Past Exhibitions

April 4, 2015 to January 3, 2016

Mary Pratt: This Little Painting Masterpiece in Focus
Mary Pratt’s 1972 painting Red Currant Jelly has long held a pride of place in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada where it has been on...
March 5, 2015 to August 30, 2015

For the Record: Early Canadian Travel Photography
NGC Magazine Article The concept of Canadian tourism emerged during the early nineteenth century. Improved modes of transportation, such as new...
February 13, 2015 to April 12, 2015

The Clock
NGC Magazine Article The Clock evokes the wonder and illusionism of more than a century of cinema through a captivating 24-hour looped video that...
December 20, 2014 to May 3, 2015

M.C. Escher: The Mathemagician
Visit the M.C. Escher Mindscapes Site | Special Events NGC Magazine Article Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of...
December 20, 2014 to May 3, 2015

Clocks for Seeing: Photography, Time and Motion
The invention of photography has had a profound effect on the way we see and know the world. In many ways, this is due to the medium’s relation to...
November 13, 2014 to February 22, 2015

Jack Bush
Distinguished as one of Canada’s first artists to achieve international recognition, Jack Bush ’s life (1909–1977) is a fascinating story of a mid-...
October 17, 2014 to March 8, 2015

Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014
Special Events | Weekly Events | NGC Magazine Article | Video: First Look The exhibition Shine a Light highlights a selection of recent acquisitions...
October 4, 2014 to January 31, 2015

Vienna: Brian Jungen
Brian Jungen (b. 1970) ingeniously repurposes found objects, disassembling and reassembling them into spectacular sculptures, which often reference...
September 20, 2014 to December 14, 2014

Flora and Fauna: 400 Years of Artists Inspired by Nature
Drawn from the NGC collections, this exhibition looks at the ways in which nature has been an enduring subject for artists over the centuries. A...
September 20, 2014 to January 4, 2015

Beautiful Monsters: Beasts and Fantastic Creatures in Early European Prints [The Rooms]
This exhibition explores the representation of monstrous creatures in early European art by bringing together approximately fifty prints from the 15...

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