Featured Exhibitions

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James Webb

Prayer
Nov 30 '19 Oct 4 '20
Prayer is an ongoing project, remade around the world since its first presentation in the artist's home city of Cape Town in 2000.

subsist

Nov 30 '19 Oct 4 '20
subsist brings together a selection of works that reflect political, economic, and social systems of subsistence in individual and collective continuation of cultural practices for survival.

Rooftop

Sculpture Garden
Open for the season
During summer months, the WAG’s Rooftop Sculpture Garden is open for all to enjoy! A striking selection of 20th and 21st century bronze, steel, and stone sculptures by Canadian and European artists will keep you company.

Norval Morrisseau

Androgyny
Nov 10 '18 Oct 15 '20
Androgyny expresses his view of the fluidity and interconnectedness of life, as well as gender. In 1983 he offered this mural, in a decolonizing gesture of reconciliation, to the people of Canada.

Carving Out a Tradition

Sep 1 '19 Oct 25 '20
This collection of carvings produced by Inuit artists from across the country offers a window into traditional life and ways of knowing in the North.

Nuliajuk’s Story

Feb 7 '20 Jan 3 '21
Storytelling is one of the most important aspects of Inuit culture, passed down by elders through generations to enrich and enlighten.

ᐃ

Nov 8 '19 Jan 30 '21
This symbol in both Inuktitut and Anishininiwak translates into ‘I’ , embodying self-determination and solidarity in collective reclamation.

Salon Style

Reimagining the Collection
Ongoing
See old favourites in an exciting new way! Discover some of the oldest and best loved artworks in the WAG collection in salon-style fashion, featuring some rarely seen gems from the 16th-to-19th centuries.

WAG@The Park

Terrains and Botanicals

Walter J. Phillips and Linda Fairfield Stechesen
Aug 31 '20 Feb 21 '21
Pairing landscape paintings by Walter J. Phillips with the botanical illustrations of Linda Fairfield Stechesen, this exhibition represents the ecology of the Prairies from two very different, yet complimentary approaches, giving us a fuller picture of the natural world.

Looking Through

The Silhouettes and Cutaways of Ivan Eyre
Aug 17 '20 Feb 21 '21
This exhibition presents a selection of Ivan Eyre’s series of “silhouettes”, and “cutaways”. It also studies his fascination with using everyday structures, such as the windowsill or a common packing box as a framing device. For Eyre, these structures were a gateway for “looking through”—and beyond—physical reality as we may commonly perceive it.
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