Exhibitions

Welcome to Dream Factory — where pop stardom, migration, and music history collide. This bold, genre-defining exhibition celebrates the golden age of Cantopop and Mandopop — the iconic sounds that took Asia by storm and sparked a global music revolution. On view from May 28, 2025 at the Chinese Canadian Museum, Dream Factory dives into two unforgettable decades of pop — from idol fandoms 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...

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...

Kintsugi, the Japanese art of “golden joinery,” is a 500-year-old tradition of repairing broken ceramics with natural Urushi lacquer and powdered gold. Rather than disguising damage, it highlights it—honoring imperfection and the passage of time. Vancouver-based artist Naoko Fukumaru draws on this ancient practice as both a craft and a meditative process. Through her work, she offers a powerful metaphor for personal healing: Read more...

Beautifully Broken – Kintsugi by Naoko Fukumaru Oct 14, 2025 – Feb 21, 2026 TUE-SAT 10AM-5PM admission by donation Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre 6688 Southoaks Crescent, Burnaby, BC Kintsugi, the Japanese art of “golden joinery,” is a 500-year-old tradition of repairing broken ceramics with natural Urushi lacquer and powdered gold. Rather than disguising damage, it highlights it—honoring imperfection Read more...

Connected through waters and shared territory, this exhibit features Squamish and Lil̓wat fashion and accessory designers with guest artists from the Northwest Coast. Through contemporary expression, Indigenous designers represent their identities rooted in lineage, land, and culture, shaping the future of fashion. Featuring works selected by Guest Curator Rebecca Baker-Grenier, an Indigenous Designer of Kwakiutł and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh ancestry. Join us on 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...

Jim Lambie transforms everyday architectural spaces into immersive, energetic experiences through his vibrant vinyl tape installations. These site-specific works are an extension of his acclaimed Zobop series, which uses brightly coloured strips of industrial vinyl tape to contour the architectural space, wrapping its form in optical rhythm and vivid saturation. Lambie is a Glasgow–based artist, DJ and musician. His practice 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...

The works of Los Angeles-based artist Charlotte Zhang are inscribed with the histories of petty criminals, rogues, ruffians, and indeed tireslashers – her contemporary variant on labels found as far back as Elizabethan Era moralizing “rogue” pamphlets. Such outlaws, she observes, threaten ideas of property and propriety that have long defined upright members of society; and yet, they also personify the fantasy 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...

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...

Growing from the 2023 Gallery exhibition Invisible Fish, and inspired by the Joy Harjo poem “Remember,” remember the earth, remember the sky is a group show focusing on ancestral connections through land, air, and memory as experienced and understood by early career artists connected to this territory and in conversation with works from the Gallery’s permanent collection by Salish artists. Using an array Read more...

Referencing a shift in viewpoints, TILT/ is an annual group exhibition emphasizing the power of art. Featuring over 30 artists, the exhibition brings together diverse perspectives and immersive experiences through visual art, audio and video installation, sculpture, and select self-guided activities. Michele Alborg, Nadia Aldea, Lisa Anderson, Yasuo Araki, Christopher Ashdown, Jasper Berehulke, Clyde Richard Brittain, Sherida Charles, Krystal Charlston, Annie Pei-Hsuan Chen, Read more...

Date: January 23 • 2026 End date: March 11 • 2026 Online: January 30 to March 11, 2026 Opening Reception: January 23 • 7 – 9 pm • more info Various Mediums in the Atrium Emerging Talent 28 showcases exceptional artwork from talented young artists across School District 43. This exhibition presents a diverse array of creative works, highlighting students’ unique perspectives and artistic journeys. Each Read more...

Each year, thousands of people head to remote camps across British Columbia to take on the demanding work of reforestation. For months at a time, they plant trees by hand in terrain that is uneven, rocky, and cluttered with debris from past logging, and in many areas visibly shaped by the growing impact of forest fires. In her series of Read more...

REAPPRAISAL Opens as the City’s First Exhibition at The ACT Arts Centre on Saturday, January 24   Reappraisal encourages visitors to reconsider what holds value—materially, emotionally, and socially—while the artist reflects on her own values in relation to artmaking, gender, and societal expectations. As an Autistic person with ADHD, Duclos translates a constant stream of sensory experiences—colour, light, texture, and sound—into Read more...

