Audain Art Museum

Name: Audain Art Museum
Telephone: 604-962-0413
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4350 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, British Columbia V0N 1B4

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Address4350 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, British Columbia V0N 1B4

Phone604-962-0413

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Daily (except Tues) 10 am - 5 pm

Location Type - Art Galleries

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The Permanent Collection of nearly 200 works contains one of the world’s finest collections of Northwest Coast First Nations masks; a large collection of works by Emily Carr, as well as art by important post-war modernists such as E.J. Hughes, Gordon Smith and Jack Shadbolt. The Collection also showcases art by contemporary British Columbia artists including Jeff Wall, Dana Claxton, Marianne Nicolson and Rodney Graham. In addition, the museum displays up to three special exhibitions a year. Daily (except Tues) 10 am - 5 pm.

Now Open Late Every Thursday and Friday From 10 am – 7 pm

Gathie Falk: Revelations

Making the ordinary fascinating

Feb 5, 2024
Ornamental Cookery

Svava Tergesen bends the tropes of glossy food photography.

May 22, 2023
Audain Art Museum Acquires Emily Carr Painting

The Audain Art Museum in Whistler, B.C. has acquired Emily Carr's painting "Survival."

Mar 20, 2023
Northern Exposure

A new look at the northern art of Jean Paul Riopelle.

Nov 29, 2021
Audain Art Museum Acquires Emily Carr Masterpiece

A 1912 Emily Carr painting, Street, Alert Bay, has been acquired by the Audain Art Museum, courtesy of the Audain Foundation.

Dec 17, 2019
Stan Douglas Wins 2019 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts

Vancouver's Stan Douglas, known for his probing photography, film and video installations, has won the $100,000 Audain Prize for Visual Art.

Sep 26, 2019
Tales of an Empty Cabin

Joseph Tisiga flips expectations as he explores Indigenous identity with faux artifacts.

Mar 25, 2019
Audain Prize Boosted to $100,000

The prize, established in 2004, will become one of three annual Canadian arts awards that gives the winner a cash prize of $100,000.

Mar 19, 2019
Audain Art Museum Hosts Hereditary Haida Chief James Hunt

The inaugural dance of master carver and hereditary Haida Chief James Hart’s "The Dance Screen (The Scream Too)" will be held Sept. 22 in Whistler, B.C.

Sep 16, 2018
Audain Art Museum Appoints Curator

Kiriko Watanabe has been appointed as the Gail & Stephen A. Jarislowsky Curator.

Jun 12, 2018
Art Vancouver Launches First Gallery Crawl

This free, three-day event includes 40 galleries in and around Vancouver, some as far away as the Audain Art Museum in Whistler.

Apr 1, 2018
Audain Art Museum Appoints Director

Curtis Collins has been appointed as director of the Audain Art Museum effective May 1, 2018, filling a position vacated last fall.

Feb 27, 2018
Patkau’s Audain Art Museum wins 2018 AIA Award

Audain Art Museum is the official recipient of a 2018 Institute Honor Award for Architecture from the American Institute of Architects.

Jan 18, 2018
Stone and Sky

Billed as a transcontinental journey through the country’s alpine vistas, this show invites the public to see mountains through the eyes of some of Canada's greatest artists.

Dec 30, 2017
Rare Emily Carr Painting Headed For Whistler

One of the most important paintings of Canadian artist Emily Carr has recently been acquired by the Audain Art Museum in Whistler. Entitled "Le Paysage," the picture was painted in 1911.

Dec 13, 2017
Fred Herzog's Urban Poetics

A pioneer in photographing with colour film, Fred Herzog produced an enduring and nuanced record of cities and the people who inhabit them.

Feb 27, 2017
Two Million Dollar Endowment for the Audain Art Museum

Montreal businessman and philanthropist Stephen Jarislowsky and his wife Gail through the Jarislowsky Foundation have established a $2 million endowment to support the Chief Curator position at Whistler’s Audain Art Museum.

Jun 23, 2016
Whistler’s Audain Art Museum to showcase historic Ptarmigan Vase

A large 112-year-old metal vase, with a special connection to British Columbia, will be on display at the Audain Art Museum for the next three years.

May 17, 2016
Gift of The Beaverbrook Foundation

Audain Art Museum Announces Temporary Exhibition - Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery opening June 18, 2016

This stopover in Whistler is the only one in British Columbia and is described by Executive Director Suzanne Greening as “a unique opportunity to spend time with old friends and make new acquaintances.

Apr 25, 2016
Image courtesy of Patkau Architects

Audain Art Museum in Whistler celebrates the British Columbia landscape

Suzanne Greening is looking at sketches of the Audain Art Museum in Whistler, B.C., which will display art from the collection of millionaire property developer Michael Audain when it opens this year.

Jan 25, 2016
Masterworks from the Audain Art Museum, Whistler

Art is a window into culture and history, and there is no collection that portrays the astonishing breadth of British Columbia’s art from the eighteenth century to the present as superbly as the one at the Audain Art Museum in Whistler.

Jun 8, 2015