Exhibitions

Curated by Rhona Wenger Born and raised on a fruit farm in Beamsville, Ontario, Jean Armstrong Brydon was the advice columnist for the Globe and Mail from 1966 to 1978. She worked under the pseudonym, “Elizabeth Thompson.” Jean’s daughter, arti…

Peer Christensen, John Climenhage, Laurie De Camillis, Bonnie Devine, Wayne Eardley, Carol Forbes, Holly Friesen, David Goyette, Spencer J. Harrison, Cydnee Hosker, Jane LowBeer, Laura Madera, Molly Moldovan, Stan Olthuis, Shannon Taylor, Alice Teich…

works from the Permanent Collection André Biéler, David Bierk, Rita Briansky, Moira Clark, Dennis Geden, Sarah Gibeault, Frederick Haines, Emma Hesse, Denise Ireland, Hugh Mackenzie, Daphne Odjig, and Tony Urquhart

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…

Our region is rich with talented artists practicing across a range of styles and mediums. From Stoney Lake to Keene, the Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour offers the public a chance to view art in the working spaces of artists. This exhibit seeks to captur…

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…

Featuring the work of over 30 artists from Peterborough and County, this exhibition presents a preview of what’s available on this year’s Tour. The annual juried tour draws attention to the incredible depth and richness of creative talent our regio…

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…

“For me, creating images is the most wonderful of games… My idea of a good time is devising little worlds with their own inner structures, energies, and ideas engaging in visual dialogues with forces within and without. It is like swinging on a rope…

“If my work as an artist has somehow helped to open doors between our people and the non-native community, then I am glad. I am even more deeply pleased if it has helped to encourage the young people that have followed our generation, to express thei…

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…

Been Here So Long jes sachse and Fallon Simard On view January 27 – April 8, 2018 Resistance is always in conversation with care. Been Here So Long is the first material collaboration between jes sachse and Fallon Simard. Separately, and here tog…

Land Dreams: From the Permanent Collection On view January 27 – April 8, 2018 This exhibition pulls works from the AGP’s Permanent Collection that depict people-less landscapes. The selection includes paintings, drawings, and prints by members and …

Celia Neubauer: Affect of Gravity On view January 27 – April 8, 2018 Celia Neubauer is a Toronto-based painter whose interests in historical tradition has been a major influence both stylistically and conceptually. Neubauer’s landscapes reflect a m…

Light in the Land ~ The Nature of Canada Presented by The Roberta Bondar Foundation On view January 27 – April 8, 2018 Dr. Roberta Bondar continues to explore the planet that she viewed from space. We see as she sees, and share in her creative image…

Pushing It is a performative project featuring a roughly 200 lb quilted soft-sculpture “boulder” pushed uphill in true Sisyphean style. The sculpture entitled Rocky III takes a cushiony, enticing and unwieldy form that visitors are welcome to colla…

From the Permanent Collection Featuring works by Anne Meredith Barry, Sheila Butler, Brian Kipping, Hugh Mackenzie, Waltraud Markgraf, and William Vazan This exhibition considers site, human organization, and public vs. private space. Abstract work…

Curated by Catharine Mastin, Ph.D. Organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Windsor This retrospective exhibition features the work of Brenda Francis Pelkey, known for her contributions to contemporary photography since the 1980s. A career-fir…

The Peterborough-Kawarthas region is rich with talented artists practicing in a range of styles and media. From Stoney Lake to Keene and throughout the city of Peterborough, the annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour offers the public a chance to view ar…

Pulling from the visual ephemera Urquhart encountered through his time growing up and living in Southwestern Ontario, New Canadian Cabins reinvents and reimagines the cabin and its humble architecture designed for habitation, comfort, and recreation….

