Exhibitions in British Columbia

This ceremonial house and museum installation allows visitors to enter a recreation of the house of Chief Kwakwabalasami, the late Jonathan Hunt, a Kwakwaka’wakw chief who was born and lived his life in the community of Tsaxis, near Fort Rupert, BC. To refresh the space, the museum brought in master carver and artist Richard Hunt, Jonathan Hunt’s grandson, who helped Read more...

When Emily Carr (1871–1945) wrote about landscape paintings—her own and those of others—she would sometimes describe how an eye might move through the imagined space in the work. It is striking, then, that so many of her own paintings create an experience of dense, impenetrable forest that confounds such forward movement. In many cases, the viewer is tantalized with the Read more...

Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents: Kihl ‘Yahda Christian White: Master Haida Artist This landmark exhibition celebrates 50 years of work by renowned Haida artist Kihl ‘Yahda, Christian White. Curated by Sdahl Ḵ’awaas, Lucy Bell, it features highlights from Christian’s career alongside pieces by his apprentices. Known for his masterful argillite carvings, jewelry, and monumental works, Christian began Read more...

In this powerful display of healing and sovereignty, the Nuxalk Nation demonstrate their resurgence and return to Stl’mstaliwa—the full human experience. On the central coast of BC, nestled in the abundant Bella Coola Valley and surrounding fjords and river valleys of the homelands, the Nuxalk Nation is healing as a community from the traumas of colonialism, and the Nuxalk people Read more...

Postcards from the Heart: Selections from the Brigitte and Henning Freybe Collection also opens on April 18 at the Vancouver Art Gallery. This is a major showcase of works gifted by Vancouver–based collectors Brigitte and Henning Freybe. Featuring more than 30 works by some of the most important European and North American artists working in the last 50 years, Postcards from the Heart will be Read more...

The SLCC’s feature exhibition Sx̱wex̱wiy̓ám̓ tiná7 tl’a temíxw / ptakwlh ti tmicwa / Legends of the Land shares how traditional knowledge and history were passed down from generation to generation through stories. Guests can experience live storytelling, bold artwork, petroglyphs and pictographs showing the connection to the land of the Sk̲wx̲wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) territory and the Lil̓wat7úl (Lil’wat Nation) Read more...

Check out the exhibitions at the Newton Cultural Centre through their exhibition calendar  Read more...

The Gulf of Georgia Cannery Society is proud to present Cannery REcollections. An exhibit that reveals how objects serve as touchstones for storytelling and connect us to people, places and moments that shaped Canada’s West Coast fishing industry. This exhibit will feature artifacts from the Cannery’s collection that have not been seen in over a decade! Celebrate with us at Read more...

Canada and the United States have immense powers over people and legal rights. Yet they are not the first or only nations in these lands. What do we really know about the history of the 49th parallel? How was it visualized and carved into the landscape over a century and a half ago? What perspectives are lost when we look Read more...

Gathered Leaves: Discoveries from the Drawings Vault will officially open to the public on Saturday, June 14. The Audain Art Museum cordially invites you to visit this Special Exhibition, which will be open until October 13, 2025. Gathered Leaves highlights masterpieces by Edgar Degas, Gustav Klimt, Edvard Munch, Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, and many other celebrated artists, alongside Read more...

Featuring 150 chairs from the Museum of Vancouver (MOV) collection, Deep-Seated Histories: Chairs from the Collection provides a glimpse into Vancouver’s cultural, social and industrial evolution. You’d be surprised to learn how this lowly piece of furniture can tell stories about notable Vancouverites and the City’s shifting thoughts on work, leisure, design, and neighbourhoods over time. Expect to see Seraphim Read more...

Known for his pioneering work at the intersection of sculpture, painting, and spatial illusion, David Spriggs challenges the boundaries of perception through his large-scale, multi-layered compositions. Constructed from transparent images layered to form three-dimensional visual phenomena, his installations appear to float and shift as viewers move around them. The exhibition features the following two major works: https://davidspriggs.art/artwork/ • First Wave (2021), Read more...

The Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre (SLCC) in Whistler invites guests to experience the revitalization of its permanent exhibitions, featuring newly updated interpretive content in the Great Hall and the What We Treasure collection in Gallery One. Developed in collaboration with community members, the refreshed storyboards reflect the voices, perspectives, and languages of both the Squamish Nation and Lil’wat Nation, offering Read more...

