Kelowna Art Gallery

Kelowna Art Gallery The Kelowna Art Gallery is located in the heart of the Cultural District in downtown Kelowna, B.C. See our Accessibility Statement for more information.
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The Kelowna Art Gallery offers four different exhibition spaces for visitors to explore both contemporary and historical Canadian art in the heart of downtown Kelowna's Cultural District. We offer four different exhibition spaces for visitors to explore both contemporary and historical Canadian art. The Kelowna Art Gallery is proud to be an inclusive and welcoming space for everyone, especially th

e 2SLGBTQIA+ community. We are a Rainbow Registered business & team who feel — we all belong here. We offer art classes and workshops for adults and teens in the fall and winter, and art camps during spring and summer breaks for children. Our popular Family Sundays offer visitors the chance to get creative with guided hands-on art activities. The Art Lab is a community space that offers a variety of self-guided art activities for visitors to explore. We are dedicated to providing meaningful access and services to ensure our gallery and programs are as accessible and barrier-free as possible. The Gallery hosts a number of events throughout the year, including artist’s talks, film screenings, fundraisers, community projects, and other special events. We partner with organizations like Kelowna Pride to provide a welcoming space to host their important community events. Our Permanent Collection houses nearly 1,000 works of art, which can be seen through periodic exhibitions that draw work from the collection. The Kelowna Art Gallery is a registered non-profit society ( -12999).

Artist Lou Lynn (Winlaw, BC) creates fascinating and beautiful tools.WOOL COMB (2016) is an example from her "Implements...
06/25/2026

Artist Lou Lynn (Winlaw, BC) creates fascinating and beautiful tools.

WOOL COMB (2016) is an example from her "Implements & Objects" series that can currently be seen in "Skillful."

Compare her masterful creation in bronze and glass (📷 1.) with a rudimentary 16th Century wool comb from France (📷 2.)

Lou Lynn began this series out of an interest in the formal and functional aspects of industrial and utilitarian objects and tools. This fascination prompted her to collect implements used by a variety of tradespeople, such as carpenters, shipwrights, shoemakers, gardeners, and others.

Visitors can view her responses to these implements in "Skillful." The exaggerated scale and gorgeous (albeit impractical) solutions for imagined tasks somehow look both futuristic and historic at the same time.

📍 Nicola Wealth Gallery
📆 Now to Oct 25
🎟️ Half Off Thursdays

Organized and curated by the Kelowna Art Gallery. Skillful is generously supported by RBC Royal Bank, 2026 exhibition season partner.

🖼️ Lou Lynn, WOOL COMB, 2016, Glass & Bronze. Collection of the artist.

Do you recognize these items?Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy takes familiar consumer products and remixes them into sculpture...
06/24/2026

Do you recognize these items?

Inuk artist Tarralik Duffy takes familiar consumer products and remixes them into sculptures and digital drawings that spark conversation (and honestly, just look super cool).

The bright colours and friendly fonts aren't just surface deep though.

Duffy uses them to tell a bigger story about Inuit identity, colonialism, and changing northern communities.

📍 Camille and David Saltman Gallery
📆 Now to Sept 27
🎟️ Half Off Thursdays

Tarralik Duffy is a multidisciplinary artist from Salliq (Coral Harbour), Nunavut, whjo is currently based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. In 2021 she won the Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award and in 2025 was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award.

Art arrives here in many different ways…Until today, it's never come courtesy of a pair of "Rat Rods."Enter Glenn Clark....
06/23/2026

Art arrives here in many different ways…

Until today, it's never come courtesy of a pair of "Rat Rods."

Enter Glenn Clark. He just does things differently.

He's the guy by the car (with the dragon hood ornament - see last photo) and his buddy Mike is the the guy with the truck (who made the dragon). This convoy of raggedy rods delivered a cargo of sculptural paintings to expand "Wackem Sackem" to fill the entire front space.

It's been installed and "play-tested" by Clark. These kinetic paintings actually move (like the old slot hockey games). You'll want to come try for yourself.

'Wackem Sackem' opens its expanded interactive footprint in the Thomas A. Budd Gallery on Saturday, June 27, 2026.

Special thanks to RBC Royal Bank, 2026 Exhibition Season Partner.

Paint the Okanagan outdoors with award-winning educator Jim Elwood.A few spaces remain for these popular 2-day workshops...
06/22/2026

Paint the Okanagan outdoors with award-winning educator Jim Elwood.

A few spaces remain for these popular 2-day workshops where participants paint en plein air together. Open to painters of any level, including plein air–curious beginners.

Learn how to translate the overwhelming visual information of a landscape into shape, proportion, mood, and light.

🖼️ Responding to the Landscape
📅 July 4/5 + August 8/9
🕰️ 9 am to 2 pm
🏷️ $150 (Members: $127.50)

Secure your spot today 🔗 link in Bio.

