Past Exhibitions

Charlena Russell playing violin next to two video screens featuring Peter Morin's NDN Love Songs
Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts
May 30, 2020 to August 9, 2020
Curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson How can a score be a call and tool for decolonization? Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts features newly commissioned scores, performances, videos, sculptures and sound by Indigenous and other artists who respond to this question... Read More
Michel-Thomas Tremblay's Accroche-Toi is a predominantly black mixed media artwork with abstract white diagonal shapes edged in blue, yellow and orange interrupting the darkness; two small steel hooks hang over the centre of the artwork by a suspended v-shape of thin yellow string
By Your Own Stars: Works from the Permanent Collection
March 21, 2020 to March 21, 2021
Curated by Jennifer Bullock Featuring works by Ernane Cortat, Ken Danby, Joseph Drapell, William Kurelek, Rita Letendre, Jean McEwen, Kent Monkman, Norval Morrisseau, Cheryl Ruddock, Richard Sturm, and Michel-Thomas Tremblay What does it mean to follow one’s own stars rather... Read More
Detail of Woven Together, a wall-mouted series of round shapes woven with yarn
Expressions 45: Rework/Revisit
May 7, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Due to our ongoing Gallery closure to contain the spread of COVID-19, Expressions 45: Rework/Revisit is now being presented as our inaugural digital exhibition. You can now view works of art from over 40 students from across Waterloo Region in our new Digital Exhibitions section... Read More
Rita Letendre's Asor is a colourful serigraph print comprised of diagonal bands of yellow, brown, green and blue
The Myth of Consensus
February 13, 2020 to May 17, 2020
Featuring works from the Permanent Collection and a commissioned response by Aislinn Thomas Marcel Barbeau, Christopher Birt, Jack Bush, Adèle Duck, Harold Feist, Eric Gamble, Robert Hedrick, Reg Holmes, Gershon Iskowitz, Richard Lanctôt, Rita Letendre, Ron Martin, Arthur F... Read More
A film still from Trinity 3 shows a close-up view of a figure in light-coloured military fatigues and gas mask against a bleached desert landscape
Mary Kavanagh: Trinity 3
February 13, 2020 to May 10, 2020
Curated by Crystal Mowry Artist Talk: Wednesday 12 February, 7 pm Public Reception: Thursday 13 February, 7 pm Trinity Site, New Mexico, marks the historically significant testing of the world’s first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945, three weeks prior to the bombing of Hiroshima... Read More
Two Mirrors by Adad Hannah shows two young men holding up a mirror to their own reflections while standing before Velazquez' painting Las Meninas
Adad Hannah: Glints and Reflections
October 24, 2019 to February 2, 2020
Curated by Lynn Bannon and Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre Produced and circulated by the Musée d’art de Joliette Public Reception and Artist Talk: Friday 1 November, 7 pm Adad Hannah's “living pictures” play with the fascinated and attentive eye of the spectator by using dynamic modes... Read More
Woman swimming in water with giant black comb
Lois Andison: all the world began with a yes
October 4, 2019 to January 12, 2020
Curated by Crystal Mowry Public reception: Friday 1 November, 7 pm Toronto-based artist Lois Andison is known for creating elegant works that allow us to see objects as being reactive, capable of eliciting and mimicking emotions. In recent years, Andison’s work has focused on... Read More
John Gould's drawing, Central Casting Picnic, depicts a surreal scene of women in historical costume observing a sky filled with fantastical figures
The Awesome and Awful: Works from the Permanent Collection
August 24, 2019 to March 15, 2020
Curated by Linda Perez and Jennifer Bullock Featuring works by Edward Burtynsky, Elizabeth M. Eastman, Michael Flomen, Judy Garfin, John Gould, Susanna Heller, John Heward, Tom Hodgson, Louis Marius Amorim Ferreira de Moraes In a moment of awe, you might find yourself forgetting... Read More

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