Wil Aballe

Founded in 2013 in Vancouver, Wil Aballe exhibits local and international, emerging and established artists. Our program consists of interdisciplinary, concept-oriented and space-based contemporary art exhibitions. The gallery’s origins are nomadic, having shifted into distinctly different locations (an open-concept apartment, a spare warehouse, a basement in a historical building that dates back to the gold-rush era, and a storefront) since conception. Wil Aballe now operates permanently on Vancouver’s Granville Island.

In addition to our core programming of exhibitions in Vancouver, the gallery presents work internationally in Brussels, New York, Mexico. We are dedicated to commissioning text from writers and academics who respond to each exhibition, and contribute to contemporary art criticism and discourse. The gallery’s publications have been collected by the KANAL – Centre Pompidou, and our artists have been placed in significant national and international collections such as the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, The Bunker, and the Rennie Collection.

Our curatorial foundation is built on Vancouver’s critical lineages in art history, as well as the conceptual practices which have been in development in the city since the 1960s. The gallery aims to foster contemporary art discourse, supporting artists, writers and curators within the larger art community in Vancouver and internationally.