EXHIBITIONS
The Museum of Anthropology at UBC presents Tupananchiskama: Ancient Andean Cosmovision
The Museum of Anthropology at UBC presents the world premiere of Tupananchiskama: Ancient Andean Cosmovision, on display from March 19, 2026–January 3, 2027. Guest curated by Luis Manuel González, Adjunct Professor in UBC’s Department of Anthropology, this bilingual (English and Spanish) exhibition explores Andean cosmovision—a holistic spiritual framework explaining the universe—through nearly 100 ancient artifacts crafted from ceramic, textile, bone, shell, and wood. The exhibition reflects ancestral understandings of a world where life and death coexist in a continuous cycle, or “Tupananchiskama,” meaning “until life brings us together again.”
(Museum of Anthropology, 6393 NW Marine Drive, Mar. 19—Jan. 3, 2027)
Museum of Anthropology at UBC presents I Use My Haida Eyes: The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson
The Museum of Anthropology at UBC presents the world premiere of an exhibition featuring 51 “history robes” by Haida artist Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson. The works reinterpret traditional Northwest Coast button blanket forms to document Haida history from an Indigenous perspective, presenting the full series together for the first time and highlighting the evolution of cultural expression through contemporary Indigenous art. (Museum of Anthropology, 6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver BC, May 14–Oct. 12, 2026)
Becoming: The Art of Gu Xiong
For over five decades, Gu Xiong (b. 1953) has shaped contemporary art in Canada and China. Centering personal memory and lived experience, his work gives voice to individuals often rendered invisible within transnational cultures and histories. Becoming: The Art of Gu Xiong is a comprehensive celebration of the artist’s practice, bringing together key works from his personal collection alongside loans from public and private collections.
(Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC V6J 3J9, May 28–Feb. 7, 2027)
The Reach Gallery Museum: Interglacial
The Reach Gallery Museum presents Interglacial by environmental artist and advocate Desirée Patterson from July 11, 2026, to March 20, 2027. The exhibition examines the present as a critical moment in history, in which the global climate crisis puts the future well-being of our planet in the balance. Patterson will present five ambitious new bodies of work, developed in close collaboration with eminent Canadian glaciologists, forest scientists, and climate policy advisors. At the centre of the exhibition is Still in Place, a monumental suspended textile and sound installation developed with Dr. Brian Menounos at Place Glacier. Echoing the glacier’s contours, the work consists of 100 cyanotype panels capturing an analogue time-lapse of glacial melt and accompanied by a soundscape drawn from Patterson’s field recordings. Also on view is the installation From the Ashes (2025), which reflects on the devastating wildfires of 2024 in Jasper National Park, and the Spotlight on Scientists video series featuring the artist’s scientific collaborators.
(The Reach Gallery Museum, 32388 Veterans Way, Abbotsford, BC, V2T 0B3, Jul. 11, 2026 - Mar. 20, 2027)
Landon Mackenzie: Weather Patterns
Starting in the shallow tidewaters of Cardigan Bay on Prince Edward Island, Landon Mackenzie’s Weather Pattern series (2021–) balances chance and control to envelop the viewer in the artist’s painted worlds. Looking at the dotted sandstone-inspired canvases, you might see a charged nervous system, a celestial body, or the microcosm of a riverbed’s speckled surface. The depth of each painting reveals the linen canvas as a site-responsive material that soaks up its environment. Saltwater, sunshine, wind, rain, dew, and starry nights all become foundational materials in Mackenzie’s works. Merging paint and weather, the canvases evoke the intimate connection between internal and external landscapes. To begin this bi-coastal project, Mackenzie first stapled the river-soaked linen to a wooden porch on PEI, where she applied a multitude of colours. The artist next rolled and shipped the work like a tapestry to her Vancouver studio, where she responded to the transformed surface. Each of these large paintings was enlivened by its interaction with East Coast summer tides before coalescing in the artist’s West Coast studio. Image credit: 1. Landon Mackenzie, Weather Pattern #6 (Stripes+Tides), 2023, synthetic polymer on linen, 86” x 151”. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.
