Our Exhibits

The Vancouver Art Gallery presents exhibitions of work by artists ranging from historic masters to leading-edge contemporaries. These include major thematic exhibitions, presentations of solo artists and smaller, more focused showcases. In a typical year, 2 to 3 exhibitions are borrowed from other institutions and 10 to 12 exhibitions are developed in-house, drawing on our permanent collection and loans of works from around the world. In addition, the Gallery tours a few of its exhibitions each year.

Current Exhibitions

Persuasive Vision

Persuasive Visions: 17th Century Dutch and Flemish Masterworks and Contemporary Reflections

June 15 to September 15, 2013

Persuasive Visions incorporates works from the collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery with important loans from a private collection and The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Read more.
MadeIn Company

MadeIn Company

April 26 to September 29, 2013

For the latest installation at Offsite, the Gallery's outdoor exhibition space near Georgia and Thurlow streets, MadeIn creates a fiction that uses subtlety and mistaken identity to prompt passers-by to reconsider their perceptions. Read more.

Generously Supported by our Visionary Partner:
Michael O'Brian Family Foundation
Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life

April 13 to September 15, 2013

Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life charts the evolution of the hotel from an isolated and utilitarian structure to a cultural phenomenon that figures prominently around the world. The scope of the project is global, an acknowledgement of the pervasive presence of a commercial network that is architecturally formed, geographically distributed and socially defined. Read More.

Presenting Sponsor:
The Keg

 Generous Support for the Exhibition Provided by:
Mark McCain and Caro MacDonald/Eye and I
Art Spiegelman

James Hart
The Dance Screen (The Scream Too)

November 2012 to January 2014

In late 2009, artist James Hart began designing a large-scale sculpture titled The Dance Screen (The Scream Too) and began carving the work in 2010. This ambitious project brings together many of the principal animal figures from traditional Haida stories, especially creatures that depend on salmon for their survival. Read More.

Generously Supported by:
Gary R. Bell