Current Exhibitions
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PUBLIC PLACE : SACRED SPACE
An ongoing multi-year program that integrates themes of welcoming, gathering and healing through on and offsite projects and installations.
October 27 2018 - January 1 2024 -
North Island Hospital - Site Works
Offering a sense of comfort and safety to all who come into the North Island Hospital.
July 20 2020 - January 1 2024 -
Emerge | Return | Together - NIC Student Incubator
Lens-based explorations of thematic projects by North Island College students from FIN 247 - Digital Photography.
April 12 - September 30 2023 -
Stolen Sister
Fabric sculpture created to raise awareness for our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit people.
May 2 - October 28 2023 -
Together Apart | Under One Roof
The enduring relationship and distinct practices of Aganetha Dyck, Diana Thorneycroft, and Reva Stone.
June 15 - October 28 2023 -
21 New Authors & Artists
A presentation of books made by grade 1 students from École Puntledge Park Elementary.
July 22 - September 30 2023 -
Consent - Video Program
A curated video program of thematically engaged artist projects created for Consent Awareness Week.
September 16 - October 28 2023
Upcoming Exhibitions
We're not ready to announce our next exhibition just yet, check back soon for more details.
Past Exhibitions
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GO FISH
Each year, hundreds of millions of herring return to the Salish Sea, their spawn painting a milky turquoise collar along its shores. For a few chaotic days, the sea is transformed. GO FISH asks the question, if the herring set the table, who comes for dinner?
April 12 2023 - May 27 2023 -
as the wind blew: the ground beneath me, at the water’s edge, in its path
Three bodies of work that explore grief, loss, and healing. Through the lens of artist Sarah Crawley.
April 12 2023 - May 27 2023 -
Coastal Camera Obscura III
Offers an experience of an optical phenomenon and apparatus.
April 12 2023 - May 27 2023 -
Nina Wedberg Thulin | The Source
Nina Wedberg Thulin's project installation follows her research + creation residency at the Comox Valley Art Gallery.
February 24 2023 - April 1 2023 -
Don't Know
Michael Fernandes | Installations + Public Open Studio invites the community to explore new materials + ways of making.
February 4 2023 - April 1 2023 -
We Don't Know
The first installment of a multi-part project by artist Michael Fernandes.
January 19 2023 - February 3 2023 -
Two Halves Make a Whole | Stories Without Words / Under Cover — NIC Student Incubator
North Island College students gain practical experience in a gallery environment, presenting their work to the public.
January 13 2023 - April 1 2023 -
Integrating Reality: Building from Inside Out – STREAM Incubator III
STREAM (Science, Technology, Robotics, Electronics, Arts + Mathematics) an inquiry-based, hands-on learning program.
December 7 2022 - April 1 2023 -
Real Reality (RR)
Residencies, collaborations, site installations, + performances with Geneviève Johnson, Bran Mackie, Sarah Emery Clark.
December 7 2022 - January 28 2023 -
Walk With Me - Comox Valley / Fall 2022
Uncovering the human dimensions of the toxic drug poisoning crisis -- 3 community walks.
October 25 2022 - November 29 2022 -
Marlene Creates: Works from Blast Hole Pond Road, Newfoundland / Œuvres réalisées au chemin Blast Hole Pond, Terre-Neuve 2002 – 2021
Engaging with habitat corporally, emotionally, intellectually, instinctively, linguistically, and in astonishment.
June 15 2022 - September 10 2022 -
Salt-Stained Streaks of a Worthwhile Grief
"...water as a living entity and a flowing field of living bodies." – Fathom Sounds Collective
March 2 2022 - May 14 2022 -
THE SUPERNATURAL REALM / LAND OF SUPERNATURAL BEINGS
Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson's solo exhibition presents the hope of the Supernatural Beings of Haida Gwaii.
September 29 2021 - December 31 2021 -
Under One Sky
An exhibition that integrates creative research + relational practice + collaborative production.
June 16 2021 - September 4 2021 -
Our Young Girls
An exhibition that gives voice to lived experience and radiates power from speaking uncomfortable truths.
March 25 2021 - September 4 2021 -
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A Letter From The Ocean
A poetic journey through the woods to the ocean that explores where we have come from, what has been lost, and our incredible capacity as a species for love and beauty.
March 4 2021 - March 24 2021 -
Space Between Us / A Virtual Project
A project that holds the powerful, the beautiful, the difficult, and the poetic.
