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CAG is a non-profit public art gallery dedicated to the research, exhibition, education & documentation of contemporary visual art.
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Open Tuesday to Sunday 12 pm → 6 pm
Admission always free The Contemporary Art Gallery promotes knowledge and understanding of contemporary visual art through:

Initiation and promotion of exhibitions, publications, learning and outreach programs presenting work mad

e by both Canadian and international artists

Development of dynamic and committed relationships between art, artists and audiences that support and contribute to a diverse community

Playing a key role in the cultural life of Vancouver and British Columbia

Offering access to everyone

Informative and engaging resources on visual arts

Establishment of the City of Vancouver Art Collection of 3,000 works of art which are circulated in public spaces throughout City buildings and loaned for exhibition to museums and galleries

Saturday Session: Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez on Rafik Greiss15 AUG · 12:00 PM⁠One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest ...
08/07/2026

Saturday Session: Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez on Rafik Greiss
15 AUG · 12:00 PM⁠

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In August, we welcome Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez to speak on the work of Rafik Greiss. No advance registration required.

Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez is an artist working with photography and film/video. Recent solo presentations include David Peter Francis, New York City (2024); Center for Cultural & Artistic Practices, Winnipeg (2021); and Terremoto/La Postal, Mexico City (2019). His work has been a part of group exhibitions, most recently, Luhring Augustine, New York City (2024); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2023), and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2022). His work has been featured in *Aperture, Artforum, Border Crossings*, the *New York Times*, and is in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2019 he was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture.

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1: Portrait of Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez. Photo: Khim Hipol.
2: Rafik Greiss, By the Highway (installation view), 2026. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez
Rachel Topham Photography Ltd.
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1. Portrait of a person in a black sweater and baseball cap with their arms crossed against a green background.

2. Text that reads, “Saturday Session: Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez on Rafik Greiss, 15 AUG · 12PM⁠” over a lemon yellow and ivory background.⁠
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3. A gallery’s exterior windows installed with photographs of an artist balancing furniture on top of each other.

Curatorial Tour with Aretha Pereira and Daniel Pickering21 JULY · 6:00 PM⁠Join CAG’s Assistant Curators Aretha Pereira a...
07/15/2026

Curatorial Tour with Aretha Pereira and Daniel Pickering
21 JULY · 6:00 PM⁠

Join CAG’s Assistant Curators Aretha Pereira and Daniel Pickering for a walkthrough of the gallery’s spring 2026 exhibitions. No advance registration required.⁠
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Image: Douglas Watt, Mayor of the Village (exhibition view), 2026. Photo: Rachel Topham Photography.

Douglas Watt
Rachel Topham Photography Ltd.

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Image descriptions: ⁠
⁠1. A wide angle shot of a gallery with seven miniature architectural models hanging against the walls. An oblong yellow pendant light hangs from the ceiling. There is a faint rainbow light on the grey concrete floor.

2. Text that reads, “Curatorial Tour with Aretha Pereira and Daniel Pickering 21 July, 6 PM⁠” over a lemon yellow and ivory background.

Saturday Session: Cait McKinney and Hazel Meyer on Douglas Watt27 JUNE · 12:00 PM⁠One Saturday each month, CAG invites a...
06/19/2026

Saturday Session: Cait McKinney and Hazel Meyer on Douglas Watt
27 JUNE · 12:00 PM⁠

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In June, we welcome Cait McKinney (Cait McKinney) and Hazel Meyer (Hazel Meyer 🍉) to speak on the work of Douglas Watt (Douglas Watt). No advance registration required.

Hazel Meyer’s work with installation, performance, and text investigates the relationships between sexuality, feminism, and material culture. Cait McKinney is a media historian who researches q***r and feminist social movements. Hazel and Cait have been collaborating since 2014 to explore their shared attachments to q***r histories through research, writing, video, and archival interventions. Together they take up experimental methods for enlivening archives related to sexuality and LGBTQ history. Recent exhibitions, screenings and performances of their work have taken place at: Mitchell Art Gallery (Edmonton, CA), ARQUIVES (Toronto, CA), A Tale of A Tub (Rotterdam, NL), Western Front (Vancouver, CA), Eastern Edge Gallery (St. John’s, CA), Glasgow International Art Biennial (Glasgow, SCT), Kurzfilm Festival (Hamburg, DE), P**n Film Festival (Berlin, DE), 62nd BFI Film Festival, London, UK), and The International Festival of Films on Art (Le FIFA) (Montréal, CA).