In the wake of Canada 150 celebrations, Jeffrey Macklin uses the iconography of nationhood such as federal brand identity, currency, and colloquial stereotypes as a site to critique and problematize the dominant narrative of Canada. Macklin is of set…

Iconic artist Charles Pachter’s work has embedded wry tongue-in-cheek humour into the lexicon of colonial Canadiana. Rendering Mounties, butter tarts, Justin Trudeau’s smouldering headshot, and the Queen herself in the aesthetic of pop-art, Pachter…

Alex Bierk, Gary Blundell, John B. Boyle, Vincent Chevalier, John Climenhage, Christy Haldane, jes sachse, and Victoria Ward Shown with works from the Permanent Collection by: Nicole Bauberger, Carl Beam, Michael Belmore, Jimson Bowler, Greg Curnoe…

Spencer J. Harrison’s Not a Freak Show: Growing Up Gay in Rural Ontario bears witness to the artist’s experience using the vernacular of the circus freak show to discuss both exclusion and inclusion. The work takes the form of a large circus tent th…

Ron Bloore, Gregory Downs, Robert Finch, Micah Lexier, Kristi Malakoff, Janet Martin, Jean Nind, David Partridge, Ted Rettig, Gordon Smith, Jeannie Thib and Andy Warhol From the Permanent Collection This exhibition explores the edges between repres…

Capturing the subtle shift of the changing seasons in the Kawarthas, Peterborough artist Steven Vero applies a keen eye and skilled hand to convey the experience of working plein air. With his skilled hand, he is able to convey that slight chill in t…

Titled after the rural road where artist Lyn Carter lives and works, 11th Line explores one of the most fundamental textile design elements – the stripe – and its graphic relationship to the landscape, evoking horizon lines, road grids, and furrowe…

La Rábida is a Franciscan monastery overlooking the mouth of the Rio Tinto near the small town of Palos de la Frontera on the Atlantic coast of Spain. Christopher Columbus set sail from this place in August 1492 confident he would find a new route t…

This exhibition presents a selection of works by Ann and Carl Beam from our most recent acquisition to the Permanent Collection. Their works integrate personal memory with issues related to the environment, brutality, and a rethinking of the ways his…

The Peterborough-Kawartha region is rich with talented artists practicing in a range of styles and mediums. The annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour offers the public a chance to view art in the working spaces of artists. All artists on the tour are ju…

Wayne Eardley’s Caribou series continues with Caribou II. In these photographs, we see the now-demolished buildings of the General Electric plant in Peterborough through details and wide angles. In this project, Eardley is always seeking to “humani…

Song of the cataract features a new site-specific work produced for the AGP’s lower ramp space. Moore is considering the ramp’s downward slope that progresses towards Little Lake as a river. The installation includes multi-paneled, large-scale text…

Artist and glass blower Brad Copping spent a year in residence at the Canadian Canoe Museum covering a 16′ cedar strip canoe in a mirrored mosaic map. The map charts the waterways from Copping’s studio in Apsley, Ontario southward into the Trent Sev…

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 20th, 2 pm SPARK Reception: Friday, April 22nd, 7-9 pm GE’s Peterborough plant recently underwent a major process that involved dismantling, demolishing, and in some cases repurposing buildings. They called the …

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 20th, 2 pm Rebecca Padgett’s abstract paintings are powerful statements in colour and composition. Moving pure high quality pigments with intuitive yet practiced gestures with wide brushes and squeegees, Padgett…

Feb 20, 2016 to May 22, 2016 Curated by William Kingfisher Arthur Shilling wrote in his 1986 book of paintings and prose, The Ojibway Dream: “Time is so precious. I’m under constant pressure from within. Like a volcano, grumbling and rumbling cont…

David Bierk, Jamelie Hassan, Kristi Malakoff, Jeannie Thib, Dennis Tourbin, Andy Warhol and Joyce Wieland Power Play presents work that challenges us to consider currency, movies, televised and printed news, advertising, and clothing as mediums that …

The works in Landing carry evidence of water and geologic history through the markings of erosion, the presence of groundcover, or the formation of clouds. In her artist statement, Anne Meredith Barry writes, “I live surrounded by an environment whi…

