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 2023

May 5th, 2023 - June 11th, 2023

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 […]

Piecework

April 1st, 2023 - September 3rd, 2023

Special Exhibition

Curator: Leila Timmins

Artists: Hangama Amiri, Alicia Barbieri, Colleen Heslin, Jeremy Laing, Preston Pavlis, Jagdeep Raina, Moraa Stump, Judith Tinkl, Joyce Wieland, Alice Olsen Williams

Using the materiality of quilt making as a metaphor for how the fabric of the world holds together, this exhibition brings together a group of contemporary artists who use textiles and assemblage as world-building tools. Pulling together the seemingly discarded, quilts are a composition of scraps, held together with the intention of offering warmth and […]

Painters Eleven: Ontario’s Abstract Collective

March 11th, 2023 - August 20th, 2023

Permanent Collection

Painters Eleven was the first abstract artist collective in Ontario. They were founded in 1953 at the cottage of artist Alexandra Luke on the Oshawa/Whitby border. 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 […]

Mary Rawlyk: Domestic Disruptions

March 11th, 2023 - June 18th, 2023

Permanent Collection

Curator: Sonya Jones

Artists: Mary Rawlyk

The Covid-19 pandemic laid bare the heightened and continued economic and domestic disparities women experience in the workforce. Over the last three years, women were laid off at a higher rate, and those priviledged to be able to work from home still bore the brunt of the caregiving and domestic labour. This widening inequality has […]

The Ties That Bind

October 8th, 2022 - August 20th, 2023

Permanent Collection

Curator: Sonya Jones

Experience this exhibition through a new 360 tour! Feeling connected is a fundamental psychological need. In nature, ecosystems depend on interactions and connections in order to thrive.  Similarly, humans flourish through connections that are physical, emotional, and social. However, the desire to connect can go beyond relationships. As we have seen through the pandemic, there […]