Past Exhibitions

• 2010
  • Alan Glicksman
    
• Donald Woodman
  
• Spirit, Idea, Symbol
  
• 100 Squares
  
• Jordan Broadworth
  
• Tom Thomson
  
• Northern Exposure
  Sydenham Community School Grade 7 & 8 students visit Nunavut.
• Ontario Crafts Council
  
• Voyage of Discovery
  
• Convergence
  
• Group of Special Artists
  
• 2009
  • Steven White
    
• Andrew Harwood
  
• Michael Campbell
  
• Community Curators Select
  
• Allen Smutylo
  
• Mapping the Group
  
• Paddle and Paint
  
• Persona Volare
  
• Janet Jones
  
• Convergence
  
• Where are the Children?
  
• 2008
  • Nell Tenhaaf
    Tenhaaf's art investigates how human beings think about themselves.
• Dark Matter
  An exhibition that entwines art, war and memory.
• Perspective
  
• Sally Thurlow
  Sally Thurlow, a contemporary storyteller, mythmaker and artist, uses the boat as a visual metaphor
• Stark Warmth
  Son of Group of Seven member J.E.H. MacDonald, Thoreau MacDonald is best known for his understated and elegant scenes of everyday life around Ontario.
• Vid Ingelevics
  Ingelevics' photographs show the haunting aesthetic of hunting blinds and woodpiles
• 1908
  An off-site exhibition celebrating the state of Canadian art at the time of the construction of Meaford Hall
• Susan Collett
  
• Doug Guildford
  
• Mitch Robertson
  
• Tom Thomson
  
• Festival of Colour
  
• Tom Thomson
  A Canadian art icon, Tom Thomson painted some of his most enduring and energetic sketches between 1912 and the last spring of his life, in 1917.
• Selections from the Collection
  
• 2007
  • Heavy Traffic
    Jaclyn Shoub paints the changing expanse of the urban landscape.
• Log Jam
  This exhibition draws upon the strengths of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery's permanent collection and will feature works that document evidence of the lumber industry in the Park at that time.
• To Love and to Cherish
  Ann MacIntosh Duff has been painting in watercolour for over 60 years. This retrospective looks at her unique wet-on-wet technique, and pays particular interest to paintings done at her summer retreat
• Cities: John Hartman
  Opens on May 4. Join us for an artist's talk at 7 p.m. to be followed by a reception.
  John Hartman finds beauty in urban complexity
• Julie Voyce: Paste Up
  On view in the Jennings David Young Gallery from March 30 to April 29, 2007
  Join us for the opening reception and artists talk on Friday, March 30 at 7 p.m.
• Driven to Abstraction
  On view in the North Gallery.
  Join us for the opening reception on Friday, March 30 at 8 p.m.
• The French Connection
  The period between 1880 and 1915, when Tom Thomson was active as a painter, has been referred to as "The French Period" in Canadian Art. Paris, France, was then the centre of influence in terms of art
• Don Holman: The Eternal Spring Series
  On view in the Jennings David Young Gallery until March 28, 2007
• Convergence: 44^th Annual Juried Exhibition
  On view in the North Gallery until March 25, 2007
• Makers Return
  
