Organized and circulated by the Ottawa Art Gallery, Dark Ice is an essential examination of the profound and drastic impact that climate change is already having on our varied ecosystems and how this impact is most evident in communities of the North. The exhibition was conceived through the collaboration of artists Leslie Reid (Ottawa, ON) […]

Animating the Figure with Photography features work from WAG-Qaumajuq’s permanent collection. This exhibition considers the medium of photography and its relationship to the human figure. Featuring artists, Barbara Astman, Donigan Cumming, Adad Hannah, and Stephen Livick. Barbara Astman uses portraiture to express ideas, emotions, and parts of her own identity. She immediately establishes a connection between […]

To celebrate the centennial of Jean Paul Riopelle’s birth, WAG-Qaumajuq will host a special retrospective of the artist that examines the 20th-century artistic trailblazer through a 21st century lens. Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and curated by Guest Curator Sylvie Lacerte, Riopelle: Crossroads in Time draws on the artist’s oeuvre across various mediums […]

A Place of Memory: Contexts of Existence is an exhibition that reflects on what a context is, what it means, and how it creates the conditions for artists to manifest new views of the world we live in. A context is both a physical, geographically located place and a series of emotional, social, and political […]

Winyan (the Dakota word for “woman”) is a solo survey exhibition of Dakota/Anishinaabe/Metis artist Lita Fontaine. Bringing together both seminal and recent work, this exhibition honours the career of a beloved Treaty 1 artist. Fontaine’s work centers and celebrates the beauty of Indigenous femininities as a resistance to heteropatriarchal and colonial practices that often relegate them […]

Winyan (the Dakota word for “woman”) is a solo survey exhibition of Dakota/Anishinaabe/Metis artist Lita Fontaine. Bringing together both seminal and recent work, this exhibition honours the career of a beloved Treaty 1 artist. Fontaine’s work centers and celebrates the beauty of Indigenous femininities as a resistance to heteropatriarchal and colonial practices that often relegate […]

An exhibition that presents the work of Dominique Rey, MOTHERGROUND will represent one of the first exhibitions of its kind in a Canadian context to thoroughly meditate on the subject of motherhood. Dominique Rey: MOTHERGROUND presents the work of Franco-Manitoban artist, Dominique Rey as a solo survey exhibition in three “chapters” referring to three distinct phases of her visual […]