Generations

The Sobey Family and Canadian Art

Organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, this exhibition highlights the depth and range of the Sobey family’s engagement with Canadian art and highlights works from the Group of Seven, Riopelle, Kent Monkman and beyond.

Afroquatics

A Call and Response Below the Surface

Afroquatics: A Call and Response Below Surface is an immersive and interactive installation that will spark conversations, challenge perceptions, and transport viewers into an experiential underwater landscape.

Crossing

Art, Heritage, and Personal Journeys

Crossing: Art, Heritage, and Personal Journeys delves into the intricate narratives of three remarkable local artists, who embarked on transformative journeys from Asia to Canada: Yumie Kono, Andy Lou, and Chrystal Phan.

In the Flesh

The Nude in Art, Past and Present

In The Flesh brings together more than one hundred works that share a common focus: the nude as a subject for artistic expression. Drawing upon the strengths of the AGGV Collections, works by renowned historical artists including Renoir, Rodin, Picasso and Henry Moore are brought together alongside works by modern and contemporary Indigenous and Canadian […]

Tender Touch

Curated by Mel Granley, AGGV Assistant Curator, Tender Touch delves into Victoria’s unique and proliferating tattoo community. In recent years, the tattoo industry in Victoria has grown considerably, with more and more queer and BIPOC artists beginning their career and opening up their own tattoo shops in town. Alternatives to the traditional western tattoo scene, these spaces are bastions for many seeking to adorn themselves with ink.

Kali Spitzer

Bodies of, Bodies Within

Kali Spitzer’s work embraces the stories of contemporary BIPOC, queer and trans bodies, creating representation that is self-determined, with her collaborative process being informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens.

Unexpected

The Life and Art of Sophie Pemberton, Canadian Artist

Victoria-born and raised, Sophie Pemberton was the middle daughter, her father’s favourite, and a determined personality. Despite episodes of debilitating illnesses and family tragedies, she pursued a serious international artistic career with paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy and Paris Salon. A portraitist by training, she was also a landscape painter of great talent. Through her international connections and friendships forged at art school in England and France with the advantages of birth and position, Pemberton aimed to become a professional artist, a career not readily accomplished by a woman at this time in history.

The Street

The urban street has been an important source of inspiration for artists since the Renaissance, and it remains one of the primary sites for the production and enactment of culture in the world today.

While Black

A forum for speculation on what the gallery can’t hold

While Black: a forum for speculation on what the gallery can’t hold is a multi-year series of forums, talks, and public presentations developed and organized by Black curators from across Canada in conversation with artists to consider both the limits and possibilities of the relationship between contemporary art spaces in Canada and Black art, artists, […]