The West Vancouver Art Museum will be closed for installation from 5 p.m. on October 5. The Art Museum will reopen for regular hours on October 16. Join us for the opening reception of Geoffrey Farmer: The Sound of Footsteps as Summer Walks Away, October 15, 6-8 p.m.

Exhibitions

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Future Exhibitions

Geoffrey Farmer: The Sound of Footsteps as Summer Walks Away

Oct 16 - Dec 14

OPENING RECEPTION: OCTOBER 15, 6-8 p.m.

About the Exhibition

Past Exhibitions

2024

Stepping Into the Circle: Aaron Nelson-Moody / Tawx’sin Yexwulla - Jul 31 to Oct 5
A Refuge: Arthur Erickson - May 15 to Jul 20
Home and Away: Ian Wallace - Mar 13 to May 4
Who's Your Daddy?: Inherited Topographies and Other Familiar Accumulations - Jan 24 to Mar 2

2023

Losing Control of the Landscape: Ross Penhall - Oct 4 to Dec 16
Order from Chaos: Jane Adams and B.C. Binning - Jun 21 to Sep 23
The Bricktacular West Coast Modern Show: Paul Hetherington - May 5 to Jul 31
The Decisive Moment: Ema Peter - Apr 12 to Jun 3
Under the Shade of the Lotus Tree: Pari Azarm Motamedi and Rozita Moinishirazi - Jan 25 to Apr 1

2022

Martha Sturdy: All Fall Down - Oct 19 to Dec 17
Gigaemi Kukwits: The Travelling Line - Aug 3 to Oct 8
A Twist of the Rules: The Architecture of Paul Merrick - Jun 8 to Jul 23
Rabbit Lane: Douglas Coupland - Mar 30 to May 28
Léon Coupey: My Dearest Kate - Jan 19 to Mar 12
Rebecca Bair: Deep Conditioning - Jan 19 to Mar 12

2021

Bobbie Burgers: The Hard Work of Spring - Oct 13 to Dec 11
Balanced Forms: Xwalacktun, James Harry, and Austin Harry - Jul 28 to Oct 2
A Modern Landscape: Takao Tanabe - May 26 to Jul 17
The Spaces Between Us: Jackie Wong - Mar 24 to May 15
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci - Jan 20 to Mar 13

2020

The Eyes Have Walls: Nicole Ondre and Mina Totino - Sep 30 to Dec 12
Gohar Dashti: Dissonance - Mar 17 to Sep 12
Presence & Absence: Nic Lehoux and Attilio Fiumarella - Jan 15 to Mar 8

2019

Landon Mackenzie: Recollect(s) - Oct 16 to Dec 21
Oh Nightingale: Parviz Tanavoli - Jul 24 to Oct 5
Design for Living: West Coast Modern Homes Revisited - May 22 to Jul 13
Jim Breukelman: Altered States - Mar 20 to May 11
Ron Stonier: A Concept of Time - Jan 16 to Mar 9

2018

Fred Hollingsworth: Art of Architecture - Oct 17 to Dec 22
A Generous Spirit: Highlights from the Permanent Collection - Jul 25 to Sep 1
What's Lost - May 16 to Jul 14
Vestige - Mar 21 to May 5
The Ceramic Art of Thomas Kakinuma - Jan 24 to Mar 10

2017

We All Drew, Always - Nov 8 to Dec 16
Eric Metcalfe: Gargoyles and Improvisations - Sep 20 to Oct 28
Home/Shelter/Belonging - Jul 19 to Sep 9
Renée Van Halm: Shape of Things - May 30 to Jul 8
Site Unseen: Gitga’at and West Vancouver Youth - Mural of Merging Voices - May 9 to May 20
Victor John Penner - Mar 29 to May 6
Ann Kipling - Jan 25 to Mar 25

2016

A Decade of Collecting Art at the West Vancouver Museum - Nov 16 to Jan 14
The Space In Between - Sep 13 to Nov 5
Why Design Now? - Jun 22 to Aug 27
West Coast Artists for Alzheimers - Jun 9 to Jun 11
Sanaz Mazinani: Mirrored Explosions - Apr 13 to Jun 4
SD 45 ONE.five - Mar 29 to Apr 5
Peter Aspell: Saints and Sinners, Mystics and Madness - Jan 13 to Mar 26

2015

Finding A Voice - Oct 14 to Dec 5
From the Inside Out - Jun 27 to Sep 19
Christos Dikeakos - Mar 25 to Jun 13
Selected Works from the Gordon Smith Collection - Mar 14 to Mar 14
Kim Kennedy Austin: Industry, Charity, Faith, Hope - Jan 14 to Mar 7

2014

Harry & Jessie Webb: Artists in Vancouver's Jazz Age - Sep 17 to Dec 6
The And of the Land: Perspectives on Landscape by Artists from British Columbia - Jun 18 to Aug 30
SD45 One: An Art Exhibition of West Vancouver Students Past and Present - Apr 10 to May 31
Ukiyoe Spectacular - Jan 9 to Mar 22

2013

Babak Golkar - Oct 11 to Dec 7
Ron Thom and the Allied Arts - Jul 5 to Sep 21
Barry Downs: Melding Architecture with Landscape - May 8 to Jun 15
Pierre Coupey: Cutting out the Tongue - Mar 6 to Apr 27
Ruth Massey - Jan 16 to Feb 23

2012

Selwyn Pullan: Photographing Mid-Century West Coast Modernism - Oct 10 to Dec 9
The New Design Gallery on the Frontier 1955–1966 - Jun 27 to Sep 15
The Mill Project - May 9 to Jun 16
A Journey Through Time - Mar 20 to Apr 28
At the Intersection of Art and Medicine - Jan 25 to Mar 10

2011

John Fulker: Images of Architecture - Nov 16 to Jan 14
Sonny Assu: Longing - Sep 14 to Nov 5
Gordon Smith - Jun 9 to Aug 27
Sylvia Tait: A Classical Spirit - Mar 13 to May 21
Big Ideas: Responding to Public Art - Mar 8 to Mar 26
Time (Time Again): Late Works by Lionel + John Vanderpant - Jan 12 to Feb 26

2010

Takao Tanabe - Oct 26 to Dec 23
WV Neighbourhoods - Sep 14 to Oct 16
Fragmented History: Objects and Meaning - Sep 14 to Oct 16
Lionel Thomas: Abstractions 1949–1990 - Jun 8 to Aug 28
Master of the Instant - Jun 8 to Aug 28
Monster - Feb 5 to May 8

2009

B.C Binning - Nov 10 to Dec 23
Greetings from Friends - Nov 10 to Dec 23
Joan Balzar 1960+ - Sep 8 to Dec 23
Simon Scott: The Architecture of Photography - Jun 24 to Aug 22
North Star: The Art of Lyle Wilson - Mar 4 to May 30

2008

Impressions of Nature: The Prints of Alistair Bell - Oct 7 to Feb 7