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)
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)
kʷәcstәxʷ – A Celebration of Indigenous Artistry
At its heart, kʷәcstәxʷ (meaning “cause them to see”; “show”) speaks to more than vision alone. It evokes the sensory, emotional, and intellectual experience of witnessing. It asks us to consider how acts of sharing, storytelling, and artistic expression shape our understanding of ourselves and one another. Perhaps causing others to see what we see does not provide answers so much as inspire further questions, deeper reflection, and new ways of understanding. In the spirit of kʷәcstәxʷ, the Amelia Douglas Gallery at Douglas College invites you to witness the achievements of inspiring Indigenous artists who exemplify creativity, ingenuity, and excellence. These artists honour ancestral traditions while engaging contemporary art forms and media, bridging past and present through culturally grounded and artistically original practices. This exhibition invites visitors to engage with the stories, histories, perspectives, and futures carried within these works, offering insights into diverse Indigenous ways of knowing, being, doing, and becoming.
(Amelia Douglas Gallery, Fourth Floor North, 700 Royal Avenue, New Westminster, Oct. 22—Jan. 6)
P.A.R.T.Y. – Pushing Art diRectly To You
Celebrate 30 years of the Eastside Culture Crawl at the 2026 Preview Exhibition, P.A.R.T.Y. – Pushing Art diRectly To You. For the first time, 75 juried artists come together at the Eastside Arts Society’s own space, the central hub for the anniversary celebrations. Guided by a selection panel of Crawl artists Eri Ishii, Hugh Kearney and Paul de Guzman, the exhibition reflects the Crawl’s founding ethos of artists opening their doors to the public and building direct relationships with audiences. The retrospective highlights original works embodying endurance of practice, place and vision.
(Eastside Arts Society, 716 E. Hastings St., Nov. 5—28)
Jennifer Lefort: Either-Or-And
Jennifer Lefort’s Either-Or-And brings together painted textiles, digital embroidery, ribbons and bent brass rods in works that hover somewhere between painting, sculpture and objects temporarily pinned into place. Fabric folds, sags, overlaps and hangs. Painted gestures disappear into folds and emerge somewhere else. Ribbons extend beyond the composition, while saturated pinks, greens, deep blues and acid yellows press against one another without ever quite settling. There is something deliberately provisional about these works. They feel constructed but not fixed, as though they might be untied, rearranged and transformed into something else entirely.
(THIS Gallery, 108 East Broadway, alley entrance, Vancouver, Nov. 6—29)
Eastside Arts Society presents the 30th annual Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design + Craft Festival
Eastside Arts Society celebrates the 30th annual Eastside Culture Crawl Visual Arts, Design + Craft Festival from November 19–22, 2026, inviting visitors into the studios and workshops of more than 525 artists across Vancouver’s Eastside Arts District. This year’s festival welcomes more than 85 new artists and 12 new buildings, showcasing work in painting, jewellery, sculpture, furniture, leather goods, photography, glass, textiles and more. The district encompasses the area bounded by Columbia Street, 1st Avenue, Victoria Drive and the Waterfront. As part of the anniversary celebrations, the 2026 Preview Exhibition, P.A.R.T.Y. – Pushing Art diRectly To You, brings 75 juried artists together at the Eastside Arts Society’s own space from November 5–28, 2026.
(Eastside Arts District, Columbia Street, 1st Avenue, Victoria Drive and the Waterfront, Nov. 19—22)
The Ornament Collection
The Craft Council of BC (CCBC) is excited to introduce The Ornament Collection, a festive fundraiser and curated exhibition celebrating the art of making ornaments. Launching in the holiday season, this annual event will showcase a dazzling variety of handcrafted ornaments created by artists from across British Columbia. Join in celebrating the season and the creativity of BC artists with a display of handcrafted ornaments, from traditional to wildly imaginative, in every medium. Each piece supports contemporary craft and local makers. The gallery exhibition runs from November 24, 2026, to January 6, 2027.
