional and personal interests.'

May 28, 2019
Moving Still

Indian performative photography tackles gender, culture and sexual identity.

May 4, 2019
Mowry Baden

Artist uses everything from mattresses to mop buckets at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Apr 8, 2019
Mowry Baden's Participatory Works

Mowry Baden, a winner of the Governor General’s Award, will be presented in a survey exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery from March 9 to June 9.

Feb 21, 2019
Vancouver Art Gallery Offers Tours for Blind Visitors

The Vancouver Art Gallery is offering regular tours for blind and partially sighted visitors the first Saturday of each month.

Jan 30, 2019
Strike Notice Issued at Vancouver Art Gallery

Union vows to fight concessions and two-tier proposals.

Jan 29, 2019
Chan Family Donates $40 Million to Vancouver Art Gallery

Gift called largest ever private donation to a cultural organization in British Columbia.

Jan 23, 2019
Greats of French Modernism presented in Vancouver

This exhibition from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection shines a light on France as the centre of international modernism.

Jan 14, 2019
Vancouver Art Gallery's New Acquisitions

The Vancouver Art Gallery says it acquired 334 works for its collection in 2018, mostly as gifts from private donors.

Dec 18, 2018
Vancouver Art Gallery Celebrates Record Year

The Vancouver Art Gallery says more than 600,000 visitors attended its exhibitions and programs over the last fiscal year, a new record.

Nov 17, 2018
The Metamorphosis at the Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery explores transformation and change in The Metamorphosis, an exhibition of contemporary art from the gallery’s collection.

Nov 12, 2018
Howie Tsui Show Tours to China

An exhibition of scroll-like, hand-drawn animation featuring martial arts fiction will premiere in China this fall.

Nov 9, 2018
Dana Claxton: Fringing the Cube

An exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery decries the oppressive legacy of colonialism and reclaims Indigenous culture.

Nov 5, 2018
PostMedia Network Buries David Milne Exhibition

A recent review of the current David Milne exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery was, to parrot the writer’s words, disappointing, underwhelming and a dud. Moreover, it gives art writing a bad name.

Aug 26, 2018
Province Rejects More Money for Vancouver Art Gallery

The B.C. provincial government has rejected a request for an additional $50 million to top up $50 million promised by the previous government for the gallery's new building, the Globe and Mail reports.

Jul 7, 2018
David Milne’s Homecoming

The show that introduced British audiences to one of Canada’s premier Modernist painters has come home. Check out the reclusive artist's work at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Jul 6, 2018
Cabin Fever

A wide-ranging show at the Vancouver Art Gallery that celebrates a classic Canadian icon is anything but claustrophobic.

Jun 28, 2018
Major David Milne Exhibition Coming to Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery in collaboration with Dulwich Picture Gallery and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, with support from the National Gallery of Canada, presents "David Milne: Modern Painting," on view June 16 to September 9, 2018.

May 19, 2018
Audain Prize Honours Artist Susan Point

Coast Salish artist Susan Point is recognized with the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, while VIVA Awards go to Charlene Vickers and the collaborative team of Hannah Jickling and Helen Reed.

May 11, 2018
German Expressionism

The conventional boundaries of an avant-garde movement that celebrated strong emotions and the vagaries of subjective experience are expanded in a show at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Apr 30, 2018
Rochelle Steiner to be Chief Curator at Vancouver Art Gallery

Rochelle Steiner has been appointed associate director and chief curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery, effective June 1.

Apr 26, 2018
Ian Thom Retires from Vancouver Art Gallery

Ian M. Thom is retiring at the end of June following a 30-year career as a senior curator with the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Apr 20, 2018
Bombhead

Art about the nuclear age is the focus of a sobering show at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Mar 26, 2018
Takashi Murakami in Vancouver

Whimsy and social commentary mark Japanese art star Takashi Murakami’s exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Feb 11, 2018
Scandinavian Design Influences Canada

Scandinavian design meshed uniquely with Canada’s ambition to embrace modernity and define its national character, particularly as the 1967 centennial approached.

Dec 4, 2017
Gordon Smith's 'Black Paintings'

Gordon Smith’s fifth exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery marks a full-circle return to the days of his youth.

Nov 20, 2017
The Vancouver Art Gallery presents Takashi Murakami’s first-ever retrospective in Canada

The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced "Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg," the first-ever retrospective of international art icon Takashi Murakami to be presented in Canada from February 3 – May 6, 2018.

Nov 7, 2017
Untangling Contemporary Painting

Each generation of artists strives to carve out new meaning, to take from the past, make it more relevant and leave a distinct mark on the world. Nowhere is this reinvention more difficult than in painting.

