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Past Exhibitions at MSAC
 

RISKING the VOID, The Scenography of Cameron Porteous
January 22 to April 4, 2010

Gunilla Josephson: E.V.E. Absolute Matrix
January 22 to April 4, 2010

Natalka Husar: Burden of Innocence
February 11 to April 18, 2010

New Acquisitions        
December 1, 2009 to January 17, 2010

Michael Davey: Overly Charmed
September 23 to December 20, 2009

Drawings from Baker Lake and Cape Dorset
September 23 to December 20, 2009

Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here
September 23 to November 1, 2009

Beyond the Frame 2009
September 23 to November 14, 2009

Hyang Cho: That’s How It Is
May 23 to July 19, 2009

Margaret Flood: More or Less
May 23 to July 19, 2009

Beth Stuart: Braiding a Hole
May 23 to July 19, 2009

Contemporary Canadian Silversmith Collection
May 9 to July 19, 2009

Chinese Drawings from Huxian, Jinshan and Qijiang
February 11 to July 19, 2009
 

Maria Pezzano: Repeating Imprints
February 11 to April 26, 2009
 

Master Works from the Collection
January 17 to April 26, 2009

James Carl: do you know what
January 17 to March 22, 2009

Lisette Model - An Icon in the History of Photography
Organized by the National Gallery of Canada
November 22 to December 21, 2008

Searching for Home: The Lives of Lucy Maud Mongomery  
October 24, 2008 to January 18, 2009

Retelling Anne    
October 15, 2008 to February 1, 2009

Susan Dobson: Rememory            
September 17 to November 2, 2008

Beyond the Frame            
September 17 to November 15, 2008

John Eisler:   we love you / join us!
May 14 to October 12, 2008

Remi Arora: Night Shift
May 14 to June 22, 2008

Evan Macdonald: A Painter’s Life
May 14 to August 1, 2008

Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven
May 14 to August 1, 2008

Inuit Art: New Acquisitions
May 14, 2008 to July 19, 2009

Spectacle + Artifice
January 31 to April 20, 2008

Drawn to Light: Collecting Photography
January 31 to April 20, 2008

Silver Jewelry and Embroidery by the Naxi, Bai and Miao People of China; Tibetan Buddhist Jewelry and Clothing  
January 24 to October 5, 2008

Aggie Beynon   Wabi: Imperfect Beauty Organized by The Robert Langen Art Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo)
January 24 to July 20, 2008

Chris Ahlers: Urban Systems
October 18, 2007 to March 10, 2008 

Kenojuak Ashevak and Contemporaries
October 18, 2007 to May 10, 2008

Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way - by Jill Carter
November 21, 2007

Ken Danby, 1940 – 2007 
October 10 to December 16, 2007

Mary Anne Barkhouse and Michael Belmore: Terra Incognita
September 20 to November 4, 2007

Beyond the Frame
September 20 to November 17, 2007

Jenn Norton: The Insatiable Appetite of Russian Dolls
September 5 to 30, 2007

Nicolé Vogelzang: Landfill
June 23 to October 7, 2007

Recent Acquisitions
June 23 to July 29, 2007

Annie Dunning: Air Time
June 16 to July 8, 2007

Kenojuak, Ashevak and Contemporaries
January 11 to July 29, 2007

Shakespeare - Made in Canada:
Contemporary Canadian Adaptations in Theatre, Pop Media and Visual Arts

Featuring:   Finding the Bard in Contemporary Portraiture
                 A Good Block: Stratford Festival of Canada
                    Possible Worlds - Designing for Shakespeare in Canada

                    Visions of Shakespeare / Re-visions of Canada:
                                Canadian Adaptations of the Shakespeare Project
                    The Sanders Portrait: This Is the Face of the Bard

January 11 to June 10, 2007

Dawn Matheson: Tongues in Trees
A Sound Installation
January 11 to June 10, 2007

Ryan Price: ...draw while...
September 28 to November 30, 2006

Contemporary Painting from Chongqing
A New Exhibition Of 40 Paintings By Artists From Chongqing, China
September 20 to November 5, 2006

Beyond the Frame
September 20 to November 18, 2006

Threadworks: The Garden Party
A special project of the Ontario Network of Needleworkers in collaboration with the Wellington County Museum & Archives
June 6 to July 9, 2006

