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Past Exhibitions

Image of artwork: Carl Beam, The North American Iceberg (detail), 1985, acrylic, photo-serigraph, and graphite on plexiglas. NGC
January 3, 2017 to April 30, 2017

25 × 25: Twenty-Five Years of Exhibition Announcements from Twenty-Five Indigenous Artists

Now on view in the Library and Archives of the National Gallery of Canada (NGC), this display of printed exhibition announcement cards was chosen...
December 9, 2016 to March 12, 2017

The Advent of Abstraction: Russia, 1914–1923

As part of our ongoing Masterpiece in Focus series, this exhibition centres on the emergence of the movement in Moscow from 1915 to 1917. Pulling...
November 25, 2016 to April 17, 2017

Alex Janvier: Modern Indigenous Master

Discover the universal language of Alex Janvier, one of Canada’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, in this major retrospective at the National...
November 19, 2016 to March 12, 2017

Vernon Ah Kee: cantchant

This large video, text, portraiture, and surfboard exhibition is by Australian contemporary artist Vernon Ah Kee. Ah Kee relies on his Aboriginal...
October 28, 2016 to April 2, 2017

PhotoLab 1

Visit the Canadian Photography Institute website Windows have fascinated artists for centuries. In photography, the transparency and reflectivity of...
October 28, 2016 to February 12, 2017

Cutline: The Photography Archives of The Globe and Mail

Visit the exhibition website Revisit the golden age of newspaper photography through The Globe and Mail ’s archives. Powerful, compelling and...
October 28, 2016 to February 26, 2017

The Intimate World of Josef Sudek

Visit the Canadian Photography Institute website Czech photographer Josef Sudek (1896–1976) produced some of the twentieth century’s most haunting...
October 8, 2016 to January 29, 2017

David Altmejd: The Vessel

David Altmejd’s The Vessel is a monumentally scaled, Plexiglas sculpture that exemplifies movement, transformation and the act of artistic creation...
October 6, 2016 to February 5, 2017

Sobey Art Award

Visit the Sobey Art Award website Widely recognized as the pre-eminent prize for Canadian artists 40 and under, the Sobey Art Award continues to...
July 23, 2016 to November 13, 2016

Beauty’s Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection

Encompassing the entire Victorian era, this exhibition charts the broad evolution of British draftsmanship and illustrates the new appreciation...
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