Happy first day of summer! 🌊In "Dark Figure (from untitled portfolio)" (1989), artist Eric Fischl brings his signature s...
06/21/2026

Happy first day of summer! 🌊

In "Dark Figure (from untitled portfolio)" (1989), artist Eric Fischl brings his signature style to the beach. Warm sand, rich teal water, and long, heavy shadows, it perfectly captures that sun-soaked time of year when the days stretch on forever.

It's giving us ☀️ "Endless Summer" vibes.

Fischl is known for taking everyday, familiar coastal scenes and giving them a complex emotional edge. Here, the quiet distance between the figures creates a psychological tension and whispers that beneath the bright summer sun, there may be more going on then at first meets the eye.

How are you spending the first day of the season? 🏖️👇

Artist: Eric Fischl
Title: Dark Figure (from untitled portfolio), 1989
Medium: aquatint on paper
Credit Line: Collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery. Gift of Ron and Diane Markey, 2001.

Meet Alexa 👋Alexa Grochowich came to our summer camps as a kid... and now she's back to lead them!In fact, her mom still...
06/19/2026

Meet Alexa 👋

Alexa Grochowich came to our summer camps as a kid... and now she's back to lead them!

In fact, her mom still keeps a 📦 box of the creations she made here.

Since then, Alexa has pursued her BFA in Art History at UBC with a studio background in 🎨 acrylic painting, drawing, and photography.

She brings hands-on experience working with youth as an assistant coach with the ⚾ West Kelowna Fastball Association, plus plenty of public-facing experience from her time at 🍵 Starbucks and Frind Winery.

We're thrilled to have Alexa join our team for the summer. Who knows what a summer here might ✨ spark for your child in the future?

Please join us in making Alexa feel welcome ❤️

Last weekend YOU celebrated with US.The artists behind "Skillful" & "Sugar Rush" joined a crowd of supporters to publicl...
06/19/2026

Last weekend YOU celebrated with US.

The artists behind "Skillful" & "Sugar Rush" joined a crowd of supporters to publicly open their shows to audiences this summer.

We were thrilled to have Lou Lynn, Jane Kidd, Greg Payce, and Tarralik Duffy in the house at the Opening Reception (Friday) and Exhibition Tours (Saturday). What an incredible weekend!

🗨️ Conversations flowed.
🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 New friends were found.
🥂 Drinks were tipped.
😹 Old friendships celebrated.
🎨 Art was at the epi-centre of everything ✨

Please... Come see SKILLFUL and Sugar Rush. We can’t wait to welcome you through our doors. You belong here.

📷 Photos: .vanderheyden

Want to check out these shows with someone?
Tag them in the comments.

How do we tell you this?It's ending.It can't go on forever.This weekend is your final chance.Art in Action: Kaleidoscope...
06/17/2026

How do we tell you this?

It's ending.

It can't go on forever.

This weekend is your final chance.

Art in Action: Kaleidoscope closes Sunday, June 21st.

See it in the Thomas A. Budd Gallery.

Don't take our word for it. Ask the big blue bird.

🐦 Morgan, Great Blue Heron, 2026, mixed media sculpture. Grade 12, KSS.

Now open."Skillful" offers visitors a chance to explore the art of tapestry, ceramics, and bronze and glass sculpture. F...
06/16/2026

Now open.

"Skillful" offers visitors a chance to explore the art of tapestry, ceramics, and bronze and glass sculpture.

Find the human figures hidden in Greg Payce's ceramic installations. Uncover the stories woven into Jane Kidd's textile works. Reconsider the tools we use through Lou Lynn's beautiful sculptures.

📆 June 13 – October 25, 2026
📍 Nicola Wealth Gallery

Spend some time at the loom in the Maker's Space and afterwards take the exhibition home with a 46-page soft cover catalogue that offers insight into the artists’ creative practices (Just $10).

Organized and curated by the Kelowna Art Gallery. Skillful is generously supported by RBC Royal Bank, 2026 exhibition season partner.

Summer days are just around the corner and so are our art camps...Remember those days with no map, no plan, and just vib...
06/15/2026

Summer days are just around the corner and so are our art camps...

Remember those days with no map, no plan, and just vibes that somehow lead to the biggest adventures?

We're feeling that from Wanda Lock's artwork with the wandering title "On the Road to Nowhere while listening to Talking Heads’ On the Road to Nowhere."

Our camps share that same spirit of spontaneity and creative freedom. We know that some of the best ideas show up when things don’t go as expected.

Experimentation. Imagination. Play.

Make sure the kids and teens in your life get creative this summer. Sign them up for Art Adventures + Teen Friday Art Series today.

🖼️ Wanda Lock, Going Nowhere, 2011, mixed media on paper. Collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery. Gift of the artist, 2011.

Address

1315 Water Street
Kelowna, BC
V1Y9R3

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 8pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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+12507622226

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