Art has beat in the hearts of Vancouver for thousands of years and continues today with international cultures who have been making their mark long before and after the first lamps were lit in Gastown. It thrives among countless festivals throughout the year, through intimate and expansive galleries, in avant-garde spaces and on almost every street corner. See how the cultures of the world and those of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Watuth peoples meet.
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the world premiere of NDN Giver, from September 17, 2025 – January 25, 2026. Curated by the gallery’s Assistant Curator, member of
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Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents the world premiere of NDN Giver, from September 17, 2025 – January 25, 2026. Curated by the gallery’s Assistant Curator, member of the Tsiits Git’anee clan, and passionate Haida Nation scholar Amelia Rea in her solo curatorial debut, the exhibition examines reciprocity, identity, and the evolving practice of gift-giving within potlatch traditions. Bringing together contemporary potlatch gifts such as prints and mugs alongside archival records of historical potlatches, NDN Giver features select pieces from Amelia’s personal collection as well as works by artists from communities across the coast, including the Haida and Heiltsuk Nations. For admission information and complete event details, visit: billreidgallery.ca
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September 27 (Saturday) – February 22 (Sunday) (All Day)(GMT+00:00)
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
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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 in the face of injustice. The exhibition also highlights Wakayama’s documentation of Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan and the Doukhobors of eastern BC.
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October 3 (Friday) – February 22 (Sunday) (All Day)(GMT+00:00)
For more than ten years now, the paintings of Sojourner Truth Parsons have trafficked in the saturated and sensorial. Plumbing the space between abstraction and legibility, feeling and form, the
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For more than ten years now, the paintings of Sojourner Truth Parsons have trafficked in the saturated and sensorial. Plumbing the space between abstraction and legibility, feeling and form, the language of Parsons’ work is an intuitive one. Building depth through accretion, collapsing interior and exterior realms, and traversing a shifting set of references — from the history of dance to the Gee’s Bend quilts of Alabama to her garden in the Catskill Mountains — her paintings give shape to intensities both atmospheric and embodied.
Louise brings together a selection of works produced by the Vancouver-born, New York-based artist over the past several years, surveying the dexterity of her movement between figuration and form and her canvases’ elemental approach to sensation, texture and tone. Titled after the work of poet Louise Glück — known for her decades-long meditation on the illusions and agonies of the self — the exhibition traces the enduring emotional registers, both individual and collective, that occupy Parsons’ time in the studio: desire, loss, isolation, redemption, resurgence.
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October 3 (Friday) – February 28 (Saturday) (All Day)(GMT+00:00)
Nan Goldin: Stendhal Syndrome explores the intimate and emotional force of Goldin’s photography through the moving-image format. Goldin is renowned for her slideshows, which were originally composed of 35mm slides
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Nan Goldin: Stendhal Syndrome explores the intimate and emotional force of Goldin’s photography through the moving-image format. Goldin is renowned for her slideshows, which were originally composed of 35mm slides on carousels set to music but are now presented as single-channel videos. Her moving-image works invite viewers to experience Goldin’s images not just as visual narratives, but as visceral encounters.
Drawing on the metaphor of the Stendhal Syndrome—a psychosomatic condition of dizziness, confusion or even hallucinations triggered by exposure to intense beauty—Stendhal Syndrome (2024) juxtaposes Goldin’s photographs taken over the last twenty years of Classical, Renaissance and Baroque masterpieces with portraits of her friends, chosen family and lovers.
Nan Goldin: Stendhal Syndrome features a new acquisition to the Gallery’s permanent collection and represents the first major presentation of Goldin’s work in Vancouver.
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November 6 (Thursday) – April 6 (Monday) (All Day)(GMT+00:00)