Iain Baxter, Ronald Bloore, Brian Fisher, Yves Gaucher, Gerald Gladstone, Ted Godwin, Donald Harvey, Kenneth Lochhead, Roy Kiyooka, Arthur McKay, Ted Rettig and Gordon Smith The Art Gallery of Peterborough has ninety works by Ronald Bloore. The major…

David Bierk, Moira Clark, Ivan Eyre, Carl Heywood, April Hickox, Malcolm Rains, Gordon Rayner, Andy Warhol The genre of still life painting has endured artistic movements, adapting to and surviving religious, philosophical, and political shifts. Tr…

The Peterborough-Kawarthas region is rich with talented artists practicing in a range of styles and media. From Stoney Lake to Keene and throughout the city of Peterborough, the annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour offers the public a chance to view ar…

Sarah Gibeault Part of the Emerging Peterborough series This exhibition presents drawing and sculpture by Sarah Gibeault. Two if by Sea considers place through a series of vignettes of Eastern Canada. Graphite drawings of villages, constructed fro…

Michael Belmore, Hannah Claus, Patricia Deadman, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Keesic Douglas and Melissa General Curated by Rachelle Dickenson and Lisa Myers Organized and circulated by The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in collaboration with Museum London, A…

Curated by Jarret Prescott In partnership with the Cultural Studies Department, Trent University Curator Jarret Prescott re-presents the MUSEUM of TEMPORARY ART in a multi-channel projection installation that combines interview and documentation. A…

In the spring, exhibitions will continue at our temporary home of 420 George Street North with work by Roula Partheniou. Roula Partheniou received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Guelph in 2001 and currently lives and works in Toron…

Organized and circulated by Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax Curator: Robin Metcalfe Suzanne Swannie is a Danish-born weaver and textiles designer who immigrated to Canada in 1967. She has lived, worked and taught in Corner Brook and St …

Curated by Andrea Fatona and Katherine Dennis Artist talk with Mary Anne Barkhouse: Saturday March 14, 2 pm Land Marks features five artists whose works draw our attention to the ways in which humans mark themselves, others and their environments in…

Curated by Fynn Leitch Looking to the future as we come to the end of our 40th anniversary year, this exhibition series showcases the work of regional emerging artist William Joel Davenport. This exhibition of woven tapestries is the result of an e…

Curated by Fynn Leitch The Art Gallery of Peterborough is pleased to present an installation separates the man from the horse created by Esther Simmonds-MacAdam for the Emerging Peterborough exhibition series. separates the man from the horse is an…

Terre Sauvage: The Topology of Anamnesis Curated by Maralynn Cherry John Climenhage’s engaging new landscape works draw from the practice of plein air field painting. Back in the studio, bold strokes lifted from the landscape translate into a fusion…

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 spaces of artists. Selections seeks to c…

Presented by the Art Gallery of Peterborough at ARTSPACE Exhibition and Reception at ARTSPACE 3/378 Aylmer Street North, Peterborough Dennis Tourbin The Language of Visual Poetry Curated by Marcie Bronson Organized and circulated by Rodman Hall Art…

Works by Lucie Chan, David Blackwood, John Boyle, Ivan Eyre, Dennis Geden, J.C. Heywood, David Hockney, John Reeves, David Silverberg, Andy Warhol   As a genre of artwork, the portrait may be one of the oldest in history. From capturing the visage…

AFTER Jeff, Alex, Nick, Charlie and David Bierk In presenting the work of Alex, Jeff, Nick, and Charlie Bierk we celebrate the careers of four young artists who happen to be born and raised in Peterborough. Theirs is a shared family story of growing …

McCubbin has composed a series of single works and a site-specific installation, speaking to the impact of human production on our environment. Material World builds on McCubbin’s interest in social and environmental issues. This recurring theme of …

This exhibition brings attention to a unique component of Jane LowBeer’s art practice, which focuses on interactive constructions, combining monotype scrolls on Japanese paper, plexiglass, wood boxes, and found objects. These elements combine to tel…