February 27 2021 - January 1 2023 -
OFFSITE_ONSITE / Ongoing Installation Projects
Traces of creative research, dialogue and curiosity made visible.
February 25 2021 - September 4 2021 -
Kill Yourself
searches for a way to evolve our collective ideologies...
December 17 2020 - February 20 2021 -
Space Between Us Publication Incubator
Presents the work of visual + media artists + writers.
December 3 2020 - February 27 2021 -
FIN 230 Sculpture + Integrated Art Practice Student Incubator
Incubator shares the work of NIC students in the FIN 230 Sculpture and Integrated Art Practice I
December 3 2020 - February 27 2021 -
THE TIME OF THINGS / The Continuum of Indigenous Customary Practice into Contemporary Art
Guest curator France Trepanier. Artists: Daphne Boyer, Maureen Gruben, Susan Pavel, Skeena Reece, Marika Echachis Swan
March 14 2020 - September 11 2020 -
Birchbark Technology
KC Adams’ (Cree, Ojibway) Birchbark Technology, is a new body of work exploring relationships with ancestor’s territorial land and and water.
January 18 2020 - February 29 2020 -
ROOT LOVE – interactive window installation
ROOT LOVE – interactive window installation project / community plant sharing
December 7 2019 - January 10 2020 -
Physica
PHYSICA, created by Clea MInkaker, is a living installation and a time-based performance producing ephemeral projections from the interactions of objects, light, and phenomena.
December 7 2019 - January 10 2020 -
Uncover
An exhibition that considers implications of concealing and revealing. Anna Gustafson / Clea Minaker / Elizabeth Russell + Natalie Nickerson / Heather Passmore / Nadine Bariteau
September 28 2019 - November 23 2019 -
Hold Being Held
Hold Being Held, the exhibition features clay and time based work of seven artists.
June 27 2019 - September 7 2019 -
SEEING THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
This installation provides the stark visual backdrop of the rapidly changing technological world.
April 6 2019 - June 8 2019 -
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APPROACHING PAINTING
painters: Carole Thompson, Madeleine Wood, Nicole Crouch, Robert Moon, Scott Bertram. performer: Cathy Coates. community facilitator: Cedar Waslewski
January 26 2019 - March 23 2019 -
Nump ma noch gyai yoo lahss (We All Come From One Root)
“Photography, archive and memory are intimately connected. Memory and photography both involve the process of recording images that may be used to recall the past. Memory itself is often characterized as an archive: a store house of things, meanings and images. This gives the impression that one can appeal to memory in order to recover…
October 16 2018 - November 17 2018 -
Honouring: Project Of Heart / Speaking To Memory
A collaboration between SD 71 Indigenous Education Services and Comox Valley Art Gallery. This exhibition is a responsive legacy project that honours the intent of two projects; Speaking to Memory: Images and Voices from St. Michael’s Indian Residential School and Project of Heart: Illuminating the Hidden History of Indian Residential Schools in BC.
September 17 2018 - December 7 2018 -
Hiłt̕sist̕a’a̱m (The Copper Will Be Fixed)
Hiłt̕sist̕a’a̱m (The Copper Will Be Fixed) is part of the Potlatch 67–67: The Potlatch Ban - Then and Now program.
July 20 2018 - October 4 2018 -
Touching Earth Bodies
Three interrelated bodies of work explore the power of self-representation, ceremony, and engaging bodies in the land.
May 18 2018 - June 29 2018 -
Window Exhibition: Stekyawden Syndrome
Stekyawden Syndrome offers another way to look at the anxiety of Canadian and Indigenous relations.
May 13 2018 - June 29 2018 -
Touch Me
A solo exhibition comprised of eight interconnected works from 2007 – 2018.
April 6 2018 - May 12 2018 -
RETURN
An exhibition of lens-based work that deals with concepts of land, community, health and violence.
January 27 2018 - March 23 2018 -
look over look
Cynthia Minden’s new installation of sculpture and mobiles in CVAG’s Window Gallery.
December 1 2017 - January 5 2018 -
43rd Annual Christmas Craft Fair
CVAG’s winter program offers a winter art market featuring hand made work by over 90 local and regional makers.
December 1 2017 - December 24 2017 -
OFFERINGS / OFFRANDES
This collaborative new media artwork integrates contemporary and traditional elements.
October 13 2017 - November 18 2017 -
North Island Hospital Art Project
View the design briefs on display at the gallery by the CVAG creative team for the new North Island Hospital.