WOOD is a visually striking group exhibition featuring eight acclaimed contemporary artists from across Canada. From traditional birch bark biting to immersive audio/visual  installation, sculpture, weaving, and carving, these artists showcase the incredible versatility of wood as both medium and message. Participating artists include Peter von Tiesenhausen, Samuel Roy-Bois, Xiaojing Yan, Rita McKeough, Susan Point, Pat Bruderer, Stephen Noyes, and Nadia Read more...

Surrey, BC – Surrey Art Gallery is pleased to partner with South Asian Arts Society and Monsoon Festival of Performing Arts to host 20 Years of South Asian Arts: A Photographic Journey, on display from August 2 until November 2. Admission is free. A collaborative initiative between the Gallery and South Asian Arts Society, this exhibition marks a dual celebration Read more...

The Bulkley Valley Museum is pleased to present “Hope Meets Action”, a travelling exhibit created by the BC Black History Awareness Society in partnership with the Royal BC Museum. The exhibit reclaims and retells the complicated history of Black British Columbians, and traces an unbroken line of strength and resistance from the distant past to the present and into the future by highlighting the Read more...

Pitt Meadows Art Gallery – Main Gallery  James Groening: Memories – September 21 to October 27 In Cree, “mihko kiskisiwin’ means “blood memory”. Elders have long said that memory is in the blood and bone, that stories are not only passed on verbally, but genetically as well. As the descendent of a residential school survivor, James Groening’s exhibition, Memories, is Read more...

Before European settlers arrived in Canada, women were a significant part of Indigenous communities and governments, holding matriarchal roles of power and influence. As settlers sought to control Indigenous peoples, they started destroying women, which shattered Indigenous systems and communities. Our Stories, Our Voices curated by First Nations artist and educator Christine Mackenzie, honours Indigenous and Metis women by strengthening and Read more...

Maya Beaudry builds spaces that breathe. Through layered textiles, stitched architectures, and photographic, sculptural surfaces, she gives form to the emotional residues of place—homes lost, cities transformed, and bodies remembered. Her practice is rooted in the material language of cloth and the conceptual terrain of memory, navigating the threshold between the built and the felt. Drawing on the visual language Read more...

From September 8 to October 2, the Pendulum Gallery will host a free exhibition of the Splash 2025 Art Collection – a stunning preview of artworks that will be auctioned off at Arts Umbrella’s iconic annual Splash Art Auction, which has become the largest charitable art auction in Canada. This is a rare opportunity for the community to experience one-of-a-kind pieces from 92 incredible Canadian and international Read more...

Symbiotic Echoes brings together four distinct exhibitions by Ilze Bebris and Robin Ripley, Dave Mutnjakovic, James Pocock, and Artem Struyanskiy. Across different gallery spaces, each artist explores the crucial balance between humanity and the environment, the need for interconnectedness, resilience, and active engagement in response to the crises of our time. From challenging societal systems to envisioning ecological harmony, the artists Read more...

This is the last exhibition of the 2025 Summer Series at Studio Connexion Art Gallery in Nakusp. We are really excited to work with artist Kentree Speirs from Kaslo and will be exhibiting some of his latest landscape abstract paintings. He says his works are delirious combinations of painting methods expressing mountain landscape and the abstract  with their aesthetic rooted Read more...

Artist talk: The Collectors:  Sunday, October 5, 2025 1:00 PM  2:00 PM https://www.griffinartprojects.ca/events/artist-talk-the-collectors The Collectors Film Series: Film screening | Russian Ark – Cinematheque  Saturday, September 20, 2025 6:30 PM  8:00 PM griffinartprojects.ca/events/film-screening-russian-ark Conversations on Collecting: Transformational Legacies – Vancouver Art Gallery  Saturday, September 27, 2025 2:00 PM  4:00 PM https://www.griffinartprojects.ca/events/conversations-on-collecting-transformational-legacies   Read more...

September 20 to December 14, 2025 Curated by Lisa Baldissera Opening reception: Friday, September 19, 2025, 6:00-8:00 PM Revealing over a decade of research and visits with collectors from British Columbia and internationally, The Collectors presents Christos Dikeakos’ photo-portraits of collectors with their collections from across the spectrum. Artists, patrons, curators, writers and art lovers alike, these stunning portraits reveal Read more...

Bill Reid Gallery presents: NDN Giver NDN Giver explores the layered meanings within both everyday and extraordinary gifts that circulate through the potlatch. Blankets, coppers, canoes, prints, mugs, trade beads and devil’s club strung into necklaces all become carriers of law, memory, and relation to one another. The title NDN Giver reclaims a phrase rooted in colonialism that mocked Indigenous generosity. In reality, Read more...

