Exhibitions

Lithic Life is a mid-career survey charting Cole Swanson’s research explorations of material geology and pigment-making.    Just north of Peterborough, the ground holds a rich diversity of minerals. Along the landscape, pockets of glistening …

“Queerness as a way of being in the world weaves the singularity of desire, pleasure, and grief with social histories. It is an aesthetic disposition: a way of knowing that comes from the senses. Queerness is an open-ended politics that, at its bes…

works from the Permanent Collection Anne Meredith Barry, Edward Bartram, David Bierk, Gary Blundell, Dr. Roberta Bondar, Gathie Falk, J.C. Heywood, Robin Mackenzie, Brent McIntosh, George Raab, Gordon Rayner, Jim Reid, Elspeth Stevenson, Ruth Thom…

Curated by Erin Szikora and Leila TimminsOrganized and circulated by The Robert McLaughlin Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, October 25 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm Born in Iqaluit, Nunavut, but living predominantly in Southern Ontario, Couzyn van He…

Peter Kohut | Stalagmites October 11, 2025 – January 4, 2026 “. . .we are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons.” Carlo Rivolli, The Order of Time, 2018 …

works from the Permanent Collection Kenojuak Ashevak, Pitseolak Ashoona, Barbara Astman, Peter Barron, Ann Beam, Carl Beam, Leland Bell, David Bierk, John Boyle, Marlene Creates, Lena Daling, Tom Forrestall, Leonard Hutchison, Alex Janvier, Joshi…

ᓴᓇᙳᐊᕐᓂᖅ ᐊᑦᑕᑯᐃᓪᓗ ᐸᓐᓂᖅᑑᒥ Art + Waste in Panniqtuuq Madeleine Aasivak Qumuataq, Jupa Ishulutak, Kawtysie Kakee Annie Kilabuk, David Kilabuk, Talia Metuq, Oleepika Nashalik, Malaya Pitsiulak, Micky Renders …

works from the Permanent Collection Kenojuak Ashevak, Ann Beam, Carl Beam, Leland Bell, John Boyle, Marlene Creates, Daphne Odjig, Michael Robinson

Location: Art Gallery of PeterboroughOur region is rich with talented artists practicing across a range of styles and mediums. From Stoney Lake to Keene, the annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour offers the public a chance to view art in the working spa…

Works from the Youth Art Mentorship Program Lillian Bleecker, Jay Hopkins, Violet Jackson Anaïs Le Goaix, and AJ Livings Artist-Mentor: Spencer J. HarrisonThis exhibition is the culmination of the 2024/25 Youth Art Mentorship Program. …

Dr. Spencer J. Harrison Museum of Closetry curated by Lucas Azevedo Cabral The Museum of Closetry is a love letter to the hidden, forgotten, and erased. Through found objects, assemblage, and layered narratives, Dr. Spencer J. H…

works from the Permanent Collection curated by Lucas Azevedo Cabral Andy Warhol didn’t just make artwork about popular culture—he reframed it. His portraits of icons like Wayne Gretzky and Marilyn Monroe reframed fame as something manufactu…

works from the Permanent Collection featuring the work of Spencer J. Harrison, Zachari Logan, Attila Richard Lukacs, and Kent Monkman curated by Lucas Azevedo Cabral Queer artists have always collected each other’s work, not as a gesture …

Laurie De Camillis | Four Seasons April 12, 2025 – June 22, 2025 Out in the open air, through the seasons and across the landscape, Laurie De Camillis renders what she sees in oil painted brushstrokes. With birch panel and palette in hand, she …

Patterns & Parallels: The Great Imperative to Survive is an exhibition of selected images from the project, Space for Birds. By integrating three perspectives of migratory bird corridors—space, aerial and surface—this global, emotional story enco…

In our region, we live close to the water. Our towns cluster along the carved land, roads wrapping around lakes, shadowing the river as it flows over rocks and down chutes, bubbling, rippling, and splashing.  As it moves across surfaces, it stirs an…

Works from the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board Permanent Loan The arts and education have long standing ties. By challenging minds in their formative years, encouraged to think abstractly and inspired to seek out altered perspectives…

Works from the Art Gallery of Peterborough Permanent Collection This exhibition gathers works from the Art Gallery of Peterborough’s Permanent Collection that consider the theme of transition. Transitions can be slow and gradual; unnoticed …