Dorothy Caldwell: Silent Ice | Deep Patience This new body of work developed by senior artist Caldwell continues her exploration of place, how we mark the land, and how it is visualized in mapping practices, both conventional and personal. The scope …

Curators: Eric Lehman, Micky Renders and Briar Sutherland In commemoration of its 10th Anniversary, ReFrame International Film Festival presents Rewinding the Galaxy — an intimate portrait of film spectatorship and exhibition in downtown Peterborou…

Curated by Earl Miller Marlene Creates, Don Gill, Vera Greenwood, Barbara Lounder, Lisa Myers, Gwen MacGregor, and Samuel Rowlett.   Opening Reception: Friday, January 17, 7 – 9 pm With performance by artists Don Gill and Lisa Myers   Panel …

This year the Art Gallery of Peterborough celebrates its 40th anniversary. The 2014 Calendar project was developed to honour the AGP Permanent Collection built through the efforts of our volunteers, board and staff presenting and collecting the best …

New Century Abstracts is a six-person show featuring recent sculpture, painting, video, and mixed media work by Carlo Cesta, Cathy Daley, Sanaz Mazinani, Shaan Syed, Dermot Wilson, and Jinny Yu. These artists, working in abstraction, use repeated geo…

Exhibition guest curated by Peter Barron, long time friend and fellow artist of Laidlaw-Radford. In this retrospective, we present a selection of the late Peterborough-based master printmaker and environmentalist Sheila Laidlaw-Radford’s multi-plate,…

An Abstract Practice presents the artist’s new colour-saturated abstract acrylic and oil paintings, which are infused with atmospheric effects recalling sublime views of the sky and sea. Janet Read is a Toronto-based artist, represented locally by Ch…

Guest curated by EJ Lightman Opening Reception: Sunday, September 15, 2 pm to 5 pm Featured artists: Rebecca Armstrong, Jocelyne Belcourt Salem, Michel Boucher, Maralynn Cherry, John Dickson, Deeter Hastenteufel, Roger Henriques, Francis LeBouthill…

For more than a decade, Peterborough-based artist Jimson Bowler has created installations, performances, and paintings that explore relations between history, the native body, and the environment. In contrast to the scale and durability of monumental…

In-Between Worlds features a suite of Digital Chromogenic prints by Ottawa based artist, Meryl McMaster. The artist’s poetic exhibit explores, aspects of liminality, through the act of self performance photography, the mixing and transforming of bi-…

George Raab’s practice spans four decades and is grounded in portraying the wooded world. His touring AGP survey show, Into the Woods: Etchings by George Raab, features variations on this forest theme, which continues to be central to Raab’s practi…

Laurent Lévesque: Axis is a photo-based installation curated by Esther Vincent as a part of the inaugural SPARK PHOTO FESTIVAL. In this series, which is part of an ongoing project, the Quebec-based artist focuses his camera directly on the sun in a…

This solo show by emerging Peterborough-based artist Chris Coles comprises paintings and drawings of species that are native to the Trent Severn Waterway commissioned by Parks Canada: Trent Severn Waterway Resource Conservation to create identificati…

Kitchener-based Melissa Doherty and Halifax-based Sarah Maloney are mid-career artists who both take up the fine craft of making exquisite objects from imagery found in nature to explore the construction of gender, power, and desire. Working in scul…

This show presents selections from the Art Gallery of Peterborough’s permanent collection. It features contemporary and historical oil paintings, watercolours, pen and ink drawings, as well as charcoal drawings and prints by: David Bierk, Ronald Bol…

Miriam Davidson and Rani Sanderson’s ongoing Digital Storytelling in the Community project derives from a wish to bring forward a socially engaged community arts practice rooted in personal narrative and photography, using contemporary digital techn…

Artist, writer, and Whitby Station Gallery curator Olexander Wlasenko explains that his work is focused on a personal and investigative discourse surrounding drawing’s relationship with lens-based media in contemporary culture. Wlasenko’s solo sho…

