Form as Meaning

First Nations Prints from the Pacific Northwest

Explore the language, history and current state of First Nations prints with our team of co-curators: Marcia Crosby, lessLIE, Lou-ann Neel, and Alana Sayers. With a wealth of personal, cultural and art historical knowledge the co-curators have selected works from our permanent collection to discuss how these prints function as a form of communication similar…

Point of Contact

On Place and the West Coast Imaginary

The concept of “place” is typically shaped by cultural attitudes, values and perceptions towards a site, location or landscape. We might be cautious of a place because it is perceived of as foreboding and unfamiliar, or we might love a place because it appears beautiful or majestic. This exhibition takes the site of Nootka, in […]

Beyond the Edges: Art & Geometry

“Perhaps mine is “environmental” sculpture, rather than geometric…I have never made anything not closely connected with the human being and his environment. Man and his longings, desires, his dwellings, the thresholds he passes over and his places of worship concern me; people, buildings, entrances through which people go in, come out; and the apprehension, the […]

Water Work Space

We invite you to join us on our journey to explore issues related to the vast and mighty topic that is WATER. Water as a resource. Water as a site of trade and exchange.

Mirror with Memory

It was 75 years ago that the Canadian federal government ordered the uprooting, dispossession and exile of 20,000 Japanese Canadians from the coast of this province. 

Picturing The Giants

The Changing Landscapes of Emily Carr

PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE Sat, June 10 | All Day | Curated by Michelle Jacques | Pollard Gallery
This exhibition examines Emily Carr’s work through the dual lenses of the artist’s increasing interest in environmental issues and the status of ancient forests of the region in present times.
Image: Emily Carr, Above the Gravel Pit, 1936, oil on…

Karen Tam

With wings like clouds hung from the sky 大鵬就振翼

Opens June 3 – Sept 4 Curated by Haema Sivanesan | Graham Gallery An artist named Lee Nam, a Chinese immigrant to British Columbia at the turn of the 20th century, is known solely through the journals of Emily Carr….

Close To Home

Local and Regional Artists in the AGGV Collection

The AGGV’s collection is an important resource for the institution. Many of the exhibitions would not be possible without it. But how does a collection come to be? Who builds it? And for whom?…

Moving Forward by Looking Back

The First 30 Years of Collecting Art at the AGGV

The AGGV’s collection is an important resource for the institution. Many of the exhibitions that we create for the community would not be possible without it. But how does a collection come to be?