Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Name: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Telephone: 250-384-4171
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1040 Moss Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8V 4P1

Address1040 Moss Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8V 4P1

Phone250-384-4171

Fax250-361-3995

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Open Tues to Sat 10 am - 5 pm, Thurs till 9 pm; Sun noon - 5 pm.

Location Type - Art Galleries

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Winners of the 2024 Tanabe Prize for BC Painters Announced

Mar 5, 2024
Crossing: Art, Heritage, and Personal Journeys

Reclaiming rituals that make us whole

Mar 4, 2024
Steven McNeil Moves Up to Chief Curator at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Jun 29, 2023
Magical Mushrooms

Artists explore the wood-wide web on the forest floor.

Jun 5, 2023
Two Artists Receive Tanabe Prize

Amy Modahl and Robin Hodgson are the winners of the annual Tanabe Prize.

Mar 21, 2023
Start Here

A modest tribute to four Japanese Canadian artists.

Nov 28, 2022
Steven McNeil Joins Curatorial Team at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Steven McNeil has joined the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria as the curator of Canadian and historical art.

Oct 4, 2022
Victoria Gallery Hosts Governor General's Award Exhibition

Oct 3, 2022
Adorned

The cultural wealth and diversity of what we wear.

Jul 25, 2022
Nancy Noble to Head Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Nancy Noble has been appointed as director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Apr 20, 2022
Two Artists Receive Tanabe Prize for B.C. Painters

Robert Burke and Rain Cabana-Boucher are the winners of the sixth annual Tanabe Prize for B.C. Painters.

Mar 2, 2022
Denyse Thomasos

An odyssey through the prisons, burial sites and slave ships of Black history.

Feb 7, 2022
Jaimie Isaac joins Art Gallery of Greater Victoria as Chief Curator

Jaimie Isaac has been hired as the new chief curator of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Aug 25, 2021
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria to Reopen May 19

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria will reopen on May 19, with free admission until July 5.

May 12, 2020
Heng Wu Joins Curatorial Team at Victoria's Art Gallery

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has hired Heng Wu as its new curator of Asian art.

Feb 21, 2020
Russna Kaur Wins Tanabe Prize

Vancouver-based artist Russna Kaur has won the fourth annual $10,000 Tanabe Prize for British Columbia emerging painters.

Jan 17, 2020
Victoria Conference Explores Buddhism and Contemporary Art

The public is invited to two presentations as part of In the Present Moment: Buddhism, Contemporary Art and Social Practice, A Research Convening.

Sep 30, 2019
BMO Commits $500,000 to Victoria Gallery Expansion

BMO has committed $500,000 to a $30-million expansion project at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Sep 13, 2019
Gallery Expansion Delayed in Victoria

The start of construction for the expansion of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has been delayed until March due to rising construction costs and funding delays.

Aug 22, 2019
Major Donation for New Victoria Gallery

A donation of $2.8 million from the late Anthony Thorn has been given to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Apr 14, 2019
Bronwyn McMillin Wins Takao Tanabe Prize

The $10,000 prize is given to emerging artists at the early stages of their artistic careers.

Jan 13, 2019
Victoria Curator Awarded $50,000 Fellowship

Haema Sivanesan, curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, has been awarded a curatorial research fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Aug 8, 2018
Provincial Funding for Gallery Renovations in Victoria

The B.C. Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture has announced $6 million in one-time funding for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria's $30-million renovation project.

Jun 18, 2018
Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest

Kelly Richardson’s exceptional video installation adds mystery to a mostly earnest group show that considers how photography has shaped human understandings of the West Coast forest.

Jun 1, 2018
Lynn Price wins Takao Tanabe prize for BC painters

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has announced that the 2nd Annual Tanabe Prize for British Columbia painters has been awarded to Lynn Price.

Jan 8, 2018
Philanthropist Patrick Stewart donates Canadian Art Treasures to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria has announced they have received Canadian painter David Milne’s, "Entrance to Saugerties Harbour," (1927), as a donation from local philanthropist Patrick Stewart.

Aug 24, 2017
Japanese-Canadian Studio Portraiture

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria displays images from Japanese-Canadian studio photographers in the early 1900s.

Jul 28, 2017
Renowned Asian Arts Curator Barry Till to Retire from AGGV

Barry Till has announced his retirement after 36 years at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Jul 24, 2017 1 Comments
Karen Tam's Chinatown Studio

A Chinese artist who befriended Emily Carr in the early 1930s is the focus of a Victoria exhibition by Montreal’s Karen Tam.

Jun 18, 2017
Jan and Helga Grove: Life With Clay

Stepping into this retrospective exhibition at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is like turning back the clock.

May 8, 2017
Trio of new donations unveiled by Art Gallery of Greater Victoria for Next Gallery

Victoria philanthropist Andrew Beckerman has pledged his personal art collection valued at $750,000 and $100,000 in cash to the Art Gallery of Victoria’s Next Gallery, the expansion of the Gallery’s Moss Street home.

