Wayne Ngan News
Wayne Ngan in Highlights from the Collection at the Vancouver Art Gallery
April 1, 2026 – January 6, 2030
Permanent collection exhibitions are vital to a collecting institution, offering insight into both a visual history of place and the values that define the museum today. Highlights from the Collection is drawn entirely from the Vancouver Art Gallery’s permanent collection and will be presented over a three-year period.
Wayne Ngan: Spirit and Form at James Cohan Gallery, New York
September 5, 2025 – October 4, 2025
James Cohan is pleased to present Wayne Ngan: Spirit and Form, on view in the gallery’s 48 Walker Street viewing room from September 5 through October 4, 2025. The gallery will host an opening reception on Friday, September 5, from 6-8 PM.
Wayne Ngan in Elliptical Lineages at Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff
June 7, 2025 – September 7, 2025
Elliptical Lineages presents the work of artists that engage the creative practices of a family member or those whom they consider kin. Taking up questions of the relationship between art and craft, or reflective of creative forms of living and making within the context of daily life, the exhibition also intends to complicate conventional ideas of artistic lineage and embrace the complexity of exchange and transmission of knowledge across generations.
Wayne Ngan in Written in Clay: From the John David Lawrence Collection at the Vancouver Art Gallery
May 25, 2025 – November 9, 2025
Written in Clay presents a history of ceramics made in British Columbia told through the collection of John David Lawrence, a long-time Vancouverite, musician, performer, activist, collector and owner of local antique shop DODA ANTIQUES. Through his relationships with ceramic artists and their work, Lawrence has become a crucial figure in preserving and documenting local ceramic history.
Wayne Ngan in TENXTEN: 10 Collections 10 Years at Griffin Art Projects
May 31, 2025 – September 7, 2025
In TENXTEN, the presentation of selected acquisitions from 10 collections, featuring over 70 artists, provides a comprehensive exploration of diverse artistic practices. The shared themes transcend temporal, geographical and stylistic boundaries. These unifying elements—cultural identity, social commentary, conceptual art, materiality, human experience, photography and image-making, and abstraction and colour—provide a framework for understanding the interconnectedness of seemingly disparate artistic endeavours. Across collections, the artists reveal the power of visual art to document, question and reimagine our world.
Wayne Ngan in Collecting Memories: 40 Years of Ceramics and Community at the Gardiner Museum
October 9, 2024 – October 5, 2025
To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Gardiner Museum invited its wider community—including former curators, long-serving volunteers, school groups, and social media followers—to help curate an exhibition of beloved objects from its collection. The show is displayed across three floors of the glass stairwell and interwoven throughout the second-floor collection galleries. The works in the exhibition reflect the diverse ways the community has interacted with and connected to the permanent collection over the past 40 years.
Wayne Ngan in Apartamento #32
An interview with Goya Ngan and Gailan Ngan about Wayne is included in the Autumn / Winter 2023-2024 issue of Apartamento Magazine (Issue #32).
Shaping Relationships Tethered Together, University of Victoria Legacy Gallery, Maltwood
21 November 2022 - February 25, 2024
Works by Wayne Ngan in the University of Victoria’s permanent collection will be on display for this group exhibition curated by Mel Granley.
“Shaping Relations, Tethered Together dives into Legacy's permanent collection to explore ideas of togetherness and that which cultivates relationships. Each work examines a different facet of the relationships people form with one another, the world around us, and our relationships with ourselves. Tenderness and the importance of connection are meditated on throughout the exhibition, through a diverse selection of media and artists.”
Wayne Ngan at Art Toronto, 2021
October 29 – 31, 2021
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Works by Wayne Ngan are included in Art Toronto 2021 with Unit 17, Booth B30.
We Do Not Work Alone, Nanaimo Art Gallery
July 30 – October 3, 2021
This exhibition activates Nanaimo Art Gallery’s collection of more than sixty-five ceramic works from B.C. through encounters with contemporary artists, craftspeople, and other cultural practitioners. We Do Not Work Alone also features works by Kanjiro Kawai, Shoji Hamada, and Maria and Santana Martinez, films by Marty Gross/ Mingei Film Archive and new installations by Steven Brekelmans, Roy Caussy, and Kate Metten and Laura Wee Lay Laq.
Photo by Sean Fenzl, courtesy of Nanaimo Art Gallery.
Wayne Ngan in Splitting Circle, Unit 17
June 10 – July 11, 2021
Works by Wayne Ngan appear in Splitting Circle at Unit 17 alongside works by Gailan Ngan, Paul P., and Lam Wong
Wayne Ngan in Modern in the Making at the Vancouver Art Gallery
July 18, 2020 – January 21, 2021
Works by Wayne Ngan appear in Modern in the Making at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Wayne Ngan, 1937 – 2020
Globe and Mail Tribute, “B.C. potter Wayne Ngan turned clay into objects of rare sculptural beauty.”
Elan Fine Art Inaugural Exhibition
February 25 – September 23, 2017
Wayne Ngan’s work will be shown at Elan Fine Art in their inaugural exhibition. The collection includes works by Andy Warhol, Anish Kapoor, David Urban, Douglas Coupland, Gathie Falk, Gordon Smith, Graham Gilmore, Jack Bush, Jeff Koons, Jeff Wall, Joseph Kyle, Ray Mead, Willem de Kooning and other artists.
Opening:
Sat Feb 25, 2017, 1pm to 5pm
Vancouver, BC
Trusses at the Nanaimo Art Gallery
June 9 – August 21, 2016
Wayne Ngan’s work is included in Trusses at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. Additional artists in the exhibition include Shannon Bool, Lloyd House, Rebecca Loewen, Alex Morrison, Gailan Ngan, Patkau Architects, and Aaron Peck.
Wayne Ngan: Vessels at Marc Jancou
January 14 – March 11, 2016
Geneva, Switzerland
Wayne Ngan / John Riepenhoff at Nathalie Karg Gallery
September 9 to October 11, 2015
New York, NY
Wayne Ngan: New Works at Daniel Faria Gallery
October 24 – December 6, 2014
Toronto, ON
Contemporary Ceramics of British Columbia by Deborah Sloan
Wayne Ngan is included in the article ”Contemporary Ceramics of British Columbia,” Ceramics Now Magazine, Issue 3, 2014.
Tamara Henderson, Gailan Ngan, and Wayne Ngan at the Apartment, Vancouver BC
Mousse Magazine, July 2014
Jessica Jackson Hutchins & Wayne Ngan, No. 1 Rainbow at Green Gallery
March 19 – April 19, 2014
Milwaukee, WI
Wayne Ngan in Ron Thom and the Allied Arts
February 13 – April 27, 2014
Wayne Ngan’s work is included in Ron Thom and the Allied Arts at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto ON.
BC Achievement Foundation Award
Wayne Ngan: Award of Distinction
2013 Carter Wosk Award in Applied Art and Design