Welcome to the Ottawa Art Gallery. As a public art gallery, the OAG is a space for reflection and respectful dialogue. We believe that art plays an important role in addressing and helping us to better understand the complex, global challenges of our time. To that end, we prioritize care in all we do and we condemn all forms of hate.
OTTAWA ART GALLERY IS SITUATED ON TRADITIONAL ANISHINĀBE AKI.Odāwā ojichigan-wābandahidiwigamig ate Anishinābe-akìng egā wìkād kā pagidinigādegOttawa Art Gallery is situated on Traditional Anishinābe Akìx
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The Ottawa Art Gallery is home to the Art and Artists of the Ottawa-Gatineau region; where you can experience the collections, exhibits and events that link us, and where connection happens between Art and City. Ottawa, YOUR ART IS HERE.
Admission to the OAG is always FREE.
The Ottawa Art Gallery is LEED® Certified®, LEED® Silver®. The LEED® certification trademark is licensed in Canada to the Canada Green Building Council® and is used with permission.
This exhibit unites the featured artists through their shared exploration of the use of textiles in their practice. Whether it serves as inspiration, subject, process, or the very foundation of their work, textiles become an avenue for these artists to delve into the close connections we share with tactile materials.
This work delves into the beauty of flowers and their Fibonacci connections, as well as cosmic fascination and intertwining Earth and lunar rhythms.
Through the Ground Glass is a dialogue between the work of historical Ottawa photographer William James Topley and six contemporary artists: Lori Blondeau, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Anique Jordan, Neeko Paluzzi, Adrian Stimson and Geneviève Thauvette. These artists engage with image manipulation, hauntology, costumes and theatricality to subvert narratives and reclaim power through portraiture.
Art School Confidential celebrates five decades of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa, representing the work of 50 artists who have taught and studied in the historic building located at 100 Laurier East since 1974.
The Firestone Collection of Canadian Art is a significant art collection that spans the modern period and includes work from a wide range of Canadian art styles, geographical regions, and periods. The two largest themes represented in the collection are landscape and abstraction.
Come to the Jackson Café to discover two large murals, featuring the digital artwork of Eric Chan (aka eepmon).
This piece is a digitization of a birch bark biting that has then been reproduced through risograph printing. The biting can be interpreted as chickadees flying around flowers.
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Stop by the OAG Kids Zone on level 1 on your next visit to the Gallery! 😊 Get creative and add to the artwork wall 🖍️👏
Catch the exhibition 👀 Art School Confidential: Celebrating 50 Years of the Department of Visual Arts, University of Ottawa 😍 this summer at OAG! ☀️ Admission is always FREE. 👍
Drop in to the Studio for Creative Sundays 🎨 on July 21st from 10 AM to 2 PM.
On vous attend au Studio de la GAO lors des Dimanches créatifs, 🎨 le 21 juillet de 10 h à 14 h.
📸 May Gao
Have you seen OAG’s latest public art piece? 👀🌺🌊 On June 20th, 2024 OAG officially unveiled the largest mural ever created by Ottawa artist @eepmon on the @lessuitesottawa parking garage, facing the OAG on Daly Avenue. Read more 🙂👉🔗 in bio
Avez-vous vu la dernière ...œuvre d’art public de la GAO ? 👀🌺🌊 Le 20 juin 2024, la GAO dévoilait officiellement la plus grande murale jamais créée par l’artiste EEPMON d’Ottawa sur le garage de l’hôtel Les Suites face à la Galerie, sur l’avenue Daly. Pour en savoir plus 🙂👉 suivez le 🔗 dans notre bio.
📸 @lindsayralph
TWO-PART PAPER MAKING WORKSHOP
July 27 and August 10, 2024
Join artist Jenny McMaster @mcmasterjenny and accessibility expert Kim Kilpatrick for a paper making workshop for participants who are blind and partially-sighted.
Explore the wet and dry textures of the paper-making... process and take home a beautiful sheet of paper!
Limited spaces available for this free workshop for individuals who are blind and partially-sighted. For any questions or to sign up, please contact Haley Menard at hmenard@oaggao.ca
Once you have registered, directions and information will be provided.
