Join us for the launch of the Special Edition Boxset of Lam Wong's Pandemic Drawings with Lam Wong in conversation with Grant Arnold on August 2nd at 1:00 pm.

Lam Wong and Grant Arnold will be discussing the 2021-2022 exhibition Vancouver Special: Disorientations and Echo co-curated by Grant Arnold at Vancouver Art Gallery where Wong’s works Original Mind and Pandemic Drawings were first exhibited. Reflecting on Vancouver's art ecology and the experience of the immigrant artist, they will explore how Wong's practice examines Ch'an within the combination of Western and Eastern sensibilities. The conversation will examine how these intersecting influences shape Wong's artistic vision and practice through painting, drawing, multimedia installation, photography, and tea ceremonies.

Created during the stillness of the 2020 lockdown, Pandemic Drawings began as a return to drawing—simple, direct, and deeply personal. Each work was completed in one continuous sitting, without sketches, guided by instinct and first thought. The result is a collection of intimate drawings that reflect quiet time, focused attention, and the natural rhythm of making.

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Lam is a visual artist, designer and curator based in Vancouver BC. His interest is primarily rooted in regional West Coast art history, with an emphasis on the development of painting and its avant-garde narrative. Lam’s creative approach is often concerning with bending Eastern philosophies and challenging the notion of painting.

Grant Arnold is an independent writer and curator based in Vancouver. He previously held positions at the Mendel Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Windsor and the Vancouver Art Gallery, where he was the Audain Curator of British Columbia Art from 2005 to 2022. His writing has appeared in many exhibition catalogues, anthologies and journals over the past thirty-five years.

Cameron Kerr, Retinal Void (detail), 2025. Acrylic and Inkjet on Canvas, 24 x 18 inches. Edition of 1/3 (each unique). Collection of Maryon Adelaar. Image Courtesy of the Artist.

Collecting the Unconscious Guided Tour with Margaret Browning, Griffin Art Projects, July 2026

Collecting Creativity | Art Workshop for Kids and Adults

On-site at Griffin Art Projects

Looking for an afternoon of creativity for you, your friends and/or your little ones? Join us on July 26th from 1:00 to 3:00 pm for a child-friendly tour and art exploration hosted by our Marketing and Public Programs assistant, Margaret Browning in response to our current exhibition, Cameron Kerr: Collecting the Unconscious.

As a response to the exhibiting artist's exploration into our unconscious desire to collect, this workshop asks participants of all ages to take a creative approach to collecting and their own unconscious collections.

Through a zine collage workshop, participants are invited to bring their own family photographs, old magazines, crumpled receipts at the bottom of your bag, stickers you haven't stuck, business cards in the hidden pocket of your wallet, damaged library books, unfinished homework from last year, napkin doodles, grocery lists, toy packaging and everything in between. Through the unconscious act of collecting even the most mundane objects, this afternoon of creation gives participants the chance to dive deeper into their own collecting habits and create an accordion book filled with their unconscious collection.

Jennifer Wood is a Vancouver-based artist who works with building materials to create environments that heighten sensory perception and unsettle familiar interior forms. Her practice considers how trauma is carried in the body rather than resolved through narrative, attending to the tensions between visibility and concealment. Through a critique of gendered labour, she examines the invisible work that sustains the private sphere.

Jennifer is the recipient of the GAP x SAR ECU MFA Award this year and will be sharing a bit about her practice and artistic journey during an Artist in Residency Talk on July 24, 2026 at 3:00 PM.

Register for the zoom talk here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/DPwEqhuMRRal3PeU8_z44A

Join us for a guided tour of Cameron Kerr: Collecting the Unconscious led by our Marketing and Public Programs Assistant Margaret Browning.

Join us for a guided tour of Cameron Kerr: Collecting the Unconscious led by our Marketing and Public Programs Assistant Margaret Browning.

This National Indigenous Peoples Day we invite you to explore our new digital archive of Worldings + Future Worldings, which reveals international resonances and divergences of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions through the work of Indigenous researchers and artists in Canada, South Africa and beyond.

Worldings + Future Worldings were multi-year artistic  projects spanning cultural exchanges across two continents, four international artist residencies, seven artists-in-residence, three lead curators, three exhibitions, two international conferences and countless collaborators. Through text, photos, and video documentation this resource hub gives a detailed time line of all the events and happenings, from its first residency 2021 to our exhibition in 2024.

We thank our collaborator, the Aboriginal Gathering Place at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and the artists, scholars, participants and funders who were part of making this momentous project possible.

Join us for a tour of Cameron Kerr: Collecting the Unconscious with curator Patrik Andersson in conversation with exhibiting artist Cameron Kerr.

Join us for the final guided tour on the last day of our current exhibition Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection

RSVP is appreciated by not required.

Join us for the final guided tour of our current exhibition Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection before it closes on June 7th.

RSVP is appreciated by not required.

Join us for a free guided tour of our current exhibition Embodied Conversations: The Lillian and Billy Mauer Collection.

RSVP is appreciated by not required.

Russian Ark | Русский ковчег | Russia/Germany | 2002 | Alexander Sokurov | 99 min. DCP | In Russian with English subtitles

A manifest miracle of the cinema, Russian master Alexander Sokurov’s astonishing film offers dreamy passage on the ark of Russian history, in the form of a single, spellbinding, time- travelling tracking shot—the longest uninterrupted Steadicam shots in cinema history—through St. Petersburg’s famed Hermitage museum. The fantastic voyage begins with the film’s unseen narrator/filmmaker (Sokurov) finding himself inexplicably transported to the museum, where he meets another mystified arrival, the 19th-century French diplomat Marquis de Custine (Sergey Dreiden). Together, the two new companions set out to wander through dozens of grand rooms, miles of corridors, and hundreds of years of history, encountering a parade of historical personages—including still-current Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky— along the way. Over twenty-years later, the technical virtuosity of Sokurov’s magnum opus remains breathtaking, as does its feast-for-the-senses tour of one of the world’s preeminent art collections.

Introduced by artist Christos Dikeakos, whose Griffin Art Projects exhibition The Collectors coincides with this film series.

“One of the most staggering technical achievements in the history of cinema … Part pageant and museum tour, part theme-park ride and historical meditation.” Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

“One of the most astonishing films ever made … If cinema is sometimes dreamlike, then every edit is an awakening. _Russian Ark_ spins a daydream made of centuries.” Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

“The sense of exuberance, of human harmony, of cultural achievement, is electrifying.” Julian Graffy, Sight and Sound

Presented in collaboration with The Cinematheque.

Related Exhibition

Christos Dikeakos The Collectors