Brian McBay

Executive Director | 221A

Brian McBay (he/him) is Executive Director of 221A, a Vancouver-based cultural research and cultural space operator. Under his leadership, 221A and 221A Artist Housing Society operates a growing network of over 140,000ft² across nine properties that provide non-market artist housing, artist studios, and cultural programming.

As a student Co-founder of 221A during the height of the 2007-08 global economic crisis, he is part of a new generation of leaders in the cultural sector aiming to advance the public appreciation of the arts while also reversing deepening inequality, xenophobia, and colonialism in Canada.