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

O Zhang

O Zhang

July 20 to November 29, 2009

The Vancouver Art Gallery will launch its new outdoor exhibition space, Offsite, located at the foot of the Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver near the intersection of Georgia and Thurlow streets.

The first artwork to be presented at Offsite will be a site-specific installation of artist O Zhang’s major photographic installation Horizon (Sky). For this project, the artist returned to the rural area of her youth in central China to photograph the young village girls who live there. Enlarged to monumental proportions, the images of the young girls, each photographed on a country hillside, are presented with a strength and individuality not commonly represented in popular media.
Dawn: Sketches by the Group of Seven

Dawn
Sketches and Paintings by the Group of Seven

September 19, 2009 to January 17, 2010

The artists of the seminal Canadian landscape school the Group of Seven used the sketch as a fundamental tool in their artistic process. Read More
Scott McFarland

Scott McFarland

October 3, 2009 to January 3, 2010

Scott McFarland will include photographs produced over the past seven years that address the relationship between nature, civilization and representation through the depiction of rustic cabins, manicured landscapes, zoos, obsolescent photo-labs and the pastoral fringe of urban spaces. Read More
Owen Kydd

NEXT: A Series of Artist Projects from the Pacific Rim
Owen Kydd

October 3, 2009 to January 3, 2010

Vancouver-based artist Owen Kydd investigates the pictorial intersections of photography, video and film. Read More
From The Collection

From the Collection
Is Only The Mind Allowed to Wander

October 3, 2009 to January 3, 2010

Drawn from the Gallery’s permanent collection, this exhibition looks at ways artists have approached the human body as a site in which identity is shaped and a register of our inescapable progression toward mortality. Read More
Expanding Horizons

Expanding Horizons: Painting and Photography of American and Canadian Landscapes 1860-1918

October 17, 2009 to January 17, 2010

The first major exhibition to explore the interaction of painting and photography in Canada and the United States from the time of the U.S. Civil War through the end of World War I. Organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and curated by Hilliard T. Goldfarb. Read More