North Vancouver’s Susanna Blunt is a visual poet that leads with feelings over intellect when it comes to creating and appreciating art. Her sculpture and paintings are a connection to the power of the universe to transform, expound and show us magic.
You can see more Susanna’s work and learn about upcoming shows on her website.
Susanna takes commissions on portraits and other works and teaches art lessons.
This video was shot in 2019; re-published in 2022.
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
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 draws from pop culture, music and Minimalism, and he often uses inexpensive, ready-made materials. In the Zobop works, which date back to the late 1990s, he meticulously applies tape in concentric patterns that respond to and amplify the geometry of the space. The effect is both playful and disorienting—simultaneously flattening and deepening the visual field.
Installed directly onto the stairs and floor of the Gallery’s Rotunda, Zobop (Colour-Chrome) (2019) blurs the boundaries between sculpture, installation and drawing. The works activate the act of moving through space, turning the mundane journey up or down a stairwell into a psychedelic, performative experience and radically shifting how we understand place—in this iteration, the Gallery’s architecture.
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street
An extended presentation of the Audain Art Museum’s Permanent Collection, From Sea to Sky celebrates the collection’s evolution from its inception in 2016 to the present. Built on the generous
An extended presentation of the Audain Art Museum’s Permanent Collection, From Sea to Sky celebrates the collection’s evolution from its inception in 2016 to the present. Built on the generous donation of over 200 works by Founders Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa, the AAM’s Acquisition Committee has since guided the holding’s expansion through purchase, commission, and donation, to almost 300 outstanding pieces representing the art of British Columbia. Carving, painting, and photography serve as the pillars of the collection, featuring notable works by artists active from the mid-nineteenth to early twenty-first century. Such a display offers a unique visual evocation of the cultural differences that continue to shape BC’s socio-political identity.
From Sea to Sky showcases familiar masterpieces alongside newly acquired and previously archived works of art. These pieces by artists from the province, and those inspired by local environs, are all housed in Patricia and John Patkau’s stunning example of contemporary West Coast architecture. Among the active carvers and photographers of note are Robert Davidson, Dempsey Bob, Jeff Wall, Jin-Me Yoon and Stan Douglas, while paintings by Emily Carr, AY Jackson and BC Binning add a historical dimension to this sweeping display. Works acquired from Karin Bubaš, Rebecca Belmore, and Russna Kaur are indicative of a mid-point in their respective careers and each have also been featured in solo exhibitions at the Museum.
Audain Art Museum
4350 Blackcomb Way
Capture the beauty of the season and turn moments into memories as you paint the Whistler skyline. Explore your creative talent with a local artist, who will guide you through
Capture the beauty of the season and turn moments into memories as you paint the Whistler skyline. Explore your creative talent with a local artist, who will guide you through masterpieces inspired by the local landscape.
Availability: All year round, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Time of Day: Morning, Afternoon, Evening
Duration: 2 hours
Four Seasons Resort Whistler
4591 Blackcomb Way,
An exhibition of approximately 40 works from the collection of Montreal collectors, Lillian and Billy Mauer. Including photography, paintings and sculptures from this impressive international collection by artists such as
An exhibition of approximately 40 works from the collection of Montreal collectors, Lillian and Billy Mauer. Including photography, paintings and sculptures from this impressive international collection by artists such as by Carrie May Weems, Lorraine O’Grady, John Baldessari, Rosemarie Trockel, Doug Aitken, Tatiana Trouvé, Huma Bhabha, Frank Bowling, Betty Goodwin, and Annette Messager. Often drawn to politically and socially engaged art, the exhibition will present a selection of works which represent the breadth of the collection.
Griffin Art Projects
1174 Welch St
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
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 she understood nature and her relationship to it. The exhibition argues that Carr’s landscapes exist at the intersection between an experience of nature and an idea about how to transmit that experience through a painting, with the goal of expressing a divine essence in nature. It teases out the tension between individual and local references and the larger ideas and philosophies about nature in Western cultural traditions.
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street
This exhibition shares the importance and depth of art education in the Surrey School District. Participating artists range from grades one through seven. Artworks on display highlight a wealth of
This exhibition shares the importance and depth of art education in the Surrey School District. Participating artists range from grades one through seven. Artworks on display highlight a wealth of subjects, both personal and universal.
Working across mediums such as 3D geometric string art, papier mache, and painting to name a few, Art by Surrey Elementary School Students provides visitors with insights into the critical thinking and visual literacy skills of young developing artists.
Along with the accompanying text, the exhibition demonstrates how teachers connect with BC Education Big Ideas curriculum.
Surrey Art Gallery
13750 88 Ave
Guest curated by Salish artist Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, this exhibition brings together the work of 11 Coast and Interior Salish artists working across sculpture, printmaking, textiles, painting, and mixed media.
Guest curated by Salish artist Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, this exhibition brings together the work of 11 Coast and Interior Salish artists working across sculpture, printmaking, textiles, painting, and mixed media. Together, their practices reveal the deep cultural, linguistic, and artistic relationships that flow across the Salish world.
While institutional narratives have often centered on Coastal Salish art, this exhibition broadens the lens, foregrounding the vital interconnectivity between Interior and Coast Salish communities. In doing so, it challenges the historic marginalization of Salish art within broader Northwest Coast art histories.
At the heart of the curatorial vision is the river, both a living presence and a powerful metaphor, linking land, water, identity, and evolving cultural practices.
