Burnaby Art Gallery

Burnaby Art Gallery

Exterior facade of Burnaby Art Gallery in 2012
Established	1967 (1967)
Location	6344 Deer Lake Avenue Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Coordinates	49°14′28″N 122°58′17″W / 49.2410°N 122.9713°W / 49.2410; -122.9713
Type	Art museum
Director	Jennifer Cane
Chairperson	Lauren Lavery
Architect	Robert Percival Sterling Twizell
Owner	City of Burnaby
Website	www.burnaby.ca/things-to-do/arts-and-heritage/burnaby-art-gallery.html

The Burnaby Art Gallery (abbreviated as BAG) is an art museum in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The museum is located on the northern periphery of Deer Lake Park, situated off of Deer Lake Avenue. The museum occupies Fairacres Mansion, designated as a historic site by the municipal and provincial governments.

The institution was established in 1967 by the Burnaby Art Society, who partnered with the City of Burnaby to exhibit its collection in the publicly owned Fairacres Mansion. The association continued to manage the museum until 1998, when the municipal government of Burnaby assumed control of the museum's collection, operations and governance.

The museum's permanent collection holds more than 6,500 artworks. It is the only public art collection in Canada dedicated to works on paper.^[1]

Scope of operation

Established in 1967, the Burnaby Art Gallery is dedicated to collecting, preserving and presenting a contemporary and historical visual art program by local, national and internationally recognized artists.

The Burnaby Art Gallery manages a collection of over 6,500 works on paper, primarily created by Canadian artists. The collection is unique in its specialization and is the only public collection devoted to works on paper in Canada. Highlights include substantial holdings by Anna Wong, Ernest Stephen Lumsden, Jack Shadbolt, Takao Tanabe, Susan Point, Gordon A. Smith, BC Binning, Roy Henry Vickers, Laurence Hyde, Gathie Falk, Sylvia Tait, Ann Kipling, and Alistair Bell.

The Burnaby Art Gallery has organized and hosted numerous temporary and travelling exhibitions.

• 4th National Print Show (1967)
• Feather Power (1971)
• Due West (1972)
• Mystic Circle (1973)
• Traces: Claude Breeze, Gathie Falk, Brian Fisher, D'arcy Henderson, Reg Holmes, Glenn Lewis, David Mayrs, Michael Morris, Gary Lee-Nova, Bodo Pfeifer, N.E.Thing Co. (1973)
• Douglas J. Cardinal: Architect (1978)
• Northwest Renaissance (1980)
• In the Beginning was the Word: Dutch, Prussian and Russian Mennonite Manuscripts in North American Collections (1983)
• Northern Exposure: Inuit Images of Travel (1986)
• A Quarter Century of Collecting (1992)
• Counterpoint: The Prints of Jack Shadbolt (1996)
• New Media: Artwork from the 60s and 70s in Vancouver (2002)
• Ernest S. Lumsden (2003)
• Shirley Bear: Wibhun (2007)
• Aganetha Dyck: Collaborations (2009)
• Gordon Smith: The Printed Pictures (2010)
• The Solitudes of Place: Recent Drawings by Ann Kipling (2011)
• Micah Lexier: Working as a Drawing (2012)
• Terrance Houle: National Indian Leg Wrestling League of North America (2012)
• Chronicles of Form and Place: Works on Paper by Takao Tanabe(2012)
• Gathie Falk: Paperworks (2014)
• Eli Bornowsky: All is Unmentionable, Up in the Air (2014)
• Tania Willard: dissimulation (2017)
• The Ornament of a House: 50 Years of Collecting (2017)
• Sylvia Tait: Journey (2018)
• Anna Wong: Traveller on Two Roads (2018-2021, touring)
• Gary Lee-Nova: Oblique Trajectories (2021)
• Lyse Lemieux: Trespassers/Intrus (2021)

See also

• Burnaby Village Museum, also in Deer Lake Park

References