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.
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.
How do we interact with the places we inhabit? Whether it be our homes, the wider community, or even our perceptions of self, this exhibition explores place as it exists through sensory experiences, between boundaries and memories, and across a set of ongoing, changing relationships.
Examining our relationship to the spaces we move through in our day to day lives, the artworks presented in this exhibit show different perspectives on how we impact a space through our presence or our absence, and how those spaces shape us in turn.
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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Thanks for joining us tonight at OAG! It was great to see everyone! 😊 #OAGSpringExhibitionOpening2024
OAG is open Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday: 10 AM – 6 PM | Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 10 AM – 9 PM and admission is always FREE. Thank you to OAG’s funders: @canada.council ...@ontarioartscouncil and @cityofottawa
Merci d’avoir été des nôtres ce soir à la GAO ! 😊 C’était merveilleux de se retrouver et de célébrer ensemble ! #VernissageGAOprintemps2024
Visiter la GAO est toujours GRATUIT. Heures d’ouverture : dimanche, mardi et mercredi : de 10 h à 18 h | jeudi, vendredi, samedi : de 10 h à 21 h. Merci aux bailleurs de fonds de la GAO : @conseilartscan, @conseilartsontario et @villedottawa
Visit oaggao.ca to learn more about OAG’s current exhibitions!
👉 Art School Confidential: Celebrating 50 Years of the Department of Visual Arts, University of Ottawa | Level 3
👉 Spanning the Divide: Art from the University of Ottawa Department of Visual Arts, 2023 | Level ...4
👉 The Marks We Make | Galerie Annexe, Level 1 |Exhibition Closing April 28th
Découvrez les expositions de la GAO ici : oaggao.ca !
👉 Beaux-arts et non-dits. Une célébration des 50 ans du Département d’arts visuels de l’Université d’Ottawa | niveau 3
👉 Traits d’union. Œuvres du Département d’arts visuels de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2023 | niveau 4
👉 Traces, empreintes, et marques | Galerie Annexe, niveau 1 | se termine le 28 avril
A Fine Discipline at OAG tonight! 👏 @tearkneeh @aash.barbu @arminshohrati @aylin.abbasi64
Opening Speeches at OAG Tonight! 👏🎉 Les discours de ce soir, dans le Hall Alma Duncan ! 👏🎉
OAG Director and CEO, Alexandra Badzak was on @ctvottawamorninglive today with @roseyedeh to talk about how recent grants from the @ontrillium will allow OAG to add key improvements to accessibility and visitor experience. Tonight is also our Spring Exhibition Opening! Hope to see you there at 6:30... PM. 🎉🥂
Thank you to @cbcottawa’s Sandra Abma and team for visiting OAG’s new exhibition Art School Confidential today!
Pictured from left to right are: CBC crew, Sandra Abma (CBC), Penny Cousineau-Levine @pennylevine (Curator), Zainab Hussain @zedmonster (Exhibition Artist), Martin Golland ...@martin_golland (Exhibition Artist), CBC Crew, and Rebecca Basciano @rebeccabasciano (OAG, Chief Curator).
Paint the Town Pink 💖 on May 16, 2024 at the OAG GIVE TO GET ART AUCTION! 🎉🥂
🎟️ TICKETS ON SALE NOW! 👉 Link in bio
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to purchase some incredible local artwork! 🙂👍 Preview artworks up for bid! 👉 Link in bio
...📱 Online bidding starts May 14 at 8:30 AM and ends May 16 at 8:30 PM.
💗 50% percent of the Art Auction proceeds will go back to the artists
💗 50% will go to help maintain FREE public access to the Gallery, exhibitions, workshops and artist talks.
#PaintTheTownPINK #GiveToGetArt
Le 16 mai, on déroule le tapis rose 💖 pour l’encan DONNEZ-VOUS À L’ART de la GAO ! 🎉🥂 À bientôt !
ACHETEZ VOS BILLETS ! 🎟️😃👉 Suivez le lien dans notre bio.
Ne manquez pas cette occasion emballante d’acquérir des œuvres incroyables réalisées par des artistes de la région. 🙂👉 Suivez le lien dans notre bio.
📱 Les enchères en ligne ouvrent à 8 h 30 le 14 mai pour se terminer à 20 h 30 le 16 mai.
💗 50 % des recettes de l’encan sont versées aux artistes.
💗 50 % des recettes aident à assurer l’entrée libre à la Galerie, à ses expositions, ateliers et présentations d’artistes.
#ondérouleletapisrose #donnezvousàlart
Meet the Curators from our current exhibition: Spanning the Divide: Art from the @uottawa @visualartsuo Department of Visual Arts 2023!
Karen Miller @karendmillerstudio and Rebecca Anne Rama @r_rrama are in the MA Contemporary Art Theory program at the University of Ottawa. This past year ...they participated in a curatorial mentorship, collaborating with the artists and the Gallery to mount this impressive exhibition!
