Collection
The permanent collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery has just over 700 works of art as of 2010. The majority of pieces in the collection are by contemporary Canadian artists, with a small number of historical Canadian pieces. Most works have been offered to us as gifts, but there has been some modest purchasing, assisted by people’s donations of monies, and grants from the Central Okanagan Foundation and the Canada Council.
The Gallery has the goal of organizing an exhibition centered around the permanent collection every few years. The most recent of these was Constructions of Identity in the fall of 2010. A collecting priority statement was drawn up by the curator with approval by the Acquisitions Committee in 2008. Currently we are largely focused on improving our holdings of work by important local artists.
The Gallery is currently engaged in a project to digitize images of the permanent collection works, and mount the details on the collection onto a national research database hosted by the Canadian Heritage Information Network (a unit of the Department of Canadian Heritage). We would also like to have the collection accessible via our own website.
Past exhibitions featuring works from the Permanent Collection
Constructions of Identity
Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery
October 9 to December 12, 2010
The Okanagan Tree
July 24 to September 26, 2010
NEXUS: Histories and Communities
An exhibition of works from the permanent collection of the Kelowna Art Gallery in celebration of the gallery’s thirtieth anniversary.
December 1, 2007 to March 2, 2008
On View: Selections from our Recent Acquisitions
six artists | sixteen works | one hot show
June 16 to September 9, 2007