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1. Text that reads, “Saturday Session: Cait McKinney and Hazel Meyer on Douglas Watt, 27 June, 12 PM⁠” over a lemon yellow and ivory background.⁠
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2. Selfie of Hazel Meyer and Cait McKinney. Meyer (left) crosses their arms in a blue sweater and yellow beanie. McKinney (right) has short grey hair and wears a brown vest over a button-up.

Curatorial Tour with Matthew Hyland⁠9 JUNE · 6:00 PM⁠⁠Join CAG’s Executive Director Matthew Hyland for a walkthrough of ...
06/03/2026

Curatorial Tour with Matthew Hyland⁠
9 JUNE · 6:00 PM⁠
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Join CAG’s Executive Director Matthew Hyland for a walkthrough of the gallery’s spring 2026 exhibitions. No advance registration required.⁠
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Image: Douglas Watt, Little Sister's (detail), 2023.⁠

https://cagvancouver.org/event/curatorial-tour-june-9-2026
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1. Close up of a miniature of a bookstore made of cardboard and textile materials. On the shelves are tiny books with miniaturized versions of real book covers.⁠
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2. Text that reads, “Curatorial Tour with Matthew Hyland, 9 June, 6 PM⁠” over a lemon yellow and ivory background.

Reading | Ser Serpas18 APR · 12:00 PM⁠ Please join us for a poetry reading by Ser Serpas on the occasion of her exhibiti...
04/10/2026

Reading | Ser Serpas
18 APR · 12:00 PM⁠

Please join us for a poetry reading by Ser Serpas on the occasion of her exhibition “rent.”
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Registration for this event is encouraged; tickets are free.

https://cagvancouver.org/event/reading-ser-serpas
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Photo: James Bantone
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1. A portrait of Ser Serpas, dressed in a black top and denim jeans, sitting on a velvet gold-toned sofa. Her long black hair partially shadows her face as she gazes down with a somber expression.
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2. Text that reads “Reading: Ser Serpas.⁠ April 18 at 12 PM” over a lemon yellow and ivory background.⁠⁠]

Our spring exhibitions open next week!Ser Serpas: rentDouglas Watt: Mayor of the VillageRafik Greiss: Public Image⁠⁠Plea...
04/07/2026

Our spring exhibitions open next week!

Ser Serpas: rent
Douglas Watt: Mayor of the Village
Rafik Greiss: Public Image
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Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, Apr 16, 7 pm → 9 pm. All ages welcome. Cash bar.⁠

https://cagvancouver.org/visit
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1. Ser Serpas, Untitled, 2026. Courtesy of the artist; Maxwell Graham, New York; LC Queisser, Tbilisi and Cologne; and Karma International, Zurich.
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2. Douglas Watt, studio image, 2026.

3. Rafik Greiss with Ser Serpas, By the Highway 17, 2023.
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1. A painting of a human figure on roughly cut canvas, rendered in a muted palette of browns and greys.
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2. A hand holds up a scale architectural model produced from everyday materials.

3. A black-and-white photograph of a figure bending to grasp the corners of a rectangular mirror, their long hair covering their face and reflected on the mirror’s surface. The figure stands on the side of a street with passerbys visible in the background.
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4. Text that reads, “Opening Reception: Spring 2026. April 16. 7 pm until 9 pm” over a light turquoise and grey background.⁠]

Previously Viewed: Artists’ Screening Series⁠gabi dao presents A Useful Ghost (2025)⁠Saturday, March 28, 7:00pm⁠⁠For the...
03/31/2026

Previously Viewed: Artists’ Screening Series⁠
gabi dao presents A Useful Ghost (2025)⁠
Saturday, March 28, 7:00pm⁠
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For their contribution to Previously Viewed, a series of artist-curated film screenings at CAG this spring, gabi dao has selected A Useful Ghost (2025).⁠
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“Director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke exemplifies how cinema can be fresh, humorous and a very necessary, contemporary political critique in our time of escalating fascism and oppression.”⁠
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Registration for this event is encouraged; tickets are free.

https://cagvancouver.org/event/screening-gabi-dao-presents-a-useful-ghost-(2025)
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Image: © Cineverse.⁠
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1. In an empty warehouse, a person stands in front of an object with a red cylindrical body and long white tube arching out of its top. The person is bowing their head and staring at it.⁠
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2. Text that reads, “gabi dao presents A Useful Ghost (2025), March 28 at 7:00 PM” over a lemon yellow and ivory background.]

