A list of current PAARC Members.
For information on how to join PAARC, see our About page.
221A
221A works with artists and designers to research and develop social, cultural and ecological infrastructure.
Vancouver
Access Gallery
Access Gallery is a platform for emergent and experimental art practices. We enable critical conversations and risk taking through new configurations of audience, artists and community.
Vancouver
Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
Alternator artist run-centre is a welcoming site for radical art-making and community-building. We have two primary goals: First, we seek to provide support and resources to emerging and alternative artists in the Okanagan region; Second, we seek to inspire our members as well as the broader community by showcasing local, national, and international work that is engaged in its social context and that disturbs and transcends dominant constructions of art, identity, and value.
Kelowna
Arnica Open Studio & Gallery
Founded in 2003, Arnica Artist Run Centre Society is a not-for-profit gallery that provides a supportive environment for emerging contemporary artists. The Society is part of a Canada-wide network of artist-run centres. Arnica provides exhibition space for contemporary art that is dynamic, innovative and thoughtful. It also serves as a safe space for artists to research and develop new work. Arnica helps keep emerging artists in our city and adds to the cultural mix of Kamloops.
Kamloops
Arts Assembly
Arts Assembly is a not for profit community-centric arts organization that emphasizes artistic collaboration. With a focus on social practices and research, we aim to foster relationships between the community and professional artists. We hope to expand the notion of what art can be and do, and provide a high calibre of diverse and inclusive arts programming.
Vancouver
Artspeak
Artspeak is a non-profit artist run centre established in 1986. The mandate of the gallery is to exhibit contemporary art and to encourage a dialogue between visual art and writing. Artspeak actively contributes to cultural communities through our commitment to artists producing challenging, innovative work in diverse media, our affiliation with like-minded organizations, and the public interest we generate in contemporary art.
Vancouver
Fillip
Fillip is a Vancouver-based publishing organization that was formed in 2004 to expand spaces for critical discussions on contemporary art.
Vancouver
Gallery Gachet
Vancouver
grunt gallery
grunt is an artist-run-centre founded in 1984 with a mandate to support the emergence of innovative, collaborative, & provocative contemporary art.
Vancouver
Malaspina Printmakers Society
Malaspina is a non-profit artist-run centre that advances education, promotes excellence in the art form, and increases the public’s understanding and appreciation of contemporary art and print media.
Vancouver
Or Gallery
The Or Gallery is an artist-run centre committed to exhibiting work by local, national, and international artists whose art practice is of a critical, conceptual and/or interdisciplinary nature. Since its inception in 1983 the gallery has acted as a space for research, proposition making, conceptual experimentation and documentation.
Vancouver
Other Sights for Artists’ Projects Association
Incorporated as a non-profit society in 2005, Other Sights operates as a collective of Vancouver-based individuals with expertise in curation, project management, presentation, delivery and promotion of temporary art projects in public spaces. Other Sights seeks to create a presence for art in spaces and sites that are accessible to a broad public, such as the built environment, communications technologies, the media, and the street. Working collaboratively, Other Sights presents artworks, publications, events and programs that consider the aesthetic, economic and regulatory conditions of public places and public life.
Vancouver
Oxygen Art Centre
Oxygen Art Centre is an artist-run multidisciplinary centre that provides space and programming for artists and the public to engage in the creation, study, exhibition and performance of contemporary art in all disciplines. It is one of only a handful of rural Artist Run Centres in British Columbia, and is located in the City of Nelson in the Kootenays, in South Eastern B.C.
Nelson
Rungh
Rungh is a Canadian multidisciplinary space for creative explorations, featuring work by Indigenous, Black and People of Colour artists. Comprising of a magazine, programming, archive, advocacy and more, Rungh is committed to Canada-wide conversations by and about people of colour. Rungh questions and challenges ideas about diversity in the Canadian cultural landscape.
Vancouver
The James Black Gallery
As a queer-led arts and culture hub, the JBG remains responsive to the ever shifting needs of our community by amplifying the voices of emerging and early career artists, providing space for experimental multidisciplinary art practices, and nurturing community connection.
Vancouver
UNIT/PITT
UNIT/PITT Society for Art & Critical Awareness (formerly the Helen Pitt Gallery) is a non-profit charitable artist-run organization that supports art and critical awareness by offering the tools, space, resources, and mentorship for emerging artists and members of our neighbouring Chinatown and Downtown Eastside communities to engage in experimental creative work that advances a more expansive, inclusive reality for art and cultural production.
Vancouver
VIVO Media Arts Centre
VIVO Media Arts Centre is a steward of critical media history and an agent for emergent experimental media arts practices. Our programs foster formal and critical approaches, and reflect the diversity of contemporary technologies and communities that coalesce around new forms of knowledge and creativity. VIVO builds an engaged audience through workshops, production support, distribution, artist residencies, workshops, performances, exhibitions and curatorial and archival research.
Vancouver
BLAC
BLAC’s mandate is to support local Black artists, and to provide a platform through which their artistry can be shared, and to offer a space which encourages experimentation, criticality, and Black Futures.
Surrey
Hammock Residency
Hammock Residency is a mad- and disability-led artist residency program committed to creating meaningful inclusion and accessibility in art by listening to artists and meeting them on their own terms.
Vancouver