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Gibson Art Museum 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 stewards 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 Galleriesā€™ curatorial staff, programming includes exhibitions, publications, symposia, conversations, screenings, performances, and other events. Collaborating with SFUā€™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, 12ā€“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 regionā€™s history of conceptual, social, and cultural practices. Located on Burnaby Mountain, SFU Galleryā€™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 Baxterā€™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, 12ā€“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 SFUā€™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 artistā€™s talks, public discussions, and screenings are organized parallel to the galleryā€™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.

In Here to Play: Variation for Sixteen Hands, play becomes a shared point of departure. For Raymond Boisjoly, Steven Bre...
10/20/2026

In Here to Play: Variation for Sixteen Hands, play becomes a shared point of departure. For Raymond Boisjoly, Steven Brekelmans, Amber Frid-Jimenez, Rodney Graham, Carole Itter, Khan Lee, Lauraine Mak, and Kathy Slade, it is variously taken up as a methodology, a material approach, or a mode of critique. Musicā€”whether playing it or playing around with the cultures and histories it generatesā€”threads itself through many of the works, as does a palpable wit and and irreverence toward any presumed ā€œrightā€ way of thinking.

Here to Play: Variation for Sixteen Hands is on at the Gibson now till February 14, 2027.

šŸ“ø all photos by Rachel Topham Photography Ltd.
Slide 1: Kathy Slade, Chart, 2006.
Slide 2: (Left to right) Steven Brekelmans, Kitbashing (Drums), 2006; Rodney Graham, 3 Musicians (members of the Early Music Group ā€œRenaissance Fareā€ performing Matteo of Perugiaā€™s Le greygnour bien at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver, Late September, 1977), 2006; and Khan Lee, Volume, 2026.
Slide 3: (Left to right) Khan Lee, Volume, 2026; Amber Frid-Jimenez, V ###X, 2020ā€“2023; Steven Brekelmans, Kitbashing (Drums), 2006; and Lauraine Mak, Perceptual Conundrum of the Repeated Image, 2026.
Slide 4: (Left to right) Kathy Slade, Alas, Poor YORICK!, 2002; Steven Brekelmans, Kitbashing (Drums), 2006; Rodney Graham, 3 Musicians (members of the Early Music Group ā€œRenaissance Fareā€ performing Matteo of Perugiaā€™s Le greygnour bien at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver, Late September, 1977), 2006; Khan Lee, Volume, 2026; and Amber Frid-Jimenez, V ###X, 2020ā€“2023.
Slide 5: (Left to right) Carole Itter, Table of Contents, c.1977ā€“1978; Steven Brekelmans, Kitbashing (Drums), 2006; and Kathy Slade, Alas, Poor YORICK!, 2002.
Slide 6: Khan Lee, Volume, 2026.
Slide 7: Lauraine Mak, Perceptual Conundrum of the Repeated Image, 2026.
Slide 8: 3 Musicians (members of the Early Music Group ā€œRenaissance Fareā€ performing Matteo of Perugiaā€™s Le greygnour bien at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver, Late September, 1977), 2006.
Slide 9: Raymond Boisjoly, The Writing Lesson, 2012.
Slide 10: Khan Lee, Bail, 2015.
Slide 11: Rodney Graham, Records, various years.

10/19/2026

New Sunday Workshop upcoming! šŸ¤©

Explore expressive large-scale drawing using ink, brushes, charcoal, and big sheets of paper with Liz Oakley Liz Oakley , the Gibsonā€™s Art Studio Lead. This workshop will be a space to loosen up, get messy, and follow your creative impulses.

How many people can use one brush at the same time? What happens when we draw with both hands at once? How will a drawing evolve as it passes through multiple hands? How many kinds of marks can we make by rolling, swinging, or throwing things at the page?

Missed out on this Sunday Workshop? Keep an eye out for the next oneā€”theyā€™re on the last Sunday of every month!

On Wednesday we welcomed Margaret Gallagher (Margaret Gallagher) of CBCā€™s North by Northwest to the Gibson to talk about...
10/16/2026

On Wednesday we welcomed Margaret Gallagher (Margaret Gallagher) of CBCā€™s North by Northwest to the Gibson to talk about our exhibition on Martin Bartlett, Begin Anywhere.

Composer-in-Residence Justin Devries (Justin Devries) demonstrated how Martinā€™s hand-built ā€œBlack Boxā€ synthesizer makes sound, and composer and musician Matt Rogalsky gave us a preview of the rarely heard Bartlett works heā€™ll perform here this Sunday, October 18 @ 2PM.

Listen to North by Northwest on CBC Radio tomorrow morning at 7:35am, or a recorded version uploaded afterwards thru the link in our bio šŸ“»šŸ”—ā˜ļø

Thank you to Lyndsay Pomerantz Lyndsay Pomerantz and everyone who came through the Gibson for Soupson yesterday! If you ...
10/16/2026

Thank you to Lyndsay Pomerantz Lyndsay Pomerantz and everyone who came through the Gibson for Soupson yesterday! If you missed it, donā€™t despair: round two is coming up for Thursday December 3 at noon. Free soup, all welcome, until the pot is empty. šŸ²šŸ²

Meet our Composers in Residence! šŸŽµFor the length of Martin Bartlett: Begin Anywhere, four Vancouver composers are workin...
10/15/2026

Meet our Composers in Residence! šŸŽµ

For the length of Martin Bartlett: Begin Anywhere, four Vancouver composers are working in the galleries with Bartlettā€™s hand-built modular synthesizer, the ā€œBlack Boxā€, and his rare Buchla 400 module. Theyā€™re making new works inspired by his legacy and the experimental and electronic music community that shaped this city.

