Our galleries are currently closed.
Our spring/summer exhibition season will open to the public on Wednesday, May 15, 2024.
Upcoming Exhibitions
- Scotiabank Photography Award: Ken Lum
- Hypervisibility: Early Photography and Privacy in North America, 1839–1900
- Clarissa Tossin: Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan
- In Dimension: Personal and Collective Narratives
- Working Machines: Postwar America Through Werner Wolff’s Commercial Photography
- A. Sheikh: The Test
- Lee Miller: A Photographer at Work (1932–1945)
Scotiabank Photography Award: Ken Lum
May 15–August 3, 2024
Main Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel
Hypervisibility: Early Photography and Privacy in North America, 1839–1900
May 15–August 3, 2024
University Gallery
Guest Curators: Sarah Parsons and Frances Dorenbaum
Clarissa Tossin: Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan
May 15–August 3, 2024
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Guest curator: Noa Bronstein
In Dimension: Personal and Collective Narratives
May 15–August 3, 2024
The Great Hall
Guest Curator: Bryce Julien
Working Machines: Postwar America Through Werner Wolff’s Commercial Photography
May 15–June 15, 2024
Student Gallery
Lee Miller: A Photographer at Work (1932–1945)
September 11–December 7, 2024
Main Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel
Ken Lum, Lau Hoi Ting Recalls a Poem of Her Youth, from the series Image/Repeated Text, 1994/2023, powder coated aluminum with vinyl. Courtesy of Magenta Plains Gallery, New York/Royale Projects, Los Angeles
City of New York, [Broadside for the capture of William C. Murray and Ada Shreve], 1873, ink on paper with two albumen prints (wanted poster). Courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives
Clarissa Tossin, Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan (still), 2013, two-channel video. Courtesy of the artist
Alishah Ahmad, Puzzle of Sentiments (detail), 2023, collage. Courtesy of the artist
Werner Wolff, Untitled [Foundry worker], ca. 1955, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, The Image Centre © The Family of Werner Wolff
Noor Awan, Beyond Blueprints, 2023, digital illustration, for the exhibition A. Sheikh: The Test. Courtesy of the artist
Lee Miller, Hats, London, England, 1939, chromogenic print (printed 2023) © Lee Miller Archives
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Ken Lum, Skateboarder (detail), from the series World Portrait, 1991, acrylic on canvas with silk screen prints. Collection of Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.