Nuvisavik: The Place Where We Weave
Inuit Tapestries from Arctic Canada
A travelling exhibition produced by the Canadian Museum of Civilization
May 9 to July 9
, 2006

Holly Ward: the Relay
May 4 to 21, 2006

Martin Golland: what is said and what is meant
March 23 to April 16, 2006 

Seth
Organized by Transformation AGO
January 19 to June 30

Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and French Prints of the ‘Golden Age’
The Brink Collection

January 19 to July 9, 2006

Nunavut Artists 1960-2005
January 19, 2006 - December 16, 2007

Lyne Lapointe: La Tache aveugle [The Blind Spot]
December 9, 2005 to April 2, 2006
Organized by Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

Don Russell: Re-presentation
October13 to December 18, 2005

Susan Detwiler: Feral
September 29 to November 6, 2005 

Beyond the Frame 
September 29 to November 12, 2005

Gordon Monahan: Music From Everywhere
September 11 to November 6, 2005 

Paula Jean Cowan: bit
June 9 to July 10
, 2005

Eileen MacArthur: pieces missing
May 5 to June 5, 2005

First Nations Art: European Perspectives
April 24, 2005 to November 30, 2006
  

Body Unbound: Works from the Collection
March 30 to July 10, 2005

In Service
Organized by Anna Leonowens Gallery,
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
January 29  to April 24, 2005  

David Hoffos: Scenes from the House Dream
January 20 to February 27
, 2005 

Munro Ferguson: June with Paintings and Drawings by Joyce Wieland
January 20 to February 27
, 2005 

Noel Harding: Gaugin and BJ 
January 20 to February 27, 2005 

Tammy Ratcliff: far from the tree
October 14 to December 19, 2004

Rolph Scarlett: Painter, Designer, Jeweller
September 30, 2004 to July 10, 2005

John Kissick: A Survey of Recent Painting
September 30 to November 7, 2004

Beyond the Frame
September 30 to November 13, 2004

Michael Waterman: Sound Circuit
September 8 to October 10, 2004

Nunavut Artists 1950 to 2000
September 7, 2004 to December 19, 2005

Frederick Arthur Verner: Ojibway Indian Encampment  
May 3 to July 18
, 2004
 

Marion Tuu’luq
Organized and Circulated by the National Gallery of Canada
May 6 to July 18
, 2004

Jaclyn Conley: Girls
March 19 to June 27, 2004

The English Picturesque and Dutch Landscape Prints of the Seventeenth Century
March 11 to July 30
, 2004 

Diane Maclean: Lovely Weather  
January 15 to April 18, 2004 

Laurel Woodcock: (play/pause/repeat)  
January 15 to February 29, 2004 

Skies  
January 24 to February 29, 2004

Robert Howson: TARGETS: The New Pretty?
October 16 to December 14, 2003                

Images of War from the Bachinski-Chu Print Study Collection
School of Fine Art & Music, University of Guelph
October 16 to December 14, 2003  

Beyond the Frame Auction Exhibition
September 18 to November 15, 2003

Tony Scherman: A Donation of Paintings  
September 18 to November 9, 2003 

Architectural Competition Designs for City Hall  
September 9 to October 5, 2003

Jesse Stewart: Wheels of Time  
September 7 to December 14, 2003      

Michelle Allard: Deluge
May 5 to June 29, 2003 

Messengers of Modernism: American Studio Jewelry 1940-1960
Produced and Circulated by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
March 27 to June 29, 2003 

After History: The Paintings of David Bierk
March 27 to August 1, 2003           

Isabel Martinez
March 22 to April 24, 2003 

Books Made By Hand: Ink paper lead, board leather thread
The Loving Society of Letterpress Printers and The Binders of Infinite Love
January 16 to March 16, 2003                    

Solo: The Painting of Pierre Dorion
Organized and circulated by Galerie d'Art du Centre Culturel de l’Université de Sherbrooke (Québec)
December 13, 2002  to March 02, 2003 

