Vivo Media Arts Centre has been a cornerstone of the new media community in Vancouver, throughout Canada and internationally since 1973

“The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes” is premiering in Vancouver as interest in Hughes’s life and work grows among Canadian collectors and institutions

Students at a Vancouver university will analyse the designs and materials with a view to identifying where and when the items originate from

The $C100,000 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts recognises the achievements of artists from Canada’s westernmost province, British Columbia

After abandoning a costly design by Swiss starchitects, the museum has picked Vancouver-based Formline Architecture and Urbanism and Toronto-based KPMB Architects to take on the project

The artist and film-maker’s new feature, “Powwow People”, highlights the very contemporary ways in which Indigenous traditions persist

Inspired by the “Encyclopedia Africana” conceived by W.E.B. Du Bois, the filmic collage of African and diasporic culture is on the film festival circuit

After the museum’s fur-st show, founder Aqeela Nahani hopes to open a purr-manent space in 2026

Materials from the 1955-56 exhibition, including 83 photographs, were rediscovered in Austria in 2006

The dispute over the future location of “Trans Am Rapture” has prompted duelling petitions, with the municipal government calling off the reinstallation to find a new site

Simon Fraser University near Vancouver will open its new Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum in September

The 20-year-old collaborative installation, which recently dropped anchor in Ontario, will travel to Uzbekistan next

Little is known about the vast collection of art and artefacts the Hudson’s Bay Company amassed from its founding in 1670, but experts believe it includes many important pieces of Canada’s First Nations and colonial heritage

James White, a prominent member in the vast network, pleaded guilty to forgery and trafficking

The layoffs come amid a $23.4m deficit in the last fiscal year and represent around 20% of unionised employees

The small landscape painting was consigned to a Toronto auction house a decade ago, but had not been seen since 2021

The acquisition comes as the museum’s photography department prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary

The donation, from the Vancouver-based collector and businessman Bob Rennie, is the largest in the gallery's history

The prize, now in its 22nd year, will be the subject of a group show in Ottawa this autumn, and the winner will be revealed in November

Works by Group of Seven members Franklin Carmichael and Arthur Lismer, plus Emily Carr, topped the Canadian auction house’s two-part evening sale

In addition to keeping the Liberal party and Mark Carney in power, Donald Trump's threats are leading collectors and institutions to prioritise Canadian art through shows and acquisitions

The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the country’s largest museum devoted to Canadian art, has also received $18m from the federal government toward the renovation and expansion project

EA Studios alleges that the estate and its director bad-mouthed the Calgary-based gallery in an attempt to steal its customers

Kiendl’s departure comes a few months after the gallery pulled the plug on an ambitious but costly building project it had already spent C$60m on

The Vega Foundation has quietly been commissioning, supporting exhibitions of and acquiring works by artists from Alia Farid, Tala Madani, Lap-See Lam, Sharon Lockhart and others

Also honoured in the visual and media arts category this year are the AI artist Sandra Rodriguez, the furniture-maker Peter Pierobon and the film-maker Bruce LaBruce

‘A rippling impact across our sector’: Canada’s art trade is seeking to lessen its dependence on US buyers to soften the blow of 25% tariffs on imports

The gallery recently cancelled a project designed by the Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron after its budget ballooned by 50%

Known for his bold, bright-hued paintings, prints and murals, Average was a pillar of Vancouver’s creative community

A long-awaited report from Ontario’s auditor general finds that the redevelopment plan for Toronto's modernist landscape is “not fair, transparent or accountable”