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Not Just A Date—An Experience

This Valentine’s Day weekend, celebrate creativity, connection and time well spent together at the Gallery.

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What’s On:
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Families

The Making Place | Family Day Edition

Sun Feb 15, 2026 | 11 AM–4 PM
Black-and-white photograph of a Black boy in a Superman pose
Exhibition

Enemy Alien: Tamio Wakayama

October 3, 2025–February 22, 2026
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
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
A film still from the documentary Freedom Summer of a black-and-white photograph of a woman walking up to the steps of a building, where white men stand on either side.
Special Events

Film Screening: Freedom Summer

Fri Feb 13, 2026 | 6–8 PM
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
A film still from the documentary True North of a black-and-white photograph of Black women gathered outside, sitting on a bench and leaning against a blank wall.
Special Events

True North: Andy Milne in Concert + Film Premiere

Sat Feb 28, 2026 | 5–7:45 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
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Upcoming Events

Gallery Tours

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A photograph of two young Asian adults from behind, looking at each other and discussing the multiple black-and-white photographs on view behind them
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

Canada’s cultural gateway to the world.

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The Art of Wellbeing

Transforming lives through the power of art.

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A photograph of two people looking at the forest paintings of Emily Carr. One woman sits on a bench, and a man stands closer to the wall.
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