From November 15, 2024, until March 23, 2025, the works of the eight winners of the 2024 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts (GGArts) will be on display at the National Gallery of Canada. Work by the following artists will be displayed: Barbara Astman (Toronto, ON), Marjorie Beaucage (Duck Lake, SK), Dominique Blain (Montreal, QC), Don Ritter (Montreal, QC), and Greg … Read more
Calls for applications for the National Gallery of Canada’s Rodger and Joann McLennan Canadian War Art Research Fellowship and for the Research Fellowship in Photography are now open. Applicants have until June 9, 2024, to send their submission. The names of the recipient fellows will be revealed this summer. Contact pcarreau@gallery.ca.
The National Gallery of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts is exhibiting works and installations by the eight winners of the 2023 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts from Dec. 8, 2023, to March 4, 2024. This is the 15th edition of the annual exhibition at the Gallery. The full release is available … Read more
Fromi June 3-Nov. 20, 2022, the National Gallery of Canada will present a comprehensive retrospective exhibition of General Idea. Formed as part of 1960s counterculture, General Idea was a radical artist group founded in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945–1994) and Jorge Zontal (1944–1994). This major retrospective will bring together more than 200 works, including installations, painting, … Read more
The National Gallery of Canada announced the call for nominations for the 2021 Lacey Prize. This prize recognizes the critical role artist-run centres and small arts organizations play to support artists and foster emerging practices in Canada. Unique in Canada, the Lacey Prize is funded by a $1.3 million gift from Dr. John Lacey and his late wife … Read more
The National Gallery of Canada Foundation has received a transformational gift that will, in part, commemorate the important work of Dr. Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the National Gallery of Canada from 1987-1997. The new $3 Million anonymous donation establishes a Canada Pavilion Maintenance Fund to support ongoing and future upkeep costs for the Canada Pavilion in Venice, Italy, owned by … Read more
The Sobey Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada announced the 25 artists longlisted for the 2021 Sobey Art Award. Learn more online.
The first-ever retrospective of Canadian master silversmith Laurent Amiot (1764-1839), opens May 11 at the National Gallery of Canada, highlighting the artist’s significant contribution and influence on the development of art in Canada. The full release is available online. Call 613-990-6835.
Paintings by Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Monet, Morisot, and Renoir, among others, as well as masterpieces from the Golden Age of Danish painting are featured in Impressionist Treasures opening May 18 at the National Gallery of Canada. This superlative selection of works from the Ordrupgaard collection in Denmark is just one of 12 special exhibitions of silversmithing, paintings, … Read more
The National Gallery of Canada offers a rare opportunity to view three paintings by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) owing to a long term loan from a private collection. Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914-16) and Forest Slope in Unterach on the Attersee (1916) are now on view in the European galleries, along with Hope I (1903), which the Gallery purchased in 1970. The installation will remain … Read more
