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The Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Mountain, British Columbia, Canada All galleries are free of charge. Thing Co. Ltd.

SFU Galleries

Simon Fraser University's art galleries are dynamic centres for the presentation and interrogation of art practices and ideas. There are three distinct galleries: SFU Gallery on the Burnaby campus (established 1970), Audain Gallery at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in Vancouver (established 2010), and Teck Gallery at Harbour Centre in Vancouver (established 1989). SFU Galleries st

ewards the Simon Fraser University Art Collection that includes, in its holdings of over 5,500 works, significant regional and national art works spanning the last century. Simon Fraser University is known for its commitment to academic freedom, interdisciplinary research, and innovative pedagogy, and it has created opportunities for important local and international artists to exhibit, teach, study, and produce work. Within this context, SFU Galleries encourage conceptual and experimental programs that explore ways in which contemporary art is socially and politically engaged. Undertaken by SFU Galleries’ curatorial staff, programming includes exhibitions, publications, symposia, conversations, screenings, performances, and other events. Collaborating with SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, Audain Gallery hosts exhibitions with Audain Visual Artists in Residence Program as well as BFA and MFA student exhibitions. SFU Galleries engage the general public and the art community as well as the SFU community. SFU Gallery

SFU Burnaby, Academic Quadragle 3004, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby BC
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 12–5pm, closed Saturdays on holiday weekends

SFU Gallery presents contemporary work within a local, national, and international context. The gallery's programming addresses the specific intellectual conditions of SFU and the Lower Mainland in relationship to global contexts, as well as the region’s history of conceptual, social, and cultural practices. Located on Burnaby Mountain, SFU Gallery’s audience includes students, faculty, staff, and the general public. SFU Gallery was established as a public art gallery in 1970. In the preceding years, visual arts programming was coordinated by artist Iain Baxter, who was a Resident in the Centre for Communications and the Arts until the early 1970s. Under Baxter’s guidance, Ian Wallace exhibited early monochromes, N.E. undertook multiple projects, and Seth Siegelaub curated a campus wide project entitled Catalogue for an Exhibition that included the work of Josepth Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Lawrence Weiner, and others. Since that time, SFU Gallery has presented work by artists as diverse as Matilda Aslizadeh, Raymond Boisjoly, Fred Herzog, R.B. Kitaj, Liz Magor, Julie Mehretu, Mina Totino, Jerry Pethick, and Allan Sekula. Audain Gallery

SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 12–6pm

Audain Gallery opened in 2010 and is named after patron Michael Audain. The gallery is located in downtown Vancouver in the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, along with SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. The gallery advances the aesthetic and discursive production and presentation of contemporary art through a responsive program of exhibitions that support engaged pedagogy. Focusing on the ways in which contemporary art is socially formed and formative, the gallery initiates local, national and international projects, including exhibitions by visiting international artists through the Audain Visual Artists in Residence Program (such as by Marjetica Potrč, YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, Raqs Media Collective, Claire Fontaine, and Antoni Muntadas). Audain Gallery also hosts SFU SCA Visual Arts student exhibitions. Events such as artist’s talks, public discussions, and screenings are organized parallel to the gallery’s exhibitions, cultivating the cultural context and conversation around visual art. Audain Gallery offers a critical space for engagement with the diverse and timely ideas of contemporary art in a dynamic and shifting manner. Teck Gallery

SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings, Vancouver BC
Open daily during campus hours

Frequented by students, staff, and visitors as a lounge for informal gatherings, coffee breaks, and official receptions, Teck Gallery is an active social and public space in downtown Vancouver defined by a large window offering commanding views of the North Shore mountains. The site, functioning since SFU opened at Harbour Centre in 1989, presents socially focused programs that engage local contexts. Distinct from a white cube gallery, Teck Gallery is a project space for artistic innovation within the university.

05/29/2026

A special thank you to Kiara, Hamed, Treva, Sara, Lindsey, Sasha, Jonathan, Charlotte, and Shangrila for participating in this season’s Test Kitchen! It has been a pleasure to listen to everyone’s research and to see how varied the theme of Rules of Play can be.

Stay tuned for future editions of Test Kitchen coming soon! 🥳

05/27/2026

New job opportunity 👀🤩

Visitor Experience & Services Manager
18-month leave replacement

The Visitor Experience and Services Manager is responsible for the scheduling, oversight and management of most public-facing aspects of the Gibson’s operations including the volunteer team, welcome desks, shop, and internal SFU and external events and space bookings to ensure that each museum visitor’s experience is a positive one, reflecting the Gibson’s ethos as a welcoming and inclusive space for all.

This opportunity closes on June 22nd.

Get more info and apply at the link in our bio!

05/25/2026

Join us for the last edition of this season’s Test Kitchen: Rules of Play on Wednesday, May 27th! This week’s presenters are Charlotte Hou and Shangrila Plaza.

Charlotte (Qianying) Hou is a graduate student at SFU’s AI-Human Interaction Lab and a negotiation expert trained at Columbia University. She is the creator and host of “Call Me Negotiator”, a bilingual cross-cultural show that bridges East and West through deep dialogue. With a professional background spanning China, Thailand, and North America, Charlotte specializes in the “0-to-1” phase of project creation. She is passionate about helping others navigate their career pivots and leverage their unique cultural identities to build impactful personal brands and communities.

Shangrila Plaza is currently a second year Master’s student in English at SFU. Their research-creation project combines critical analysis, creative writing, and multimedia to explore Metro Manila as an auditory space shaped by U.S. imperial governance and its afterlives, specifically examining how urban sounds function as material instruments of power.