(Evergreen Arts and The Gallery at Evergreen Arts, 1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam, BC, V3B 7Y3, Sep. 5 – Nov. 22, 2026)
Cradled Origins
Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art and YVR Art Foundation present Cradled Origins, on view September 12, 2026 – January 17, 2027. This multi-medium showcase exhibition brings together eight emerging and mid-career First Nations artists working across carving, weaving, painting, and beadwork, each honouring cultural knowledge while expanding their individual practice. Several of the featured artists worked alongside mentors, a testament to the vital role of intergenerational knowledge keepers in the continued vitality of Northwest Coast art traditions. Cradled Origins features contemporary Indigenous artworks including paintings, carvings, and textiles by the recipients of YVR Art Foundation’s 2024 art scholarship awards: Chase Gray, Chico Seitcher, Delphine Campbell, Grace Edwards, James Kwaksistala, Kashka Clellamin, Randi Ball and Serena Steel.
(Bill Reid Gallery, 639 Hornby St., Vancouver, BC, Sept. 12—Jan. 17)
Words + Pictures
In Words + Pictures, celebrate the unique ways in which we communicate visually and discover how art can transcend language. Work on display includes calligraphy in multiple languages, illustrations, mixed media works combining text and image, and even rare books. Exhibiting artists: Renée Alexander, North Vancouver English calligrapher and illustrator; Chin Cheng Kan, Richmond Chinese calligrapher and painter; Marley Kong, Coquitlam interdisciplinary artist; Charles Mayrs, West Vancouver writer, painter and photographer; and Sanaz Ravasani, West Vancouver Persian calligrapher and painter. Presented by West Vancouver Community Arts Council.
(Silk Purse Arts Centre, 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver, Sept. 16—Oct. 11)
Tactile
PLEASE TOUCH THE ART. We spend a lot of time telling you not to do this. TACTILE turns one of the gallery's most familiar rules on its head with an exhibition of artworks that are meant to be touched, held, manipulated, leaned against, embraced and played with. Seven artists were selected from 70 submissions for an exhibition exploring what becomes possible when we encounter art with more than our eyes. Featuring Natasha Bakas, K8L35 (Kate MacDonald + Les Sears), Kate Metten, Anne Steves, Asma Sultana, WhiteFeather Hunter and Anna Dimoff. Co-curated by Shannon Pawliw and Sophia Crompton.
(THIS Gallery, 108 East Broadway (alley entrance), Vancouver, Sept. 25—Oct. 4, 2026)
A Gathering in Celebration of Interglacial
The Reach invites you to a community gathering celebrating Desiree Patterson’s landmark solo exhibition, Interglacial. The celebration features a water ceremony performed by Patterson with her daughter, Meadow, and Interglacial scientific collaborators, and the debut of a contemporary dance work by Lee Johnson, inspired by Still in Place, the exhibition’s monumental glacier-shaped textile installation. The reception that follows will be an opportunity to share reflections on our human relationship to cycles of time, intergenerational exchange, and environmental transformation. Generously supported by the Audain Foundation. Presented as part of BC Culture Days 2026.
(The Reach Gallery Museum, 32388 Veterans Way, Abbotsford, BC V2T 0B3, Oct. 3)
North Shore Art Crawl 2026
This free, annual arts festival offers art enthusiasts an insider’s look into the vibrant North Shore arts scene. What started with just two artists and a big idea has blossomed into the incredible North Shore Art Crawl! Now in its 16th year, North Van Arts is thrilled to partner with local galleries, bustling breweries, cafes, and more to showcase over 100 incredible artists in 70 locations across West Vancouver and North Vancouver. Explore a vibrant world of textiles, jewelry, pottery, graphic design, sculpture, painting, glass, photography, and so much more! It’s all free, all weekend long! This isn’t just about seeing art; it’s a unique chance to chat with the artists, try a workshop, or even catch a live drawing demonstration. Grab your family and friends and make it an unforgettable weekend of art and inspiration!
(Vancouver's North Shore, Various Venues, Oct. 3 & 4, 2026)
We Meet In Between
Presented by the Vancouver Metal Arts Association (VMAA), We Meet In Between is an international juried exhibition that explores the spaces where transformation happens. It invites artists and audiences alike to consider the moments that exist between certainty and uncertainty, past and future, tradition and innovation, self and community.
The exhibition showcases an exciting range of materials and approaches—from precious metals and traditional metalsmithing to found objects, recycled materials, textiles, ceramics, and emerging technologies. Together, the selected works demonstrate the remarkable diversity of contemporary jewellery while highlighting craftsmanship, experimentation, and thoughtful storytelling.