The exhibition celebrates Salish art as dynamic, sophisticated, and forward-looking, affirming its place as both culturally essential and artistically visionary.
Featuring influential artists who have paved the way, including Susan Point and Angela Paul, alongside emerging voices shaping the future, this exhibition offers a resonant and timely exploration of continuity, connection, and creative resurgence.
Bill Reid Gallery
639 Hornby Street
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents Blossoming, a solo exhibition from Kwakwaka’wakw artist Jamie Gentry, curated by Aliya Boubard, from February 28 – May 24, 2026. After 12
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art presents Blossoming, a solo exhibition from Kwakwaka’wakw artist Jamie Gentry, curated by Aliya Boubard, from February 28 – May 24, 2026. After 12 years of creating moccasins by commission, this exhibition serves as an opportunity for Gentry to implement her handcrafted beadwork based solely on personal inspiration, culminating in a journey of self-discovery and growth, and a gift to create her own joy. The exhibition features a series of handmade moccasins adorned with realistic floral beadwork along with a selection of photographs showcasing the moccasins in the natural environment from which each pair was inspired. A workshop with the artist will be held during the exhibition run, further details to be announced. For admission information and complete event details, visit: billreidgallery.ca
Bill Reid Gallery
639 Hornby Street
This installation reimagines the dragon as a shared myth that transcends geography and culture. Spanning three synchronized screens, Mustaali Raj transforms the dragon’s traditional characteristics into his own distinct visual
This installation reimagines the dragon as a shared myth that transcends geography and culture. Spanning three synchronized screens, Mustaali Raj transforms the dragon’s traditional characteristics into his own distinct visual language.
Through vivid colours and bold geometric patterns, the dragons glide across the boundaries of land, culture, and story. Their shifting shapes invite viewers to reflect on how stories migrate and evolve across cultures.
Surrey Art Gallery
13750 88 Ave
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
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 a technology of both colonisation and decolonisation. Combining new and existing works, and showcasing a broad and inventive array of photographic printing, materiality and presentation techniques, the exhibition materialises the artist’s paradigm-shifting historical scholarship and artistic research.
Willard considers photography as a medium and material that dates back millennia, not centuries. In her words, “Light has been making life, images, shadows, and reflections for billions of years. Those photographs are called stones – geological formations – the grandmothers and grandfathers embodied in the volcanic rocks used in sweat lodges.”
The title Photolithics (combining ancient words for light and stone) calls up Willard’s expansive notion of working directly with the sun’s changing rays, and with varied formations of soil, crystal, metal, and sediment. Throughout, Willard poses key questions about the confines of galleries and museums, juxtaposing these spaces with the forms of Salish basketry and kekuli (pit house) architecture simultaneously ancient and current. For The Polygon, she devises a distinctive treatment for the gallery’s windows, recasting the building as a “lens” and turning the sun’s rays into a “safelight” for future encounters with sensitive historical records. Committed to a practice rather than a fixed appearance, the exhibition will transform as the days lengthen and the weather filters available light.
The Polygon
101 Carrie Cates Court
Hannah Rickards’ artistic practice studies the relationship between perception and experience. Resistant to the construction of narrative, she employs a range of conceptual tools and media to create works that measure
Hannah Rickards’ artistic practice studies the relationship between perception and experience. Resistant to the construction of narrative, she employs a range of conceptual tools and media to create works that measure the limits of language and map conditions of uncertainty in our attempts to discern and describe the world. Rickards’ solo exhibition of new work at the Gibson, I am the infant and I am the bird, is informed by her relocation from London, UK, to an acreage in Syilx Okanagan territory in the interior of British Columbia. Life in this new context, with its markedly different tempo and scent—a rural valley thick with orchards, pastures, and lumber mills, encircled by rocky benchland—invoked a metabolic shift in the artist’s approach.
Rickards’ characteristically spare installation rewards a willingness to slow down: single channel videos capture brief glimpses of hummingbirds recorded in the soft grey light before dawn. A large-scale video work depicts footage gathered over years by an infrared trail camera erected in Rickards’ pasture. Triggered by motion, the camera does not differentiate between the types of activity it detects. Depending upon the duration of their visit, viewers may experience the erratic flight of a moth, a grazing deer that pauses to stare arrestingly at the camera or simply long stretches of wheatgrass nodding in the breeze. A series of photo-lithographic-and-silkscreened prints, created by Rickards using remote viewing—a paranormal practice of perceiving a distant or hidden subject without the aid of the senses—reconsider questions of landscape and place.
In its alertness to the agency of the world, I am the infant and I am the bird shares much with early interpretations of photography. For the first decade of its existence, the photographic image was understood not as “captured” or “taken” but rather as something “received from the world.” As William Henry Fox Talbot observed in an 1839 letter, “It is not the artist who makes the picture, but the picture which makes itself.” While the question of where and how we place our attention has always been fundamental to Rickard’s work, I am the infant and I am the bird invites an uncoupling from contemporary culture’s relentless “attention economy” to allow a consideration of how we might more carefully attend to the world’s ways of revealing itself to us.
Gibson Art Museum
Explore our Museum after hours with Pay-What-You-Can admission every Thursday evening!
Explore our Museum after hours with Pay-What-You-Can admission every Thursday evening!
Be it date-night, an evening of family fun, or your own cultural excursion, step into our galleries and let curiosity be your guide as the stories of North Vancouver come to life under a whole new light
Thursdays, Weekly
Time: 5PM –8PM
Audience: All Ages
Pay-What-You-Can
All drop-ins welcome!