ATELIER DE FABRICATION DE PAPIER (EN DEUX PARTIES)
27 juillet et 10 août 2024
L’artiste Jenny McMaster et Kim Kilpatrick, une experte en accessibilité, offrent un atelier de fabrication de papier pour les personnes non voyantes ou qui vivent avec une vision réduite.
Venez explorer les textures humides et sèches de la fabrication du papier et repartez avec une feuille de papier fait main !
Les places sont limitées pour cet atelier gratuit destiné aux personnes non voyantes ou qui vivent avec une vision réduite. Écrivez à Haley Menard (hmenard@oaggao.ca) pour vous inscrire ou pour toute question.
Des informations et instructions vous seront transmises une fois votre inscription confirmée.
SNAP Street ART Selfie Here. 😁🤳 Don’t forget to tag @ottawaartgallery 👍
Fondre dans le décor. Ici pour votre ÉGOPORTRAIT. 😁🤳 N’oubliez pas de nous identiqueter @ottawaartgallery ! 👍
New signage at the Mackenzie King Bridge entrance! 👀💖🙌🛍️
Collections Story: Lawren Harris – Mount Thule, Bylot Island 🏔️
In recognition of Group of Seven Day on July 7, take a closer look 👀 at this piece. Can you imagine semi circles, dynamic vertical lines, and wave-like patterns beneath the surface of this work?
Depicting ...Mount Thule in Nunavut, one of the highest peaks in the Baffin Mountains, this landscape was originally thought to have been created sometime in the 1930s after Lawren Harris travelled to the Arctic on a sketching trip with A.Y. Jackson.
Learn more 👉 link in bio.
Histoires d’une collection : Mount Thule, Bylot Island [Mont Thulé, Île Bylot] de Lawren Harris 🏔️
Le 7 juillet de chaque année est proclamé Jour du Groupe des Sept. Pour souligner ceci, nous vous invitons à regarder de plus près 👀 ce tableau. Pouvez-vous déceler des demi-cercles, des lignes verticales dynamiques et des motifs ondulants sous la surface de l’œuvre ?
Représentant le mont Thulé au Nunavut, l’un des plus hauts sommets des monts Baffin, ce paysage aurait été créé dans les années 1930, après que Lawren Harris se soit rendu dans l’Arctique pour un voyage de dessin avec A.Y. Jackson.
Pour en savoir plus 👉 suivez le lien dans notre bio.
@ontariotravel
📸 May Gao
Summer @ the OAG 😎🌺☀️ | A Message from OAG Director and CEO, Alexandra Badzak
Take a break from the summer heat (or rain!) and be immersed in bold installations and exquisite exhibitions at the Ottawa Art Gallery (OAG) as we celebrate exciting initiatives that not only prompt ...reflection on Ottawa’s past but also explore the potential of art to transform Ottawa’s downtown.
Read more 👉🔗 link in bio
L’été à la GAO 😎🌺☀️| Un mot d’Alexandra Badzak, directrice et chef de la direction de la GAO
Offrez-vous une pause de la chaleur (ou de la pluie !) à la Galerie d’art d’Ottawa (GAO) cet été. Venez célébrer et découvrir nos installations audacieuses, nos expositions sublimes et des initiatives inspirantes qui encouragent la réflexion sur le passé d’Ottawa, mais explorent également le potentiel transformateur de l’art pour le centre-ville.
Pour en savoir plus, suivez le lien 🔗 dans notre bio.
📸 @lindsayralph
Resist the Urge to Take a Selfie Here. 🤳😁 Don’t forget to tag @ottawaartgallery 👍
C’est l’heure de la pose. 🤳😁 N’oubliez pas de nous identiqueter @ottawaartgallery ! 👍
OAG Camp Leaders are getting ready for summer art camps next week! ☀️😎 The registration deadline has been extended! 👀🎨 Follow the link 🔗 in bio to join us!
Thanks to OAG Chief Curator @rebeccabasciano for the staff tour of Through the Ground Glass: Reframing William James Topley, on view now on level 4. 😍 The exhibition features the work of artists: Lori Blondeau, @chun_hua_catherine_dong, @aniquejordan, Neeko Paluzzi, @adrian_stimson and ...@g_thauvette. Admission is always FREE. 🙂
