The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes

Travel throughout BC via the art and life of E.J. Hughes in this portrait by Vancouver filmmaker Jenn Strom.

Family Visits

Family Visits explores the vast possibilities of what family can be. This exhibition presents a selection of artworks that joined the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Collection between 2020 and 2026.

Dangerous Beauty

The Prints of Albrecht Dürer

Sharing artwork from the AGGV collection, this exhibition presents twelve prints by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

Fifty Shades of Ink

Ink Paintings from the AGGV Collection

“Ink has five shades” (墨分五色) is a foundational principle in the tradition of Chinese ink painting. First articulated in the 9th century by the artist and art historian Zhang Yanyuan, this idea has shaped both the creation and appreciation of ink art for over a thousand years. It reveals the expressive power of ink, which, […]

ਸ਼ੀਸ਼ੇ ‘ਚ ਤਰੇੜ

sheeshe ‘ch thareṛ | a crack in the mirror

A survey of recent works by artist Simranpreet Anand, including collaborative pieces with artist and ethnomusicologist Conner Singh VanderBeek. Anand’s practice, indebted to familial and cultural community, engages materials and concepts drawn from the histories of Punjab and its diasporas. The title of the exhibition, sheesh ‘ch thareṛ, captures the fissures emerging from her ongoing […]

Meryl McMaster

Bloodline

Meryl McMaster: Bloodline is a survey exhibition of a remarkable Canadian artist whose pioneering large-scale photographic works reflect her mixed Plains Cree/Métis, Dutch, and British ancestry. This exhibition looks back to McMaster’s past accomplishments and brings us up to date on her current explorations of family histories, in particular those of her Plains Cree female […]

Lekwungen

Place to Smoke Herring

A film by Brianna Bear and Eli Hirtle. Our film, Lekwungen: Place to Smoke Herring, was collaboratively created in order to share a brief history and overview of the Lekwungen territory; the land we work, live and play on. We want to centre the Indigenous knowledge of, connections to, and responsibility for these lands. Our […]

Architectures of Protection

Architectures of Protection reflects on ideas and modes of protection and refuge – with regards to oneself, to community, knowledge, culture, identity, and land. What are these spaces and practices? What is protection for some and not for others? Together, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and in the current global social and political […]

From Warhol to Banksy

Organized and circulated by the Kelowna Art Gallery, and curated by KAG Curator, Christine May, From Warhol to Banksy invites visitors to view works of art that define the Pop Art movement and highlights the careers of some of the art world’s most iconic figures.