Across the Province

made possible with the generous support of

The Killy Foundation

Across the Province is the Vancouver Art Gallery’s provincial touring program, which circulates exhibitions drawn from the Gallery’s permanent collection to partner institutions throughout British Columbia. Partners include: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam; Kamloops Art Gallery; Kelowna Art Gallery; Surrey Art Gallery; and Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George.

Bearing Witness

Bearing Witness presents art that reflects a number of social and political conditions, from the effects of war, government action and industrial exploitation, to the social dynamics of society, especially in relation to gender and identity politics. Featuring work by 27 twentieth century artists, including Ed Burtynsky, Magdalena Campos-Pons, Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, the works in the exhibition bear witness to the powerful forces that shape our lives and the world.

Kamloops Art Gallery
January 15—March 12, 2012

The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford
April 12—June 10, 2012

Kelowna Art Gallery
June 30—August 26, 2012

Bearing Witness is organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Ian Thom, senior curator, historical.

National/International

The Vancouver Art Gallery presents approximately 15 temporary exhibitions annually, from which it selects major in-house curated exhibitions to travel to museums and galleries across Canada and around the world.

The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social

The Tree touring exhibition is a reduced version of the exhibition presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2008. It includes historical and contemporary works that make evident society’s complex and evolving relationship with nature, and the resulting social, economic and environmental impacts of this relationship.

The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford
June 16—October 9, 2011

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
January 28—April 22, 2012

The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social is organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Daina Augaitis, chief curator/associate director, with Emmy Lee, assistant curator.

Nature and Spirit: Emily Carr’s Coastal Landscapes

Nature and Spirit: Emily Carr’s Coastal Landscapes features 35 paintings spanning from Carr’s early experiments with European modernism, to her powerful first encounters with Canadian aboriginal art and culture, her mature landscape work, and a final series of works from the period 1940-1942 when she returned to First Nations subjects. This exhibition presents a survey of work by one of Canada’s most important artists.

Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
March 5—June 5, 2011

Art Gallery of Hamilton
May 12—October 28, 2012

Nature and Spirit: Emily Carr’s Coastal Landscapes is organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Ian Thom, senior curator, historical.

To learn more about our available touring exhibitions, please contact curatorial@vanartgallery.bc.ca