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SANCTUARY: The Ancient Forest Experience

May 14, 2026–January 10, 2027
A photograph of a young boy in a sweatshirt using scissors to cut out a shape in paper. He stands at a making station table and works with a woman across from him.
Families

The Making Place | Watercolours and Stripe Drawings

Sun Sep 6, 2026 | 11 AM–4 PM
An installation photograph of 4 paintings by Emily Carr hung on the wall so that their horizon lines flow from one to the next.
Exhibition

That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature

February 6–November 8, 2026
Two middle aged women look at paintings by Emily Carr on the Gallery wall
Seniors

Art of Wellbeing for Seniors | That Green Ideal

Thu Sep 10–Thu Sep 24, 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 photography of a weaving work by Emily Hermant seen from the front. The weaving, which has a fringe on the front, evokes a landscape made up of rows of colour. From top to bottom, we see yellow, white, greens, dark blue, and then blues. At the centre, we see some additional objects incorporated.
Exhibition

Vancouver Now! Emily Hermant

August 7–November 22, 2026
A photograph of artist Emily Hermant sitting in her studio. She sits on a stool off to the left of the image. She is wearing a striped pink shirt and dark wash denim jeans. She looks out at the camera. She has brown, curly hair. Behind her is her studio full of wires and technological waste used as part of her practice.
Lectures and Talks

Artist Talk: Emily Hermant

Sat Sep 19, 2026 | 2–3 PM
A photograph of an artwork by Canadian artist Geoffrey Farmer. The work is a collage. We see a mass of figures made from paper cutouts.
Exhibition

Highlights from the Collection

April 1, 2026–January 6, 2030
A mock-up image of a billboard outside in a parking lot. The billboard features an artwork by Cannupa Hanska Luger with 4 people, 2 on either side of the billboard, dressed in futuristic looking traditional Indigenous clothing, and in the middle the text "WE SURVIVE YOU" In red all caps.
Exhibition

Capture Billboard: Cannupa Hanska Luger | Future Ancestral Technologies: WE SURVIVE YOU

March 28–September 27, 2026
Installation view of Teresita Fernández's work Island Universe 2, made entirely of charcoal. The installation looks like a distorted map of the world, spread across one white wall. A blurred person walks in front.
Exhibition

Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change

May 14, 2026–January 10, 2027
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Free First Friday Nights presented by BMO

Fri Oct 2, 2026 | 4–8 PM
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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

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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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