Featuring drawing, painting, and sculptural new media work by David Clarkson and Michelle Gay, this two-person show explores networks of the technological, cultural, virtual, mythic and historical, substance nested in notions of space and time. Mich…

November 10, 2012 – January 6, 2013 Jennifer Linton: The Disobedient Dollhouse Opening Reception: Friday November 16, 7 – 9 pm Vancouver-born, Toronto-based recent York MFA graduate Jennifer Linton’s art practice addresses gender-related issues …

November 10, 2012 – January 6, 2013 Nicole Bauberger: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Empowerment Opening Reception: Friday November 16, 7 – 9 pm Nationally recognized, Peterborough-born, now Whitehorse-based Nicole Bauberger contends that 17th cen…

November 10, 2012 – January 6, 2013 Suzy Lake: Political Poetics is produced and circulated by Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and the University of Toronto Art Centre. Suzy Lake’s rigorous approach to art making over the past 40 years ma…

June 28 – September 4, 2012 New Floral Works from the Peterborough’s Women’s Art Association Opening Reception: Thursday July 12, 7 – 9 pm The Peterborough Women’s Art Association has been dedicated to increasing the development of the arts in t…

Saturday, September 22 & Sunday September 23, 2012 Previewing local artist offerings on this year’s tour: a rich diversity of arts and crafts such as oil, acrylic, watercolour and encaustic painting, wood and stone sculpture, textiles, jewellery, f…

September 7 – October 28, 2012 Diana Yoo: Wall on Wall Opening Reception: Friday September 14, 7 pm to 9 pm In her photo-based series Wall on Wall, emerging artist Diana Yoo (Peterborough) captures the meeting place of where the surface of a wall …

September 7 – October 28, 2012 Arnold Zageris: On the Labrador Opening Reception: Friday September 14, 7 – 9 pm Exhibition Sponsors: Adventure Canada and the Nunatsiavut Government A series of thirty-one large colour photographs make up Arnold Z…

Selections from the AGP’s Permanent Collection featuring black and white as well as colour photography from the 1950s through to the present by David Bierk, Jennifer Dickson, Wanda Haayen, David Hockney, Paul Howard Hodgkinson and more round out mai…

July 9 to October 7, 2012 The Waterway Project Parks Canada’s Trent Severn Waterway and the Art Gallery of Peterborough present The Waterway Project, a special outdoor art installation by Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour Artist Christy Haldane. Haldan…

June 28 – September 4, 2012 Mary McLoughlin: Painting Flowers Opening Reception: Thursday July 12, 7 pm to 9 pm In Painting Flowers, Peterborough-based artist Mary McLoughlin works in oil on canvas, painting large, close up images of flowers. The…

June 28 to September 4, 2012 Flowers and Photography Opening Reception: Thursday July 12, 7 pm to 9 pm Flowers and Photography invites viewers to consider why flowers continue to be a favourite subject of women artists. Enlisting the garden subjec…

jiigbiig -at the edge where the water and land meet Featuring work by Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Regional Elders and Traditional Knowledge Holders May 6 – June 24, 2012   The exhibition jiigbiig: at the edge where the water and the land meet creates a…

May 6 – June 24, 2012 Melissa General: Longing and Belonging Opening Reception: Sunday May 6, 2012, 2 – 4 pm Longing and Belonging features a series of photographs by Melissa General. The artist writes, “As a woman currently living in an urban en…

May 6 – June 24, 2012 Critical Mass: Sculpture by Shayne Dark Opening Reception: Sunday May 6, 2012, 2 – 4 pm Critical Mass is an exhibition of new and recent sculpture by Kingston, Ontario-based artist Shayne Dark, which speaks to the distinctio…

March 9 – April 29, 2012 Opening Reception: Sunday March 11, 2 – 4 pm Founded in 1827, Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School, one of the oldest public schools in Canada, offers students from all around Peterborough the opportunity to take…

