Richmond Art Gallery

Richmond Art Gallery The Richmond Art Gallery is the City of Richmond's Public Contemporary Art Gallery. Exhibitions and Please stay home if you are not feeling well.

The Richmond Art Gallery plays a dynamic role in the growth of visual art in Richmond, BC. It is a vital part of the contemporary art network in British Columbia and Canada. Through excellence in exhibitions and education the Richmond Art Gallery strives to enhance an understanding and enjoyment of contemporary art. COVID-19 Updates:

Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday (10AM - 6PM), Saturday and

Sundays (12 - 5PM)

Masks are MANDATORY and must be worn in all City-operated facilities (this includes the gallery)

All visitors must self-assess before visiting the Gallery. All visitors and staff must maintain a two-metre distance from each other.

🌟 Don’t miss your chance to see i digress and SIDE CORE: under city—on view for just two more weeks. Plan your visit tod...
06/22/2026

🌟 Don’t miss your chance to see i digress and SIDE CORE: under city—on view for just two more weeks. Plan your visit today!

📍Representing a wide range of perspectives, i digress presents artists who engage with both lived experiences and collective histories in their art practices. Some artists embrace an autobiographical or confessional vein, drawing from memoirs, diaries, and photo-albums, while others mine existing archives and ephemera found in the public realm, employing a more documentary approach.

📍Richmond Art Gallery presents the first North American exhibition of Japanese artist collective SIDE CORE. Known for site-specific projects that blur the boundaries between contemporary art, skate culture, and urban infrastructure, the Tokyo-based collective presents a selection of video works and photographs that explore the often-overlooked spaces of the city—from highways and railroads to drainage tunnels and underground waterways.

Image 1: i digress, Photo by : NK Photo. Description in alternate text.
Image 2: SIDE CORE: under city, Photo by : NK Photo. Description in alternate text.

06/19/2026

Curious about how the exhibition SIDE CORE: under city came to Richmond? Exhibition Curator and Gallery Director Shaun Dacey lets us in behind his selection for the Spring exhibitions.

“I was by the visuals, the exploration of subterranean Tokyo, skateboards and these characters in hazmat suits with lights attached to them, it was otherworldly and very cinematic, and kind of really drew me in.”

There are only a few weeks left to experience SIDE CORE: under city. Visit us before the exhibition closes on July 5!

Featuring the work of SIDE CORE.

Filmed and edited by Ya-Wei Lin.

✂️ Look at all those creative minds at work! Thank you to all of those who attended this month's collage club! Inspired ...
06/17/2026

✂️ Look at all those creative minds at work! Thank you to all of those who attended this month's collage club!

Inspired by the "I digress" exhibition, we challenged participants to get personal — remixing their own story with memories and pop culture! Using found images or anything that speaks to them, participants explored how their memoirs could come alive through collage.

🌟 Join our Collage Club for Adults—a relaxed, social evening dedicated to art-making in a welcoming environment. July's month’s prompt is UNDERGROUND, inspired by the SIDE CORE: Under City exhibition. Registration is now open.

Photos by Winnie Chuang. Image description in alternate text.

Meet award-winning filmmaker and artist Lindsay McIntyre and see some of her films this Sunday!✨Artist Talk & Screening ...
06/17/2026

Meet award-winning filmmaker and artist Lindsay McIntyre and see some of her films this Sunday!

✨Artist Talk & Screening with Lindsay McIntyre
📅Sunday, June 21, 2026
⏰2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
📍 Richmond Cultural Centre, Theatre Under the Stairs
🔗 RSVP here: https://bit.ly/4x2P2NN

In recognition of National Indigenous Peoples Day, Lindsay McIntyre, an award-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist of Inuit and settler descent, will share selections from her short documentaries, experimental films, and expanded cinema performances, offering insight into her hands-on, process-based practice, including making her own 16mm film with handmade silver gelatin emulsion. Her work explores portraiture, place, personal histories, and stories from generations of urban Inuit displaced from Inuit Nunangat.

RSVP encouraged.

Light refreshments provided. Recommended for ages 16+.

Lindsay McIntyre is an Inuit and of mixed settler-descent artist and filmmaker whose award-winning experimental and documentary shorts explore place, material practices, and personal histories. Her films have screened internationally, including at major museums and festivals. Her recent narrative short, NIGIQTUQ (The South Wind), won Best Short at imagineNATIVE and was submitted to the 2025 Academy Awards. She is developing her first dramatic feature and teaches Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University in Vancouver.

📣 Are you interested in helping shape arts and culture in Richmond? Send your applications by June 26! 📣The Richmond Art...
06/16/2026

📣 Are you interested in helping shape arts and culture in Richmond? Send your applications by June 26! 📣

The Richmond Art Gallery Association (RAGA) is seeking passionate volunteers to serve on our Board of Directors. Help us champion the arts, foster community connections, and support contemporary art in Richmond and beyond.

🗓️ Applications are open now through June 26, 2026.

As a Board member, you'll:
• Support art education and engagement programs
• Act as an ambassador for arts and culture
• Help shape the future of the Richmond Art Gallery.

Learn more about the role, requirements, visit https://bit.ly/4dNeL40

Tag someone who would be perfect for this opportunity or share this post with your network! 🧡

Image: Opening Reception for The Chromophiliacs, 2026, Photo by Harrison Ha
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🌟 There's still time left to RVSP! Celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day with award-winning filmmaker and multidisc...
06/15/2026

🌟 There's still time left to RVSP! Celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day with award-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Lindsay McIntyre.