Kiran Bhumber Kiran Bhumber is an interdisciplinary media artist whose spatial, multichannel compositions and interactive work explore sound, movement, and space.
Robyn Jacob Robyn Jacob is a composer, pianist, and vocalist whose work moves between contemporary classical music, avant-pop, and Indonesian musical traditions.
Andromeda Monk Andromeda Monk is an improviser and multi-instrumentalist working with feedback, synths, and electronic systems.
Justin Devries Justin Devries is a percussionist and historian who has spent more than seven years researching Bartlettā€™s life and work. He leads the residency.

More details on public programming will be announced as the residency unfolds. The composers will debut their new works in a public performance on the final day of the exhibition, February 14, 2027.

Generously supported by Arlene James, Coleen and Howard Nemtin, Martha and Ron Burnett, and other Friends of the Gibson.

šŸ“ø Slide 1: Courtesy Kiran Bhumber
Slide 2: Sewari Campillo, courtesy Robyn Jacob
Slide 3: Courtesy Andromeda Monk
Slide 4: Courtesy Justin Devries

Students from Roxanne Panchasiā€™s SFU History 391 course, Graphic Histories, recently visited the museum to explore the w...
10/14/2026

Students from Roxanne Panchasiā€™s SFU History 391 course, Graphic Histories, recently visited the museum to explore the work of Martin Bartlett.

After a tour of Begin Anywhere, students listened to Bartlettā€™s music and created visual responses inspired by what they heard. Their drawings were then shared, traced into symbols, rearranged, and performed as physical movements while the music played again, creating a unique feedback loop between listening, drawing, and movement.

Thanks to the class for spending the afternoon with us.

Educators: want to bring your class to the museum? We welcome post-secondary and K-12 groups, and you donā€™t need to be at SFU. Link in bio ā˜ļø

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10/14/2026

This Sunday October 18, please join us as composer, sound artist, and musicologist Matt Rogalsky performs a number of Martin Bartlett compositions, including the rarely-heard Gertrude Stein Songs (1975). Rogalsky will both play and sing with his own accompaniment using Bartlettā€™s Table of Pythagoras, a method of choosing microtonal pitchouts. Heā€™ll also speak about his experience working alongside Bartlett as an assistant in various capacities, reflect on Bartlettā€™s musical ideas, and offer a range of anecdotes (including the origins of the term ā€œooga moogaā€).

Find more info about this free event and RSVP at the link in our bio!

This Thursday, October 15th, at noon, Lyndsay Pomerantz (Lyndsay Pomerantz) will activate Soupson for the first time sin...
10/13/2026

This Thursday, October 15th, at noon, Lyndsay Pomerantz (Lyndsay Pomerantz) will activate Soupson for the first time since its inaugural presentation. Reflecting on the cultural lineages passed down through the women in her family, Pomerantz brings together her Thai maternal grandmother, Sangwian, whom she never met, and her Jewish grandmother, Joan, affectionately known as ā€œBubby,ā€ to create a soup that fosters relationships across generations and with those no longer present. This Soupson iteration is, in Pomerantzā€™s words, ā€œa collaboration with ghosts.ā€

Soupson will be activated October 15 and December 3, at 12PM each day. The soup is shared until the pot is empty. Everyone is welcome, and the soup is free.

Soupson is a mobile food cart and gathering site initiated by Germaine Koh for the inauguration of the Gibson Art Museum in September 2025.

Link in bio w/ directions, parking, accessibility ā˜ļø

Image courtesy of Lyndsay Pomerantz, 2026

Vancouver-based guitarist Madeleine Elkins writes intricate compositions at the crossroads of jazz, folk, and rock. Name...
10/09/2026

Vancouver-based guitarist Madeleine Elkins writes intricate compositions at the crossroads of jazz, folk, and rock. Named by The Vancouver Sun as one of ā€œ10 Vancouver music acts to watch in 2026,ā€ she has been described as ā€œone of the freshest and most variedā€ players in the city.

This concert, at SFU's Gibson Art Museum, is in support of "Here to Play", a mixed-media group show about how, and for whom, we spend our time.

For tickets and info: https://www.van-jazz.ca/events/madeleine-elkins

10/09/2026

The Gibson is officially one year old! And what a year itā€™s been. šŸŽ‚šŸŽˆ

An enormous thank you to all exhibiting artists, programme participants, community partners, visitors, and our dear supporters whoā€™ve helped us make this possible.

In our current time, meaningful learning depends ever more crucially upon human curiosity, imagination, direct engagement, and dialogue. The Gibson has become a place where these capacities are exercised every day, fostering experiences and encounters that encourage people not only to consume knowledge, but to question, interpret, and create it together.

We are so grateful for everything this first year has brought and we canā€™t wait to see what our next year brings! šŸ„³

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