Museum of North Vancouver
115 Esplanade W, North Vancouver, BC V7M 0G7
Experience Whistler’s most extensive collection of community art all in one place! Discover over 300 original 8 x 8-inch works by established and emerging talent from the Sea to Sky and
Experience Whistler’s most extensive collection of community art all in one place!
Discover over 300 original 8 x 8-inch works by established and emerging talent from the Sea to Sky and beyond. From intricate metalwork and sculptural clay to oil on canvas and mixed media, the Anonymous Art Show showcases an incredible range of styles and disciplines.
The twist? Every piece is displayed anonymously. Spend the afternoon exploring, guessing, and perhaps even recognizing a familiar hand behind the work.
Whether you’re hoping to secure a piece by a sought-after local artist or simply looking for something special to bring your walls to life, the Anonymous Art Show is a rare opportunity to collect affordable original art.
Found a favourite? Art sales begin at our Anonymous Buying Night on April 10.
Maury Young Art Centre
4335 Blackcomb Way
Tupananchiskama: Ancient Andean Cosmovision explores the enduring worldviews of ancient Andean civilizations through nearly 100 exquisite pre-Columbian ceramic, textile, bone and wood works, some dating back more than 2,500 years. These works were collected by former UBC Professor
Tupananchiskama: Ancient Andean Cosmovision explores the enduring worldviews of ancient Andean civilizations through nearly 100 exquisite pre-Columbian ceramic, textile, bone and wood works, some dating back more than 2,500 years. These works were collected by former UBC Professor Alan R. Sawyer and donated to MOA. The Andes are home to some of the world’s most complex cultural traditions, and its knowledge lives on in landscapes, practices, languages, and material culture.
This exhibition highlights Andean cosmovision—a holistic and spiritual understanding of the universe grounded in reciprocity, balance, and the recognition of nature as a living being. Far more than artistic objects, the belongings on display embody relationships between humans, ancestors, and sacred forces.
Tupananchiskama, is a word in Quechua, an Indigenous language of the Andes. It means “until life brings us together again” and reflects an ancestral view of life and death as part of a continuous cycle. In Andean philosophy, death is not an end but a transformation. Through the belongings in this exhibition, visitors are invited to reflect on continuity, resilience, renewal, and the promise of reunion.
Museum of Anthropology
6393 N.W. Marine Drive
Return to Paueru Gai is a retrospective exhibition celebrating 50 years of Powell Street Festival’s art and activism through photographs, videos and installations. Curated by Emiko Morita With financial support from Nikkei National
Return to Paueru Gai is a retrospective exhibition celebrating 50 years of Powell Street Festival’s art and activism through photographs, videos and installations.
Curated by Emiko Morita
With financial support from Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Powell Street Festival Society, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and Japanese Canadian Legacies Society.
Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Center
6688 Southoaks Crescent, V5E 4M7
Uncommon Places is a landmark series of photographs by American photographer Stephen Shore (b. 1947, New York, NY). Taken over the course of multiple road trips across North America between
Uncommon Places is a landmark series of photographs by American photographer Stephen Shore (b. 1947, New York, NY). Taken over the course of multiple road trips across North America between 1973 and 1981, this series played a pivotal role in establishing the importance of colour photography as a fine art form.
During his travels, Shore photographed intersections, parking lots, buildings, interiors, landscapes, objects and people, defining a photographic vernacular rooted in everyday Americana. Through Shore’s lens, such seemingly mundane subject matter becomes uncommon—framing, composition, colour, clarity and perspective work together to create a world of compelling images in which we see ordinary matter anew. Shore’s approach to the series is marked by a contemplative, attentive and detached quality, shaped by his use of a tripod-mounted, large-format camera that facilitates precision, sharpness and vivid clarity. Uncommon Places was originally published as a book in 1982.
Following a major gift from the Chan Family of eight hundred and one photographs from the series, the Gallery’s collection is one of the most comprehensive representations of this highly influential body of work held by any museum in the world. Together, these works offer insight into the development of Shore’s photographic approach, as well as the thematic strands, range of subjects and formal concerns that unfold across the series. Alongside iconic images of life on the road, this exhibition foregrounds Shore’s photographs from Canada and highlights his encounters with the people he met along the way who shaped his journeys.
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street
The Quiet Between explores the contemplative spaces where emotion, nature, and material meet — whether through still life, raw clay vessels, or graphite landscapes. The seed for Kathryn Fullerton’s clay pieces
The Quiet Between explores the contemplative spaces where emotion, nature, and material meet — whether through still life, raw clay vessels, or graphite landscapes.
The seed for Kathryn Fullerton’s clay pieces began during her 2024 residency at Tidal Art Centre in Lund. By responding intuitively to the land and its materials, she began to form hollow spheres from local clay. These closed vessels gradually revealed themselves to her as containers for the generative pulse of life. Over time, the spheres began to open, as the quiet nature of these pieces guided her deeper into the cycles of place. Informed by her residency at Tidal and ongoing research into decolonial methodologies, this work explores what it means to sustain a life-affirming art practice that acknowledges the cultural and ecological implications of making. The process is both ritual and offering. Each act of making, opening, or releasing becomes a meditation on giving and receiving within the community of life.
