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The Polygon Gallery Grounded in photography, The Polygon Gallery creates space to challenge how we see the world.

The Polygon is one of Canada’s most acclaimed photography and media art galleries. The Gallery moved into its Governor General’s Medal winning building in 2017 after operating as Presentation House Gallery for 40 years. The organization has presented more than 300 exhibitions, and earned a reputation as one of Canada’s most adventurous public art institutions.

This weekend is your final chance to see James Harry's Eye of the Ancestor. ⁠⁠This new sculpture by James Harry marks Th...
10/16/2026

This weekend is your final chance to see James Harry's Eye of the Ancestor. ⁠
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This new sculpture by James Harry marks The Polygon Gallery’s seventh collaboration and co-commission with Burrard Arts Foundation. Eye of the Ancestor is a striking yellow cedar wooden sphere, carved with Coast Salish designs on the surface and holding a mirror-polished steel sphere inside. The composition creates layered reflections and viewpoints that shift with the viewer’s movements around the sculpture. The title is rooted in Coast Salish visual language, where the eye signifies awareness, presence, and continuity beyond the individual. The sculpture constructs this form as an immersive spatial system, transforming the eye into structure, threshold, and interior. Through calibrated light, reflection, and movement, the work enacts Indigenous pedagogies in material form, situating knowledge as relational, layered, and revealed over time.⁠
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About James Harry⁠
James Nexw’Kalus-Xwalacktun Harry is a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh artist living and working in shíshálh Nation territory. Raised in a family of artists, he learned Salish design and carving from his father Xwalacktun and later completed his BFA at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. His practice draws deeply on ancestral knowledge while challenging the systemic structures that have long marginalized Indigenous voices. Through collaborations with cities, developers, architects, and institutions, Harry embeds Indigenous leadership and worldview into contemporary environments by envisioning a bold, immersive, land-based future for Coast Salish art where culture is not simply represented, but actively shapes the world being built.⁠
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Curated by Elliott Ramsey and Joelle Johnston⁠
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Presented by⁠
The Audain Foundation⁠
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The seventh in a ten-year commissioning program of new public artworks installed at The Polygon Gallery, in collaboration with the Burrard Arts Foundation.⁠
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Generously Supported by⁠
Terrence and Lisa Turner⁠
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Photos by Akeem Nermo

10/14/2026
Our Halloween Party on Saturday, October 31 is halfway to being sold out.The price of general admission tickets will go ...
10/09/2026

Our Halloween Party on Saturday, October 31 is halfway to being sold out.

The price of general admission tickets will go up soon as well.

Get acquainted with the evening’s talent and secure your discounted tickets at:

halloween.thepolygon.ca

It'll be a workout you'll never forget!

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101 Carrie Cates Court
North Vancouver, BC
V7M3J4

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Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

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