Past Exhibitions

April 7, 2017 — October 22, 2017

PhotoLab 2: Women Speaking Art

PhotoLab 2: Women Speaking Art Words figure strongly in contemporary art, as medium and message. For women artists in the 70s, 80s and 90s, text is...

April 7, 2017 — September 17, 2017

Photography in Canada: 1960–2000

Experience the diversity of Canadian photographic practice and production from 1960 to 2000 in this exhibition organized by the Canadian Photography...

February 18, 2017 — June 18, 2017

Clocks for Seeing: Photography, Time and Motion (Art Gallery of Alberta)

Clocks for Seeing: Photography, Time and Motion considers the relationship between time and photography through a selection of historical and...

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

January 3, 2017 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — April 2, 2017

PhotoLab 1

Windows have fascinated artists for centuries. In photography, the transparency and reflectivity of glass as both a subject and symbol have made...

October 28, 2016 — February 12, 2017

Cutline: The Photography Archives of The Globe and Mail

Revisit the golden age of newspaper photography through The Globe and Mail ’s archives. Powerful, compelling and provocative, these photographs were...

October 28, 2016 — February 26, 2017

The Intimate World of Josef Sudek

Czech photographer Josef Sudek (1896–1976) produced some of the twentieth century’s most haunting images taken through the window of his studio, as...