From the sandy shores to the deep sea, our Coastal waters are full of life. The creatures that live in our waters are beautiful, but they can also be strange, unusual, and unsettling before you get to know them. Journey to the ocean’s depths and get familiar with the wonderful world of underwater creatures in The Haunted Sea! Encounter colourful creatures Read more...

You’re invited to my exhibition a celebration of difference, connection, and resilience. Created over two years, this work reflects my journey through isolation,nature and sisterhood. I explore memory, spirit and the state of the world- honouring what unites us in our diverse ways of being and creating. Kathy Pick Read more...

Phantom Scripts revisits three works by Geoffrey Farmer from the Audain Art Museum’s Permanent Collection — Vampire Archive, November 22, 1974(2010 – 2025), The Politics of Appearing(2012 – 2025), The Good Sweeper (2017 – 2025)— reframing them through newly composed scripts, annotations, and didactic texts authored by the artist. The texts function as interjections — speculative, contextual, poetic — that Read more...

“In looking back, I think the best work I did was of the people.” —Tamio Wakayama Enemy Alien is the first major solo exhibition and retrospective of works by documentary photographer Tamio Wakayama. His career, spanning over fifty years, began with his photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in the southern United States. Wakayama documented many of the social justice movements Read more...

Enemy Alien is the first major solo exhibition and retrospective of works by documentary photographer Tamio Wakayama. His career, spanning over fifty years, began with his photographs of the Civil Rights Movement in the southern United States. Wakayama documented many of the social justice movements and countercultures of the 1960s and 70s. His work tells stories of community, joy and resistance Read more...

The Skeena Salmon Art Show is back for its 8th annual iteration at the Terrace Art Gallery, and we are excited to be bringing the show back to the Nisga’a Museum and Smithers Art Gallery again!  The Skeena Salmon Art Show is an annual exhibition dedicated to the cultural and ecological importance of the Salmon. For 2025, we are calling Read more...

The print collection is now available for viewing online and reserving prints. Read more...

October 20, 2025- February 28, 2026. After exploring the underground and the award-winning BOOM! show, you can journey to the Terra Lab to explore this dynamic temporary exhibit. Explore how copper contamination impacted the marine food chain from plankton to predators, and learn how remediation efforts now protect this ecosystem. This unique display includes specimens from the Howe Sound ecosystem, Read more...

We who have known tides begins from a poetic inquiry that seeks to understand what it means to exist at the edges of the Pacific Ocean. We who have known tides is an examination that unveils the ways in which the ocean and living in proximity to it has shaped the work of Indigenous artists, as well as their relation to territories across Read more...

Farming and food security are important topics of conversations today, and in the past. Grow Nanaimo features stories of complex relationships with the land, culturally diverse farmers, and Five Acres, a planned agricultural community now known as Harewood. Take a seat in the outhouse interactive and be privy to the secrets of the night soil scavengers and check out the Read more...

November 14 – December 14 A beloved West Vancouver tradition for over 20 years, Great Gifts is a showcase of unique crafts, art, and rare gifts. Visit this cozy and inviting holiday gift shop where you will find cards, calendars, ornaments, ceramics, original artwork, home décor, body care products, textiles, and jewellery, handmade by 37 local artists and artisans.   Read more...

The Square Foot Show returns this November!  November 21–27, 2025 @artwrx.studio + Gallery invites artists from across Canada to apply to our annual Square Foot Show, happening November 21–27, 2025. This juried exhibition features original artwork in a 12″ x 12″ format. It’s a excellent opportunity to share your work with art enthusiasts across the country. What to Expect: 12″ x Read more...

ᓴᓂ ᐳᑐᒍ   Sharni Pootoogook: Creatures, Shadows, and Dreams November 29, 2025 – February 22, 2026 On tour from the Kelowna Art Gallery, this exhibition celebrates the life and work of Sharni Pootoogook (1922-2003), whose bold and balanced ink-on-paper drawings blur the boundaries between human and animal, spiritual and visceral. Pootoogook’s work draws clear connections between first-generation artists in Kinngait and the Read more...

Nanoose Bay Studio Showcase – All Artists Under One Roof Date: April 26th     Time: 10am to 5pm Location: Nanoose Place Community Center, 2925 NW Bay Rd, Nanoose Bay, BC V9P 9J9    – Join us for a special event where you can experience the incredible talent of 21 local artists—all under one roof! We invite you to meet our talented Read more...