[19][20] For Utopian Territories: New Art from Cuba (1997), the Belkin partnered with seven other galleries to present the work of 23 contemporary Cuban artists to a Vancouver audience.

Watson similarly invited curatorial collaborations, including the internationally recognized exhibition and publication projects Thrown: Influences and Intentions of West Coast Ceramics (2004), Rebecca Belmore: Fountain at the Venice Biennale (2005), Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (2013) and Image Bank (2019 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and 2021 at the Belkin), which consisted almost entirely of material pulled from the Belkin’s Morris/Trasov Archive.

[22] Keith Wallace, the Belkin’s Associate Director/Curator from 2005 to 2007 and 2012 to 2015, extended the gallery’s established focus on Cuban art with The Spaces Between: Contemporary Art from Havana (2014), co-curated with artist Tonel and including artists Juan Carlos Alom, Javier Castro, Sandra Ceballos Obaya, Celia-Yunior, Ricardo G. Elías, Luis Gárciga Romay, Luis Gómez Armenteros, Jesús Hdez-Güero, Ernesto Leal, Glenda León, Eduardo Ponjuán González, Grethell Rasúa, Lázaro Saavedra González and Jorge Wellesley.

[23][24][25] Lorna Brown, the Belkin's Associate Director/Curator from 2015-2021, created a four-part series of exhibitions under the title of Beginning with the 70s (2017-2019), an ongoing research and archival project examining the generative potential of the era.

The exhibitions include GLUT, Radial Change, Collective Acts, Hexsa'am: To Be Here Always which exhibited artists such as Christine D'Onofrio, Helen Goodwin, Marianne Nicolson, Althea Thauberger, Alexandra Bischoff, Gathie Faulk, Anne Ramsden, Elizabeth Zvonar, Kate Craig, Carole Itter, Dana Claxton, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Gutai, Laiwan, Siku Allooloo and the Salish Weavers Guild.

This show also exhibited at The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ON, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo, and Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Artists exhibited in Soundings included Raven Chacon, Sebastian De Line, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Maggie Groat, Kite, Germaine Koh, Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Cristóbal Martínez, Peter Morin, Ogimaa Mikana, Diamond Point, Lisa C. Ravensbergen, Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk, Greg Staats, Olivia Whetung, Maggie Groat, and Tania Willard.