Every year we carefully curate a collection of exquisite, small-scale works with the anticipation of releasing our Small Treasures exhibition at the beginning of the new year. This January marks our 23rd year of hosting Small Treasures and with every passing year, the exhibition reaches new heights. This year is no exception, and we are incredibly excited to include, for Read more...

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun is one of Canada’s most outspoken and influential contemporary artists, confronting colonial suppression, environmental degradation, and the ongoing struggles for Indigenous sovereignty. Of Cowichan (Hul’q’umi’num Coast Salish) and Okanagan (Syilx) descent, his forty-year practice brings together traditional iconography, fearless critique, and biting satire to challenge and unsettle. Floor Opener presents a selection of works that are at once Read more...

Griffin Art Projects opens the new year by offering the public a first look at a selection of works from two influential Montreal collectors in Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection, on view from January 31th to May 10th. The Mauer’s extensive collection holds more than 400 works by over 300 Canadian and international artists, this exhibition will present roughly 40 Read more...

The Cannery’s past Feature Exhibit, Fish Tales, returns to the Cannery for a limited time only in the month of February! Hear from the community about how fish, food, and culture are connected in interview screenings, explore a wide variety of fish and seafood-based recipes, and stir the pot yourselves by sharing favourite recipes, memories, and connections to food of Read more...

The Art of Relationships: Sam Bryant exemplifies ways in which families, tribes and nations are connected through art. Northwest Coast art arose out of the impulse to manifest, strengthen and celebrate relationships — within the lineage group, between lineage groups, between village and nations, and between the people and the land. Some contemporary First Nations continue to pursue their arts Read more...

That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature is the largest solo exhibition of iconic British Columbia artist Emily Carr (1871–1945) at the Vancouver Art Gallery in over twenty years. Featuring more than 100 works, it explores in-depth the artist’s obsession with the landscape of the Pacific Northwest, using close analysis of her paintings and writings to investigate how Read more...

Discover the wonders of the natural world through the eyes of photographers from around the globe, bringing bold new perspectives on Earth’s beauty, power and vulnerability. Wildlife Photographer of the Year is back for its 61st year with a fresh look at the planet’s stunning landscapes and diverse wildlife. Don’t miss the adult Grand Title Winner, “Ghost Town Visitor” by South African photographer Wim Read more...

Terry Fenton’s new collection of paintings pays homage to the dramatic and changing landscapes of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Through his background as a painter, curator, art critic, and writer, Fenton brings his knowledge and deep appreciation for the Modernist movement into his own work by distilling the landscape to its essentials. In this way, Fenton captures a strong Read more...

Family Day Weekend February 13-16th, 2026   Family Day is the perfect time to slow down, explore together, and discover the stories that shaped our region. From February 13 – 16, 2026 enjoy 50% off admission and spend the day exploring the museum grounds and exhibits, riding the underground train, and learning about the people, places, and innovations that defined Read more...

Guest curated by Salish artist Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, the exhibition will showcase 11 Coast and Interior Salish artists working across sculpture, printmaking, textiles, painting, and mixed media. This unique exhibition will illuminate the deep cultural, linguistic, and artistic connections shared across the Salish world. To date, most institutions have focused on Coastal Salish art; however, with this exhibition, the Bill Read more...

Truly a Love Story presents a selection of montages created by Keith Rice-Jones between 1992 and 2025 for his wife, Celia Rice-Jones. What began as a private exchange — greeting cards made for anniversaries and birthdays– is exhibited publicly for the first time.   Keith and Celia Rice-Jones were partners in life and in the studio, co-founding Wildrice Studio in the Read more...

The Polygon Gallery is honoured to organise the largest solo exhibition to date of artist, curator, and scholar Tania Willard. Drawing on her mixed Secwépemc and settler-Scottish ancestry, Willard has developed a collaborative, land-based practice, which attends to the history, present, and future of the land and community. The focus of this ten-year survey is her ongoing experiments with photography, as Read more...

Nanoose Bay Studio Showcase – All Artists Under One Roof 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 local artists, and take-home original BC artwork. Whether Read more...