The Vancouver Art Gallery is pleased to announce the landmark donation of Art Continuum Hong Kong (ACHK), a significant collection comprising 131 artworks by 78 artists. Representing the largest contribution of Hong Kong art in the Gallery’s history, this remarkable gift brings an unprecedented breadth of voices, practices and perspectives into the permanent collection, and marks a transformative expansion of the Gallery’s Asian art holdings. Assembled over three decades, the ACHK collection reflects the extraordinary breadth of Hong Kong’s modern and contemporary art history. Beginning with a passion for photography that chronicled the city’s shifting ideological and natural landscape, the collection grew to encompass painting, sculpture, printmaking, film, installation and lens-based media by artists who have shaped Hong Kong’s cultural identity from the 1950s to today.  To commemorate this landmark gift, the Vancouver Art Gallery will present a major exhibition of art from ACHK and the Gallery’s permanent collection in 2027. The exhibition coincides with the thirtieth anniversary of the transfer of Hong Kong sovereignty from the United Kingdom to China. As a marker of time, the Handover provides an opportunity to consider themes in the artwork and exhibition that reveal complex narratives surrounding Hong Kong emigration, cultural assimilation and national …