Fundraising Auction Preview Exhibition Presented by LLF Lawyers Join us and our sponsors as we raise funds for our programs which bring inspiring and insightful contemporary art and education to our community. Build your collection with ori…

Location: Art Gallery of PeterboroughOur region is rich with talented artists practicing across a range of styles and mediums. From Stoney Lake to Keene, the annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour offers the public a chance to view art in the working spa…

Works from the Youth Art Mentorship Program Masinjah Aloh, Ruby Carbert, Annabelle Diamond Artemis Lishman, and Jace McIntyre Artist-Mentor: Spencer J. HarrisonThis exhibition is the culmination of the 2023/24 Youth Art Mentorship Progr…

Mary Anne Barkhouse, John Boyle, Brad Copping, Liz Magor, Stan Olthuis, Amanda Strong, and Olivia Whetung “In waterways, there is a constant flow of intergenerational knowledge passing through the lakes, rivers and oceans; every body of wat…

Interconnected is a solo exhibition of work by Stan Olthuis. Grounding the entire project is “Mira la Vida,” a large-scale kinetic sculpture comprised of two eight-foot intersecting discs representing the elements of our world: water, earth, fire, an…

In celebration of our 50th anniversary, this exhibition celebrates the AGP’s Permanent Collection as a cornerstone of our institution. For Posterity II is a new iteration, bringing forward additional works and juxtapositions to continue an exploratio…

“‘We call it Feeding the Fire,’ Uncle quietly offers…The Mountain Dene are naturally of a world apart, in its way separate from our usual worldly cares and woes. To keep it alive is an education in itself.” Antoine Mountain Et’sehch’i; T…

Gathering works from our early acquisitions, this exhibition reflects important gifts from key supporters and past exhibitions. The Art Gallery of Peterborough was founded as a contemporary gallery and its collection reflects this. Built with support…

a juried exhibition Andrew McKay, Anne Cavanagh, Anshul Roy, Brad Copping, Bukunmi Oyewole, Calla Moya, David Bigg, Don Kwan, Elayne Windsor, Ella Verner, Farzaneh Ali-Hosseini, Fiona Crangle, Garrett Gilbart, George Hall, Greg McHarg, Heather…

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” Maya Angelou, “All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes,” 1986 This exhibition brings together works from the AGP Permanent Collection t…

Fundraising Auction Preview Exhibition Presented by LLF Lawyers Join us and our sponsors as we raise funds for our programs which bring inspiring and insightful contemporary art and education to our community. Build your collection with ori…

Location: Art Gallery of Peterborough Our region is rich with talented artists practicing across a range of styles and mediums. From Stoney Lake to Keene, the annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour offers the public a chance to view art in the working…

Alice Teichert’s paintings are known for their holographic depth and unique luminosity, for their visual poetry and multi-faceted proximity to music. Reciprocity is a non-linear survey exhibition spanning four decades of practice in which Teichert us…

Works from the Youth Art Mentorship Program Lauren Reese, A. Carabine, Mujgan Hussain Zada, Kellan Mackenzie, Charley Pesonen, and Amber Rose Artist-Mentor: Spencer J. Harrison This exhibition is the culmination of the Youth Art Ment…

featuring David Bierk’s “Portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II” David Bierk, Christian Chapman, Spencer J. Harrison, and Charles Pachter Special Project: Tea with the Queens is a short-run project that has been developed to offer the p…

David Yu, x-in-waiting, 2020-2023 Presented in partnership with the London Ontario Media Arts Association (LOMAA) https://youtu.be/zvp8_ow0-HI x-in-waiting is an app-as-art archive of an ongoing performance to camera series created…

Curated by Chiedza Pasipanodya “The iron that makes our blood red was made in the final moments before a star died. For all of us, then, our very lifeblood began with a spectacular death in a solar system.” Ziya Tong, The Reality Bubbl…

works from the Permanent Collection “I want to die with my blue jeans on.” Andy Warhol Is there a colour, other than the colour blue, that can encompass such a broad range of emotion? Serenity to despair, devotion to desolation, pu…