Gordon Couling: One Day in New York
November 21, 2002 to February 2, 2003 

Permanent Collection
November 21 to December 22, 2002 

Irene Avaalaaqiaq: Recent Wall Hangings
October 17, 2002 to August 01, 2003 

Pearl Van Geest: This Pure Mouth
October 17 to December 22, 2002 

Ken Danby
October 11 to December 15, 2002                                                                       

Beyond the Frame Auction Exhibition
September 19 to November 09, 2002                     

Gu Xiong: The Sickle and the Cell Phone
September 19 to November 03, 2002         
 

New Works from the Collection
September 19 to October 13, 2002 

Sakis: Exit 
May 2 to June 23, 2002

Guelph 2002: A celebration of Guelph and its artists. 
April 11 to July 14, 2002

Historical Views of Guelph 
April 11 to July 14, 2002   

Derek Sullivan: WORK-SHOPPING
March 23 to April 24, 2002

New Acquisitions
February 12 to March 30, 2002

Here Now: A Video Screening Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Ed Video 
January 23, 2002 at 7:30 p.m.  

Art and the Colleges: A Brief History
January 19 to March 30, 2002

The John and Gisela Sommer Collection 
– 40 Years of Collecting at Gallery House Sol

January 12 to March 17, 2002
 

Andrew Hunter: In the Pines
November 22, 2001 to March 24, 2002.  

Antiquity Revisited: The 19th Century
Circulated by the Art Gallery of Ontario  
November 22, 2001 to February 6, 2002.

Carolyn Riddell: Carrying Place
October 11 to December 30, 2001.
 

Inuit Art 1950 - 2000
September 20, 2001 to July 30, 2004.  

Framed Auction Exhibition
September 20 to November 10, 2001

Paul Hoeffler: Jazz Photographs 1950s - 1990s
September 06 to November 4, 2001

Robert Mason: Moving Home
June 17 to November 04, 2001

Lori Newdick: Felonious
May 10 to August 03, 2001 

Jan I.M. Noestheden: “Congratulations on a job well done”
March 24 to April 26, 2001

Greg Denton: "anyone lived"  
March 8, 2001 to September 29, 2002.

Leon Golub: While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings, 1994-1999
March 1 to June 10, 2001

Tim Jocelyn and ChromaZone: New Acquisitions
November 16, 2000 to February 25, 2000

Celebrating a Vision: Thirty Years of Collecting
Photographs at the National Gallery of Canada
November 16, 2000 to January 21, 2001

Pictorial Title Pages and Frontispieces
October 2, 2000 to March 25, 2001

Early Canadian Paintings: The Loeb Gift
October 2, 2000 to March 25, 2001
   

Framed Exhibition Auction Exhibition
September 21 to November 11, 2000

Fastwürms: 2 fang hoe
September 21 to November 5, 2000

Linda O’Neill: Objectum Quo
April 19 to August 04, 2000
 

Ross Bell: Constructing After
April 05 to April 16, 2000 

Rolph Scarlett: Art, Design & Jewelry
March 23 to August 04, 2000 

Lois Etherington Betteridge: A Tribute Exhibition with Beth Alber, Jackie Anderson, Anne Barros, Beth Biggs, Brigitte Clavette, Kye-Yeon Son and Ken Vickerson
March 23 to August 04, 2000 

Mysteries of the Collection:  Making History
November 18, 1999  to August 04, 2000

Carl Skelton: Out Here
November 12, 1999 to February 20, 2000

Masterworks from Nunavut
September 23, 1999 - August 04, 2000 

Where Myth, Dream and Reality Intersect:  The Art of Irene Avaalaaqiaq
September 23, 1999 to February 20, 2000

Joyce Wieland: Artist and Film-maker
September 23 to November 03, 1999

Framed: Artists Celebrate the Millennium Auction Exhibition
September 23 to November 06, 1999
 

Marion Manning: Tracking Dawn
July 12, 1999 to March 11, 2001
  

Greg Murphy: Fragments
May 20 to July 25, 1999
 

Ron Shuebrook: New Acquisitions, Paintings and Drawings 1985-1997
May 20 to July 25, 1999 

Verne Harrison: A Postmodern Parody - The Popeye Chronicles
March 31 to July 25, 1999 

“Sowing the Seeds”: 125th Anniversary of the Ontario Agricultural College
March 31, 1999 to August 04, 2000
 

A.J. Casson: An Artist’s Life
Organized by The McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario
March 31 to May 16, 1999 