Oct 24, 2017
Exploring the story of Canadian painting in a major exhibition, "Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting"

On September 30, 2017, the Vancouver Art Gallery will open "Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting," on view until January 1, 2018, featuring artists and painting practices from across the country.

Sep 5, 2017
Large-scale projections to light up the Vancouver Art Gallery building during Façade Festival

The Vancouver Art Gallery is pleased to partner with the Burrard Arts Foundation for the third annual Façade Festival 2017.

Aug 28, 2017
Elad Lassry's Unsettling Beauty

A solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery by Elad Lassry, an Israeli artist based in Los Angeles, challenges perceptions of what photography can be.

Jul 3, 2017
Dramatic Vancouver Art Gallery North Plaza Reopens

The new plaza complements Robson Square on the other side of the Art Gallery and the surrounding heritage buildings. The new fully accessible space enhances safety for large gatherings, improves flexibility for events and day to day use.

Jun 22, 2017
Tarah Hogue named Vancouver Art Gallery’s first Senior Curatorial Fellow, Indigenous Art

The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced the appointment of Vancouver-based writer and curator Tarah Hogue as the Gallery’s first Senior Curatorial Fellow, focussing on Indigenous Art.

Jun 14, 2017
Kathleen Bartels awarded the 2017 YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Arts, Culture & Design

The Vancouver Art Gallery’s Director Kathleen S. Bartels has been awarded this year’s YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the category of Arts, Culture & Design, which honours extraordinary woman leaders who are driving positive change.

Jun 1, 2017
Vancouver Art Gallery appoints cheyanne turions as Director of Education & Public Programs

The Vancouver Art Gallery announces the appointment of curator, programmer and writer cheyanne turions as the Gallery’s new Director of Education & Public Programs.

Jun 1, 2017
Claude Monet’s Secret Garden highlights a major body of paintings produced in Giverny

Claude Monet’s Secret Garden will present thirty-eight paintings spanning the career of one of the most important figures in Western art.

May 29, 2017
Deconstructing Diaspora: Institute of Asian Art Inaugural Symposium, from May 18 to 19, 2017

The Institute of Asian Art Inaugural Symposium will consider how contemporary art and its institutions participate in the construction and experience of Asian diasporas in Vancouver and elsewhere.

May 7, 2017
Claude Monet, Elad Lassry and Emily Carr among many to be highlighted at the VAG this summer

This summer, the Vancouver Art Gallery presents an exciting new season of art with seven diverse and engaging exhibitions.

Apr 27, 2017
Vancouver Art Gallery acquires acclaimed artworks by Rodney Graham, Susan Point, Skeena Reece, Stephen Waddell and more

The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced a recent acquisition, including artworks by Vancouver-based artists Rodney Graham, Susan Point and Stephen Waddell; Beijing-based artist Wang Dongling; Montreal-based artist Sorel Cohen; and many others.

Apr 12, 2017
Howie Tsui: Retainers of Anarchy

Howie Tsui’s tour de force exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery is a fascinating fusion of characters and tropes from the world of wuxia – Chinese martial arts fantasy fiction – with events from Hong Kong history and politics.

Apr 9, 2017
Vancouver Art Gallery to Present BC's Most Prestigious Visual Arts Prizes on April 19, 2017

Audain Prize goes to Carole Itter; VIVA Award to Lyse Lemieux; Balkind Prize to Grant Arnold

Apr 5, 2017
Hong Kong Artists in Vancouver

A wave of immigrants from Hong Kong in the late 1980s and early 1990s included artists now showing their work at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Mar 26, 2017
Year-long speaker series and curators’ talks at the Vancouver Art Gallery reflect on art, exhibition-making and nationhood

The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced two public programming streams—Marking Place and Work in Progress—a year-long series of engaging talks by artists, curators, cultural historians and Canadian thought-leaders.

Mar 6, 2017
Susan Point's Vision

Musqueam artist Susan Point, whose work is on view now at the Vancouver Art Gallery, is often credited with starting the current renaissance in Coast Salish art.

Feb 27, 2017
Vancouver Art Gallery’s 2017 program celebrates Canada 150

This ambitious program will include presentations on distinctive artistic practices within Canada’s extraordinary visual art communities and will explore diverse aspects of this country’s cultural identity with a special focus on the West Coast.

Feb 7, 2017
Daina Augaitis to step down as Chief Curator/Associate Director at the Vancouver Art Gallery

As Chief Curator, Daina has been instrumental to many of the Gallery’s successes over the past two decades.

