Exhibitions

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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, …

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…

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…

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…