Previously Viewed: Artists’ Screening Series⁠Faye HeavyShield presents Of Mice and Men (1939)⁠Thursday, March 26, 7:00pm...
03/31/2026

Previously Viewed: Artists’ Screening Series⁠
Faye HeavyShield presents Of Mice and Men (1939)⁠
Thursday, March 26, 7:00pm⁠
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For her contribution to Previously Viewed, a series of artist-curated film screenings at CAG this spring, Faye HeavyShield has selected Of Mice and Men (1939).⁠
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“Everything and nothing specific about (the memory of) seeing this film as a child, though thinking of it here, I would call it an experience of birth and after-birth.”⁠
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Registration for this event is encouraged; tickets are free.

https://cagvancouver.org/event/screening-faye-heavyshield-presents-of-mice-and-men-(1939)
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Image: Of Mice and Men (film still), 1939.⁠
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1. Two figures lean against a large tree branch. One looks at the other, his eyebrows raised with a grin. The other figure responds with a stoic expression.⁠
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2. Text that reads, “Faye HeavyShield presents Of Mice and Men (1939), March 26 at 7:00 PM” over a lemon yellow and ivory background.]

Previously Viewed: Artists’ Screening Series⁠Ser Serpas presents Lake Mungo (2008)⁠Tuesday, March 24, 7:00pm⁠⁠For her co...
03/31/2026

Previously Viewed: Artists’ Screening Series⁠
Ser Serpas presents Lake Mungo (2008)⁠
Tuesday, March 24, 7:00pm⁠
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For her contribution to Previously Viewed, a series of artist-curated film screenings at CAG this spring, Ser Serpas has selected Lake Mungo (2008).⁠
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“[The film’s] cyclical uncertainty, the sense of retreading gestures rather than resolving them, feels aligned with how I think about exhibition making, not as closure, but as the re-enactment of a rehearsed tragedy or farce, where value lies in the repetition itself.”⁠
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Registration for this event is encouraged; tickets are free.

https://cagvancouver.org/event/screening-ser-serpas-presents-lake-mungo-(2008)
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Image: © Lions Gate Home Entertainment.⁠
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[Image description: ⁠
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1. Resting against the edge of a circular table, a pair of wrinkled hands clasps the hand of someone younger. The scene is dimly lit.⁠
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2. Text that reads, “Ser Serpas presents Lake Mungo (2008), March 24 at 7:00 PM” over a lemon yellow and ivory background.]

Previously Viewed: Artists’ Screening Series⁠Christine Sun Kim presents Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)⁠Saturday, March 2...
03/31/2026

Previously Viewed: Artists’ Screening Series⁠
Christine Sun Kim presents Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)⁠
Saturday, March 21, 7:00pm⁠
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For her contribution to Previously Viewed, a series of artist-curated film screenings at CAG this spring, Christine Sun Kim has selected Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).⁠
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“I was eight when Who Framed Roger Rabbit came out, and it had a big impact on how I tell stories and look for connections.”⁠
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Registration for this event is encouraged; tickets are free.

https://cagvancouver.org/event/screening-christine-sun-kim-presents-who-framed-roger-rabbit-(1988)
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Image: © 1988 Touchstone Pictures.⁠
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[Image description: ⁠
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1. A figure clothed in black squeezes the neck of a large, animated rabbit. The rabbit wears red overalls and a startled expression. The figure in black wears spectacles, a bowler hat, and a nefarious smile.⁠
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2. Text that reads, “Christine Sun Kim presents Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), March 21 at 7:00 PM” over a lemon yellow and ivory background.]

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Wednesday 12pm - 6pm
Thursday 12pm - 6pm
Friday 12pm - 6pm
Saturday 12pm - 6pm
Sunday 12pm - 6pm

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