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A banner image compilation including a black-and-white headshot of a Black woman on the left; a photograph of a black woman's neck and head in profile wearing a headdress on a mustard yellow background; a black-and-white photograph of a man standing at a table speaking into a mic in the top right; and a photograhpy by Tamio Wakayama in the bottom right of a Freedom School in the American South with a burned cross in the front with the text Freedom painted on it in white

Celebrating Black Futures

Join us for a month-long series of talks, performances, films and conversations centering on the work of Black and African artists.

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What’s On:
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Membership

Member Opening | That Green Ideal

Thu Feb 5, 2026 | 6–8 PM
Black-and-white photograph of a Black boy in a Superman pose
Exhibition

Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama

October 3, 2025–February 22, 2026
Black-and-white photograph with a house and a detail of a cross that reads "Freedom"
Lectures and Talks

Panel Discussion: Photography, Memory and Social Justice

Sat Feb 14, 2026 | 3:30–5 PM
Installation view of the exhibition Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama. In this photograph, there are black-and-white photographs in white frames on the right wall, and on the left there is a large black-and-white mural of a close-up of woman taiko drummer. We see her drum in the foreground, and her arm raised in the background. At the centre of the image is the woman's face, with her mouth open screaming.
Tours

Gallery Tours in Japanese

Sat Feb 14, 2026
A father and son sit at a table and draw together.
Families

The Making Place | Watercolours and Photography

Sun Feb 8, 2026 | 11 AM–4 PM
A film still from the documentary Freedom Summer of a photograph of a Black man sitting at during a demonstration. He is surrounded by other protesters holding signs.
Special Events

Film Screening: Freedom Summer

Fri Feb 6, 2026 | 6–8 PM
A slightly out-of-focus photograph of a shirtless man in denim blue jeans lying on a settee chair covered in wrinkled ivory and pastel blue sheets.
Exhibition

Nan Goldin: Stendhal Syndrome

November 6, 2025–April 6, 2026
Three portrait paintings of trees by Emily Carr
Exhibition

That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature

February 6–November 8, 2026
An installation photograph of Jim Lambie's artworks Zobop (Colour-Chrome) and Zobop (Colour-Chrome) Stairs covering the stairs and floor of the Vancouver Art Gallery's neo-classical Rotunda. The floor and stairs are covered in brightly coloured strips of vinyl in purple, pink, green, red, orange and yellow.
Exhibition

Jim Lambie: Zobop (Colour-Chrome)

October 22, 2025–October 12, 2026
Photograph of an Indigenous installation artwork by Beau Dick of a large wooden whale with a small doll-like figurine of the artist on the whale's back.
Exhibition

We who have known tides: Indigenous Art from the Collection

November 6, 2025–April 6, 2026
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Upcoming Events

Gallery Tours

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Installation view of an enormous hand-painted mural on the Gallery’s Georgia Street façade by Taiwanese artist Michael Lin. The mural features flowers on a red backdrop.Michael Lin, Georgia Street Plaza 23.01 – 02.05.10, 2010, paint on metal Photo: Vancouver Art Gallery

The Centre for Global Asias

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The Art of Wellbeing

Transforming lives through the power of art.

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