Jan 27, 2017
Vancouver Art Gallery's "Ambivalent Pleasures" Surveys Latest Innovations

The Vancouver Art Gallery gives the wider public a chance to see work by artists sometimes little known outside of small artist-run spaces.

Dec 19, 2016
Vancouver Art Gallery Turned 85 on October 5, 2016

The Vancouver Art Gallery celebrates its 85th Anniversary today, October 5! The Gallery first opened its doors on October. 5, 1931.

Oct 5, 2016
Courtesy of the artist and GALERIE PERROTIN, Photo: BHARTI KHER STUDIO

Bharti Kher, To Oct. 10 at the Vancouver Art Gallery

The first North American survey of international artist Bharti Kher incorporates elements of sculpture, photography and painting to explore ritual and female identity.

Sep 4, 2016
Courtesy of the Artist and Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver

Stephen Waddell, Dark Matter Atlas, Vancouver Art Gallery, June 11 to Oct. 30, 2016

For Vancouver-based photographer Stephen Waddell, the line between fiction and reality in art can be a blurry one.

Aug 3, 2016
In April VAG presented BC's Most Prestigious Visual Arts Prizes

Audain Prize goes to Paul Wong; VIVA Awards to Raymond Boisjoly and Kelly Lycan.

Jun 7, 2016
Photo: Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery

A SHIFTING LINE: the art of text

The neoclassical rotunda in the Vancouver Art Gallery is nothing if not stately, and it’s here, as part of "MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture," that viewers can find the exhibition’s boldest statement about the intersection of art and text.

Apr 29, 2016
Photo by Dick Averns

MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Feb. 20 to June 12, 2016

The creative practice of mashup, inventive art forms that use wide-ranging materials and processes from across cultures, has become increasingly widespread since the 1990s.

Apr 25, 2016
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington. Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966 ©Picasso Estate/SODRAC (2016)

"Picasso: The Artist and His Muses" June 11 to Oct. 2 at the Vancouver Art Gallery

An exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery examines the six women most important to Pablo Picasso’s artistic development: Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot and Jacqueline Roque.

Apr 19, 2016
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery,Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition FundPhoto: Trevor Mills, Vancouver Art Gallery

Jerry Pethick, "Shooting the Sun / Splitting the Pie", Vancouver Art Gallery, Oct. 24, 2015 to Jan. 10, 2016

This exhibition reflects the idiosyncratic investigations of West Coast artist Jerry Pethick, who used rough-hewn ingenuity to explore his fascination with science and technology, particularly as they relate to visual perception and representation.

Jan 19, 2016
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist, VAG 2015.26.1, Photo: Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery acquires major artworks by Geoffrey Farmer, Reena Saini Kallat, Sonny Assu, Colleen Heslin and more

Vancouver Art Gallery has announced significant recent acquisitions for its expanding collection.

Dec 22, 2015
VAG acquires major contemporary historical art of the Northwest Coast from renowned U.S. art collector George Gund III

The Vancouver Art Gallery recently announced the donation of a comprehensive collection of First Nations artworks from the late San Francisco collector George Gund III, dramatically transforming the significance of the Gallery’s current collection.

Oct 18, 2015
Vancouver Art Gallery unveils Herzog & de Meuron's Conceptual Design

The new building features over 85,000 square feet of exhibition space—more than doubling its current size—with 40,000 square feet of galleries dedicated to the museum’s vast collection.

Sep 29, 2015
VAG presents prestigious arts awards

Audain Prize goes to Michael Morris; VIVA to Elizabeth Zvonar; Balkind Prize to Cate Rimmer.

Apr 17, 2015
VAG launches its first Google Art Project with Douglas Coupland

The Vancouver Art Gallery’s critically acclaimed and enormously popular exhibition "Douglas Coupland: everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything" is now available for the first time to audiences around the world through Google Art Project.

Feb 8, 2015
Newly Discovered and Never-Before-Displayed Oil Paintings by J.E.H. MacDonald Donated to the Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery has unveiled a major donation of newly discovered oil paintings by James Edward Hervey (J.E.H.) MacDonald (1873 – 1932)—modernist painter and founding member of the iconic Group of Seven.

Jan 13, 2015
Vancouver Art Gallery Launches Institute of Asian Art

The Vancouver Art Gallery has announced the launch of a new, comprehensive initiative committed to advancing scholarship and public appreciation of Asian art.

Nov 5, 2014
VAG receives collection of over 550 photographs by Harry Callahan

A monumental donation of 556 photographs by the acclaimed American photographer Harry Callahan (1912-1999) has been donated to the Vancouver Art Gallery by the Montreal-based Larry and Cookie Rossy Family Foundation.