October 13 2017 - December 29 2018 -
VEINS / LISTEN / CUL-DE-SAC
McKeough has supported and extended her exhibition titled "Veins" with two new installations: "Listen" + "Cul-de-sac."
July 13 2017 - September 30 2017 -
IMAGE TO TEXT TO IMAGE
CVAG and CVA invite submissions for IMAGE TO TEXT TO IMAGE, exploring the relationships between words and visuals.
June 2 2017 - June 30 2017 -
The Book of Changes: Notes and Gestures
Goodden and Hoogland situate their work as a contribution to a contemporary commentary to the I Ching.
June 2 2017 - June 30 2017 -
GATHER
Gather enfolds the work of ECUAD at NIC senior and graduating visual arts students.
April 28 2017 - May 19 2017 -
Source Material II: Unfolding
The CVAG community space exhibition Source Material has been sustained, interrupted and expanded.
March 10 2017 - April 13 2017 -
Carried Away
There are two figures in a large empty space: she is the continuous drawer, and he is the decision-maker.
March 10 2017 - April 13 2017 -
All Tomorrow's Parties
Witvliet has created expansive paintings that evoke the mythological, the historical or some possible future.
January 21 2017 - February 25 2017 -
Source Material
This exhibition presents relationships between photography and sculptural objects as a means of creating new narratives.
January 21 2017 - February 25 2017 -
The Perfect Nowhere
McClelland creates a fictitious world, a “no place”, in which we might find something of ourselves and our world.
January 21 2017 - February 25 2017 -
42nd Annual Christmas Craft Fair
Juried works of more than 60 local and regional artists will be featured, with several performances by visiting artists.
November 18 2016 - December 26 2016 -
Window Project: Hands On
"Hands On" invites the public into the CVAG's window gallery to interact, create, and become a part of the art.
November 18 2016 - December 26 2016 -
MAP: Dimensions of the Season - Community Response
Considering the many diverse ways in which we experience this season of celebration.
November 5 2016 - December 26 2016 -
Affirmations, or Otherwise
An interactive text-based installation that examines the space between official information and vernacular understandings
October 1 2016 - November 5 2016 -
MAP: Witness / Document / Collect
CVAG invites documentation that explores variations on mapping practice.
October 1 2016 - November 5 2016 -
The Stories Were Not Told
The stories we tell ourselves and those that deny our stories within culture–all shape identity.
October 1 2016 - November 5 2016 -
Site Visits: Place-based Works
Site visits as part of MAP and the Where is Here? symposium.
July 21 2016 - July 21 2016 -
MAP: Make Art Place Community Response
CVAG invites documentation that explores variations on mapping practice.
July 12 2016 - September 17 2016 -
Untitled (Sweepers)
Joanne Bristol’s artistic practice locates ways in which nature and culture are co-constitutive.
July 12 2016 - September 17 2016 -
MAP Video / Performance Program
An artistic program as part of the "Where is Here?" symposium.
July 12 2016 - September 17 2016 -
Terrain Traps and Other Delightful Terrors
I’ve been fascinated by views and representations of views that might obliterate or swallow a person whole.
July 12 2016 - September 17 2016 -
Unmapping the Last Best West
Unmapping the Last Best West shapes a series of experimental embodied cartographies.
July 12 2016 - September 17 2016 -
Sooner or Later: Anyone and Everyone Make Art Project
Sooner or Later every artist makes a self portrait
June 1 2016 - June 30 2016 -
Sooner or Later
CVAG and the Comox Valley Community Arts Council invite you to participate in a community exhibition that celebrates our diverse creative community.
June 1 2016 - June 30 2016 -
Emergent Early Learners
Emergent Early Learners show their material and conceptual investigations.
April 30 2016 - May 21 2016 -
Phenomenology
The way in which one perceives and interprets events and one’s relationship to them.
April 30 2016 - May 21 2016 -
The Spectacle of the Walls
The Spectacle of the Walls is work in which conventional toile fabric interrupted the surface of the photorealistic, painted surface.
March 18 2016 - April 16 2016 -
Re:Definition
Re:Definition is a project that began with a simple question “What if I wove text?”
March 18 2016 - April 16 2016 -
Make/Repeat/Alter: A Community Response
NIDES Fine Arts eCademy and eCademy of New Technology, Engineering and Robotics will be presenting thematically inspired collaborative projects responding to the work of artists Eric Lesage and Janet Wang.
