We are thrilled to open submissions for our week-long group exhibition in August 2026 in Vancouver, BC, presented in collaboration with Guest Curator Ketty Haolin Zhang and Co-Curator Delaney Yvonne. 

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We welcome Canada-based artists at any stage of their career to submit works that engage with the theme of transference—the passage of something from one place, surface, person, or time to another. In psychotherapy, transference is also used to describe the phenomenon when feelings or desires meant for an important figure from our past land on someone new. We invite artists to reflect on what we have inherited from those who came before, what we are in the process of passing on, what the body knows before the mind, and what we carry across a threshold, a border, and a state of being. 

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We want to help artists circulate their work. For this exhibition, we will prioritize physical works for sale at price points accessible to emerging collectors, with the majority of exhibited works priced $500 and under. With this in mind, and potential concurrent community programming in the space, we welcome originals, series, editions, and multiples. Artists will receive 65% of artwork sales, in addition to an exhibition fee of $300. Artists are responsible for delivery of their work to Vancouver.

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Both existing pieces and detailed proposals for new work are welcome, with a preference for new work created in response to the theme. Proposed new works must be finished by June 30th, by which photo documentation should be sent to The 525.

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Important dates:

• Submission deadline: May 15th

• Selected artists notification: May 25th 

• Proposed work completion deadline: June 30th

• Artwork delivery deadline: August 2nd

• Exhibition opening: August 22nd, tentative

• Venue: TBA in Vancouver, BC