18th Annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show
Reception: October 25, 12–6pm
Exhibition open October 25–November 14th, 2025
Cameron Carr, Rosa Chan, Grace Chan, Christin Cheung, Eva Cho, d. June Conley, Lily Huo, Jim Jarvis, Gladys Lee, Carol Larson, May Li, Li Ying Ng, Montana King, Lawrence Tung, Linda Song/Bao Qin Song, Linda Yang, Masha Tikhonova, Misha Sample, Immacula Renaud, John Patterson, Jin Wang, Nathan Wood, Meow (Sue), Neptune, Rosie, and Swallow Zhou
It has long been a tradition at Gallery Gachet to host the annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show. This exhibition series began in 2008, on the cusp of a city in fl ux, anticipating the changes, challenges, and losses of a pre-Olympic Vancouver. From the start, the project took shape through open-air, studio-style workshops hosted in one of the hearts of the Downtown Eastside: Oppenheimer Park. During these gatherings, the Gachet team tapped into the park’s communal nature and helped forge a space that encouraged creative exploration and collective expression amid times marked by uncertainty and precarity.
Now, in its eighteenth year, the showcase returns once more to a city on the precipice of change and undergoing state-mandated transformation as Vancouver readies itself for FIFA 2026 and the renewed waves of redevelopment that follow. Amid these shifts, we witness the erosion of vital supports, from harm reduction services to libraries and shelter resources, while public investment is redirected elsewhere. In this climate, our most vulnerable neighbours continue to bear the heaviest weight of these decisions.