Suzy Lake: New Acquisitions and Selected Works
February 11 to July 25, 1999 

Contingency and Continuity: Negotiating New Abstraction            
January 21 to March 21, 1999
 

Cheryl Sourkes: Fata Scribunda
New Acquisition

November 19, 1998 to January 31, 1999
 

Eleanor Bond 
(Circulated by the Museé d’art Contemporain Montreal)
November 12 to December 20, 1998
 

Paterson Ewen: Paintings from the 90s
November 27 to January 11, 1998
 

Nature Machine
November 13, 1997 to March 29, 1998
 

New Acquisitions in Inuit Art
September 24, 1998 to July 25, 1999
 

Framed Auction Exhibition
September 24 to November 07, 1998
 

Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age
September 24 to November 01, 1998
 

Drawings from the Herman Collection: 50 Western Masterpieces/50 Inuit Masterpieces
May 21 to July 26, 1998
 

J.J. Tissot : A Selection from the A.G.O. Collection
April 07 to May 10, 1998 

Micah Lexier
March 12 to May 10, 1998

A Sense of Time and Place
January 22, 1998 to March 07, 1999
 

David Rokeby: Giver of Names
January 22 to Mary 01, 1998
                                                        

Images of the Child in Inuit Art
September 30, 1997 to July 26, 1998
   

Framed Auction Exhibition
September 25 to November 22, 1997 

Telling Stories: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art
September 25 to November 16, 1997
 

Vintage Weston
September 18 to November 02, 1997 

Our Common Enemy: Works from the Special Collections of the Univesity of Guelph Library
April 24 to July 27, 1997 

4-Y-PSILON: Reinhard Rietzenstein
Aril 10 to July 27, 1997 

Pin Spots: Dianne Bos
April 10 to July 27, 1997 

A Particular Vernacular: Portraits from the Collection
February 06 to July 27, 1997 

Might Real: Roberta McNaughton
February 06 to April 13, 1997 

Aganetha Dyck
February 06 to March 29, 1997 

Rise and Fall: John Dickson/Laurie Walker
November 21, 1996 to January 26, 1997 

Survey: Lydia Dona 1989 - 1995
October 24, 1996 to January 19, 1997 

Framed Auction Exhibition
September 26 to November 16, 1996 

Living Units
September 26 to November 10, 1996 

Second Skin: looking at the Garden again
April 11 to June 08, 1996
 

Margaret Priest: To view from here
March 07 to June 02, 1996 

Ninety-six: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art
January 18 to March 28, 1996
 

Cora Cluett: Now We Are Alone Together
January 18 to March 10, 1996 

Iconoclasts: Selections from the Permanent Collections
January 18 to March 03, 1996

Guido Molinari: a retrospective
November 16 to December 23, 1995 

Perfect  Speed
September 28 to October 29, 1995
 

Tea Trays In The Sky Auction Exhibition
September 18 to November 04, 1995 

The Power of Selection: A Sampling from the Stewart and Letty Bennett and the Joan and W. Ross Murray Gifts to the permanent collection
May 06 to November 05, 1995 

Qamanittuaq(Where the River Widens): Drawings by Baker Lake Artists
April 27 to September 10, 1995 

Clarence Gagnon: Impressionist and Illustrator
April 27 to November 05, 1995
 

Recent Acquisitions in the Permanent Collection
April 27 to September 10, 1995
 

The Gardens of Fletcher Steele
organized by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forrestry, Syracuse
March 23 to April 15 

Home Show ‘95 Annual Juried Art Exhibition
March 09 to April 16, 1995 

Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan
Performance: Four Dress Works
February 09, 1995
 

Printmakers at Riverside
organized by the Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery
January 19 to March 12, 1995 

Michael Snow: The Walking Woman Works
organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Ontario
January 07 to February 26, 1995
 

Frankenstein: Explorations in Manipulation and Surrationality
November 17 to December 31, 1994
 

 XV: The 15th Year
September 22 to November 06, 1994 

Bid on a Box: 30 Unique Boxes by 30 Prominent Artists, Achitects and Designers Auction Exhibition
September 22 to November 05, 1994
 

Northern Lights: Inuit Textile Art
Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art
June 11 to July 17, 1994
 

Stephen Livick: Calcutta
Organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, an affiliate of the National Gallery of Canada
May 05 to June 05, 1994 

