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The Robert McLaughlin Gallery is temporarily closed to ensure the health and safety of our staff and everyone in our community, but that won’t stop us from sharing art with you! There are many ways to stay connected with the RMG during this time through new virtual exhibitions, art activities, community engagement projects, artist talks, highlights from our collection, and more from home!

Presented in partnership with the School of Media, Art and Design at Durham College

December 11, 2021 - June 5, 2022

Perspective/Prospective

erspective refers to an outlook and point of view, while prospective is future-oriented, suggesting a vision of what is to come. Both this personal and aspirational approach, encompass the spirit of this student photography project. Presented in partnership with the School of Media, Art and Design at Durham College, this exhibition showcases photographs taken by students in the first year Photography and Video Production program.

Painters Eleven

December 11, 2021 - June 05, 2022

Complete Freedom

Rather than having a common philosophy or style, Painters Eleven banded together around their shared desire to support abstraction and exhibit together. As Jock Macdonald noted: “The meaning of our group is the fact that we think alike about creativeness in art and the unity established is our power.” Rather than a manifesto, the group settled on a statement: “There is no manifesto here for the times. There is no jury but time. By now there is little harmony in the noticeable disagreement. But there is a profound regard for the consequences of our complete freedom.” (1955)

NEW! Take a 360 Virtual Tour of Journeys

Journeys 360

Take a virtual trip through our Permanent Collection exhibition Journeys. Learn about select artworks in more detail and hear from our Curator of Collections, Sonya Jones.

Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Jessica Karuhanga, Chandra Melting Tallow, Carmen Papalia with Heather Kai Smith, jes sachse, Aislinn Thomas

September 18, 2021 - February 13, 2022

Undeliverable

Undeliverable is a continuation of artist Carmen Papalia's curatorial practice. Envisioning curation as a form of care, the exhibition brings together six artists from the Mad, Deaf and disability community, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Chandra Melting Tallow, Jessica Karuhanga, jes sachse, Aislinn Thomas, and Carmen Papalia with Heather Kai-Smith, re-envisioning the museum around the demands and desires of the disabled body/mind. Presented across two spaces – Tangled Art + Disability and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery – the exhibition features ambitious new work that challenges institutional structures and centres mutual accountability

Joi Arcand, Richelle Bear Hat, Susan Blight, Tsēmā Igharas, Audie Murray, Michelle Sylliboy, Alberta Rose W./Ingniq

November 27, 2021 - April 17, 2022

Taskoch pipon kona kah nipa muskoseya, nepin pesim eti pimachihew | Like the winter snow kills the grass, the summer sun revives it

Curated by Missy LeBlanc. Taskoch pipon kona kah nipa muskoseya, nepin pesim eti pimachihew | Like the winter snow kills the grass, the summer sun revives it features seven Indigenous artists who create work in an Indigenous language from each of the major geographic regions of what is now known as Canada—Anishinaabemowin, Komqwejwi'kasikl, Michif, nēhiyawēwin, Nitsiipowahsiin, Tāłtān, and Uummarmiutun. The exhibition celebrates and centres Indigenous language revitalization and ways of knowing.