Jun 15, 2014
Courtesy of the Artist and Daniel Faria Gallery.

Douglas Coupland at Vancouver Art Gallery - May 31 to Sept. 1, 2014

Vancouver’s Douglas Coupland explores technology, cultural identity and the power of language in paintings, photographs, prints and other media as part of his first major survey exhibition.

Apr 20, 2014
VAG presents Audain Prize and VIVA Awards on April 15

This year, Fred Herzog is awarded the 12th Audain Prize, funded by the Audain Foundation for the Visual Arts, and Skeena Reece and Mina Totino are each the recipient of the VIVA Award granted annually by the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation.

Apr 11, 2014
(Left) Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Angela and David Feldman, the Menkes Family, Marc and Alex Muzzo, Tory Ross, the Rose Baum-Sommerman Family, Shabin and Nadir Mohamed. (right) Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of Andy Sylvester, VAG 2013.24.10

Over 100 photographs by Harold Edgerton and Eadweard Muybridge donated to the VAG

The Vancouver Art Gallery has received a significant donation of artworks of Harold Edgerton (1903 – 1990) and Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904), two giants in the history of modern and contemporary photography celebrated for their revolutionary works

Mar 18, 2014
Courtesy of Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.

"MYFANWY MACLEOD or There And Back Again," Vancouver Art Gallery, March 8, 2014 to June 8, 2014

Myfanwy MacLeod’s solo show at the Vancouver Art Gallery is titled "Myfanwy MacLeod or There And Back Again" – which may be an explicit reference to the subtitle of J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit."

Mar 11, 2014
VAG's exhibition "Charles Edenshaw" to tour across Canada

Vancouver Art Gallery’s exhibition "Charles Edenshaw" Travels to the National Gallery of Canada and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in 2014. The exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery ends February 2, 2014.

Jan 23, 2014
Five Firms Short-listed for Design of New VAG

The Vancouver Art Gallery has short-listed five architectural firms as finalists for the design of its new home in downtown Vancouver, selected from a pool of 75 firms representing 16 countries.

Jan 9, 2014
"Forbidden City" comes to Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery will host a major show later this year – "The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China’s Emperors." The exhibition, which opens Oct. 18, features nearly 200 objects from the collections of Beijing’s Palace Museum.

Dec 22, 2013
Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Nb1.489. Photo: Trevor Mills, Vancouver Art Gallery.

Charles Edenshaw at the Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery has organized the first major survey of work by Haida artist Charles Edenshaw, an important figure in the history of Northwest Coast art.

Dec 21, 2013
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Donated by Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa, VAG 2013.15.1

The Audains Donate Rare Emily Carr Self-portrait to the Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery is pleased to announce the latest acquisition for its growing permanent collection. This work by Emily Carr, titled "Emily and Lizzie", is generously donated by long-time Gallery supporters Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa.

Dec 4, 2013
Commissioned by Arko, Seoul. Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio.

KIMSOOJA: "Unfolding" at Vancouver Art Gallery, Oct. 11, 2013 to Jan. 26, 2014

Korean artist Kimsooja has become an impressive international presence with work that uses fabric and sewing as metaphors for the human experience.

Nov 21, 2013
© The Palace Museum

Treasures from Beijing’s Forbidden City will be unveiled in Vancouver next Fall

The Vancouver Art Gallery will be transformed into the Court of China’s Emperors for the landmark exhibition" The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China's Emperors" -- from October 18, 2014 to January 11, 2015.

Oct 21, 2013
Comix: Three Takes On The Art Of Comics

Although the popularity of comics as art – or comix, as the legendary Art Spiegelman and his underground colleagues call their oeuvre – has risen and fallen over the years, it’s now on an upswing.

May 14, 2013
"Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life," To September 15, 2013, Vancouver Art Gallery

As a little girl, Los Angeles-based Jennifer Volland was elated when her family vacationed at motels. As a university student, she chose hotel design as her thesis topic. Now, she’s turned this lifelong passion into an exhibition.

May 7, 2013
Credit: Bake Photography for the Vancouver Art Gallery

IAN WALLACE: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography, Oct 27, 2012 - Feb. 24, 2013, Vancouver Art Gallery

At long last, one of Vancouver’s most significant and influential contemporary artists is having a major retrospective at the Vancouver Art Gallery..

Nov 9, 2012
Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, purchased with assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance Program and Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisitions Fund.

Vancouver Art Gallery Presents Work of Brian Jungen at Shanghai Biennale

Vancouver is the only Canadian city represented in the Biennale’s city pavilions project. Other cities include Amsterdam, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Mumbai, San Francisco, Tehran among others.

