Exhibitions
Marian Penner Bancroft, Spent Bluebell Stems (Detail) (2025). Digital chromogenic print on fine art rag paper, 24”x30”. Courtesy of the artist.
Current Exhibitions
Marian Penner Bancroft: Long Story
Mar 14 - May 2
Public opening reception: Saturday, March 14, 2–4 p.m.
About the exhibition
Marian Penner Bancroft’s work is deeply rooted in photographic explorations of the imagination and the material world. These interface with colonial histories, migration, objects and identities, allowing contemplation of durations ranging from deep time to the ephemeral.
Past Exhibitions
2026
- Fei Disbrow: The Familiar Unfamiliar - Jan 14 to Feb 28
2025
- Erin McSavaney: Spaces of the Everyday - Oct 15 to Dec 13
- Continuing the Ceremony: Chief Dr. Janice George and Students - Aug 30 to Oct 4
- Patkau Architects: Matter Made Material - May 14 to Aug 9
- Barrie Jones: Urban Wild - Mar 19 to May 3
- Neighbours | 邻·礼: Xiangmei Su and Jiangang Su - Jan 22 to Mar 8
2024
- Geoffrey Farmer: The Sound of Footsteps as Summer Walks Away - Oct 16 to Dec 14
- 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
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
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
- 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