August Exhibitions

DTES/Strathcona

Gallery Gachet – July 11–September 4, Flooding: Dana Qaddah and Christian Vistan

Downtown/ Kitsilano Area

Vancouver Art Gallery (paid)

August 7–November 22, 2026, Vancouver Now! Emily Hermant

March 28–September 27, 2026, Capture Billboard: Cannupa Hanska Luger | Future Ancestral Technologies: WE SURVIVE YOU

February 6–November 8, 2026, That Green Ideal: Emily Carr and the Idea of Nature

October 22, 2025–October 12, 2026, Jim Lambie: Zobop (Colour-Chrome)

May 14–November 15, 2026, SANCTUARY: The Ancient Forest Experience

April 1, 2026–January 6, 2030, Highlights from the Collection

May 14, 2026–January 10, 2027, Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change

The Polygon 

July 10, 2026 — October 25, 2026, Greg Girard

Until September 6, 2026, Simranpreet Anand: Living With The Eternal

Until October 18, 2026, James Harry: Eye Of The Ancestor

June 29, 2026 — September 20, 2026, Parallelogram Volume 1: Interior Infinite Revisited

Equinox Gallery – May 5, 2026 – September 1, 2026, Close to Home
at the Fairmont Pacific Rim(Please note this exhibit is at the Fairmont near Canada Place.)

Contemporary Art Gallery – April 17 – Sept 13, Douglas Watt’s Mayor of the Village & Ser Serpas’ rent

Museum of Vancouver

November 20, 2025 – November 8, 2026, The Suitcase Project

May 28, 2026 – February 7, 2027, Becoming: The Art of Gu Xiong

June 14 – September 20, 2026, Hope Meets Action: Echoes Through the Black Continuum

Chinatown Area

Centre A – Aug 16, 2- 6 PM & Aug 29, 3- 6 PM, Blessing & a Curse & a Practice Open Studio.

Bill Reid Gallery – February 14, 2026 – February 14, 2027, Every River Has a Mouth

Access Gallery – 18 June – 29 July 2026, beFore i Was coral, i was a Refugee

Mount Pleasant Area

This____ Gallery – August 21 – August 30, 2026, Love Letters to Turbulence

East Vancouver

Equinox Gallery – July 18, 2026 – August 29, 2026, Summer Group Show

Burnaby Area

Burnaby Art Gallery(BAG) – June 12–August 30, Myfanwy MacLeod: Trophies

Burnaby Village Museum (paid) – Summer Season Ends on September 7th, 2026

UBC Area

Museum of Anthropology (paid) – May 14 – October 12, 2026, The History Robes of Jut-ke-Nay–Hazel Wilson

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery – June 19 – Aug 16, 2026, Fragments and Forms: Attending to the Monumental

Tri-City Area

Evergreen Arts – June 6 – August 23, 2026, Lure

Port Moody Museum (paid, donation) – July 18 – October 28, 2026, Marvellous Mushrooms

Port Moody Arts Centre – July 16 – Aug 30, 2026

Lacuna, Jenna Weind

Danse Macabre, Michelle Msami

Aftertaste, Poiēsis Collective

Whistler

Audain Art Museum (paid) – June 13 – October 19, 2026, Takao Tanabe 100: Inside Passage

Whistler Museum (paid, donation)

Kelowna

Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art – August 18 – September 12, 2026, Bree Apperley’s Clown Tears

✨Honourable Mentions✨

PNE Fair(paid) – Aug 22 – Sep 7, 2026

Please note that all the information has been compiled by cross-referencing gallery websites and Instagram pages. Galleries may make last-minute changes, so please only use this as a reference to plan your visits accordingly.