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.

Durham District School Board Exhibition: For Art’s Sake

March 5, 2026 - March 22, 2026

Community Partnerships

The Durham District School Board: For Art’s Sake exhibition is a bi-annual celebration of the artistic talent of high school students in the Durham District School Board. Showcasing artworks from nearly every high school in the region, this event recognizes our budding young artists. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, March 5, […]

Painters Eleven: Radical Colour

March 7, 2026 - August 23, 2026

Permanent Collection

Curator: Sonya Jones

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

Painters Eleven was the first abstract artist collective in Ontario. The Toronto group was founded in 1953 at the cottage of artist Alexandra Luke on the Oshawa–Whitby border. In the early 1950s, Toronto’s art scene was criticized for being conservative and unexciting. Painters Eleven was determined to shake things up and elevate abstraction within mainstream […]

Community Connections

January 17, 2026 - June 7, 2026

Community Partnerships

Curator: Sonya Jones

The Robert McLaughlin Gallery and the Oshawa Camera Club is teaming up with Community Development Council Durham’s (CDCD) Community Connections program to highlight the experiences of newcomers and immigrants in Durham Region. For this project, the participants took photographs that capture their lives in their new community and consider their important role within it. The […]

Natural Curiosities

January 17, 2026 - June 7, 2026

Permanent Collection

Curator: Sonya Jones

Artists: Various from permanent collection

Flowers and plants have long fascinated artists, serving as both subjects of study and sources of inspiration. To hone their skills of observation, artists look to botanical subjects to study the effects of form, colour, and light and to translate the beauty and fragility they see in nature into poignant works of art. Drawing from […]

Haley Uyeda: Without Being Said

February 24, 2026 - April 19, 2026

Artist Residency

Curator: Hannah Keating

Artists: Haley Uyeda

Without Being Said is an exhibition of new work by Haley Uyeda featuring photograms on canvas, paper collages, and framed photographs. Attentive to the effects of light and shadow, Uyeda gravitates to windows as a formal element in her work and as a creative agent in her art-making processes. Conceptually, windows are portals of absence […]

Scott Rogers: Mutualism (Fixed Assets)

November 15, 2025 - April 12, 2026

Special Exhibition

Curator: Leila Timmins

Artists: Scott Rogers

Mutualism (Fixed Assets) is a new temporary public artwork for the backyard at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery. This ambitious new installation builds on Rogers’ interest in human- built infrastructures for the care and support of non-human beings. Taking the form of a site-responsive bird feeding station, the work is assembled from broken automobile parts scavenged […]

Homage

September 6, 2025 - August 23, 2026

Permanent Collection

Curator: Sonya Jones

Paying homage is more than an act of reverence—it is a gesture rooted in respect and a way to acknowledge influence and inspiration. Artists often engage with the past to make sense of the present: responding to those who shaped them, the histories they’ve inherited, and the cultural forces that continue to shape our world. […]

Olivia Whetung: inawendiwok

November 15, 2025 - April 12, 2026

Special Exhibition

Curator: Mona Filip

Artists: Olivia Whetung

Organized by The Art Gallery of Mississauga A member of Curve Lake First Nation and citizen of the Nishnaabeg Nation, artist Olivia Whetung draws upon her experience working on and with the land to create artworks that speak of the interdependence and relationality within our ecosystem. Researching land-based and food de-commodifying movements, Anishinaabe knowledge, and […]