The Ferry Building Gallery
1414 Argyle Avenue
A new sculpture by James Harry marks The Polygon Gallery’s seventh collaboration and co-commission with Burrard Arts Foundation. Eye of the Ancestor is a striking yellow cedar wooden sphere, carved
A new sculpture by James Harry marks The Polygon Gallery’s seventh collaboration and co-commission with Burrard Arts Foundation. Eye of the Ancestor is a striking yellow cedar wooden sphere, carved with Coast Salish designs on the surface and holding a mirror-polished stainless steel sphere inside. The composition creates layered reflections and viewpoints that shift with the viewer’s movements around the sculpture. The title of the work draws from Coast Salish visual language, where the eye is a form associated with awareness, presence, and continuity beyond the individual. Harry’s sculpture translates that form into a multiscalar design that enacts a subtle intergenerational choreography, reflecting Indigenous pedagogies wherein knowledge is relational, accumulative, and often revealed incrementally across the arc of one’s life.
The Polygon
101 Carrie Cates Court
This exhibition brings together diverse practices that challenge the traditional boundaries of photography. Exploring the dynamic intersection of photography, sculpture, and installation, these works ask viewers to encounter photography as something
This exhibition brings together diverse practices that challenge the traditional boundaries of photography.
Exploring the dynamic intersection of photography, sculpture, and installation, these works ask viewers to encounter photography as something to be experienced with the body as much as the eye. Here, photography transcends the flat surface, emerging as a spatial, tactile, and conceptual practice.
By engaging with inventive materials including paper, wood, film, resin, plastic, metal, and found objects, the artists blur the lines between disciplines, transforming the photograph into sculpture, the image into an object, and the wall into space.
In rethinking what a photograph can be, this exhibition invites audiences to see and navigate photographic works in bold new ways.
Cityscape Community ArtSpace
335 Lonsdale Ave
Ser Serpas (b. 1995, Boyle Heights, California) lives and works in New York City and received degrees from Columbia University, New York, and HEAD, Genève. Notable institutional solo exhibitions include
Ser Serpas (b. 1995, Boyle Heights, California) lives and works in New York City and received degrees from Columbia University, New York, and HEAD, Genève. Notable institutional solo exhibitions include presentations at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; the Pinault Collection, Bourse de Commerce, Paris; and Swiss Institute, New York. Serpas has also participated in group exhibitions at the Rubell Museum, Miami; Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; MoMA PS1, New York; the 2024 Whitney Biennial, New York; the 2024 El Museo del Barrio Triennial, New York; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Genève; Bonner Kunstverein, Germany; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Istituto Svizzero, Rome; Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Punta della Dogana, Venice; and Kunsthalle Fribourg, Switzerland. Serpas has a solo exhibition upcoming at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Germany.
Contemporary Art Gallery
555 Nelson Street
Rafik Greiss (b. 1997) is an Egyptian artist based in Paris working across photography, installation and time-based media. His practice reflects on transformation, memory and the shifting states of images
Rafik Greiss (b. 1997) is an Egyptian artist based in Paris working across photography, installation and time-based media. His practice reflects on transformation, memory and the shifting states of images and objects through a formally and technically diverse approach that moves between digital and analogue processes. Often described as atmospheric, provocative and sensual, his work is driven by what Mitchell Anderson calls a “commitment to sensation rather than theme or medium.” His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Balice Hertling, Paris (2024, 2021), as well as in group exhibitions at the Istanbul Biennial (2025); Simian, Copenhagen (2025); Kunsthalle Zürich (2024); and the Swiss Institute, New York, with Ser Serpas (2023). His work is held in collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Pinault Collection, Paris; Louis Vuitton Collection, Paris; and Lafayette Anticipations, Paris.
Contemporary Art Gallery
555 Nelson Street
Douglas Watt (b. 1990, St. Catharines) is an artist living and working in Vancouver’s Davie Village on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Douglas Watt (b. 1990, St. Catharines) is an artist living and working in Vancouver’s Davie Village on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. He holds a BA (Art History) from Carleton University, Ottawa; an MFA from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; and was a visiting student in Criticism & Curatorial Practice at OCAD University, Toronto. He has presented solo exhibitions at Unit 17, Vancouver (2019), Tara Downs, New York (2021), and Pumice Raft, Toronto (2024). His work has been featured in Artforum and BlackFlash Magazine. Watt co-edits the publication Porthole with Hamish Hardie.
Contemporary Art Gallery
555 Nelson Street
Paul Kyle Gallery is pleased to present Echoes, our second exhibition with
Paul Kyle Gallery is pleased to present Echoes, our second exhibition with Amsterdam-based artist Daniel Mullen, opening April 18, 2026. This new body of work is structured for slow looking. The paintings read differently across distance and proximity, allowing perception to adjust as the viewer moves through space.
“Echoes is a proposition through painting that aims to hold perception open.” What first appears as a field of light gradually discloses its architecture, and the material facts of the painting—linen, pressure, and deposit—continue to produce an image that behaves like light. The work returns as after-image anddelayed clarity, shifting the boundary between surface and space.
Mullen develops each painting through a fixed framework governing tone, spacing, pressure, and chroma. While the framework remains consistent, it is continually tested and recalibrated, allowing outcomes to diverge from one painting to the next. Linen plays an active role in this process: paint embeds into the weave, and colour oscillates between material presence and optical effect.
