Exhibitions in Vancouver in December 2026

Tuesday, December 1, 2026

• Visual arts

  until Feb 14

  Every River Has a Mouth: The Visual Languages That Connect Us

  Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art · Downtown

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 2

  Mustaali Raj: Across the Fire

  Surrey Art Gallery · Bear Creek Park, Surrey

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 3

  Tupananchiskama: Ancient Andean Cosmovision

  Museum of Anthropology at UBC · University Endowment Lands (UBC Point Grey)

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 6

  Highlights from the Collection

  Vancouver Art Gallery · Downtown

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 10

  Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change

  Vancouver Art Gallery · Downtown

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 10

  SANCTUARY: The Ancient Forest Experience

  Vancouver Art Gallery · Downtown

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Mar 29

  Becoming: The Art of Gu Xiong

  Museum of Vancouver · Kitsilano (Vanier Park)

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Mar 31

  Gifts to be Protected, Shared, and Carried Forward

  MONOVA (Museum of North Vancouver) · Lower Lonsdale, North Vancouver

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Sep 5

  Momentum: Power and Identity in Sports

  Chinese Canadian Museum · Chinatown

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jul 24

  xʷən̓iwən ce:p kʷθəθ nəw̓eyəł (Manuel Axel Strain)xʷəniwən ce:p kʷthəth nəweyəł (Manuel Axel Strain)

  Richmond Art Gallery · Richmond (Richmond Cultural Centre)

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 31

  Making Connections

  Surrey Art Gallery · Bear Creek Park, Surrey

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Dec 6

  Jana Sterbak: Dimensions of Intimacy

  Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery · UBC Point Grey

  • Visual arts

  Free

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• Visual arts

  until Jan 17

  Cradled Origins

  Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art · Downtown

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Dec 12

  Red and White and Black and Gold (Michele Pearson Clarke)

  Artspeak · Gastown / Downtown Eastside

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Dec 27

  Parallelogram Volume 2: Presence

  The Polygon Gallery · Lower Lonsdale, North Vancouver

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Dec 12

  One hundred more (Justine A. Chambers)

  Or Gallery · Chinatown

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Mar 14

  Catherine Blackburn + Jeneen Frei Njootli: Traces

  The Polygon Gallery · Lower Lonsdale, North Vancouver

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Dec 6

  tender threads

  Surrey Art Gallery · Bear Creek Park, Surrey

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Jan 11

  You Are Here: Fred Herzog's Vancouver (at Fairmont Pacific Rim)

  Equinox Gallery · Commercial Drive area

  • Visual arts

• Music

  until Feb 14

  Composers in Residence

  Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum (SFU) · Burnaby Mountain, Burnaby

  • Music
  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Dec 6

  Farheen Haq and Russna Kaur: In the Folds of Memory

  Surrey Art Gallery · Bear Creek Park, Surrey

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Feb 14

  Here to Play: Variation for Sixteen Hands

  Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum (SFU) · Burnaby Mountain, Burnaby

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Feb 14

  Martin Bartlett: Begin Anywhere

  Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum (SFU) · Burnaby Mountain, Burnaby

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Dec 6

  S F Ho: TRIPLE BURNER FLOWER FIELD

  Surrey Art Gallery · Bear Creek Park, Surrey

  • Visual arts

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• Visual arts

  until Aug 15

  Asian Comics: Evolution of an Art Form

  Chinese Canadian Museum · Chinatown

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Apr 4

  The Robot Zoo

  Science World (TELUS World of Science) · False Creek

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Dec 31

  Astra Lumina: Stanley Park Night Walk

  Astra Lumina at Stanley Park · Stanley Park

  • Visual arts

  $29.90–$39.90 Tickets ↗

• Visual arts

  until Jan 23

  Window, Wallpaper, and Emergency Exit (Lan Florence Yee)

  Centre A (Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art) · Chinatown

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Mar 28

  Leslie Thornton: Peggy & Fred in Hell

  Contemporary Art Gallery · Yaletown

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Mar 28

  Nour Mobarak: Bubonic Mnemonic

  Contemporary Art Gallery · Yaletown

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Jan 31

  The Lind Biennial 2026

  The Polygon Gallery · Lower Lonsdale, North Vancouver

  • Visual arts

Friday, December 11, 2026

• Visual arts

  until May 2

  Modern Iran and the Avant-Gardes, 1948-78

  Vancouver Art Gallery · Downtown

  • Visual arts

• Visual arts

  until Mar 29

  Vancouver Now! Annie Briard

  Vancouver Art Gallery · Downtown

  • Visual arts

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