Art Gallery of Ontario

Past Exhibitions

• 2022 / core / exhibition

  

  Jorian Charlton

  Out of Many

  Art Gallery of Ontario

  Exploring new ways of thinking about Jamaican-Canadian culture, and reimagining the family album through a contemporary lens
• 2022 / core

  

  Esery Mondesir

  We Have Found Each Other

  Art Gallery of Ontario

  Mining personal archives, institutional collections, music, and oral histories to chart and connect people and places with links to Haiti
• 2022 / core / exhibition

  

  Raymond Boisjoly

  From age to age, as its shape slowly unravelled

  Art Gallery of Ontario

  An incisive remediation of archival material, exploding colonial notions of Indigeneity
• 2021 / core

  

  Dawoud Bey, John Edmonds, Wardell Milan

  Art Gallery of Ontario

  Three generations of African American artists consider how photographs continue to shape Black experiences
• 2021 / core

  

  Group Exhibition

  Documents, 1960s – 1970s

  Art Gallery of Ontario

  An international perspective on documentary practices during a period of profound change
• 2020 / core

  

  Diane Arbus

  Photographs, 1956 – 1971

  Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2019 / primary exhibition

  

  Photography Collection: Women in Focus, 1920s–1940s

  Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2017 / primary exhibition

  

  Group Exhibition

  Photography Collection 1840s to 1880s

  Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2016 / primary exhibition

  

  Thomas Ruff

  Object Relations

  Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2016 / primary exhibition

  

  Group Exhibition

  Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s – 1980s

  Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2015 / primary exhibition

  

  Henryk Ross

  Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross

  Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2014 / primary exhibition

  

  Scott McFarland

  Snow, Shacks, Streets, Shrubs

  Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2013 / primary exhibition

  

  Light My Fire: Some Propositions about Portraits and Photography

  Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2013 / public installation / exhibition / Outdoor

  

  Jason Evans

  A long, long time AGO

  Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2012

  

  Photographs

  Art Gallery of Ontario

  May 23–Aug 19,  2012
• 2011 / featured exhibition

  

  Abel Boulineau

  "Where I was born" : A Photograph, a Clue, and the Discovery of Abel Boulineau

  Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2010 / public installation / exhibition / Outdoor

  

  Barbara Kruger

  Untitled (It)

  Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2005 / featured exhibition

  

  Sweet Immortality

  Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2023 / core / exhibition

  

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  To look without fear

  Art Gallery of Ontario

  Wolfgang Tillmans’s first museum survey in Canada foregrounds how the German artist has married photographic image-making with social critique by pushing the conventions of the medium, developing new worlds of abstract photography, and epitomizing a new kind of subjectivity. In 400+ works, the exhibition presents the richness of Tillmans’s artistic practice, grounded in his conviction that an artist’s role is to be “an amplifier.”
• 2023 / core

  

  Sunday School

  Feels Like Home

  Art Gallery of Ontario

  May 6,  2023–Jun 9,  2024

  Founded by Josef Adamu in Toronto in 2017, Sunday School is a creative agency that brings together visual artists from across Africa and the diaspora to share compelling stories. The exhibition and billboard installation encompassing “Feels Like Home” aim to foreground notions of identity, fashion, and culture at the intersection of art and education, celebrating the creators’ collaborative ethos through photographs and video work.