Vancouver Art Book Fair presents its first in-person edition in five years from July 26–27, 2024, at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre. Canada’s longest-running international art book fair features more than 80 exhibitors from across the country and around the world, including 51 Personae (Shanghai), e-flux (NYC), Femme Art Review (London, ON), Hotam Press (Vancouver), Norsk Risoforening (Oslo), and more. New to the fair is a day-long symposium on July 28 at Emily Carr University about art publishing. Speakers include Anton Vidokle and Brian Kuan Wood, co-founders of e-flux Journal; Blair Swann, executive director of Toronto’s Art Metropole, one of the world’s earliest artist-run bookstores; Emmy Catedral, curator of public programs and bookstore for New York’s Center for Art, Research and Alliances; Vancouver-based writer Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, and more.

Image: Or Gallery at Vancouver Art Book Fair 2019. Photo by Rachel Topham.