The Vancouver Art Gallery has made a few recent acquisitions for its ever-growing collection, including works by several Vancouver-based artists and a handful of international artists.

Geoffrey Farmer, a Vancouver-based artist who was recently selected to represent Vancouver at the Venice Biennale in 2017, donated his ongoing piece, Look in my face; my name is Might-have been; I am also called No-more, Too late, Farewell, which he began in 2010. The piece, which is a computer-generated montage of images and sounds compiled before the advent of the Internet, is said to evoke "a sense of loss around the past". It was previously exhibited at the VAG in the summer of 2015. 

Mumbai-based artist Reena Saini Kallat donated her piece, Woven Chronicle, a site-specific installation created for the Gallery's offsite location outside the Shangri La Hotel, which was displayed there this past summer. Hand woven out of electrical wires to depict a map of the world, the piece offers commentary on the various paths of human migration. This is the first piece of Kallat's work to be acquired by the VAG.

Two works by Kwakwaka’wakw artist Sonny Assu have also been added to the VAG's collection. Leila's Desk and Inherent are both sculptures that take the form of a school desk, but have been subtly altered by the artist to represent encounters with racism in the Canadian school system experienced by both Assu and his grandmother. 

Montreal and Vancouver-based Collen Heslin's large scale painting, Tabby Cat, is the first piece of her work to be added to the gallery's collection. The painting uses stitched-together dyed fabrics and incorporates elements of cubism, abstract expressionism, quilting and collage.

Five Mark Ruwedel photographs from his ongoing series Crossing were gifted to the gallery by Corrine Corry. The Los Angeles-based photographer's works depict relic-laden landscapes, fossils, and the remains of industrial and individual ambition. 

In addition, works by Canadian and international artists Kim Kennedy Austin, Kate Craig and Eric Metcalfe, Barbara Ess, Gathie Falk, Isabelle Hayeur, Al McWilliams, Ayumi Minemura and Stephen Prina, Barbara Probst, Evelyn Roth, Lawrence Weiner, and Johannes Wohnseifer have also been added to the VAG's collection. Toronto art collectors Ann and Marshall Webb also donated a total of 16 works. 

The Vancouver Art Gallery plans to dedicate a total of 40,000 square feet of its new building to showcasing this collection.