Walter Phillips Gallery, Contemporary art museum at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada

The Walter Phillips Gallery is an art museum at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity that displays paintings, sculptures, photographs, textiles, ceramics, and digital installations across multiple exhibition spaces. The collections change regularly to showcase different artistic approaches and media forms.

The Walter Phillips Gallery was formally established at The Banff Centre on August 3, 1976, with a mandate to collect and exhibit Canadian and international contemporary art. It is named after Walter J. Phillips, a printmaker and painter active from the 1930s to the 1950s who played a seminal role in developing the visual arts program at The Banff School of Fine Arts. The gallery soon became known for a contemporary art program that championed curatorial innovation and emerging forms such as video and performance.

The gallery presents works by Canadian and international artists exploring current topics through painting, sculpture, photography, and installation art. You can see how contemporary creators respond to what matters to people today.

The museum is located on the grounds of Banff Centre in central Banff and is open Wednesday through Sunday. The interior spaces are easy to navigate, and exhibitions change with the seasons, so visiting at different times of year offers different experiences.

The gallery's video art collection is not kept on site but housed in the Paul D. Fleck Library at The Banff Centre, where the public can view it. The gallery also runs a publication program; most titles appear as Walter Phillips Gallery Editions through The Banff Centre Press, including Frances Stark: My Best Thing (2012) and The World Upside Down (2008).