Karen Miller is an Ottawa Textile Artist whose work creates conversation around the consequences of motherhood on women’s identity, perceptions, relationships and value.
Rebecca Anne Rama examines how contemporary artists interrogate transgressions of control, information collection and dissemination of seemingly benign technology through their artistic interventions.
📸 Rebecca’s photo: @remitheriault
Venez à la rencontre des commissaires de l’exposition Traits d’union. Œuvres de 2023 du Département d’arts visuels de l’Université d’Ottawa (@uottawa @visualartsuo) !
Au cours de la dernière année, Karen Miller et Rebecca Anne Rama, qui sont au programme de maîtrise en théorie d’art contemporain (M.A.) à l’Université d’Ottawa, ont suivi un mentorat en commissariat, collaborant avec les artistes et la Galerie pour monter cette impressionnante exposition !
Le travail de Karen Miller, artiste d’Ottawa travaillant avec le textile, suscite des conversations quant aux conséquences de la maternité sur l’identité, les perceptions, les relations et la valeur des femmes.
Rebecca Anne Rama examine de quelles façons les artistes d’aujourd’hui interrogent les transgressions de contrôle, la collecte d’informations et la diffusion de technologies, ce qui peut paraître anodin, par des interventions artistiques.
📸 Photo de Rebecca : @remitheriault
Paint the Town Pink 💖 on May 16, 2024 at the OAG GIVE TO GET ART AUCTION! 🎉🥂
🎟️ TICKETS ON SALE NOW! 👉 Link in bio
Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to purchase some incredible local artwork! 🙂👍 Preview artworks up for bid! 👉 Link in bio
...📱 Online bidding starts May 14 at 8:30 AM and ends May 16 at 8:30 PM.
💗 50% percent of the Art Auction proceeds will go back to the artists
💗 50% will go to help maintain FREE public access to the Gallery, exhibitions, workshops and artist talks.
#PaintTheTownPINK #GiveToGetArt
Le 16 mai, on déroule le tapis rose 💗 pour l’encan DONNEZ-VOUS À L’ART de la GAO ! 🎉🥂 À bientôt !
ACHETEZ VOS BILLETS ! 🎟️😃👉 Suivez le lien dans notre bio.
Ne manquez pas cette occasion emballante d’acquérir des œuvres incroyables réalisées par des artistes de la région. 🙂👉 Suivez le lien dans notre bio.
📱 Les enchères en ligne ouvrent à 8 h 30 le 14 mai pour se terminer à 20 h 30 le 16 mai.
💗 50 % des recettes de l’encan sont versées aux artistes.
💗 50 % des recettes aident à assurer l’entrée libre à la Galerie, à ses expositions, ateliers et présentations d’artistes.
#ondérouleletapisrose #donnezvousàlart
Here’s a sneak peek 👀 at the exhibition Arts School Confidential: Celebrating 50 Years of @visualartsuottawa @uottawa on view this Saturday at OAG! 😍 Thanks to exhibition curator @pennylevine for the staff tour!
@uottawa_arts
@uottawa_alumni
What Does Art School Do?
Sunday, April 28, 2024
1 PM - 2:30 PM | OAG Alma Duncan Salon, level 3
Register 👉 link in bio
A live discussion between artists Rebecca Bair @beckybair, Martin Golland @martin_golland, Cara Tierney @tearkneeh, Sarah Tompkins @sarahtomps and Jinny Yu... @jinny__yu, and art historian Anna Paluch @yalebuttons, moderated by Art School Confidential curator Penny Cousineau-Levine @pennylevine.
Join us for a live panel discussion linked to the OAG’s current exhibitions Art School Confidential: Celebrating 50 Years of the Department of Visual Arts, University of Ottawa (Level 3) and Spanning the Divide: Art from the University of Ottawa Department of Visual Arts 2023 (Level 4).
@uottawa
@visualartsuottawa
@uottawa_arts
@uottawa_alumni
Join us on Thursday, April 25th from 6:30 PM to 8 PM at the Spring Exhibition Opening! 🎉🙂👉 Register with the link in bio.
You do not want to miss this spring celebration! 🥂
Evening festivities will include refreshments, speeches and more.
OAG is pleased to offer ...free childcare during exhibition opening receptions. It will be available until 8 PM in the Studio (level 0). Please email cstewart@oaggao.ca to register.
#YourArtisHere
Soyez des nôtres le jeudi 25 avril de 18 h 30 à 20 h pour le vernissage du printemps de la GAO ! 🎉 Inscrivez-vous en suivant le lien dans notre bio. 🙂👍
Un évènement à ne pas manquer ! 🥂
Les festivités comprendront des choses à déguster, des discours, et une performance.
La GAO offre, dans le Studio (niveau 0), un service de garde gratuit durant les soirées de vernissage de ses expositions. Le service est disponible jusqu’à 20 h. Veuillez écrire à cstewart@oaggao.ca pour réserver une ou des place(s).
#VotreArtIci