✨ Artist Talk & Screening with Lindsay McIntyre
🗓 Sunday, June 21, 2026
⏰ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
🌎 Location: Richmond Cultural Centre, Theatre Under the Stairs
🔗 RSVP: https://bit.ly/4x2P2NN

Lindsay McIntyre, an award-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist of Inuit and settler descent will share selections from her short documentaries, experimental films, and expanded cinema performances, offering insight into her hands-on, process-based practice including making her own 16mm film with handmade silver gelatin emulsion. Her work explores portraiture, place, personal histories, and stories from generations of urban Inuit displaced from Inuit Nunangat.

Her films have received numerous awards and accolades and have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the National Museum of the American Indian, Rovaniemi Art Museum, and in film festivals worldwide. NIGIQTUQ ᓂᒋᖅᑐᖅ (The South Wind) (2023), her recent leap into narrative, garnered her Best Short at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and a submission to the 2025 Academy Awards.

Image 1: Installation photo of "her silent life", 2012 Super 8 film, 16mm film, digital video to high-definition video 31 min. Photo by NK Photography, Courtesy of the artist.
Image2 : Installation photo of "her silent life” Cutting Meat, 2012 Super 8 film, 16mm film, digital video to high-definition. Courtesy of the artist. Image description in alternate text

This spring, our exhibitions reach beyond the gallery walls. As you make your way along Minoru Boulevard, be sure to loo...
06/13/2026

This spring, our exhibitions reach beyond the gallery walls. As you make your way along Minoru Boulevard, be sure to look up, and also take a closer look inside.

Displayed on the exterior wall of our building is “State of Mind” (2026), a banner by Jo-Anne Balcaen that captures the artist’s stream of consciousness on PVC. Balcaen shares her personal, spontaneous thoughts in a fluid and uncensored style for all to see.

Just a few steps away, a video installation is visible through the Gallery’s glass wall. SIDE CORE’s “Above the under city” (2026) features a live stream of Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing—the world’s busiest pedestrian intersection, where 250,000 to 500,000 people cross daily, more than Richmond’s entire population of 200,000. One scene from SIDE CORE’s “under city,” also on view in the Gallery, was filmed in a covered river directly beneath Shibuya Crossing.

Image 1: Jo-Anne Balcaen, “State of Mind”, 2026, PVC vinyl with grommets, Photo by Gallery Staff

Image 2: Jo-Anne Balcaen, “State of Mind”, 2026, PVC vinyl with grommets, Photo by NK Photography

Image 3: Exterior shot of Richmond Art Gallery featuring SIDE CORE, “Above the under city”, 2026, video, Photo by NK Photography.

Image 3: SIDE CORE, “Above the under city”, 2026, live-streamed video installation, Photo by NK Photography.

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💭 Are you an emerging artist trying to find your place in the local art world? Gain insights into the Lower Mainland art...
06/12/2026

💭 Are you an emerging artist trying to find your place in the local art world? Gain insights into the Lower Mainland art scene with THIS Gallery founder, Shannon Pawliw!

🌟 Artist Salon with THIS Gallery Artistic Director Shannon Pawliw
🗓 Saturday, June 27, 2026
⏰ 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
🔗 LIMITED SPOTS, RSVP: https://bit.ly/3QDdxAX

Join artist, consultant, and THIS Gallery founder Shannon Pawliw for a candid look at navigating the Lower Mainland art scene. She’ll share practical insights drawn from supporting emerging and under-recognized artists and running an independent contemporary gallery.

Presentation followed by Q+A, and time for socializing with other participants.
Light refreshments provided.

📍 Limited spaces, RSVP requested.

Image: Shannon Pawliw, photo by Linda Suffidy. Image description in alternate text.

☀ The sun was out and so were we.Last Saturday, June 7, we explored the Capture Festival art installations at the Canada...
06/11/2026

☀ The sun was out and so were we.

Last Saturday, June 7, we explored the Capture Festival art installations at the Canada Line stations. Fellow art enthusiasts were taken on a walking art tour by featured artists Keely O’Brien (.rois.obrien), Michael Love (), Sylvan Hamburger, and Richmond Public Art Planner Biliana Velkova, who discussed the works on display at Aberdeen, Lansdowne, and Richmond-Brighouse stations.

🌼Thank you to everyone who came out and joined us on the tour!

Image 1: Michael Love in front of his work at Lansdowne station, June 2026, Photo by Juliana Lo
Image 2: Keely O'Brien conducts her tour in front of her work at the Richmond-Brighouse Station, June 2026, Photo by Juliana Lo
Image 3: Richmond Public Art Planner Biliana Velkova speaking in front of the crown and Keely O'Brien's installation
Image 4: The crowd at the Aberdeen Station, Photo by Juliana Lo
Image 5: Artist Sylvan Hamburger with attendees waiting for a train at the Canada Line Station, Photo by Juliana Lo

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💖 Thank you to all of those who attended Lulu Series: Rode Work/Under City! Attendees learned about Japanese artist coll...
06/10/2026

💖 Thank you to all of those who attended Lulu Series: Rode Work/Under City!

Attendees learned about Japanese artist collective SIDE CORE's new work "rode work ver. under city" and their site-specific public projects that blur the boundaries between contemporary art, skate culture and urban infrastructure.

✨ SIDE CORE also discussed their multi-channel video installation rode work ver. under city, which was created in collaboration with renowned skate film crew, Far East Skate Network. The piece captures skaters navigating Tokyo’s subterranean environments — including stormwater basins, disused transit tunnels and maintenance corridors. These movements transform utilitarian spaces into expressive terrains, linking isolated structures into a speculative, virtual undercity.

Image 1: SIDE CORE's Matsush*ta Tohru speaking at Lulu Series: Rode Work/Under City. Photo by Harrison Ha. Image description in alternate text.
Image 2: Lulu Series: Rode Work/Under City. Photo by Harrison Ha. Image description in alternate text.

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