Past Exhibitions

May 9, 2012 — August 31, 2012

J.E.H. MacDonald: Graphic Designer

Best known as a founding member of the Group of Seven and a pioneer of modernism in Canadian landscape painting, James Edward Hervey MacDonald...

May 4, 2012 — September 16, 2012

Arnaud Maggs: Identification

Canadian artist Arnaud Maggs has often been described as an aesthete. Through his photographs he gives us the opportunity to look again at our...

March 30, 2012 — June 17, 2012

The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2012

The Governor General’s Awards celebrate the remarkable career achievements of Canadian artistsin visual arts, including architecture, photography,...

March 30, 2012 — August 6, 2012

CHRISTIAN MARCLAY: THE CLOCK

Free admission with Gallery admission fee during regular hours .

February 3, 2012 — April 22, 2012

The Paper Trail: Canadian Art, 1860-1990

Drawn from the Gallery’s rich collections, these 200 rarely displayed prints, drawings and watercolours reveal the great creativity of Canadian...

February 3, 2012 — March 25, 2012

Back to the Land

This photographic exhibition highlights recent CMCP acquisitions focusing on land and landscape, based on three intertwined considerations: the land...

January 26, 2012 — May 13, 2012

Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven

The National Gallery of Canada has collaborated with London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery and other institutions to presentan impressive European tour...

January 11, 2012 — April 27, 2012

Leiber & Sullivan

This exhibition brings together familiar publications of the modernist era alongside those by a dealer, Steven Leiber, and an artist, Derek Sullivan...

December 17, 2011 — August 26, 2012

Janet Cardiff: Forty-Part Motet

Winner of the Millennium Prize 2001, the publicly and critically acclaimed Forty-Part Motet is now back on display at the National Gallery of Canada...

December 9, 2011 — April 1, 2012

Made in America 1900-1950. Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada

Composed of just over 100 photographs, this exhibition celebrates the exceptional contribution that American photographers made to the history of art...