AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario

AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario Explore the gallery that explores every side of who we are. Our Mission: We bring art and people together and boldly declare that Art Matters.
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The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) (French: Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario) is an art museum in Toronto's Downtown Grange Park district, on Dundas Street West between McCaul Street and Beverley Street. Our collection includes more than 80,000 works spanning the 1st century to the present-day. The gallery has 45,000 square metres (480,000 sq ft) of physical space, making it one of the largest gall

eries in North America. Significant collections include the largest collection of Canadian art, an expansive body of works from the Renaissance and the Baroque eras, European art, African and Oceanic art, and a modern and contemporary collection. The photography collection is a large part of the collection, as well as an extensive drawing and prints collection. The museum contains many significant sculptures, such as in the Henry Moore sculpture centre, and represents other forms of art like historic objects, miniatures, frames, books and medieval illuminations, film and video art, graphic art, installations, architecture, and ship models. During the AGO's history, it has hosted and organized some of the world's most renowned and significant exhibitions, and continues to do so, to this day. Over the last three decades, the gallery has seen four major expansions and renovations, typically considered a high amount and unseen by most galleries of the world, and continues to add spaces today. The gallery recently built the Weston Family Learning Centre, and is building a David Milne Research Centre, designed by Hariri Pontarini Architects. It's last major renovations have seen architects like John C. Parkin, Barton Myers, KPMB Architects, and most recently, Frank Gehry.

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Join us in the Weston Family Learning Centre for Reciprocal Creation: TDSB Students in Dialogue, featuring photography s...
05/31/2026

Join us in the Weston Family Learning Centre for Reciprocal Creation: TDSB Students in Dialogue, featuring photography students from six TDSB schools who explore art as conversation.

Following a visit to the AGO, students responded to our photography exhibitions, including Collective Visions: Celebrating 25 Years of Photography, by creating new works inspired by what they saw and felt. Drawing on the "exquisite corpse” approach in Collective Visions, students asked: How does it connect to my own lived experience? The resulting artworks are not copies, but thoughtful extensions of ideas, emotions, and questions that together form a dialogue across time, place, and perspective.

June 3, 5:30-9 pm
This is a FREE event.

https://ago.ca/events/tdsb-student-photography-exhibition

Photo credits:
(top row) - Zubaida Jahan, Amelia Sautie Oquendo, Kayla Miller-Allen
(bottom row) - Daxton Howald, Aisha Naeem, Jayanne Crystal Dela Cruz

Mino-bimaadiziwin || In celebration of Indigenous History Month, the Art Gallery of Ontario welcomes Anishinaabe artist ...
05/30/2026

Mino-bimaadiziwin || In celebration of Indigenous History Month, the Art Gallery of Ontario welcomes Anishinaabe artist Cody Houle to Walker Court to create a live painting in response to Robert Houle’s Seven Grandfathers. We also are exciting to host Stephanie Hashie for an opening performance. Visitors are invited to observe the artist’s process and engage with this evolving work as it unfolds in the gallery.

This program encourages reflection on Mino-bimaadiziwin— “the good life”—and the ways the Seven Grandfather teachings guide individuals and communities toward living in balance and with respect. Through this live artistic response, audiences are invited to consider how these teachings inform our understanding of our place and responsibility within creation.

Friday, June 5, 6-9PM, Walker Court.
This event is free with admission, with complimentary admission to all Indigenous peoples.

https://ago.ca/events/mino-bimaadiziwin

“Originally, we were just kicking around titles and I thought Eye of the Storm, because just singular, because The Beatl...
05/29/2026

“Originally, we were just kicking around titles and I thought Eye of the Storm, because just singular, because The Beatles were at the eye, in the eye of their own self-made storm. But as we looked at the pictures, I thought well it's more eyes of the storm. Because there wasn't just one moment, there were plenty of moments when we were at the centre of a storm.” - Paul McCartney

There is only one week left to see Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm. Don't miss the opportunity to see all the moments - the last day is Sunday, June 7.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxmhc7w

Paul McCartney, Self - portrait. London, 1963 © 1963 - 1964 Paul McCartney under exclusive license to MPL Archive LLP"

This summer, from acclaimed American artist Dawoud Bey, comes a focused installation of film and photographs that anchor...
05/28/2026

This summer, from acclaimed American artist Dawoud Bey, comes a focused installation of film and photographs that anchor the tenuous relationships between North American landscapes and Black diasporic experiences. This installation features a selection of works from the artist's three landscape-based projects: Night Coming Tenderly, Black; In This Here Place; and Stony the Road. Dawoud Bey: Material Histories, Living Landscapes provides a space for contemplating the enduring legacies of history in the contemporary moment. The exhibition opens July 25, 2026.