What might happen if we let our bodies guide our steps untethered from a predetermined path? What might we discover? In painting, Carol Forbes lets her intuition lead her. With a sense of adventure and trust, she mixes fields of colour with gestural …

José Luis Torres Curated by Josephine Mills How does it feel to be displaced? What does it do to your sense of identity, and your sense of who you are, when you lose your home? How can we talk about these issues if we don’t share the same …

Online Auction Preview Exhibition Presented by LLF Lawyers Join us and our sponsors as we raise funds for our programs which bring inspiring and insightful contemporary art and education to our community. Build your collection with original…

works from the Permanent Collection Featuring the work of Jimson Bowler, Marilyn Goslin, Ray McGirl, George Raab, Elspeth Stevenson, and Steven Vero

Location: Art Gallery of Peterborough Our region is rich with talented artists practicing across a range of styles and mediums. From Stoney Lake to Keene, the annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour offers the public a chance to view art in the working…

In 2019, Peer Christensen and his wife Lori were invited to travel aboard the Algoma Harvester on a five-day journey through the St. Lawrence Seaway, from the Welland Canal to Port Cartier, which inspired the body of work included in Landscapes of Co…

Works from the Youth Art Mentorship Program featuring the work of local youth artists: Sama Hojabri, Toula Pappas, and Enzo Stimpson Artist-Mentor: Spencer J. HarrisonThis exhibition is the culmination of the Youth Art Mentorship Program …

Alice Williams and Brad Copping Location: King George Public School (220 Hunter St. E, Peterborough)Anishinaabe artist Alice Williams (Curve Lake First Nation) and glass and sculpture artist Brad Copping have created an immersive installation …

“I make clothing for ghosts. The dead, the forgotten, and the hurting. For thirty years I have stitched conceptual wardrobes to manifest healing.” Michèle Karch-Ackerman The act of making garments by hand, one-by-one, each time with a wea…

Laura Madera’s Nocturnal Garden brings together a body of paintings in a luminous symphony, offering new ways of noticing the ephemeral coming together of light and air amplified on botanical silhouettes. Plants are made mostly of three elements: car…

Works from the Permanent Collection “I owe you the truth in painting and I will tell it to you” Paul Cézanne to Emile Bernard, 1905 “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth th…

Presented by George Ripoll, BMO Private Wealth Join us and our sponsors as we raise funds for our programs which bring inspiring and insightful contemporary art and education to our community. Build your collection with original fine artwork whi…

Adam David Brown “Scales of time rise and fall through the works on display in Adam David Brown’s exhibition. The slow shift of continents in 0 Degrees Latitude’s equatorial rocks. The steady accumulation, sampling, and questioning of knowledg…

Works from the Permanent Collection Ron Bloore, Brian Fisher, Roy Kiyooka, Nobuo Kubota, Laurent Lévesque, Malcolm Rains, Gordon Smith, and Tim Whiten Guest Curated by Adam David Brown What it is like to be an artist, to keep …

Location: Art Gallery of PeterboroughOur region is rich with talented artists practicing across a range of styles and mediums. From Stoney Lake to Keene, the annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour offers the public a chance to view art in the working spa…

Guest Curated by Jane LowBeer winner of the 2019 Curator’s Experience Jane Ash Poitras, Anne Meredith Barry, Jack Bush, Lucie Chan, Louis de Niverville, Jim Dine, Ivan Eyre, Brian Kipping, Nobuo Kubota,Robin Mackenzie, Michael Maglich, Jo…

a juried exhibition Emma Aurelia, Peter Barron, JoEllen Brydon, Tia Cavanagh, Christian Chapman, John Climenhage, Megan Cole, Tonya Corkey, Fiona Crangle, Andrew Cripps, Sadiqa de Meijer, Jordan Dunlop, Teri Donovan, Holly Edwards, Henry Fernandes…

Presented by George Ripoll, BMO Private Wealth Leanne Baird, Paul Chester, Peer Christensen, John Climenhage, Rowena Dykins, Holly Edwards, Christianna Ferguson, Eugenie Fernandes, Carol Forbes, Corin Ford Forrester, Stephanie Ford Forrester, …

Works from the Permanent Collection Carl Beam, Michael Belmore, Ivan Eyre, Nobuo Kubota, Dyan Marie, Sanaz Mazinani, Shaan Syed, Oliver Tiura, Dennis Tourbin, and Bill Vazan In Russell and Lillian Hoban’s 1964 children’s book, Nothing t…