Feb 7, 2017
Inaugural Tanabe Prize awarded to Philippe Raphanel

Established by artist Takao Tanabe, the Tanabe Prize is a new annual award given to artists whose primary medium is painting and who are residents of British Columbia. In addition to being painters, recipients must be mid-career artists.

Jan 4, 2017
"It’s in the Making," Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Oct. 28, 2016 to Feb. 12, 2017

It’s easy to walk past this group show – after all, the entry is almost blocked by boards and stacks of lumber. Visitors may be excused for thinking the show is still being installed or the gallery needed urgent repairs.

Jan 2, 2017
Audain Foundation Pledges $2 Million to Art Gallery of Greater Victoria – Next Gallery

British Columbia philanthropist Michael Audain, through the Audain Foundation, has pledged $2 million to support the expansion plans of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Nov 27, 2016
"Kinky: Ancient Chinese and Japanese Erotic Images," To Oct. 16 at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria offers a rare glimpse into Asia's erotic history with "Kinky: Ancient Chinese and Japanese Erotic Images."

Sep 4, 2016
Four new faces join Art Gallery of Greater Victoria board

The Board of Directors of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria announce four new members, elected to the board at the Gallery’s recent AGM.

Jun 28, 2016
ANCIENT ARTS: Remarkable Asian Treasures At The Art Gallery Of Greater Victoria Span Four Millennia

Going behind the scenes in museums and galleries is always fascinating, especially for those with pack-rat tendencies and historical interests. Even small collections are worth many millions of dollars; a misstep could easily prove disastrous.

Jan 7, 2016
The Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, HBC Museum Collection, Photo: © The Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg

BRITISH COLUMBIA: "The Artist Herself: Self-Portraits by Canadian Historical Women Artists", Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Oct. 1 to Jan. 3, 2015

This nationally touring exhibition redefines the concept of “self-portrait” and simultaneously brings new importance to women’s traditional crafts, often overlooked by the art world.

Sep 7, 2015
AGGV welcomes new curator

Jon Tupper, director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is pleased to announce that Haema Sivanesan is bringing her exceptional curatorial and arts experience to the Gallery. She will assume the newly created curator position on June 1, 2015.

Apr 17, 2015
"In Another Place, And Here", Jan. 24 to May 31, 2015 at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

"In Another Place, And Here" brings together work by eight local, national and international artists.

Jan 17, 2015
"Girls: Historical Portraits from the Collection" to Oct 5, 2014

The ways that artists portray young females is at the heart of "Girls: Historical Portraits from the Collection."

Sep 14, 2014
Major gift for AGGV Redevelopment from Anthony Thorn

Victoria artist Anthony Thorn has gifted $ 2.5 million to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria to support the Gallery’s planned redevelopment of its Moss Street home.

Jan 20, 2014
Roots of a Movement at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

"back to the land" at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria showcases the homesteaders, artists, activists and architects of the Vancouver Island pottery scene of the 1970s and 80s.

Aug 31, 2012
Michelle Jacques Named Chief Curator at the AGGV

Jon Tupper, Director of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria is pleased to announce that Michelle Jacques has been named Chief Curator at the Gallery. She will assume her new position on October 22, 2012.

Aug 22, 2012
RICK LEONG: Imaginary Landscapes

In lush, large-scale panels, this Victoria painter draws on traditional Chinese technique to create something thoroughly contemporary

Apr 30, 2012
VICTORIA GALLERY AWARDS FIRST AUDAIN FELLOWSHIP

The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria will undertake a curatorial project exploring the history of Aboriginal artists and artists of colour on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands, part of the gallery’s first Audain Aboriginal Curatorial Fellowship.

Dec 31, 2011
"The Modern Eye" Opening July 22, 2011, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

For western cities without much history to draw on, there’s been a trend to celebrate more recent histories, in art, architecture, design, and culture.

Apr 30, 2011
CURATOR BARRY TILL "Chinese Propaganda Posters," through February 6, 2011, Asian Gallery in the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

As an exchange student in China in the 1970s, Barry Till covered the bare walls of his dorm room with an inexpensive and easily accessible form of art — the ubiquitous propaganda posters printed under the direction of Mao Zedong.

Dec 31, 2010
JAMES GORDANEER April 9 to June 6, 2010, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Prolific Vancouver Island painter James Gordaneer has been inspired by almost every movement in late 20th century art, from Modernist Abstraction to Neo Expressionism.

Apr 30, 2010
DON JEAN-LOUIS, "Silver Works," Sept 19, 2008 to January 4, 2009, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Qualicum Beach, B.C.-based artist Don Jean-Louis has been on his own quirky and individual path of contemplation, research and discovery for decades.

Aug 31, 2008
GRAEME PATTERSON, "Woodrow," March 14 to May 11, 2008, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

"Woodrow" is a remarkable multimedia installation honouring a rapidly disappearing farm town in southern Saskatchewan where the artist’s father was born and where his grandparents spent their lives.

Aug 31, 2008
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BRIAN FLYNN, through May 18, 2008, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

The work in this show is based on a specific event in the history of the Irish Republican Army — the assassination of British undercover officer Robert Nairac. The AGGV presents this show as part of their Lab 7.5 series.

Apr 30, 2008