Nour Mobarak

### Biography
Nour Mobarak (b. 1985, Cairo, Egypt) lives and works between Bainbridge Island, WA and Athens, Greece. Her recent presentations include the 2026 Whitney Biennial, New York; the 2026 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, Saudi Arabia; WIELS, Brussels (2025); Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2025); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2024-25); Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Art Contemporanea, Turin (2024), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2023); California African American Museum, Los Angeles (2024); and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (2022). Her performances have been staged at venues such as the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2022), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2020), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2019), LAXART, Los Angeles (2019), Stadslimeit, Antwerp (2016), and Cambridge University, UK (2010), amongst many others.

Artwork by Nour Mobarak made of bright yellow and dark red resin poured into a clear rectangular frame.

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Bubonic Mnemonic

Leslie Thornton

### Biography
Leslie Thornton (b. 1951, Tennessee) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions and screenings include the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Lightcone, Paris; MoMA, New York; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Tate Modern, London; Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö and Secession, Vienna. Her work is held in numerous public collections, including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; Harvard University, Cambridge; Museum of Modern Art, New York; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; and Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Thornton trained at MIT (1976) and at Harvard University (1974). She holds an MFA from The Hartford Art School (1976), a BFA from SUNY Buffalo, (1973), and was a mathematics major at Tufts University (1969–1971).

Black and white still from Peggy & Fred In Hell showing a young boy in a white coat looking at a pile of objects in the foreground.

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Peggy & Fred in Hell

We’re working on our [upcoming exhibitions](/exhibitions-and-events/upcoming), opening on November 12. [Visit our archive](/exhibitions-and-events/archive/all) to see past exhibitions and events.

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The Contemporary Art Gallery is delighted to announce the 2026 CAG Gala, a celebratory four-course dinner helmed by one of Vancouver’s most prominent chefs.

Led this year by Gus Stieffenhofer-Brandson, Executive Chef at Published on Main, the evening opens with a cocktail hour, followed by a seated dinner and live and silent auctions. Bringing together arts patrons, business leaders, philanthropists, and friends from across the region in support of CAG, this one-of-a-kind event is not to be missed.

Friday, November 6, 2026
The Kent, 534 Cambie Street

Gala Ticket — $450
Collectors Ticket — $575

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Logos for CAG Gala 2026 event partners and auction partners

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CAG Gala 2026

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