📸 Slide 2: Charlotte Hou is the host of Call Me Negotiator and a researcher working at the intersection of negotiation, entrepreneurship, and AI. She explores how unspoken rules shape opportunity, and how individuals can actively navigate and reshape these rules in real-world interactions. Image courtesy of Charlotte Hou.
📸 Slide 3: One of the many mounted speakers at Rizal Park, Manila, 2025. Image courtesy of Shangrila Plaza.

05/22/2026

Huge thanks to and all our participants for a fabulous final Drink & Draw session tonight! The prompts were hilarious: participants were asked to draw from verbal descriptions of mug shots (the photographs were only seen by their partners) and then draw their imagined last meal on death row. We’d love to run this series again in the fall!

05/21/2026

New Sunday Workshop happening this weekend 👀

Join Liz Oakley, the Gibson’s Art Studio Lead, for a workshop on making instruments that modify how you see your surroundings!

Let’s look at the world in new and unexpected ways — through kaleidoscopes, viewfinders, and periscopes! In this workshop, we’ll use reclaimed paper tubes, recycled cardboard, reflective surfaces, and a variety of other materials to make a series of experimental instruments that modify how you see your surroundings. Learn techniques for making several kinds of viewfinders, then explore outside to see how your instrument affects the way you interact with your environment. Come play with your perception!

Missed out on this Sunday Workshop? Keep an eye out for more — they happen the 4th Sunday of every month.

05/20/2026

The Curatorial Portraits Library at the Gibson is now open!

Curatorial Portraits is an archival project that raises the visibility of notable curators active in the Lower Mainland between 1980 and 1999, when curatorial practices were expanding alongside a growing field of exhibition spaces.

Each participant has selected up to a dozen publications that reflect their influences, focus, and practice — in a sense, creating a type of self-portrait. These archival fragments begin to chart Metro Vancouver’s curatorial activities, revealing shifts in attitudes, institutions, and strategies as they pertain to exhibiting art. Additionally, many contributors have made annotations in their selections as a way of inscribing personal histories into their books and brochures. The publications have been donated to the Gibson Art Museum. Paper copies of participants’ curriculum vitae’s are also available in the Gibson library, showing the full extent of their curatorial activity.

Interested in visiting the library? Contact us to book a visit!

05/19/2026

Join us for the third edition of Test Kitchen: Rules of Play tomorrow at 12pm! Everyone is welcome, brown bag lunch encouraged.

Our presenters this week are Lindsey Freeman, Sasha Langford, and Jonathan Middleton.

Lindsey A. Freeman is a writer and sociologist interested in endurance, hapticality, atomic + nuclear cultures, and poetics. Her most recent book, Running, is about practice, love, q***rness, and long-distance running (Duke University Press). Freeman is now working on a book about women’s professional soccer, q***r joy, and how hard it is to care about things. She also continues to write about running culture and practices.

Sasha J. Langford is an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of sound, writing, performance, and social practice. She is a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow in the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU.

Jonathan Middleton is an artist, curator, and publisher working between Vancouver and Toronto. He is an MFA student in the School for Contemporary Arts at SFU.

📸 Slide 2: Arsenal’s Katie McCabe and Manchester City’s Chloe Kelly, BBC, 2023. Courtesy of Lindsey Freeman.
📸 Slide 3: Disquiet Foundation document. Courtesy of Jonathan Middleton and Sasha J. Langford.

05/15/2026

Come check out these beautiful new ceramics by Daryn Wright in the Gibson Shop!

Daryn Wright is a ceramic artist, painter, and installation artist. Food, folklore, domesticity, and the rituals of the everyday play a major role in her work, subjects which are often explored through the lens of humour and irony.

05/13/2026

Quilting with the Land is a collaborative art project through which students of University Highlands Elementary School explore their relation to each other and the land through natural dyeing and flower pressing. Sixty students collaborate over 8 sessions, with the help of guest mentor-artists Varsha Gill and Maria Preoteasa, as well as their own elementary teachers Cara Taylor and Christine Yee, and coordinated by Pietro Sammarco, the Gibson’s Curator of Learning.

Pictured here, Varsha led the students through rust dying, wrapping fabric tightly around found pieces of rusty rail spikes and chains to reveal warm reds and browns; and immersion dyeing, tying off various patterns and using marigold flowers to produce a bright yellow, and then using rust to shift some of their yellow squares to green. The students look forward to three more sessions with Varsha: ice dyeing, indigo dyeing, and bundle dyeing with flowers.

05/12/2026

Maggie Groat’s exhibition S LOWER F: ACTIVITY BOOK features interactive elements, such as this memory game.

Using her characteristic methods of analog collage and assemblage, Groat’s work experiments with familiar forms of visual games, including spot-the-difference, concentration, fill-in-the-blanks, dot-to-dot, the colouring sheet, and hidden images. The exhibition proposes open-ended rules of play, and invites imaginative interaction by visitors of all ages.

Groat’s proposed visual engagement with these images-as-games mirrors the methods of their creation, as collage involves an inherently slow yet playful process, and demands a rigorous kind of deep looking. The found images collected for S LOWER F: ACTIVITY BOOK highlights the artist’s persistent interest in locating matches, doubles, twins, mirrors, and imperfect symmetries as a kind of “glitch”, by sourcing and transforming a particular kind of twentieth century pre-internet era print media.

Check out S LOWER F: ACTIVITY BOOK at the Gibson till June 14th.

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8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC
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Tuesday	12pm - 5pm
Wednesday	12pm - 5pm
Thursday	12pm - 5pm
Friday	12pm - 5pm
Saturday	12pm - 5pm

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+17787829102

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https://gibson.sfu.ca/

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