Past Events

Mar 19 – Apr 24, 2026 Kinship, a group exhibition of six Vancouver-based trans and gender-diverse ceramic artists curated by Jai Sallay-Carrington, runs March 19 through April 24, 2026. With Kinship, figurative ceramic practices become a means of grappling with queer and trans embodiment in all its complexity. Showcasing work by Rojina Farrokhnejad, Pedram Penhan, Cat Hart, Danya Gorodetsky, Felix Thomas, and … Continue reading "Kinship"

May 7 – 29, 2026 Jay Cabalu’s solo exhibition, hyperfiXation, excavates his obsession with consumption and the exploitation of beauty in manufactured magazine images. Through a selection of hand-cut collages that employ scopophilia (taking pleasure in looking), he demonstrates how capitalism fabricates consent and compliance to material culture. Join us for an opening reception on … Continue reading "hyperfiXation — Jay Cabalu"

Jan 22 – Feb 27, 2026 SUM gallery’s first exhibition of 2026, Gender Mutual brings together six trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming artists — Liam Murley, Taliruq, Dee Twentee, Paige Bowman, Addison Finch, and curator-artist Jamie Lauder — whose practices illuminate the deeply personal, expansive, and often nonlinear journeys of living beyond the gender binary. Following a month-long residency at SUM gallery, the exhibition foregrounds … Continue reading "Gender Mutual"

Dec 17 – Jan 14, 2026 We’re pleased to welcome our first artist in residence of 2026 Deon Feng to SUM gallery, Dec 17 – Jan 14, 2026. Join us on Saturday, January 10 for a special SUM gallery Open House event, Service Surface. Inspired by the artist’s personal experience working at a Chinese restaurant in Paris, Service Surface is the … Continue reading "Artist-in-Residence: Deon Feng"

Sept 13 – Oct 15, 2025 SUM gallery is excited to continue our SUM-AiR (SUM gallery Artist-in-Residence) program with interdisciplinary artist Makoto Chi. Beginning September 13, Makoto joins us for a month-long residency in advance of his solo exhibition at SUM gallery, opening October 16, presented in partnership with Powell Street Festival Society. Welcome, Makoto!  … Continue reading "SUM AiR — Makoto Chi"

Morrow | 910 Richards Street, Suite 204Sept 4 – 7, 2025 in the wake of a sleeping machine is an ensemble work researching the relationship between collective movement patterns, light, colour, and interactive soft sculptures to architect, refract, and transform space and time. Expressing the vitality of community connection that challenges the consumption-driven, individualist system we … Continue reading "Shion Skye Carter — in the wake of a sleeping machine (vol. 1)"

Sept 12 – Oct 25, 2025 For the first time ever, SUM gallery is expanding our activities to the Okanagan, thanks to a partnership with Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art in Kelowna! We’re proud to be a part of their Shapeshifters exhibition, curated by Carmen Levy-Milne. In this exhibition, the collaborative artist trio Kendell Yan, Chris Reed, … Continue reading "SHAPESHIFTERS — Curated by Carmen Levy-Milne | Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna"

Sept 26 – Oct 5, 2025 We’re so happy to be a community partner for THIS Gallery‘s upcoming exhibition: a solo show by our very own Babe Siegl!    Babe Siegl’s Dark Wreath merges digital precision with the tactile richness of oil painting to explore the complexities of queer identity in a digital age. His surreal, vividly chromatic compositions … Continue reading "DARK WREATH — Babe Siegl | THIS Gallery"

October 2 – 12th, 2025 Queer Arts Festival and SUM gallery is proud to be a community partner with VIFF once again for a selection of films; Edhi Alice: Take and Assembly. Edhi Alice: Take | Oct 4th, 5th Kim Ilrhan’s documentary takes an unconventional form, as befits a work about two brave souls defying … Continue reading "QAF + VIFF"

Oct 16 – Dec 6, 2025 Using materials as disparate as Sumi ink, blood, and spit, Makoto Chi creates images of yokai and golems as an exploration of queerness, myth, and cultural heritage. Twelve new pieces, presented kakejiku-style throughout SUM gallery, complement a mural painted directly onto the gallery’s east wall. Join us for the … Continue reading "An Auspicious Beast — Makoto Chi"

Gallery Exhibition | Drag & Burlesque Performances | Spoken Word Celebration August 1st is Emancipation Day and we’re celebrating with a week of events at SUM gallery!What is Emancipation Day, you ask? It’s the day in 1834 when the Slavery Abolition Act came into effect across the British Empire. We’re partnering with our friends at … Continue reading "Emancipation Day — FREE Events at SUM Gallery"

Apr 16 – Jun 6, 2025 Unsavoury Witness is a photo-based installation that includes laser-engraved photographs, photographic murals, intermedia, print media, and court transcripts from the Supreme Court of British Columbia on the 2001 murder of Aaron Webster in Stanley Park. This immersive exhibition foregrounds homophobia’s intimate connections with public spaces, institutionalised systems, societal responses, … Continue reading "Unsavoury Witness — Alejandro A. Barbosa"