(Craft Council of BC, Vancouver, October 7, 2026, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm)
Kyla Bourgh: French Ending
French Ending is an exhibition and bilingual book project by Vancouver artist and writer Kyla Bourgh, created in collaboration with Buenos Aires-based publisher and designer Viviana Maidanik, with French translations by Antonio Werli. Bringing together Bourgh’s original conté illustrations, writing, and the collaborative process behind the publication, French Ending explores what happens when language is incomplete. Drawing from Bourgh’s experience of living in a country where she had only a partial command of the local language, the project considers estrangement, identity, misunderstanding, and the meaningful connections that can form despite the limits of words. The title refers to a narrative convention that leaves a story unresolved, inviting the audience to complete it through their own experience and interpretation. In French Ending, that openness extends across writing, illustration, translation, and collaboration.
(THIS Gallery, 108 East Broadway (alley entrance), Vancouver, Oct. 9—18)
“The Power of Portraits” Tour and Talk with Gu Xiong
Join artist Gu Xiong for a special tour of his poetry-portraits of himself, his family and his friends, followed by a “fireside chat” about the power of portraits to honour identity, self-expression and family. Photography historian Dr. Kelly Midori McCormick will talk to Gu about the inspiration behind his portraits and his experiences as a first-generation migrant to Canada. Afterwards, participants will be invited to share their own personal, creative, or official photos or portraits with or of loved ones in a conversation on culture and identity across generations and visual expressions and documentations. This special program is produced in partnership with UBC’s Critical Image Forum (CIF) and in anticipation of the artist’s forthcoming UBC AHVA faculty exhibition on campus. This program is generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
(Museum of Vancouver, 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC, Oct. 10)
Color Correction with Margaret Honda
This program is presented in conjunction with Film Posters, Margaret Honda’s solo exhibition at the Audain Gallery at the School for the Contemporary Arts. The exhibition opens on October 20 at 6:00 pm and runs from October 21 to December 5. Honda is the SCA’s Fall 2026 Audain Visual Artist in Residence. Color Correction will be followed by a conversation with Margaret Honda.
(The Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC, Oct. 22, 7:00 PM)
WORKSHOPS
Millefiori Magic: Patterned Veneers and their Application (Polymer Clay)
Explore the colourful potential of polymer clay as a creative medium. Learn to make patterns and use colour to create a gorgeous design! Students in this 1-day workshop will create colourful patterned canes, slice and arrange them into sheets, and using these sheets they will make a beautiful pen. This process is easily incorporated into a home studio setting – no special equipment is required to make objects using polymer clay. This class is open to students who are interested in learning how to work with polymer clay, and more experienced artists who are interested in the use of colour and pattern in a new medium. Course cost: $175 Supply fee: $0 Tuition includes daily snacks and is inclusive of all applicable taxes. Wanda will have supplies available.
(MACCA - Metchosin Arts and Cultural Centre, 4495 Happy Valley Road, Metchosin, BC, Oct. 3)
The rise and Fall of the Season Watercolour Painting Workshop
Explore The Rise and Fall of the Season with the exciting medium of watercolour. Autumn is a time of intense colour and beauty. It can also be a time of dramatic change. Inspired by vibrant hues and exciting shapes this class will explore and celebrate the dynamic themes that autumn offers the artist. Take what you learn from the workshop home and use it to fill your portfolio with beautiful autumnal watercolours! Join Jeffry de Jong for this 1-day watercolour workshop and claim a lasting memory. Workshop fee: $175 – paper supplies included, this workshop does not include lunch, a supply list of paints and brushes will be provided upon registration.
(MACCA - Metchosin Arts and Cultural Centre, 4495 Happy Valley Road, Metchosin, BC, Oct. 4)
Florals in Bloom with Lauren Morris
This hands-on class will introduce participants to the creative process of painting flowers with acrylics, with a strong focus on colour mixing and layering. We will explore how to mix colours, create depth by building up layers of paint, and use different brush techniques to add texture, movement and expression. Participants will be guided through creating a floral painting while experimenting with composition, colour and technique, allowing each person to develop the painting in their own unique creative style. The emphasis is on learning, experimenting and having fun with colour while enjoying the freedom of acrylic painting.
(Music Box, Harmony Room, 1564 Argyle Avenue, West Vancouver, BC V7V 1A1, Oct. 18 and Nov. 8)