March 18 2016 - April 16 2016 -
Falling
This is a thematically linked student exhibition in conjunction with the multi-media exhibition “Meeting the Ground”.
January 22 2016 - March 4 2016 -
Meeting the Ground
In the midst of meeting the ground I am experiencing a quiet revolution.
January 22 2016 - March 4 2016 -
Telling Story
How do we tell a story in an age of information using photography?
December 12 2015 - December 26 2015 -
Window Project: Gift
“Gift” invites us to consider our perceptions and interactions around giving and receiving.
November 20 2015 - December 26 2015 -
Mix
Mix is a group exhibition comprised of paintings from thirteen NIC/ECUAD Students.
November 20 2015 - December 4 2015 -
41st Annual Christmas Craft Fair
The Comox Valley Art Gallery will feature over 60 local and regional artists during our 41th Annual Christmas Craft Fair. On November 20th and 21st CVAG members will receive a 15% discount and walk-in customers will receive 10% off purchases. Utilizing the entire gallery space, the fair will run from November 20th to December 26,…
November 20 2015 - December 26 2015 -
Translation
Sculpture is more than an artistic representation of an object; it is a physical translation of the internal experience a viewer has when encountering the object for the first time.
September 19 2015 - November 6 2015 -
Shelter, Cover, Claim
Shelter, cover, claim examines the physical, emotional and aesthetic materiality of enclosures.
September 19 2015 - November 6 2015 -
Being Home
Being Home explores the psychic, spiritual and emotional territories within domestic spaces.
September 18 2015 - November 6 2015 -
Ba̱k̕wine’ Mescakasa (Soul Hair)
Ba̱k̕wine’ Mescakasa is comprised of large format self-portraits, woven braids and prayer sticks made from Kwakwala and Cree cultural materials and objects.
June 20 2015 - September 5 2015 -
Record (Re)create: Contemporary Coast Salish Art from the Salish Weave Collection
Record, (Re)create: Contemporary Coast Salish Art from the Salish Weave Collection showcases a selection of works by artists of Coast Salish ancestry from the Salish Weave Collection.
June 20 2015 - September 5 2015 -
Youth Art, Design and Print Program
The Youth Art Design and Screen Printing Program is a partnership between the Comox Valley Art Gallery and the Wachiay Friendship Centre.
June 20 2015 - August 15 2015 -
Pathways: Between Inside and Out
A shared provocation and ensuing dialogue began between three early learning centres from the Comox Valley.
May 1 2015 - June 6 2015 -
As You Are
The graduate exhibit of BFA students from the NIC/ECUAD dual admission program.
May 1 2015 - June 6 2015 -
Re.search
Re.search looks at exhibition making as a community of practice, gathering together the creative inquiry of ten visual artists/art educators/researchers.
May 1 2015 - June 6 2015 -
Combing Through Natural History
Beachcombers’ students are exploring their environment through the age-old art and science of Natural History.
March 14 2015 - April 18 2015 -
Unusual Migration
Unusual Migration is an exploration of the places and ways in which organic and human-built environments overlap.
March 14 2015 - April 18 2015 -
Neon Bloom
Neon Bloom is a thread installation that transforms the gallery into a faux ecosystem as a means of considering reactive and adaptive strategies.
March 14 2015 - April 18 2015 -
The Way Things Are & How To Be
Kelly Gough’s and Joyce Lindemulder’s works each incorporate a kind of dissection.
January 24 2015 - March 7 2015 -
After
‘After’ is a collection of paintings by students that explore the ways in which artists are influenced by their predecessors.
January 24 2015 - March 7 2015 -
Artist Residency and Community Collaboration
Matrixial mediated co-encounters with/in and on art, space and others is the restorative and transformative substance of this residency.
January 24 2015 - March 7 2015 -
More Than Human, The Silent Conversation
North Island College/Emily Carr University students present photography work.
December 3 2014 - December 27 2014 -
40th Annual Christmas Craft Fair
The Comox Valley Art Gallery is pleased to feature over 80 local and regional artists during our 40th Annual Christmas Craft Fair.
November 14 2014 - December 27 2014 -
The Window Project
A light installation featured in the Window Space concurrent with the 40th Annual Christmas Craft Fair.
November 14 2014 - December 27 2014 -
Layered Democracy
The artists of Print4 have developed dialogues that consider printed matter – in relation to democracy and industry.
