Contemporary Art Gallery, Art gallery in Yaletown, Canada

Contemporary Art Gallery occupies the ground floor and mezzanine of a residential condominium at 555 Nelson Street, at the corner of Nelson and Richards on the edge of Yaletown. Designed by Martin Lewis and Noel Best, it opened in 2001 with two galleries: the 1,040-square-foot B.C. Binning Gallery and the 676-square-foot Alvin Balkind Gallery. Window vitrines on the façade add further exhibition space.

The gallery was founded in 1971, making it one of the longest-running spaces in Vancouver dedicated entirely to contemporary art. Over the decades it moved locations and expanded its program to keep pace with a growing local and national art scene.

The gallery's name changed with its role: founded in 1971 as the Greater Vancouver Artist's Gallery, it became artist-run in 1984 and an independent public gallery in 1996. Its reading room holds information on current and past exhibitions, and the Abraham Rogatnick Library on the second floor takes part in an international catalogue exchange with other galleries and museums, open to the public by appointment.

The gallery occupies the ground floor and mezzanine at 555 Nelson Street, at the corner of Nelson and Richards on the edge of Yaletown. The reading room beside reception holds information on current and past exhibitions, and the Abraham Rogatnick Library on the second floor is open to the public by appointment. Admission is free.

The gallery operates as a nonprofit, meaning it does not sell the work on display, which sets it apart from most commercial galleries in the city. This allows it to show work that might be less commercially driven and more focused on artistic questions.