• Craft Convergence
  
• 100 Squares
  Area artists are invited to submit art for the annual 100 Squares show and sale,
• Heavy Traffic
  Jaclyn Shoub investigates the relationship between painting and photography.
• Home Town
  In celebration of Owen Sound's 150 th Anniversary, this exhibition looks at how artists have portrayed the city by the bay in their work over the past century and a half.
• 2006
  • Fragments
    The Gallery is launching another international exhibition of artists from the Grey Bruce region which goes on tour overseas this summer.
• Cheryl Sourkes: Public Camera
  Sourkes creates art from live web cams on the internet.
• For Mrs. Dalloway
  This exhibition features a selection of rarely seen paintings from the Permanent Collection, particularly floral still lifes.
• Marlene Creates: Signs of Our Time
  Wherever humans interact with the landscape, they mark and control their presence through signs.
• Ink in Action
  Eighty-one students from Dufferin School learn printmaking at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery.
• Tom Thomson: Artist, Woodsman & Guide
  This exhibition includes masterworks from the Gallery's Collection that provide a documentary portrait of Tom Thomson.
• Lyn Carter
  Textiles to camouflage the everyday
• After The Fall
  Thirty years of printmaking by Ted Fullerton.
• La Sainte Enfance
  The artist works with the child's direct gaze that she says, "engages the viewer and provides a mirror to inner life, feelings and imagination."
• Convergence
  On Now. Opening Reception February 10th.
• The Painted Country
  A diversity of works from the Permanent Collection with the theme of Canadian landscape art.
• 2005
  • 18 Illuminations
    An exhibition of eighteen artists conceived around the organizing principle of light.
• Lisa Klapstock: liminal
  Lisa Klapstock's practice explores concerns ranging from abstraction and realism to the relationship between photographic depiction and visual perception.
• Sarah Nind: fictions
  Nind questions the paradigm of real and imagined through pictorial concepts of space/landscape.
• The Wonderland
  This exhibition of drawings by Kate Wilson and Claudia Klucaric is entitled The Wonderland and has been curated for the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery by adjunct curator, Corinna Ghaznavi.
• Evan Macdonald: Summer Lure - Grey-Bruce Shorelines, 1931-1970
  This exhibition features paintings and watercolours by the Guelph-based artist that document Evan Macdonald's lifelong love of the Lake Huron and Georgian Bay shores.
• Wilderness Tips
  Wilderness Tips draws on works by Thomson and the Group of Seven from the Collection of the Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery and on several loans from the Art Gallery of Ontario Collection
• Sanctuary
  Sanctuary features sculpture, installation and drawing by Mary Anne Barkhouse and Michael Belmore.
• The Enduring Legacy: Selections from the Permanent Collection
  This exhibition pairs paintings by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven with photographs, paintings and prints by some of Canada's most prominent contemporary artists.
• Collaborations with Chaos
  A new exhibition celebrates Steve Irvine's 30th anniversary of working on the Bruce Peninsula
• Convergence
  The Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery celebrates work by artists from across the region with Convergence, our 42nd annual juried exhibition.
• 100 Squares - Miniature Art
  Area artists are invited to register for a square of space in the biggest little show in town.
• 2004
  • The Limestone Barrens Project
    The Project is an international community artistic residency exchange between photo-based artists from Canada and Ireland.
• Field and Furrow
  Rural landscapes from the Permanent Collection.
• Kevin Yates: My ex-girlfriend is a
  HELD OVER ONE MORE WEEK
  In this exhibition Kevin Yates deliberately sets up an experience of comparison in his work in which we question our reflexive sense of scale.
• Mud Vision
  Joan O'Doherty's large-scale oil paintings suggest tragedy and disaster, hope and recovery.
• Bill Burns: The Museum of Safety Gear for Small Animals
  HELD OVER ONE MORE WEEK
  Burns's witty and insightful work reflects on systems and forces that cause environmental impact.
• Lines Painted in Early Spring
  Featuring the work of four Canadian artists from widely varying geographical and social backgrounds
• The Changing Land
  This exhibition brings together 35 paintings by artists that dominated the first half of the 20^th century in England.
• Aspects of the Arctic - The Artist as Explorer
  The challenge and romance of exploration, and the search for visual inspiration.
• Pulse
  This show presents a selection of paintings, sculptures and installations acquired by the Gallery in the past year.
• Double Take
  This exhibition is a survey of recent paintings by the Owen Sound painters. The show is curatedby Mary Reid and Stuart Reid and is a collaboration between the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrieand the
• 2003
  • Convergence:
    41st Annual Juried Exhibition
• Wide Borders
  An exhibition of contemporary quilts by three textile artists: Lorraine Roy,Karen Thiessen and Lynne Heller.
• Lorna Mills: Reality Show
  Painting, photography and video over 20 years.
• Panya Clark Espinal: The Visitor
  Clark Espinal has explored ÿthe interior spaces of objects to create new forms using colour and shaped dividers.
• Tom Thomson's Algonquin Campfire
  View treasured paintings by Thomson completed during his years in Algonquin Park.
• Tom Benner: Cruising the Margins
  Finally, art you can sit behind the wheel of& Tom Benners handmade cars are Cruising the Margins
• S.O.S.
  Water is a metaphor for precarious human condition in S.O.S.
• In The Studio
  Art by Local Students on display in the Studio
• Who Means What/Brent Roe Paintings/
  A five-year survey of Brent Roe's paintings
• Face to Face: Portraits from the Permanent Collect
  People view other peoples faces as a way of determining who they are. These images allow the exploration of the concept of portrait.
• The Lost Boys
  Michèle Karch-Ackerman: The Lost Boys commemorates lost innocence
• Re: Collections
  The Gallery will display a selection of recent works of contemporary Canadian art from the collection.
• Heavy Duty
  Running from January 24 to March 2, Heavy Duty is a survey of recent work by Owen-Sound-based artist Andrew Goss.
• Convergence
  Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery's 40th Annual Juried Exhibition
• Winter Nights, Northern Light
  Selections from the Permanent Collection hangs in The Thomson Room
• 2002
  • Further:
    In Monica Tap's recent body of work, there is a literal layering of historical references in a contemporary conceptual framework.
• Natalka Husar
  Natalka Husar: Blond with Dark Roots brings portrait painting into political territory
• Return to Mowat Lodge
  Thomson and friends depict the splendours of the Canadian North in Return to Mowat Lodge
• Swarm
  Swarm looks at how artists give new meaning to insects in contemporary art
• Sylvia Safdie
  Montreal-based artist, Sylvia Safdie makes poetic sculptural installations that are meditations on the convergence of land, time and memory.
• Land, Time and Memory
  Kids mark Land, Time and Memory in a display inspired by Sylvia Safdie's exhibition
• Art is Elementary, My Dear
  An educational exhibition about the Elements of Art using works selected from the Permanent Collection
• Kai Chan
  Kai Chan: Rainbow Lakes pulls poetry from the stuff of everyday life
• Landmark
  Art informs ideas on the Canadian nation
• Tom Thomson
  Treasures from the Permanent Collection on view in The Thomson Room