CURRENT EXHIBITS [109]

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]

This winter the AGO offers a glimpse into the world of legendary musician and artist Patti Smith through an intimate exhibition featuring photographs, personal objects, and a short film. Patti Smith: Camera Solo provides a rare opportunity to experience a different side of this rock icon – best known for her profound influence on the nascent punk rock scene in the late 1970s and 80s – through he...   [more]

Opening: February 9th   10:00 AM - 5:30 PM

Born in Edmonton in 1951, Kim Adams is considered one of Canada's leading contemporary sculptors. He has produced a highly original body of work in sculpture and installation and has exhibited throughout Canada and internationally since the late 1970s. Using commonplace objects ranging from farm machinery and automobile parts to household objects, toys and model train parts, Adams creates sculpt...   [more]

“I think that the effect of the mammoth shows like the Vienna Treasures was to raise the level of consciousness of the Toronto public. These shows resulted in a definite surge of interest not only in the Old Masters and European art but also in contemporary art.” —Dr. William S.A. Dale, former AGT Curator, reminiscing in 2012 about the Art Gallery of Toronto in the 1950s In the 1950s, the A...   [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

Opening: February 28th   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Barbara Edwards Contemporary is pleased a present a solo exhibition of new work by Tim Zuck. Inspired by his collection of produce stickers amassed over twenty years, Zuck deals with high/low culture themes, claiming no hierarchy. The rudimentary still-lifes are commonplace, yet they connect with Zuck’s eye and continue to fascinate. Zuck earned a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and an MF...   [more]

Opening: February 15th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Representing Photographs by Nickolas Muray, With Special Thanks to The Nickolas Muray Photo Archives. Nickolas Muray and Frida Kahlo were at the height of their on-again, off-again, ten-year relationship when these pictures were taken. Their affair had started in 1931, after Muray was divorced from his second wife, and shortly after Kahlo's marriage to Mexican artist/muralist Diego Rivera. It outlived M...   [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

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

The Daniel Faria Gallery is pleased to present Family Ties, a group show featuring the work of Christy Thompson and Chris Ironside, Douglas Coupland, Hanna Hur, Iris Häussler and Michael Klein. The visual representation of the family is a concept that we are all familiar with either as the observer or the subject. As you rummage through old family albums, infantile drawings or virtual albums onli...   [more]

Opening: January 31st   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM