CURRENT EXHIBITS [112]

Since the 1700s artists and the world they inhabit have been fair game for humorists. Gallery goers, art collectors, critics and curators – none have escaped the wicked pens and etching needles of clever cartoonists. Among the targets of ridicule are unruly, delusional painters, arrogant connoisseurs and art dealers, and elitist museums and arts organizations. By poking fun at art and artists these...   [more]

Opening: September 20th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The AGO is pleased to present this large-scale survey exhibition devoted to the Canadian sculptor Evan Penny. The exhibition will include over 30 works including larger-than-life sculptures, photographs and an exhibition film about the artist's work providing an overview of the artist's production over the past decade. Evan Penny has advanced hyper realistic sculpture, founded by Duane Hanson in...   [more]

Opening: September 20th, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Czech photographer Josef Sudek is regarded as one of the legendary photographers of the twentieth century with a career that stretched over sixty years. His increasingly contemplative photographs transformed ordinary subjects by uniting his external observations with deeply felt sensibilities, creating a unique world of his own. More than 175 photographs in this exhibition have been selected from Art Gall...   [more]

Opening: October 3rd, 2012   10:00 AM - 8:30 PM

British artist Mark Titchner’s language-based wall paintings and banners demonstrate how text and bold statements can be used to inspire people, communicate to the masses and bring together communities. His work often confronts the viewer with a proposition for a type of modern-day revolution. As the AGO’s international artist-in-residence this fall, Mark Titchner has been involved with a number of initiat...   [more]

This exhibition features modern masterworks from 1909 until 1971. It was a period of great change in the world: the rapid rise of the car, the Great Depression’s economic turmoil, the devastation of two world wars, the advance of television and computers, the civil rights movement. Living the seismic shifts that surrounded them, the artists in this exhibition experimented with unique ways of seeing and...   [more]

Drawing played an essential role in the art of British, figurative painter Stanley Spencer. From 1908 to 1912 he studied drawing almost exclusively at the prestigious Slade School of Art in London. Through his skill and proficiency as a draughtsman Spencer transformed his eccentric and visionary imaginings into reality. The AGO has a collection of almost 200 works on paper by Stanley Spencer and is...   [more]

Richard Hamilton (1922–2011) was a leading proponent of Pop art in Britain. In the 1950s, he became fascinated with the impact of mass media and popular culture on contemporary life. Newspapers, magazines and advertisements became the source of his ironic images, and were the inspiration for his art-making techniques. Hamilton was a committed printmaker who embraced new technologies, often combining cu...   [more]

I had crossed the line, I was free but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land. – Harriet Tubman Deanna Bowen: Invisible Empires is a bold exhibition that presents a view on the Ku Klux Klan both during the American Civil Rights Movement era and its century-long history in Canada. Yes, in Canada. This radical new project stems from Toronto artist Dea...   [more]

Opening: January 16th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Working with the form of the suffrage and union banner—a graphic combination of image, text, scale and urgency—the exhibition No Theory No Cry presents an account of how the emotional mind engages the critical. Large felt banners adorned with hand-cut text and transposed doodles are displayed suspended in front of looping and folding intestine- and brain-patterned wall drawings. A publicatio...   [more]

Opening: January 26th   2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Opening: January 26th   2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Every Fall the Blackwood Gallery commissions an artist to produce a work for the Bernie Miller Lightbox, a billboard sized (268.0 cm x 176.5 cm, 108" x 72") venue installed on the outside of the William Davis Building (formerly known as South Building) where the two wings of the building meet at the end of "Five Minute Walk". The commissioned work stays throughout the school year. In the summer, the...   [more]

Christopher Cutts Gallery is pleased to present its 15th solo Ron Martin exhibition. Martin who has been exhibiting with the gallery since 1991, will present in the north gallery, his third and concluding installation of the All-In-One Paintings/Projections. These works continue Martin’s investigation of the relationship between the art object and its viewer. The All-In-One Projections are dec...   [more]

Opening: February 2nd   2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Clint Roenisch is pleased to open 2013 with Show Room, a solo show of photographs and sculptures by Jimmy Limit (Canadian, born 1982). Evolving out of an interest in stock photography and an affinity for the aesthetic of the ULINE Catalogue, Show Room showcases a collection of photographs and sculptures that explore the relationships between image, object, and consumption. Photographs are commonly us...   [more]

Opening: January 10th   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

COOPER COLE is pleased to announce Static & Scrim, our first exhibition of 2013. This group show features seven New York based artists who share an interest in explorations of materiality and unique experimentations of media. Each of these artists exploit action, chance, and observation to create a variety of visceral results. The exhibition is a contemporary meditation on traditional strategie...   [more]

Opening: January 31st   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Blind Scribbles is an exciting and luminous new series of paintings by Françoise Sullivan which continues to explore the gestural abstraction for which she is renowned. Sullivan’s new series of lush paintings revisit automatism in a way which reveals its current relevance. Making a mark or “scribble” with her eyes closed, she builds a painting, filling the canvas with shimmering colours....   [more]

Opening: February 2nd   1:00 PM - 4:00 PM