March 9 – April 29, 2012 The Art Gallery of Peterborough’s Inaugural Triennial Exhibition Opening Reception: Sunday March 11, 2 – 4 pm Works juried from Peterborough and the surrounding eight counties in the first AGP Triennial Exhibition. Fea…

March 9 – September 4, 2012 From the AGP Permanent Collection: Florals Opening Reception: Sunday March 11, 2 – 4 pm Selections from the AGP’s Permanent Collection featuring contemporary and historic floral and garden based prints, watercolours …

January 13 – March 4, 2012 AGP Art Instructors Series: Anne Cavanagh Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 7 – 9 pm This solo exhibition features Cavanagh’s highly detailed black and white graphite drawings that capture a range of childhood emo…

January 13 – March 4, 2012 Always Moving Forward: Contemporary African Photography Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 7 – 9 pm Always Moving Forward: Contemporary African Photography, curated by Kenneth Montague and organized by Wedge Curator…

January 13 – March 4, 2012 Streaming Alterity Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 7 – 9 pm Streaming Alterity explores the recent histories of feminist activism, anti-racism, animal drag, and the poetics of personal journeys, featuring works …

Kitten Stories showcases the 3-dimensional mixed media maquettes made by award-winning author and illustrator Eugenie Fernandes (Peterborough), for her series of books by the same name. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Fernan…

Michele Karch-Ackerman brings forward lost histories and buried pasts. Her exhibition Foundling transforms the gallery into a canteen for unwed mothers. One hundred baby sleepers are suspended, ghost-like, above a fifty-foot table ornamented with one…

Works from Eric Mercer, Katie Waugh, and the Viral Knitting Project are brought together to explore connections between social media, craft, and protest. Looking at crafting and computing as technologies of social organization, the show questions the…

Between Land and Sky: New Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection, showcases works that look to the land and sky for inspiration. The exhibition includes works by Michael Belmore, Gordon Rayner, Roberta Bondar, and Nobuo Kubota. Together, the works …

Home-work offers a survey of contemporary artwork from the Permanent Collection that portray domestic spaces revolving around the theme of work. Depictions of individuals at work in both urban domestic and rural settings will feature artists such as …

Inspired by Peterborough’s natural and engineered environment, Haldane has developed a series of sculptures using recycled window glass and common building materials. Her work is situated at an intersection of art, craft, and architecture. Concrete …

Presenting a preview of works by artists on the 2011 Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour. Each year, artists and fine craftspeople from Peterborough City and County are selected by jury for the studio tour. This year there are thirty-seven artists representi…

Krishtalka is a painter and writer. His art has been shown most at Paul Petro Contemporary Art and the Edward Day Gallery in Toronto; most recently he made a solo debut in New York City at Jack the Pelican Presents. Krishtalka’s work is a deconstru…

Robert Houle is a member of Sandy Bay First Nation (Manitoba), and currently lives and works in Toronto. Houle has been exhibiting works since the early 1970s; his most recent installation, Paris/Ojibwa, premiered at the Canadian Cultural Centre in P…

Micky Renders is a practicing artist and teacher who holds a degree in biology. She currently teaches visual arts and digital photography at Thomas A. Stewart Secondary School in Peterborough. Renders’ new body of work, Finding Joy, extends the arti…

Rowena Dykins studied fine art in England, at Concordia University and at the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts. A member of several artist groups in the Durham Region and Peterborough area, Dykins’ work has been exhibited regularly in both solo and gro…

The Art Gallery of Peterborough is delighted to present the second in the Art Instructor Series, works by two of the gallery’s long-standing educators John Climenhage and Shannon Taylor. John Climenhage has been painting en plein air for over twent…

Wild/Tame is an exhibition of disturbing yet beautifully drawn and painted contemporary POP/Surrealist works on panel, canvas and paper by Michael Caines. The small and large drawings and paintings that comprise this imagery-rich solo Art Gallery o…