What does it mean to belong? How do art, memory, nature, and movement shape the way we experience the world around us?
This summer, the City of Port Coquitlam invites you to explore these questions through a new season of free visual art exhibitions running June through September 2026. Local and regional artists will present fresh, inspiring work across four civic gallery spaces: the Michael Wright Art Gallery, the Outlet Gallery, the City Hall Gallery, and the Port Coquitlam Community Centre Gallery.
This season's exhibitions explore identity, migration, cultural continuity, community, heritage, environmental awareness, and reverence for nature, reflecting the vital role the arts play in the life of our community.
Opening Reception
Thursday, June 25, 2026 | 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Michael Wright Art Gallery, Gathering Place (#200-2253 Leigh Square)
Meet the artists and enjoy live music by Itamar Erez Duo and refreshments sponsored by Patina Brewing. Free. All are welcome.
Featured Exhibitions
Night is Purer Than Day by Ketty Haolin Zhang | Michael Wright Art Gallery
This ongoing painting series explores Zhang's experience as a 1.5-generation immigrant living between cultures. Drawing from digital snapshots of her life, the works portray nightlife as a space between the familiar and the unknown, where intimacy, uncertainty, closeness, and distance coexist. Through saturated colour and sharp contrast, the exhibition reflects on belonging, assimilation, and non-belonging as a form of sovereignty.
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Botaniqa Nusantara by Adam Mohamed | Outlet Gallery
This contemporary visual art exhibition reimagines botanical imagery through a modern, Southeast Asian batik-inspired lens. Using acrylic painting and mixed media, Mohamed translates traditional motifs and cultural memory into bold, stylized compositions that reflect on identity, migration, heritage, and cultural continuity.
My Favourite Moments by Alexander Lecce | City Hall Gallery
Featuring acrylic paintings based on real-life references from Port Moody, Coquitlam, and Port Coquitlam, this exhibition celebrates local landmarks, history, nature, and personal growth. Lecce transforms his own photographs into vivid canvases that blend imagination, community, and heritage.
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Frozen Light by Jordan Nobles | Port Coquitlam Community Centre Gallery
Created during an artist residency aboard the tall ship Antigua in the High Arctic, this photographic series captures Arctic sunlight refracted through ancient glacial ice. Printed on aluminum using high-definition dye-sublimation, the large-format works appear luminous and immersive, reflecting themes of time, environmental awareness, and reverence for nature.
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For more information about the exhibitions, including artist interviews and artwork images, visit portcoquitlam.ca/exhibitions. To learn more about the artists, visit their websites below. Visit Our Galleries The City Hall, Michael Wright, Outlet, and Port Coquitlam Community Centre galleries feature a rotating program of exhibitions by talented local and regional artists. All galleries are free to the public.
For general inquiries about arts, culture, and heritage programs visit portcoquitlam.ca/arts or call 604-927-8440.
