SFU Galleries

Simon Fraser University's art galleries are dynamic centres for the presentation and interrogation of art practices and ideas. There are two distinct galleries: SFU Gallery on the Burnaby campus (established 1970) and Audain Gallery at the Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in Vancouver (established 2010). SFU Galleries stewards the Simon Fraser University Art Collection that includes, in its holdings of over 5,800 works, significant regional and national art works spanning the last century.

Simon Fraser University is known for its commitment to academic freedom, interdisciplinary research, and innovative pedagogy, and it has created opportunities for important local and international artists to exhibit, teach, study, and produce work. Within this context, SFU Galleries encourage conceptual and experimental programs that explore ways in which contemporary art is socially and politically engaged. 

Situated in Vancouver and Burnaby, SFU Galleries occupies the unceded territories of xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaɬ, and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm Nations. Acknowledging that the activities of SFU Galleries unfold on colonized Indigenous territories is both a recognition that settler colonialism is an ongoing structure and a commitment to support the capacity of art to unsettle these conditions.

Undertaken by SFU Galleries’ curatorial staff, programming includes exhibitions, publications, symposia, conversations, screenings, performances, and other events. Collaborating with SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, Audain Gallery hosts exhibitions with Audain Visual Artists in Residence Program as well as BFA and MFA student exhibitions. SFU Galleries engage the general public and the art community as well as the SFU community. All galleries are free of charge.