Within the paintings’ internal architecture, light enters, slows, and gathers; colour follows as trace and consequence. As viewers move closer, structure becomes increasingly legible, and orientation begins to shift. The work functions like “an epilogue encountered without its narrative—an after-effect that establishes tone while the event itself remains elsewhere.” Held between surface and space, the paintings extend the encounter beyond the canvas.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11:30 am to 5:00 pm, or by appointment.
Paul Kyle Gallery
Surrey Art Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition In the Shadow of the Pavilions: Expo 86 and Contemporary Art that will run from April 18 to June 7, 2026.
Surrey Art Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition In the Shadow of the Pavilions: Expo 86 and Contemporary Art that will run from April 18 to June 7, 2026. The public reception and launch will take place Saturday April 18 from 6-9pm. Admission to the exhibition and reception is free.
Across numerous pavilions, multiple outdoor plazas, and within various museums and public galleries around the Lower Mainland, Expo 86 brought together a wide variety of artists and artworks from across Canada and around the world. At the same time, the world’s fair attracted a wide range of parallel art exhibitions and initiatives. On Expo’s 40th anniversary, In the Shadow of the Pavilions: Expo 86 and Contemporary Art highlights some of the extraordinary art from around British Columbia’s Lower Mainland during Canada’s second world’s fair moment.
Surrey Art Gallery
13750 88 Ave
Simranpreet Anand’s latest body of work weighs the spiritual significance of sacred materials against the costs and modes of their mass production. Working from a Sikh perspective, her installation of
Simranpreet Anand’s latest body of work weighs the spiritual significance of sacred materials against the costs and modes of their mass production. Working from a Sikh perspective, her installation of ceremonial fabrics, lenticular prints, and embroidered photographs considers the notion of the “eternal” in terms of religious significance, as well as the synthetic nature of products manufactured to last forever. Collapsing commercial and domestic spaces, her exhibition at The Polygon Gallery will feature a living room — with custom wallpaper, a couch, and a television — beside the Gallery’s gift shop, probing multivalent ideas of worship, value, and sustainability in the 21st century. Anand was the winner of the 2023 Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize.
The Polygon
101 Carrie Cates Court
The 2025–2026 season closes with one of opera’s most enduring love stories, set in the world’s most romantic city, rendered with the most vibrant characters and melodies. Puccini’s masterpiece transports
The 2025–2026 season closes with one of opera’s most enduring love stories, set in the world’s most romantic city, rendered with the most vibrant characters and melodies. Puccini’s masterpiece transports us to the heart of 1830s bohemian life in Paris, where love blossoms amidst dreams, hardships, and the unyielding pursuit of artistic freedom.
La Bohème has remained one of the most beloved and frequently performed operas worldwide since its 1896 premiere, due in large part to captivating pieces like “Quando m’en vo”, a.k.a. “Musetta’s Waltz”, and perhaps the most famous duet in opera, “O soave fanciulla”, sung on that moonlit moment when Mimì and Rodolfo fall in love.
In a bustling community of artists, students, philosophers, and Quartier Latin café denizens, the deep connection between the young poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimì is eventually tested by the bittersweet passage of time and the emotional toll of illness and poverty.
VO Music Director Emeritus Jonathan Darlington returns to conduct some of the most romantic and iconic music in opera history, while Pacific Opera Victoria Artistic Director Brenna Corner crosses the Salish Sea to direct a stunning international cast. Whether you’re discovering it for the first time or returning to a beloved classic, La Bohème speaks passionately to the soul, reminding us to cherish the fragility and fleeting beauty of life and love.
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
630 Hamilton St
Burnaby’s favourite springtime celebrations returns in 2026 as the City welcomes Burnaby Blooms. Join us on Sunday, May 3 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Deer Lake Park. Enjoy
Burnaby’s favourite springtime celebrations returns in 2026 as the City welcomes Burnaby Blooms. Join us on Sunday, May 3 at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts and Deer Lake Park.
Enjoy entertainment, roving performers, eco-artist installations, an artisan market, family activities, free talks and tours, plant sales, community groups, food trucks and more!
Burnaby Blooms promotes the long-term sustainability and the ecological health of our community in a fun and creative environment. Mark your calendars and plan to join us for hours of fun at the City’s favourite spring festival.
Free admission and entertainment. The event is designed to happen rain or shine.
Deer Lake Park Festival Lawn
6450 Deer Lake Avenue
The Ferry Building Gallery and the West Vancouver Memorial Library are proud to present Soundscapes, an exhibition featuring new work by Jane Adams. In an era shaped by an ever-expanding digital
The Ferry Building Gallery and the West Vancouver Memorial Library are proud to present Soundscapes, an exhibition featuring new work by Jane Adams.
In an era shaped by an ever-expanding digital landscape of shifting influences and opinions, Jane Adams offers a deeply personal and reflective body of work grounded in memory, music, and lived experience.
Her latest paintings draw from intimate reflections on home and studio life, as well as her years collaborating with her mother, the distinguished Canadian composer Jean Coulthard (OC, OBC). Together, they created illustrated music books for Royal Conservatory students and developed costuming for Coulthard’s opera adaptation of The Return of the Native. These formative collaborations continue to resonate within the artist’s practice.
The exhibition features Image Astrale I and Image Astrale II, abstract works inspired by Coulthard’s piano composition of the same name. Described musically as a “tone cluster,” the composition evokes vastness and layered intensity — qualities that the artist translates into painterly form. The canvases become meditations on the immensity of the universe, rendering the incomprehensible through tonal abstraction.
