Fiona Tan:

Ascent

Fiona Tan’s montage film Ascent is entirely made up of still photographic images depicting one of Japan’s most recognizable landmarks, Mount Fuji.

Throw, Slip, Spin:

Studio Ceramics from the AGGV Collection

In the 1970s and 1980s, Victoria became an important centre for ceramics.

Unformable Things:

Emily Carr and Some Canadian Modernists

Featuring the work of Emily Carr alongside some of her notable Canadian peers, including Lawren Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Pegi Nicol MacLeod, David Milne, and Florence Helena Mcgillivray.

BRAINSTORM

Join us in re-imagining what can happen inside – and around and outside of – the AGGV!

Remembering a Patron

Asian Art Donations from Dr. Judith Patt

For over 40 years the late Dr. Judith Patt generously donated Asian works of art to the AGGV.  This exhibition will feature many of her treasures which range from important Chinese and Japanese paintings to a huge variety of amazing Japanese prints from the 18th to 20th century.

Supernatural

Art, Technology and the Forest

Twentieth century photography has made an important contribution to constructing the idea of the forest as natural heritage, promoting the beauty of national parks and forest landscapes. However, contemporary artists, drawing on this legacy, and working with new photo-based technologies, are bringing a critical lens to this history of representation.

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 […]