Location: Art Gallery of PeterboroughThis exhibit, featuring one piece by each artist, seeks to capture the outstanding quality, spirit, and variety available on this year’s tour. From Stoney Lake to Keene, the annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour off…

Matthew Hayes + Victoria Mohr-Blakeney https://vimeo.com/195900769 locked in a way is a collaboration between filmmaker Matthew Hayes and dance artist Victoria Mohr-Blakeney. This short film explores the confining and isolating landsc…

Sasha Opeiko The exhibition 217 includes a series of graphite drawings and 3D printed objects based on images sourced from an article outlining the initial investigations of section 217 in the 4th block of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which …

Jack Bush + Francisco-Fernando Granados Curated by Fynn Leitch and Leila Timmins Presented in partnership with the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa duet brings together work by Jack Bush and Francisco-Fernando Granados to both invok…

Living for the Fame is an ongoing drawing- and text-based installation that explores the currency of gay images. Sourcing images from Instagram, Tumblr, Grindr, SCRUFF, and other social media platforms, Ironside studies images of self to consider ide…

The works in Enough, is enough, is enough explore emotional and physical vulnerability in relation to the demands of contemporary life. The embodiment of the common but often unacknowledged experience of precarity, whether it be economic, social, or …

Barbara Astman, Ron Bloore, Ron Bolt, Greg Curnoe, Ivan Eyre, K.M. Graham, Jenni Johnston, Laurent Lévesque, Hugh Mackenzie, Kazuo Nakamura, Jean Nind, Christopher Pratt, George Raab, Gordon Smith, and Bill Vazan Guest curated by Wendy Trusle…

Eugenie Fernandes is a celebrated artist and children’s author. Fernandes has illustrated more than 100 books for children, the most recent being A Likkle Miss Lou and written and illustrated nineteen including the soon to be released Finding Lucy. S…

Curated by Nicole Bauberger and Fynn Leitch Gary Blundell, Mirdza Brandt, Geraldine Davis, Tom Forrestall, Paul Fournier, Sarah Gibeault, J. C. Heywood, Paul Howard Hodgkinson, Denise Ireland, Alex Janvier, Rita Letendre, Kenneth Lochhead, Hug…

To create this series (2008 – ongoing), Bauberger has driven across Canada, from Cape Spear, Newfoundland to Vancouver, British Columbia to Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories stopping at the side of the road to paint one-foot-square landscape from th…

David Campion and Sandra Shields Produced and circulated by The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford Curated by Laura Schneider Grand Theft Terra Firma tackles settler responsibility head-on. David Campion and Sandra Shields disrupt the c…

Breathtaking in its superlatives, Antarctica mesmerizes visitors with its compelling beauty, awe-inspiring landscapes and imposing grandeur. From the delicate tingling sounds of tiny ice crystals, to the majesty of its towering peaks, and the ferocit…

Guest Curated by Lori Beavis Over the past three decades Shelley Niro has gained a reputation, nationally and internationally, for countering the colonial definition of Indigenous people by representing and re-examining contemporary experience…

In this new series of nine works, Connie van Rijn experiments with representation, abstraction and medium. These works are layered, utilizing the ways light reacts with surface and travels through translucence to create complex and emotive compositio…

Curated by Ruth Jones and Sam Mogelonsky Organized and circulated by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Peterborough and the McIntosh Gallery Katie Bethune-Leamen, Broadbent Sisters, Daniel Griffin Hunt,…

The Art Gallery of Peterborough holds a number of works by Ivan Eyre in its Permanent Collection. Eyre is known for his paintings and sculpture which utilize highly complex spatial structures and fragmentations. Eyre was born in Saskatchewan, receive…

In this new body of work, Rod Mireau explores the edges between the industrial and the natural drawing inspiration from seeds to rebar. Constructed of wood and metal, Mireau’s sculptures form a balance between the organic and the geometric while play…

Through sculpture, installation, and painting, Code, MacDonald, and Morimoto explore themes of memory, nostalgia, and ideality while disrupting the embedded colonial patriarchy of the art history canon. Their works portray kitch, the domestic, or str…