Category: Exhibitions
Preserves: Prepared for Future Use
November 7 to December 6, 2015 Preserves: Prepared for Future Use is a community exhibition project exploring the development of Kelowna and the history and memories of the people who have shaped it. As Kelowna becomes a high-tech hub, and as the wine industry flourishes, the region’s multicultural history is at…
Aunaray Clusiau: Sea Song
November 9, 2015 to May 9, 2016 at the Kelowna International Airport Click image for a larger version. Photo by Kyle L. Poirier Peachland-based artist Aunaray Clusiau will be producing our next commission at our satellite space at the Kelowna International Airport. Without making specific reference to Okanagan Lake, Clusiau will…
Valerie Rogers: Lift Off and Soar
May 11 to November 9, 2015 at the Kelowna International Airport (click image for larger version) Valerie Rogers is a highly-skilled wildlife artist who lives and works in Salmon Arm, BC. She has trained with several professional artists and has won numerous awards for her work. Her installation at the…
Elizabeth D’Agostino: Makeshift
September 26, 2015 to January 10, 2016 Elizabeth D’Agostino, Deer with Podsack (detail), 2015, mixed media. For her solo show in the Reynolds Gallery space, Toronto-based printmaker Elizabeth D’Agostino plans to have prints created by a combination of etching, screen print and collage wrapping around the room. Additionally, she is…
Landon Mackenzie: Parallel Journey: Works on Paper (1975-2015)
October 24, 2015 to January 17, 2016 Landon Mackenzie, Paris Looking North, 2009, watercolour on paper, 19.6 x 26.6 cm. Collection of the artist. Photo: Yuri Akuney, Digital Perfections. Landon Mackenzie is a nationally known, Vancouver-based artist, admired for her large-scale works with paint on canvas. Less known are…
Jeroen Witvliet: Wayfarer
July 25 to October 18, 2015 Jeroen Witvliet, The Tower (Wayfarer series), 2014, oil on canvas, 70 x 79 in. (180 x 200 cm). The title of Victoria, BC-based artist Jeroen Witvliet’s solo exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery is taken from a painting he knows well, created in c.…
The Artist’s Garden Project: Pieces of What
May 2015 to April 2016 The third in our new series of commissioned artist’s gardens. Vernon-based artists Carolina Sanchez de Bustamante and her son Maxwell Sterry teamed up to create this year’s installation in our Artist’s Garden Project. This year’s artist’s garden installation is about the environment and our threatened planet. The…
Mapping Me In …
July 4 to September 20, 2015 The Kelowna Art Gallery’s One on One series is curated every spring by an emerging Canadian First Nations curator who selects an emerging Canadian First Nations artist to work with. Each exhibition will be accompanied by a web-based publication. This year the Kelowna Art…
A Story of Canadian Art
As Told by the Hart House Art Collection May 9 to July 19, 2015 Charles Comfort, Young Canadian, 1932, watercolour on paper, 92 x 107.3 cm. Hart House Art Collection, University of Toronto. The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased and honoured to be a venue this summer for this important touring…
Ron Shuebrook: Drawings
March 7 to April 26, 2015 This solo show focusing on abstract charcoal drawings by nationally known senior Canadian artist Ron Shuebrook has been organized and circulated by the Thames Art Gallery in Chatham, Ontario, in collaboration with the Macdonald-Stewart Art Centre in Guelph, Ontario, the Mount Saint Vincent University…
Mitch Mitchell: For Whom You Build
Mitch Mitchell, For Whom You Build, 2015, silkscreen on 15,000 handmade paper boxes, installed on a shipping pallet. April 11 to June 28, 2015 Printmaker Mitch Mitchell was the prizewinner in the 2012 incarnation of the Okanagan Printmaking Triennial, a collaborative project of the Kelowna Art Galley with the UBCO…
Art in Action 2015
Ink Belly: Printmaking at UBCO
The Front project space March 14 to April 12, 2015 Sage Sidley, Can’t Even, 2014, monotype print, 8 x 10 in. The Kelowna Art Gallery and the University of British Columbia Okanagan are pleased to present this exhibition of prints created by UBCO printmaking students. Printmaking at the University of…
Pete Smith: New Frontier
Pete Smith, bcc-3878, 2014, oil on canvas, 48 x 72 in. (121.9 x 182.8 cm) January 17 to April 5, 2015 This solo show continues the Kelowna Art Gallery’s ongoing look at the practice of painting in the hands of some of Canada’s leading contemporary artists. Pete Smith is an…
A Terrible Beauty: Edward Burtynsky in Dialogue with Emily Carr
January 10 to March 1, 2015 Edward Burtynsky, Oil Fields #18, Belridge, California, USA, 2003, chromogenic print, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Gift of the Artist, © Edward Burtynsky, Courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary Emily Carr, Loggers’ Culls, 1935, oil on canvas, Collection of the…
Bring out your Best: Members’ Exhibition
December 13, 2014 to January 25, 2015 Scroll down for more exhibition images. The Kelowna Art Gallery is pleased to once again present our annual members’ show this December. Our members play a very important role in the gallery’s continued success, and this is our opportunity to recognize and celebrate the…
Gary Spearin: iNifiNiTi
October 4, 2014 to January 11, 2015 Ontario-based artist Gary Spearin began his iNifiNiTi project in 2007, and it continues to grow. iNifiNiTi is a large series of twenty-four-by-twenty-inch-sized oil-on-canvas paintings. Each one is more-or-less abstract in nature, but may contain shapes, repeated lines or patterns, which create images that…
Johann Wessels: Side Show
November 3, 2014 to May 11, 2015 click image for larger version For his commission at the Kelowna International Airport, Penticton-based artist Johann Wessels has conceived of a caravan of wheeled carts or wagons, reminiscent of a travelling carnival. He calls his installation Side Show, and thinks of his…