Presented at the AGO, in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art 2026, this exhibition is curated by Allison Glenn, Curator of the 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art. It opens July 25, 2026 and will be on view through Spring 2027.

With thanks to Lead Sponsor TD for their support of this exhibition.

https://ago.ca/exhibitions/dawoud-bey

Untitled (James River Through the Opening) from the series Stony the Road, 2023, Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953), gelatin silver print. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Mrs. Alfred duPont, byexchange. Image © Dawoud Bey

🌲Emily Carr’s Inside a Forest II. In the early 1930s, Emily Carr began to focus primarily on painting the forests of the...
05/27/2026

🌲Emily Carr’s Inside a Forest II. In the early 1930s, Emily Carr began to focus primarily on painting the forests of the Northwest Coast. Visit Inside a Forest II alongside seven other paintings by Carr, on view on Level 2 of the AGO. 🌲

https://tinyurl.com/3tha8auu

Emily Carr. Inside a Forest II, 1929-1930. Oil on canvas, Overall: 109.9 x 69.8 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Bequest of Charles S. Band, 1970. Photo © AGO 69/11

We’re excited to share that this summer, we’re re-imagining our retail experience and providing creative ways for more p...
05/26/2026

We’re excited to share that this summer, we’re re-imagining our retail experience and providing creative ways for more people to come together. With thanks to the RBC Foundation Community Spaces Grant program, the Shop will become an even more welcoming destination, blending art prints, books and Indigenous-designed products with new space for community connections. We can’t wait to welcome you to your new Shop and Café.

Construction is set to begin late June 2026 and it will re-open in November 2026. Stay tuned for more details!

https://ago.ca/press-release/ago-transform-visitor-welcome-fall-2026-support-rbc-foundation

https://www.rbc.com/our-impact/apply-for-funding/rbc-foundation-community-spaces-grant/index.html

Rendering courtesy of CHIL Interior Design and B+H Architects. Produced at the Design Development stage, final design may vary.

Mapping Toronto’s 19th Century Studio Photography || This week's photography-focused edition of Open Door Wednesdays wil...
05/26/2026

Mapping Toronto’s 19th Century Studio Photography || This week's photography-focused edition of Open Door Wednesdays will be curated by TMU grad students.
May 27, 1-8 pm in The Marvin Gelber Print and Drawing Centre on Level 1 of the AGO. Entrance is free for all visitors with admission.

https://tinyurl.com/fywvhbdw

John Harrington Noverre, Unknown Sitter [Portrait of a Seated Girl Posed with a Cabinet Card Album], ca. 1873. Carte-de-visite, albumen print, Overall: 10.2 x 6.2 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift of Mary F. Williamson, 2009. Image © AGO. 2009/180.17c.

05/25/2026

A 14 year-old kid from Scarborough becomes the President of the first Beatles Fan Club in North America. Trudy Medcalf tells us about her experience meeting the Beatles and welcoming them to Toronto. Iconic. 🤩

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The Research Behind Eleonora Susette || Join curator Dr. Adam Harris Levine and his colleague Dr. Monique Johnson as the...
05/24/2026

The Research Behind Eleonora Susette || Join curator Dr. Adam Harris Levine and his colleague Dr. Monique Johnson as they dive into a modern mystery. Learn about the research process behind the AGO's proposed identity for Jeremias Schultz's painting of a woman holding an orange blossom. The two will share their findings from a years long, interdisciplinary research project, leading to the AGO's retitling of the painting.
June 7, 2-3:30 pm.

🎟️ https://ago.ca/events/research-behind-eleonora-susette

Jeremias Schultz. Portrait of Eleonora Susette, 1775. Oil on canvas. Overall: 80 × 56.2 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchase, with funds from the European Curatorial Committee, 2020. Photo © AGO. 2019/2437

Bring home a little piece of Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm. Stop by the main shop, or the one in...
05/23/2026

Bring home a little piece of Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm. Stop by the main shop, or the one in the exhibition on your next visit!

https://tinyurl.com/5cs8pb7u

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