As a mature artist, this exploration of cosmic scale and musical structure represents a natural progression in her practice. Additional works in the exhibition further reflect her engagement with musical ideas drawn from both personal history and the broader canon of composers. Through abstraction, memory, and sound translated into visual form, Jane invites viewers into a contemplative space where music and painting converge.
Soundscapes is presented in partnership with the West Vancouver Memorial Library. The exhibition will be on display in the library exhibition space and at the Ferry Building Gallery.
The Ferry Building Gallery
1414 Argyle Avenue
We’re thrilled to welcome you to Vapes & Butts, a solo exhibition by Michelle Leone Huisman, on view at Gallery 881 from May 6 to June 6, 2026. Huisman’s work
We’re thrilled to welcome you to Vapes & Butts, a solo exhibition by Michelle Leone Huisman, on view at Gallery 881 from May 6 to June 6, 2026. Huisman’s work explores memory, consumption, and environmental narratives through striking macro photography and historic palladium printing.
Gallery 881
881 East Hastings
At UNITY, immerse yourself in the creative universe of trailblazing choreographic duo and Batsheva Dance Company alumni Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, who return to Ballet BC to share
At UNITY, immerse yourself in the creative universe of trailblazing choreographic duo and Batsheva Dance Company alumni Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, who return to Ballet BC to share a sweeping full-length follow up to their 2025 debut with the company.
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
630 Hamilton St
Led by Vietnamese-Canadian artist and filmmaker Hân Phạm, this workshop invites participants to explore memory, emotion, and storytelling through creative scanning and collage. Hân’s work experiments with video, photography, soundscapes,
Led by Vietnamese-Canadian artist and filmmaker Hân Phạm, this workshop invites participants to explore memory, emotion, and storytelling through creative scanning and collage. Hân’s work experiments with video, photography, soundscapes, and bookmaking to reflect on the ephemerality of memory and the interplay between personal and collective histories.
In this hands-on workshop, Hân will guide participants to transform everyday objects, photographs, and memorabilia into experimental, abstract images using flatbed scanners. You’ll learn how movement, layering, and light can create unexpected textures, forms, and visual narratives, culminating in a personal accordion-style photo book.
This Date Night coincides with the CityScape Gallery exhibition: Experiments in Photography: Image and Object, as part of Capture Photography Festival 2026.
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Cityscape Gallery
335 Lonsdale Avenue
Featuring artwords by Terese Blaklokke, Hannah Bricknell, Vanessa Carle, Bryony Dique, Angel Gunn, Yona Hazen, Claudine Loquen, Daniel Milanese, Cristian Olea, Denise Sherman, Carly Thomas, and Amanda Walker
Featuring artwords by Terese Blaklokke, Hannah Bricknell, Vanessa Carle, Bryony Dique, Angel Gunn, Yona Hazen, Claudine Loquen, Daniel Milanese, Cristian Olea, Denise Sherman, Carly Thomas, and Amanda Walker
The Arts Council of Surrey has been organizing this annual open-juried exhibition in partnership with the Gallery. A team of community jurors comes together to select artworks that demonstrate originality
The Arts Council of Surrey has been organizing this annual open-juried exhibition in partnership with the Gallery. A team of community jurors comes together to select artworks that demonstrate originality and skill. Prizes are awarded across five categories: painting; drawing, printmaking, and mixed media on paper; sculpture and fiber art; photography; and digital, performative, and new media art. The artworks are displayed throughout Surrey Arts Centre, and visitors are invited to vote for the People’s Choice Award.
Surrey Art Gallery
13750 88 Ave
Fazakas Gallery is pleased to present Re-counting Coup, the first solo exhibition in British Columbia by Matthew Provost Naatsikapamatoosin (Two Smudge), an artist from the Piikani and Kainai Nations (Southern
Fazakas Gallery is pleased to present Re-counting Coup, the first solo exhibition in British Columbia by Matthew Provost Naatsikapamatoosin (Two Smudge), an artist from the Piikani and Kainai Nations (Southern Alberta), part of the Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy).
Two Smudge’s practice explores how Siksikaitsitapi knowledge systems persist and adapt within contemporary contexts. Working across painting, material interventions, installation, and hanging mobile sculpture, he engages histories of mark-making, land, and value to consider how cultural knowledge is carried forward.
The exhibition’s title draws on the Blackfoot practice of counting coup, a Plains Indigenous tradition in which warriors demonstrated bravery through close physical proximity to an opponent—touching rather than killing. Emphasizing risk, precision, and restraint, the act held deep social and cultural significance.
In Re-counting Coup, Two Smudge reinterprets this gesture through his materials and process. Painting over maps and financial documents such as cheques—tools historically tied to colonial systems of land and economy—he disrupts their authority without fully erasing them. These works function as acts of “re-counting,” where layered marks assert presence and challenge imposed structures.
This approach connects to earlier visual traditions, including winter counts—pictorial records used by Plains Indigenous communities to mark significant events—and the later development of ledger art in the 19th century. While Ledger Art often emphasizes figuration and narrative, Two Smudge departs from these conventions. His compositions draw from the painted visual language of Niitoyis (lodges), where surface, structure, and meaning are intertwined. While the works may appear abstract, they are built through a Blackfoot visual vocabulary—circles, lines, and geometric forms that reference stars, celestial systems, and relationships to land.
Niitoyis remains central to the work. Beyond a formal reference, the lodge embodies teachings related to home, land, and community. Drawn from lived experience in Piikani Nation, these forms are rearticulated across each surface, creating spatial systems that resist the fixed boundaries of colonial cartography.
