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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 galleries 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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Hoping to see these sheaves of wheat *one last time* before they leave? We've got exciting news for   and Annual Passhol...
10/06/2026

Hoping to see these sheaves of wheat *one last time* before they leave? We've got exciting news for and Annual Passholders. You get to skip the crowds with extended hours, allowing for a quieter way to experience The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art. Come early, stay late. Just don't miss your last chance to see this much beloved exhibition before it closes on October 18.

🕙 Oct. 9, 9-10 pm
🕙 Oct. 10, 5:30-7:30 pm
🕙 Oct. 11, 9:30-10:30 am
🕙 Oct. 15, 5:00-7:00 pm
🕙 Oct. 17 + Oct. 18: 9:30-10:30 am

Not a Member or Annual Passholder? Join now to enjoy these exclusive times.

https://ago.ca/exhibitions/impressionist-revolution-monet-matisse-dallas-museum-art

Vincent van Gogh. Sheaves of Wheat, July 1890. Oil on canvas, unframed: 50.8 x 101.6 cm. Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, 1985.R.80

Members' Night | Sunday Best: The Power & The Glory of Black StyleYou’re invited to experience a special evening at the ...
10/05/2026

Members' Night | Sunday Best: The Power & The Glory of Black Style
You’re invited to experience a special evening at the Gallery, with exclusive Member access to the opening of Sunday Best: The Power & The Glory of Black Style, curator pop-up talks in Melissa Auf der Maur: My ’90s Rock Photographs, and expert-led tours throughout the museum.

Gather with fellow Members over delicious drinks and nibbles at the Members-only Speakeasy or w**e bar, and experience AV Live in Walker Court—an immersive fusion of electronic music, live generative visuals, modular synthesis and multi-screen projections that transforms the Gallery into a one-of-a-kind experience.

October 9 | 5 - 9 pm

https://ago.ca/events/members-night-sunday-best-power-glory-black-style

Melodie McDaniel, Untitled 5, from the series Sunday Best, 1995. © Melodie McDaniel

🥐 Breakfast is served. We'll take one order of this buttery brioche painted by Manet, s'il vous plaît, merci! 🥐Also on t...
10/04/2026

🥐 Breakfast is served. We'll take one order of this buttery brioche painted by Manet, s'il vous plaît, merci! 🥐

Also on the menu: all the other delightful works on view in The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art. Come see it soon - the last day to see the exhibition is October 18!

https://ago.ca/exhibitions/impressionist-revolution-monet-matisse-dallas-museum-art

Edouard Manet. Brioche with Pears, 1876. Oil on canvas, unframed: 46.0 x 55.9 cm. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the Wendy and Emery Reves Foundation, 2024.R.2

📏 Brian Groombridge: New Models for Measurement || The Canadian artist’s debut AGO solo exhibition is on view now.📏https...
10/03/2026

📏 Brian Groombridge: New Models for Measurement || The Canadian artist’s debut AGO solo exhibition is on view now.📏

https://tinyurl.com/yx3byz2n

Installation view: Brian Groombridge: New Models for Measurement, 2026, Art Gallery of Ontario. Artworks © Brian Groombridge. Photo: AGO.

It's the last weekend to see Painted Presence: Rembrandt and his Peers. Learn more in this Foyer story with co-curators ...
10/02/2026

It's the last weekend to see Painted Presence: Rembrandt and his Peers. Learn more in this Foyer story with co-curators Adam Harris Levine and Suzanne van de Meerendonk as they discuss what makes a Rembrandt. The last day to see the show is Sunday, October 4.

https://readfoyer.com/article/painted-presence

1 | R. Doornbos, Vanitas Still Life with a Calendar and Musical Instruments, around 1665. Oil on canvas, 55.9 x 68.6 cm. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader, 2014 (57-001.09). Photo: Bernard Clark
2 | Rembrandt van Rijn (attributed to), A Scholar by Candlelight, around 1628–1629. Oil on copper, 13.9 x 13.9 cm. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Gift of Isabel Bader, 2019 (62-004.02). Photo: John Glembin
3 | Arent de Gelder, The Artist’s Studio, around 1710–1715. Oil on canvas, 48.9 x 57.8 cm. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Gift of Alfred and Isabel Bader, 2015 (58-010)

Don't miss your chance to see Diego Marcon: Bubble Boy before it closes this weekend. Marcon's cinematic vision draws on...
10/01/2026

Don't miss your chance to see Diego Marcon: Bubble Boy before it closes this weekend. Marcon's cinematic vision draws on Hollywood musicals, horror films, melodrama, and slapstick, to present films both unsettling and tender. They are playful and uncanny and most certainly unforgettable.
Make sure to stop in and spend time with all three. The last day to see the exhibition is Sunday, October 4.
Diego Marcon is organized by the Art Gallery of Ontario and The Vega Foundation.