(Craft Council of BC, 1386 Cartwright St., Vancouver, Nov. 24–Jan. 6)
BC Achievement Foundation invites you to celebrate the recipients of the 22nd annual Sam Carter Award in Applied Art + Design on November 19, 2026, at The Roundhouse Exhibition Hall. Established in 2004, the award recognizes practitioners across ceramics, furniture, jewellery, textiles, fashion, glass, product design, musical instruments, and even prosthetics. This year’s reception honours four artists: Corrina Hammond and Alan Hung, Judson Beaumont Emerging Artist recipient Mona Lisa Ali, and Award of Distinction recipient Omer Arbel, with award presentations, the premiere screening of the recipient films, and a reception with hors d’oeuvres and cocktails. Tickets and information: bcachievement.com
(The Roundhouse Exhibition Hall, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Nov. 19, 5:30 p.m.)
The Museum of Anthropology at UBC (MOA) presents the Canadian premiere of From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson, on display from November 19, 2026–March 29, 2027. Jackson draws inspiration from the mythic underwater world imagined by 1990s Detroit techno duo Drexciya to create a feminist, Pan-African aquatopia inhabited by water spirits from African and Afro-Atlantic traditions. The multimedia exhibition features custom mannequins in original garments by contemporary African designers, photography installations, layered soundscapes, and evocative projections. MOA will celebrate the opening on Thursday, November 19, 2026, at 7pm.
(Museum of Anthropology, 6393 NW Marine Drive, Nov. 19, 2026–Mar. 29, 2027)
North Shore Artists’ Guild Winter Art Sale: one-of-a-kind original art by talented North Shore artists, in person for one day November 21, 2026, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (free), and online November 22 to 29, 2026. A wide selection of contemporary, abstract, realist and impressionist paintings, featuring landscapes, still life, seascapes, abstract and much more, well priced, starting at $100. More information: nsartists.ca/show
(St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, 541 W Keith Rd, North Vancouver, BC V7M 1M5, Nov. 21, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
BC Achievement Foundation invites you to celebrate the recipients of the Polygon Award in First Nations Art on November 24, 2026 at The Roundhouse Exhibition Hall. Since 2007, the award has recognized artistic excellence among First Nations artists in BC. This year’s recipients are Gigaemi Kukwits (Capilano, Kwakwaka’wakw, and Tlingit), Marika Swan (Tla-o-qui-aht), Crabtree McLennan Emerging Artist Sheldon Pierre Louis (Syilx), and Award of Distinction recipient Lyle Wilson (Haisla). The evening will feature the award presentations, the premiere screening of recipient films, and a dinner with guests. Tickets and information: bcachievement.com/events
(The Roundhouse Exhibition Hall, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Nov. 24, 5:30–9:00 p.m.)
The Polygon Gallery: The Lind Biennial
Ahead of the announcement of the Philip B. Lind Prize for Emerging Artists, the five finalists — Bagua Artist Association, Alejandro A. Barbosa, Dana Qaddah, Pegah Tabassinejad, and Ximena Velázquez — will showcase new works at The Lind Biennial at The Polygon Gallery. Drawing from their diverse perspectives, their lens-based works offer timely and thought-provoking reflections on contemporary society.
(The Polygon Gallery, 101 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver, Nov. 27, 2026—Jan. 31, 2027)
WORKSHOPS
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, Nov. 8)
Workshop: Build a Colourful Drawing Practice with Fiona Rough
Want to make art more regularly, but struggle to find the time? Build a colourful creative practice that fits into your life using just a sketchbook, pencil crayons and the world around you. Start small. Look closely. Draw in colour. This relaxed, beginner-friendly workshop focuses on building a regular creative practice with just a sketchbook and pencil crayons. Participants will work small, draw from everyday objects and supplied reference photos, and explore colour through playful exercises.
(THIS Gallery, 108 East Broadway (alley entrance), Vancouver, Nov. 1)
Relaxed two-hour art-making sessions — no experience necessary, lightly guided, all materials provided, drinks and snacks included. $20/person, 6 spots per session.
(THIS Gallery, 108 East Broadway (alley entrance), Vancouver, Nov. 15, Nov. 20 (VSB pro-D day), Nov. 22, Dec. 6, 12–2 pm)