Sep 26, 2012
"SPIRITLANDS: t/HERE:" Marian Penner Bancroft - Selected Photo Works 1975-2000, Vancouver Art Gallery, June 30 – September 30, 2012

Some years ago on a trip to France, Vancouver artist Marian Penner Bancroft wrote notes to herself about taking photographs in “the spiral of Paris,” as she described the city.

Sep 1, 2012
Purchased with funds from the Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund, Jean MacMillan Southam Art Acquisition Endowment Fund and donations by Phil Lind and Wesgroup Properties.

Vancouver Art Gallery Announces Major Acquisitions

The Vancouver Art Gallery has added major works by renowned Vancouver-based artist Jeff Wall, Chinese artist Song Dong and noted First Nations artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun to its permanent collection.

May 2, 2012
"Beat Nation: Art Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture" Vancouver Art Gallery, February 25 to June 3, 2012

What does Northwest coast First Nations art tradition look like today in an age of technology change and the influence of new media, new music and an explosion of fresh, contemporary expression?

Mar 30, 2012
Photo: Rachel Topham, Vancouver Art Gallery.

Vancouver Art Gallery Permanent Collection Expands by More than 150 Works in 2011

Key acquisitions of historical and contemporary art expanded the Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection by 156 works in 2011, with 113 works received through private donation.

Jan 12, 2012
CREATIVE LEGACIES: Private collectors are as crucial as ever to the survival of our public galleries

“Public art galleries as we know them wouldn’t exist without private collectors,” says Ian Thom, senior curator of the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Dec 31, 2011
"THE COLOUR OF MY DREAMS: THE SURREALIST REVOLUTION IN ART," Vancouver Art Gallery, May 28 – Sept 25, 2011

Some art movements are less fashionable than others. While it’s acceptable to admire – say, abstract expressionism - mere mention of surrealism in art circles is apt to elicit scowls.

Aug 31, 2011
SIGN LANGUAGE

Rediscovering Ken Lum's Vision of Vancouver

Dec 31, 2010
A TIGHT SPOT

AS THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY EYES A NEW SPACE, A CITY-WIDE DEBATE GETS UNDERWAY.

Aug 31, 2010
Stan Douglas

PAST IMPERFECT

TAKING ON A PIECE OF HISTORY FROM THE CANADIAN WEST, STAN DOUGLAS CREATES A COMPELLING MYSTERY IN KLATSASSIN AT THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY.

Apr 30, 2009
COOL WORLD

WITH "KRAZY!" THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY DRAWS A LINE BETWEEN COMICS, CULTURE AND CONTEMPORARY ART.

Aug 31, 2008
ROY ARDEN, "Against the Day," October 18, 2007 – January 20, 2008, Vancouver Art Gallery

Works from “Fragments” are among the remarkable collection of images in "Against the Day", the artist’s 25-year retrospective at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Aug 31, 2007
ANDREA ZITTEL, "Critical Space," June 11 - Sept 30, 2007, Vancouver Art Gallery

Zittel, who received a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design in 1990, has received accolades for her life-encompassing art.

Apr 30, 2007
FOREVER EMILY

“New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon” is an ambitious show that is not so much about Carr’s art as it is about the shifting ground from which it is viewed.

Aug 31, 2006
"RAVEN TRAVELLING," Two Centuries of Haida Art, June 10-Sept 17, 2006, Vancouver Art Gallery

Three hundred prime examples of Haida art created over a period of 200 years add up to another outstanding summer exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Apr 30, 2006
BRIAN JUNGEN, "Shapeshifter," Sept 29 — Dec 31, 2005, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Jan 28 — April 30, 2006, Vancouver Art Gallery; May 25 — Sept 4, 2006, Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal

Brian Jungen's themes of metamorphosis, myth, minimalism, craft, and ecology are like the landscape itself for Western Canadians. We are the children of our environment and claim its motifs, naturalness, and quiet open spaces as our own.

Dec 31, 2005
"CLASSIFIED MATERIALS: Accumulations, Archives, Artists," Oct 15, 2005 — Jan 2, 2006, Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery press releases assert that Classified Materials: Accumulations, Archives, Artists "examines how artists find creative ways to produce meaning through the process of collection and classification."

Aug 31, 2005
"RODNEY GRAHAM: A Little Thought"

"Rodney Graham:A Little Thought" makes its third North American appearance February 5 to May 8, 2005 at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Dec 31, 2004
ROBERT ARNDT

Vancouver artist Robert Arndt has been commissioned by the Vancouver Art Gallery to create a new work for the gallery’s NEXT project space.

Dec 31, 2003