UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness is a charitable non-profit artist-run organization that supports art and critical awareness by offering the tools, space, resources, and mentorship for emerging artists and members of our neighbouring communities to engage in experimental creative work that advances a more expansive, inclusive reality for art and cultural production.

UNIT/PITT was founded in 1975 as the Helen Pitt Gallery by the Student Society of what is now known as Emily Carr University of Art + Design. In 1981, Helen Pitt Gallery merged with Unit 306 Society for the Democratization of the Arts. In subsequent decades, through waves of funding precarity, the organization has always adapted to the needs of emerging artists; as Pitt International Gallery (P.I.G.); Pitt Gallery; Helen Pitt Gallery Artist Run Centre; UNIT/PITT Projects; and now UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. 

UNIT/PITT's mission is to empower collective, cumulative action through art, resistance, advocacy, and critical awareness-raising by supporting emerging artists and their diverse creative practices. We do this work on the ancestral, traditional, unceded, and occupied Indigenous territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations, specifically in solidarity and resistance alongside low income and working class people across our community.

In January 2021, UNIT/PITT in partnership with VIVO Media Arts Centre launched ReIssue.pub, an interdisciplinary art writing platform and free school focused on shaping and sustaining a contemporary west coast discourse rooted in critical engagement with experimental art practices. https://reissue.pub/.

In September 2023, UNIT/PITT moved into its new permanent gallery facility and garden space at 2954 West 4th Ave in Vancouver's Kistilano, marking a return to in-person gathering and exhibitions programs after three years of remote operations.