Medias Res Gallery

353 Railway St, Unit 401, Vancouver, BC

Medias Res Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Vancouver’s Railtown District. Established in 2025, Medias Res serves as the official exhibition venue of VIVA Alliance. Medias Res is committed to supporting visual artists at all stages of their careers and creating an inclusive, accessible space for intercultural dialogue among artists and the broader community. The gallery’s dynamic programming seeks to present diverse artistic perspectives that challenge disciplinary and cultural boundaries, offering new critical ways of looking at the world and our place in it.

Monte Clark Gallery

53 Dunlevy Ave, Vancouver, BC

Monte Clark gained national and international prominence with its decade-long gallery presence in Toronto alongside the widely respected voice of its Vancouver gallery. The gallery’s artists, local and international, continue to be the subjects of important solo exhibitions and have appeared in landmark biennials and thematic group shows.
The exhibition program features a broad range of artists with a concise view of each artist’s approach to art making and navigates potential dialogues between them. Monte Clark has long valued producing exhibitions that bring together multifaceted works across a vast range of media, including drawing, photography, video, painting, sculpture, and installation. Monte Clark endeavours to collaborate with artists at all stages of their careers.

Bothkinds Project Space

602 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC

We are an artist-run centre located Vancouver BC, with a mission to provide an inclusive framework that supports the creation and public dissemination of experimental, interdisciplinary, and non-commercially driven artistic projects. By supporting exploration and fostering collaboration, we provoke new discourse surrounding materials practices and public engagement with the arts in the DTES.

We produce public exhibitions and programming that encourages brave and critical dialog between artists, curators, educators and other regional creatives.

Fazakas Gallery

659 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC

Located on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), in the heart of Vancouver’s Gallery District, Fazakas Gallery promotes a diverse selection of contemporary art with a special emphasis on works by established and up-and-coming Indigenous artists. They offer works by established Indigenous artists such as Beau Dick, Rande Cook, and Don Yeomans. We also offer works by emerging and mid-career artists, such as Jason Baerg, Couzyn van Heuvelen, Audie Murray, and Corey Bulpitt. We provide a comprehensive approach to helping clients build their portfolio, while also reviewing existing collections to foster fresh new directions.

Paneficio Gallery + Studios

800 Keefer St, Vancouver, BC

Paneficio is known for its storefront displays showcasing local artists’ work all year and several shows a year in the gallery.  Check the website for artists this year. Nestled in the heart of Vancouver’s Strathcona neighbourhood, Paneficio Studios has been home to a small community of artists for 30 years. Owned by Valerie Arntzen–visual artist and co-founder of the Eastside Culture Crawl and founder of First Saturday Open Studios–and her husband, Arnt Arntzen, who is also a visual artist.

Gallery 881

881 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC

Gallery 881 is a lens-based art hub promoting the photographic arts through exhibitions, art sales, public events, and other visual art-based programming. We offer a selection of artwork available for purchase as well as freshly curated flat file art drawers and the Book Zine Wall – a library of independently produced publications. Gallery 881 also houses PrintMaker Studio, a full-service fine art print production service with expertise in digital printmaking and finishing for artists and collectors alike.

Catriona Jeffries

950 East Cordova Street, Vancouver, BC

Catriona Jeffries has been in operation since 1994. It focuses on the post-conceptual art practices which have emerged from Vancouver and the critical relationships between these practices and particular international artists. It is recognized as one of the most important commercial contemporary art galleries in Vancouver, and one of the only ones that has an international reputation. The gallery shows work by well-known Vancouver artists such as Ian Wallace, Brian Jungen, and Geoffrey Farmer.

August Studios

1320 E Pender St, Vancouver, BC

August Studios is a space for artists/designers+ to create, collaborate, and teach. Their goal is to strengthen the community and enrich lives through collective work. They host workshops and curate & host art shows.

Kasko Gallery

560 Clark Drive, Vancouver, BC

Kasko Gallery is located at 560 Clark Drive on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Kasko Gallery focuses on showcasing artists within our community who lack opportunities. We are an unconventional gallery that strives to show artists who are outside of the public eye or otherwise underrepresented. We have a roster of artists that we are softly representing. They are shown on our salon wall between exhibitions. The gallery also operates as a framing shop. Check the gallery website for special events and exhibitions.