Across the exhibition, layers of information remain visible. Fragments of maps persist beneath painted fields, their borders disrupted but legible. This coexistence reflects an ongoing tension between imposed territorial frameworks and Siksikaitsitapi understandings of land as relational and lived.
Re-counting Coup considers what it means to act with courage today. Here, bravery is expressed through continuation—through the sustained act of making, learning, and transmitting knowledge. The work affirms that Siksikaitsitapi ways of knowing are not static, but continuously evolving and carried forward.
Fazakas Gallery
659 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC
I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson explores a singular body of work by the late Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson (1941–2016), a Haida artist who dedicated her life
I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson explores a singular body of work by the late Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson (1941–2016), a Haida artist who dedicated her life to Haida cultural work.
Museum of Anthropology
6393 N.W. Marine Drive
Step inside a 360° experience set within some of British Columbia’s last remaining ancient forests, offering both an adventure for the senses and an ecological awakening. Presented as part of the
Presented as part of the exhibition Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change, SANCTUARY: The Ancient Forest Experience is an immersive installation created by artist, ethnobotanist, educator and activist Dr. T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss in collaboration with filmmakers Damien Gillis and Olivier Leroux.
At the heart of the exhibition is a life-sized replica of an 1,800-year-old red cedar. Inside, visitors enter a geodesic dome where a stunning 360° film transports them deep into some of British Columbia’s last remaining ancient forests—places rarely seen, increasingly threatened and profoundly sacred.
SANCTUARY features the Inland Temperate Rainforest in BC’s Kootenay region and the Dakota Bear Ancient Forest, known to the Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) People as Stal’Kaya (Home of the Sea Wolves) and located on the Sunshine Coast in the unceded territory of the Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation). These rich, intact forests, which have evolved since the last Ice Age, are set in stark contrast with nearby clear-cuts and tree plantations.
Narrated by Dr. Wyss, this multi-sensory work is accompanied by a layered soundscape of birdsong, flowing streams and waterfalls. It also highlights the flora and fauna of these ecosystems, including culturally modified trees, living evidence of the Squamish Nation’s long-term care and use of Stal’Kaya. Red and yellow cedars, traditionally used to make canoes, paddles, baskets and other vital cultural objects, feature prominently in the film, with a selection of works displayed in the gallery.
In 2021, following more than a decade of advocacy to halt logging in Stal’Kaya, the Squamish Nation and the Government of British Columbia reached an agreement to protect the forest. The film also explores ongoing efforts by the Valhalla Wilderness Society to protect the Inland Temperate Rainforest. While the creation of the Incomappleux Ancient Forest Conservancy in 2023 marked an important step forward, many ancient forests in the Kootenays remain unprotected—an increasingly critical pursuit in the era of climate change.
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street
As the environmental crisis accelerates, artists around the world are responding with urgency, insight and vision. Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change is the first major exhibition
As the environmental crisis accelerates, artists around the world are responding with urgency, insight and vision. Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change is the first major exhibition in Canada to examine the intersection of the climate crisis and contemporary art on a global scale.
Featuring works from the past 25 years, this exhibition underscores the urgency and relevance of sustainability and the environment as defining issues of our time. More than 35 works across a range of media—from large-scale video installations to living sculptures—invite viewers to confront pressing questions about our shared future on this planet.
Presented across multiple floors, Future Geographies includes a newly commissioned work by Jeffrey Gibson and marks the first time several artists are exhibiting in Vancouver, including Teresita Fernández, Josh Kline, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Jean Shin and Clarissa Tossin. The exhibition also features major works by BC–based artists such as Brian Jungen, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun, connecting global issues with local specificity. Together, the works in this exhibition invite dialogue and create space for imagining.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Vancouver Art Gallery is partnering with the University of British Columbia Climate Action Lab to create unique platforms for cross disciplinary dialogue. After its presentation at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Future Geographies will travel to the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Future Geographies will continue on the Gallery’s 4th Floor with the immersive installation SANCTUARY: The Ancient Forest Experience, by Dr. T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss, Damien Gillis and Olivier Leroux, and a presentation of cedar works by local artists, curated by Dr. Wyss.
A public artwork by Cannupa Hanska Luger will be featured on a billboard on 1611 E Hastings Street (near Commercial Drive) and is a collaboration with Capture Photography Festival.
Vancouver Art Gallery
750 Hornby Street
Free and open to the public, VABF is a three-day celebration of artists’ publishing featuring over one hundred local, national and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of
Free and open to the public, VABF is a three-day celebration of artists’ publishing featuring over one hundred local, national and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of programs, performances and artists’ projects.
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews
Takao Tanabe’s fascination with landscapes comes vividly to life through his travels across British Columbia, North America, the Arctic, and Europe. With his camera always at hand, he journeyed widely
Takao Tanabe’s fascination with landscapes comes vividly to life through his travels across British Columbia, North America, the Arctic, and Europe. With his camera always at hand, he journeyed widely to explore the wonders of places that sparked his curiosity and creative drive. Tanabe captured their geographical features and unique atmosphere, translating them into paintings in his studio that balance careful observation with poetic reflection. His works invite quiet contemplation, as if he listens intently to the land itself.
Machu Picchu (1990-2012) is a look back on Tanabe’s journey there in 1977. Each brushstroke, layer of colour, and element of composition evokes the memories and spirit of the place, which Tanabe revisited in his mind while working on the painting. He returned to it in 2012, completing it to his satisfaction at that time.
