Exhibitions

Joi T. Arcand, ekawiya nepewisi (don’t be shy), 2017, neon channel sign. Photograph by Toni Hafkenscheid

The RMG annually programs over twenty exhibitions across six gallery spaces. With a focus on modern and contemporary Canadian art, we present a variety of exhibitions that reflect a diverse range of artistic output, including painting, photography, sculpture, film, installation and performance. Reflecting our commitment to connect our communities through art, we strive to produce innovative and timely exhibitions that recognize our collective responsibility to contend with the past and vision a more equitable, just, and expansive future.  

View a selection of online exhibition catalogues here.

EMERGING VISIONS: Durham College Thesis Exhibition 2024

May 3rd, 2024 - June 9th, 2024

Community Partnerships

We are pleased to present the annual Durham College Thesis Exhibition! Like all visionary explorers, the students in Durham College’s Fine Arts Advanced program are involved in a continual process of identifying and studying meaningful subjects that pertain to their own evolving bodies of work. They first research then develop strategies unique to their practice […]

Tony Romano: The Big Hat

April 6th, 2024 - September 8th, 2024

Special Exhibition

Curator: Erin Szikora and Leila Timmins

Artists: Tony Romano

Join us in celebrating the opening of The Big Hat on Friday, April 5 from 7-10pm as part of RMG Fridays: The Big Hat. Remarks to take place in the exhibition at 7:15pm. Rooted in a family tradition of carpentry and ironwork, Tony Romano’s practice reimagines found objects and reworks raw and recycled materials into […]

Painters Eleven: The Greenberg Effect

March 9th, 2024 - August 25th, 2024

Permanent Collection

Curator: Sonya Jones

Artists: Harold Town, Walter Yarwood, Kazuo Nakamura, Alexandra Luke, Jack Bush, Jock Macdonald, Tom Hodgson, Hortense Gordon, William Ronald, Ray Mead, Oscar Cahen

Clement Greenberg was an influential American art critic who helped define twentieth century art. At the peak of his career in the 1940s and 1950s, Greenberg helped establish abstract expressionism as the popular art form, making artists like Jackson Pollock a household name. Members of the Ontario abstract collective, Painters Eleven, wanted to invite Greenberg […]

Oshawa: 100 Years

January 13th, 2024 - January 12th, 2025

Permanent Collection

Curator: Sonya Jones

This year marks one hundred years since Oshawa was incorporated as a city. From humble beginnings with a population of 16,000, today more than 172,000 people call Oshawa home. Through historical photographs from the Thomas Bouckley Collection, this exhibition explores what life was like in Oshawa in 1924. Oshawa was established as the 25th city […]

Raechel Wastesicoot: Kenatentas

January 27th, 2024 - June 9th, 2024

Special Exhibition

Curator: Erin Szikora

Artists: Raechel Wastesicoot

Join us in celebrating the opening of Kenatentas on Saturday, January 27 from 2-3:30pm. More details here. Raechel Wastesicoot is a mixed Kanien’kehá:ka beadworker born and raised in Oshawa and currently based in Toronto. Growing up just minutes from the gallery, the RMG has long served as a personal site of inspiration and respite to […]

About Time

September 2nd, 2023 - August 25th, 2024

Permanent Collection

Take a virtual tour of this exhibition here. Time can be saved, wasted, and lost, but not stopped. We can have all the time in the world yet no time at all. Time as a concept is one of the great mysteries of the world. It is defined as the continued sequence of existence and […]