Since 2000, the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts have added a prestigious yet very human dimension to the history of visual and...
Past Exhibitions
April 4, 2015 to January 3, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...