In Suffolk Village (1996–97) and Peninsula, N.L. (2014), Tanabe demonstrates precise attention to form, colour, and space. Suffolk Village depicts a historical coastal town under dramatic skies, while Peninsula, N.L., pares the landscape to sky, land, and sea, emphasizing its clarity. In contrast, Arctic and northern interior landscapes such as High Arctic 2/91, Aston Bay, Somerset Is. (1991) and Chilcotin 1/89, Frozen Lake (1989) use diffused light, soft contours, and muted greys and blues to evoke solitude, introspection, and the emotional resonance of extreme environments.
One of the highlights of this exhibition is a triptych, N.W.T.1/97: Beaulieu River (1997), donated by the artist to the Audain Art Museum in 2018. This large-scale river painting has a quiet intensity, offering the viewer an immersive engagement with nature, while capturing Canada’s breathtaking scenery.
Across continents, oceans, and lands, Tanabe’s travel paintings in this exhibition reveal both the poetic essence of the world and its quiet, meditative spirit, offering a deeply contemplative vision of place.
Audain Art Museum
4350 Blackcomb Way
Steam Engine 374 pulled into Vancouver 139 years ago, becoming the first passenger train to arrive on the west coast. Join our community members to celebrate the
Steam Engine 374 pulled into Vancouver 139 years ago, becoming the first passenger train to arrive on the west coast.
Join our community members to celebrate the age of steam, with live music, art, crafts and fun family activities.
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews
Marian Penner Bancroft’s work is deeply rooted in photographic explorations of the imagination and the material world. These interface with colonial histories, migration, objects and identities, allowing contemplation of durations
Marian Penner Bancroft’s work is deeply rooted in photographic explorations of the imagination and the material world. These interface with colonial histories, migration, objects and identities, allowing contemplation of durations ranging from deep time to the ephemeral.
Marian Penner Bancroft’s “Long Story” is an installation that brings together photographs, videos, and wall texts featuring both new works and related pieces created since 2000. These reflect the artist’s ongoing engagement with complex questions addressable through a careful examination of visual traces of human activity with reference to the natural world, providing viewers the possibility of considering their own stories in relationship to the spaces they inhabit.
West Vancouver Art Museum
680 17th Street, V7V 3T2
Head down to Granville Island for the Vancouver International Children’s Festival May 25 to May 31 and enjoy spectacular performances from around the globe for kids and families of all
Head down to Granville Island for the Vancouver International Children’s Festival May 25 to May 31 and enjoy spectacular performances from around the globe for kids and families of all ages! The 2026 Festival will feature circus arts, puppetry, theatre, dance, and music shows plus lots of arts activities created just for children.
Each show ticket includes an Activity Village wrist-band. With over 15 arts activities, the Activity Village offers many ways to have fun together as a family.
Granville Island
1398 Cartwright Street
The must-attend art fair on Canada’s West Coast takes place at the Vancouver Convention Centre East Building from May 28 – 31, 2026. Explore contemporary artworks, discover new artists, and
The must-attend art fair on Canada’s West Coast takes place at the Vancouver Convention Centre East Building from May 28 – 31, 2026. Explore contemporary artworks, discover new artists, and experience four days of creativity and culture in the heart of Vancouver.
Vancouver Convention Centre
1055 Canada Place,
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The must-attend art fair on Canada’s West Coast takes place at the Vancouver Convention Centre – East Building from May 28 – 31, 2026. Explore contemporary artworks, discover
The must-attend art fair on Canada’s West Coast takes place at the Vancouver Convention Centre – East Building from May 28 – 31, 2026. Explore contemporary artworks, discover new artists, and experience four days of creativity and culture in the heart of Vancouver.
Tickets are now available; reserve yours to experience Art Vancouver 2026
Art Vancouver presents a series of art classes taught by professional artists. The Vancouver Visual Art Foundation invites
Art Vancouver presents a series of art classes taught by professional artists.
The Vancouver Visual Art Foundation invites you to get creative with our series of art classes taking place at Art Vancouver and taught by our incredible exhibitors.
This art class tickets includes all art supplies and 1 Day admission to the show.
Vancouver Convention Centre East
999 Canada Place
View the 80+ participating artists and use our interactive map to plan your event weekend.
View the 80+ participating artists and use our interactive map to plan your event weekend.
Experience the beauty of the season with our Springtime Sculpt Series, a curated stone-carving experience at Fathom Stone Art. From March through May, guests are invited to carve their own
Experience the beauty of the season with our Springtime Sculpt Series, a curated stone-carving experience at Fathom Stone Art. From March through May, guests are invited to carve their own spring-inspired soapstone sculpture—choose from elegant eggs, bunnies, tulips, or design your own completely custom piece.
This refined gallery workshop offers a calm and creative escape for families, couples, and art-lovers of all ages. Guests begin with raw BC Soapstone, sketch their design, carve and shape their sculpture, then polish and oil it to a radiant finish. Every piece is a keepsake, handcrafted and taken home the same day.
Perfect for Spring Break, Easter holidays, rainy-day indoor activities, or off-slope afternoons, the Springtime Sculpt Series provides a memorable Whistler experience that blends artistry, relaxation, and local craftsmanship.
Private bookings, family sessions, and group activations are available daily.
The Westin Resort & Spa
#110 - 4090 Whistler Way
