Capture Photography Festival unveils 2026 selected exhibitions
Marian Penner Bancroft, Angela Grossmann, Vance Wright, Maya Fuhr, and Simranpreet Anand among names showing at galleries and museums around town
Claude Zervas, Nooksack Middle Fork, 2015, four-channel video installation, included in the exhibition Parallax(e): Perspectives on the Canada–U.S. Border / Perspectives sur la frontière Canada–É.-U. Photo courtesy of the Washington State Arts Commission
William Dekur, Grouse 22 “Labatt's 79”, 1979, inkjet print. Photo NVMA No. 218 from the Museum & Archives of North Vancouver - MONOVA Collection
CAPTURE PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL has just unveiled the exhibitions selected for its 2026 edition, taking place April 1 to 30 at a variety of Lower Mainland venues.
This year’s gallery and museum exhibitions were chosen by Capture’s executive director and chief curator Emmy Lee Wall, alongside a jury made up of Toronto’s Rui Mateus Amaral, artistic director of the Museum of Contemporary Art; Vancouver’s Rebecca Bair, an artist and assistant professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design; and Toronto’s R. Stuart Keeler, chief curator of TD Bank Art & Heritage Collections.
Two group exhibitions are already on view. Parallax(e): Perspectives on the Canada–U.S. Border / Perspectives sur la frontière Canada–É.-U, at The Reach Gallery Museum until May 30, displays 19th-century archival materials alongside sculptures, photographs, installations, and new-media works by both contemporary Indigenous and settler artists. And over at the Chinese Canadian Museum, Montréal Chinois: The Lost Decades / Les décennies perdues Photography 1945–1960s shows the rarely seen images of five self-taught Chinese Canadian photographers until May 10.
MONOVA: Museum of North Vancouver will present the group exhibition Adventures in Grouse Mountain for the majority of this year, from February 4 to December 6. A series of archival photos will show the resort’s evolution over time in honour of its 100-year anniversary in 2026.
A variety of other selected exhibitions will launch prior to Capture’s main dates. Among them is Ba’oya Hubuk’esi; I Love Them By the Edge, an exploration of queer Indigenous intimacy by 2-Spirit artist Vance Wright of the Tl’azt’en Nation, at the Or Gallery from January 22 to May 26.
Rashi Sethi’s Hair Braiding (Cinemagraph), 2025, 16mm film projection, showing at James Black Gallery as part of the Capture Photography Festival. Photo courtesy of the artist
March brings the opening of Karen Zalamea: Every Surface is a Shrine at the Art Gallery at Evergreen from March 7 to May 24; Marian Penner Bancroft: Long Story at the West Vancouver Art Museum from March 14 to May 2; and Reave Dennison: Tree Work at Pale Fire from March 19 to May 9. Then there’s Sharyn Yuen: Suspended in Time at McGill Library (a Burnaby Art Gallery Offsite location) from March 25 to July 7; Gerri York: A Wolf is not a Dog at THIS Gallery from March 27 to April 12;, and Rashi Sethi’s Between Stillness and Motion at James Black Gallery from March 27 to April 10. The latter venue will also host Dave Rodden-Shortt’s Endlings from April 16 to 30.
Certain exhibitions will be on view just for the duration of the festival. Those include Poiēsis Collective’s Aftertaste at Pendulum Gallery and Makito Inomata’s Domesticated Objects at Artrageous Pictures and Framing, both hosted from April 1 to 30. Fei Disbrow: Quietly Palpable will be at Gallery Jones from April 4 to 25, while Pull Them in Close | Se Tenir Proche will feature the work of Claudia Goulet-Blais and Michelle Caron-Pawlowsky at Alliance Française Vancouver from April 8 to May 5. More offerings span Tannaz Saatchi’s Through Tangled Threads at Media Res Gallery from April 18 to May 2; Wes Bell: Snag at the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery from April 15 to May 18; and Maya Fuhr: SOLE PARTS at Equinox Gallery from April 9 to May 10.
Simranpreet Anand’s Softness in the Sikh Home, 2024, embroidered framed photographs. Photo by Erin Kirkland of Michigan Photography, courtesy of the artist
Also at Equinox Gallery is the work of Angela Grossmann and Eadweard Muybridge from April 15 to May 16. Then there’s Patryk Stasieczek: for that gob casts the image at Wil Aballe from April 17 to May 24, and the group exhibition Experiments in Photography: Image and Object at CityScape Community ArtSpace from April 17 to May 23.
Four exhibitions will be on display for an extended period of time after the festival wraps. From April 11 to June 13, the artist-run Chinatown studio Canton-sardine 沙甸鹹水埠 will present Steven Dragonn: Vancouver may never be poetics between Montparnasse and Mongkok. The Richmond Art Gallery will host two exhibitions, the multimedia confessional-style I Digress and Japanese collective SIDE CORE’s under city, from April 18 to July 5. And The Polygon Gallery will put on Simranpreet Anand: Living with the Eternal from April 17 to August 23.
To browse an interactive map of all the exhibitions in store and learn more about the artists whose works will be featured, take a look at the Capture website. 
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