For some time after Bill emailed me the original document for the 2012 SFU list, I annotated a printout of it to the point where it was so heavily marked up that I had trouble reading it or adding more information. With Bill's permission I decided to "digitize" both the original printout and all of my markups into a web page, and compile an expanded and updated list.

The SFU list was 27 pages long. The process was to create a web page format, then input the SFU information as received. As I did that, I also added all of the galleries and information that I had annotated on the printout. The resulting document was then expanded by providing gallery date and address updates from 2012 onward, adding gallery web pages, referencing solo and group exhibitions at the galleries, and linking applicable artists and groups to BC Artists web pages.

The geographic area covered by the listings was expanded south of Vancouver and east of Burnaby. My markups added hundreds of galleries and references to the list. The original list did not include exhibition listings, I added those to give an idea of who the gallery artists were and what types of exhibitions the galleries showed.

The updates were based on original ephemera including club cards, exhibition catalogues, and artist invitations; online research in BC and City Directories; artist CV's, artist and and gallery web pages; newspaper clippings; monographs, and reviews of magazines and journals such as CANADIAN ART, ARTICHOKE, INTERFACE, and PREVIEW.

The solo and group exhibitions noted are representative of the shows put on by the respective galleries, they are not intended to be complete or exhaustive listings of all exhibitions held at those galleries. In March 2021 I finally completed updating the list with the information at hand. Since then I have been adding to the list as per table below when I find more information to reference.

( ) - date unknown
(xxxx) - date to be confirmed
[xxxx] - date confirmed by reference as the only/earliest/latest known date
xxxx - date confirmed
est - established (opened)
exh - exhibited the work of (name or group)(year)
n.d. - not dated by year
pub - published (title)
ref - refer also to (information)

Web page addresses were current to 2020, and are subject to change.

Gallery dates listed to 2019 or 2020 likely extend to 2024 in most cases.

For another way to look at local galleries, on-line journal Galleries West has an extensive index of current Greater Vancouver to Whistler galleries, searchable by keyword, location, or name, complete with live map:
https://www.gallerieswest.ca/search/location/greater-vancouver-and-whistler/#letter_filter=all&ord=last_modified&page=1