https://ago.ca/exhibitions/diego-marcon-bubble-boy

1 | Installation view: Diego Marcon: The Bubble Boy, June 6 - October 4, 2026, Art Gallery of Ontario. Artwork © Diego Marcon. Krapfen, 2025. Courtesy the Artist, Sadie Coles HQ, London, and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York. Produced by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Lafayette Anticipations, New Museum, The Renaissance Society, The Vega Foundation. Photo: AGO.
2 | Installation view: Diego Marcon: The Bubble Boy, June 6 - October 4, 2026, Art Gallery of Ontario. Artwork © Diego Marcon, Dolle, 2023. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Produced by Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, thanks to PAC2021 – Piano per l’Arte Contemporanea. Promoted by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea del Ministero della Cultura. Photo: AGO
3 | Installation view: Diego Marcon: The Bubble Boy, June 6 - October 4, 2026, Art Gallery of Ontario. Artwork © Diego Marcon, The Parents' Room, 2021. Courtesy the Artist and Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee, Naples. Supported by Italian Council (2019). Photo: AGO

The spookiest thing this month is how great our October programming is. In between working on your Hallowe’en costume, j...
10/01/2026

The spookiest thing this month is how great our October programming is. In between working on your Hallowe’en costume, join us for:

🖼️ First Wednesday Night Free
🍸 Drawing. Drinks. Social
🗣 Talk on Pierre Louis Alexandre
💃 Sunday Best Performance
🍳 Breakfast Club
🕹️ Video Game Arts Appreciation Night

This month’s update is brought to you by Signature Partner, RBC.

https://ago.ca/events/browse

Art and artists help us relate to each other, our stories and the world around us. Today on Orange Shirt Day and the Nat...
09/30/2026

Art and artists help us relate to each other, our stories and the world around us. Today on Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we invite you to be guided by Indigenous art.

We will have screenings of short films, spanning documentary, fiction and animation, courtesy of the National Film Board, along with guided tours of art by First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists currently on display. We hope the films and artworks will offer visitors valuable perspective, prompting them to reflect on the day’s meaning.

The films will be screened from 11-8 pm, and tours will begin at 2 pm.

https://ago.ca/events/orange-shirt-day-and-national-day-truth-and-reconciliation

Kenojuak Ashevak, Colorful Sentinel from Kenojuak/Folio 2, 1980. Lithograph, Overall: 56.9 x 79.5 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift of Samuel and Esther Sarick, Toronto, 2002. © Estate of Kenojuak Ashevak. Reproduced with the permission of Dorset Fine Arts.

We’re thrilled to share the 2027 line up of AGO exhibitions with you! Here are just a few, head to our website for a ful...
09/29/2026

We’re thrilled to share the 2027 line up of AGO exhibitions with you! Here are just a few, head to our website for a full list of all the great art we’re bringing to you next year!​

What makes the top of your must-see list?​

• July 2027, Matisse: Notes on Jazz
• July 2027, Mary Pratt & Jack Chambers: The Lives of Others​
• November 2027, Pointillist Politics: Neo-Impressionism, Anarchy, Utopia​
• March 2027, Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change​
• February 2027, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun: Man of Many Masks, Man of Many Colours​
• January 2027, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: OPERA (QM. 15)​
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https://ago.ca/exhibitions -next​
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1 | Henri Matisse, Icarus (Icare) from Jazz, 1947. Colour pochoir on wove paper, Overall: 42.2 x 64.7 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift of Mr. Arthur Gelber, 1986. Photo © AGO. 86/130​
2 | LEFT: Jack Chambers, Mums, 1968-1971. Oil on wood, Collection of Museum London, Purchased with funds provided by the Volunteer Committee and other generous donors, 1993. © Jack Chambers Estate. Photo Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid. RIGHT: Mary Pratt, Girl in My Dressing Gown, 1981. Oil on board, Overall: 153.7 × 77.5 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchase, with funds from the Beryl Ivey Fund, 2024. © Estate of Mary Pratt / CARCC Ottawa 2026. 2024/1​
3 | Henri Edmond Cross, Excursion, 1895. Oil on canvas, 113 x 169.5 cm. Chrysler Museum of Art, Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 77.416. Photo courtesy Chrysler Museum of Art​
4 | Cannupa Hanska Luger, Midéegaadi: Fire Bison, 2022, repurposed materials, Gochman Family Collection, Photo: Brandon Soder, Courtesy of the Artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York ​
5 | Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets’lo:tseltun, Fire Landscape Painting, 2018, Acrylic on canvas, 406 × 292 cm. Collection Majudia (Pierre Trahan). Courtesy of Macaulay + Co. and the artist, Photo: Byron Dauncey. ​
6 | Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Opera (QM. 15), 2016. HD video, projector, screens, media player, amplifier, speakers, lights, curtains, Running Time: 8 Minutes, 30 Seconds. Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchased with funds donated by the Modern and Contemporary Curatorial Committee, and the David Yuile & Mary Elizabeth Hodgson Fund, 2018. © Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster / ADAGP, Paris / CARCC, Ottawa 2026. Photo © Andrea Rossetti. 2018/2

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