November 7 2014 - November 27 2014 -
By a Thread
The exhibition showcases artwork produced by the wide-ranging membership of CVCAC and CVAG..
September 27 2014 - November 1 2014 -
By a Thread Community Make Art Project
The community is invited to participate and contribute to this make-art project by adding responses, inspirations and interpretations in relation to the theme (hanging) by a thread.
September 27 2014 - November 1 2014 -
The Blues Project
Jo Swallow is a prolific fibre artist living and working in the Comox Valley.
September 27 2014 - November 1 2014 -
The Waste Land
The Waste Land is a body of work that traces the haunting nature of our rejected possessions through a collaged, recycled and surreal world.
August 16 2014 - September 20 2014 -
Curiosity + Process = Discovery
Explorations of physical and metaphorical transformation expressed through painting, drawing, text, sculpture and video.
August 16 2014 - September 13 2014 -
Reclamation
The abandoned cast-off detritus of a crowded world, set amid a jungle of plant life, a flotilla of regrouped bits and pieces.
August 16 2014 - September 13 2014 -
If You Go Down to the Woods Today
The young artists from Roseberry preschool were invited to respond to George Sawchuck’s Forest Gallery work located in the woods behind his home in Fanny Bay.
June 28 2014 - August 9 2014 -
The Book of George: The Life and Art of George Sawchuk
The Book of George is the first opportunity to examine and expand upon the legacy of the George Sawchuk since he died.
June 28 2014 - August 9 2014 -
Wildwood Stories
In the lush growth of the coastal forest, death plays as significant a role as life.
June 28 2014 - August 9 2014 -
In-A-Vision
A collection of original videos which dare to imagine a bold and original future for the Comox Valley.
May 10 2014 - June 14 2014 -
Faces: Familiar and Friends
Both artists employ a representational realism which investigates the aesthetics and mystery of the human face.
May 10 2014 - June 21 2014 -
Interstice: An Intervening Space
Students graduating from this program present exploratory and experimental works in a variety of media that challenge and intrigue.
May 10 2014 - June 14 2014 -
Aqua, Colour, Florum
Pedder’s plant and flower imagery is articulated in water and pigments onto papers which have been prepared and stretched onto canvases.
May 10 2014 - June 21 2014 -
The Window Project
An assemblage of performances, gestures and actions inhabiting the display window and street entrance of the gallery.
May 9 2014 - June 14 2014 -
Keeping it Living
The Keeping It Living Campaign uses locally made world class art to raise funds and awareness for the restoration and protection of the K’ómoks Estuary.
April 16 2014 - May 2 2014 -
But Enough Art, Eat!
Join us for an Interdisciplinary community project with art, music and talks, starting at 7 pm nightly.
March 31 2014 - April 2 2014 -
Like? Indigenous Musings in an Digital Age
Utilizing pop culture references in combination with First Nations imagery, Andy is interested in raising awareness and stimulating dialogue about issues faced by First Nations people today.
March 15 2014 - May 2 2014 -
Maple Pool United
For the past three years a weekly street soccer program that provides an opportunity for people on the fringes of society to exercise, socialize and have fun has been hosted by Grant Shilling and the Dawn to Dawn Action on Homelessness Society at Maple Pool Campground. Photographer Ron Pogue captured dynamic images of their get-togethers.
March 15 2014 - April 12 2014 -
Hands of the Next Generation
The Youth Art Design and Screen Printing Program is a partnership between the Comox Valley Art Gallery, the Wachiay Friendship Centre and the Community Justice Centre.
March 15 2014 - May 2 2014 -
Riverway
Riverway is a series of paintings based on the walking path along the Courtenay River, so-called ‘shortest river in the world,’ stretching from about Lewis Park to the estuary at the Airpark.
March 15 2014 - May 2 2014 -
Rhythm In Blue
Rhythm in Blue features art works unified by the theme of “blue” in its varied meanings, and each contains the colour blue.
January 11 2014 - March 8 2014 -
Artistic Dreams
Inspired by the piano version of the song Mad World, the students of Ms. Yourchik’s grade 4–5 class at Ecole Robb Road discussed the emotions they felt while listening to this piece of music and the power music can have in our lives.
January 11 2014 - March 8 2014 -
The Big Foldy Painting of Death
The acrylic painting is a panoramic, unrestrained and personal narrative using the multiple vocabularies of contemporary art to investigate the destructive qualities of creation and the creative qualities of destruction.
January 11 2014 - March 8 2014