Pictures at an Exhibition: A Video Presentation by Jose Lebrero Stals
May 01 to June 19, 1994 

Sara Angelucci: Accidental Visions
April 30 to June 05, 1994
 

Sovereignty: Annual Juried Exhibtion
April 07 to May 01, 1994 

Stan Douglas: A Survey Exhibition
February 24 to March 24, 1994 

Selections from the Print Study Collection of the University of Guelph Fine Art Department
January 27 to February 27, 1994 

Kim Adams
January 14 to February 13, 1994 

The Anniversary Project: Video in Guelph 1976-1991
January 14 to February 13, 1994 

Marie-Jo LaFontaine: Savoir, retenir et fixer ce qui est sublime
January 08 to February 13, 1994

19th Century Views of Guelph
November 25, 1993 to January 12, 1994 

Regan Morris: Last Works
November 11, 1993 to January 02, 1994 

Chairs Embellished by Artists
November 01, 1993 to January 02, 1994
 

Wallpapers: States of Culture  Poster Project
October 16 to November 21, 1993
           

Christine Davis
September 23 to October 31, 1993
 

PAINTERS ELEVEN: Selections from the Murray and Isaacs Gifts
June 19 to September 12, 1993 

HANNAH HÖCH: Collages
June 19 to July 25, 1993 

YOUTH ART from Wellington County Schools
June 02 to June 20, 1993 

The Canada Council Art Bank
May 09 to June 13, 1993 

Robert Flack
March 14 to April 25, 1993 

Viewpoints: Annual Juried Exhibition
March 11 to April 25, 1993 

Abstracting the Landscape: The Artistry of the Landscape Architect A..E. Bye
March 05 to May 26, 1993 

MISFIT LIT: Contemporary Comic Art
January 21 to February 28, 1993 

Carel Moiseiwitsch: Siren
January 21 to February 28, 1993 

Robert Del Tredici: In the Realm of the Bomb
January 28 to February 28, 1993 

The Anniversary Project: Ed Video in Guelph, 1976-1991
January 13 to February 13, 1993 

The Measure of Man: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre
November 19, 1992 to January 17, 1993 

Gary Spearin: unspeakable
October 31, 1992 to January 10, 1993 

Stephen Andrews: facsimile
October 24, 1992 to January 17, 1993 

Urban Inscriptions
September 12 to October 18, 1992 

After Virtue: contemorary art from Catalonia
September 19 to October 25, 1992 

Lucia Onzain: installation
Artist-in-Residence at work
September 21to 24, 1992 

George Wallace: monoprints
June 20 to September 07, 1992  

The Group of Seven and their Contemporaries
Selections from the permanent collection
June 20 to September 07, 1992 

Cruciformed: images of the cross since 1980
Organised by the Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art
May 03 to June 14, 1992 

Gordon Laird: photographs
April 25 to June 14, 1992 

Robert Fones: A Selected Survey
March 16 to April 14, 1992 

Viewpoints: Annual Juried Exhibition
March 12 to April 26, 1992 

Cecily Moon, Marginalia
March 08 to April 18, 1992 

Colour and Light: The Landscapes of Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté and Maurice Cullen
February 12 to March 8, 1992
 

French Nineteenth-Century Prints from the Dales Collection
February 01 to March 01, 1992 

High / Risk / Safe / Sex: Video Installation by Micheal Balser
January 30 to March 01, 1992
 

American Prints in Black & White, 1900-1950: Selections from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams
December 15, 1991 to February 08, 1992 

Suzy Lake: Cautioned Homes and Gardens
November 03 to December 08, 1991 

7 - Seven - Nan - Sept: Selected Works of Moriyama & Teshima
October 25, 1991 to January 05, 1992 

Stu Oxley: Recent Works on Paper
September 21 to October 27, 1991 

19th Century Views of Guelph from the Collection
August 24 to October 20, 1991 

Site Memory
June 22 to September 15, 1991 

New Acquisitions
April 27 to August 01, 1991 

Material Remains: Robert McNealy, Bernie Miller, Elspeth Pratt
April 27 to June 09, 1991 

Robert Fones - Selected Survey
March 16 to April 14, 1991 

Georges Rouault: The Miserere Suite
March 02 to April 21, 1991 

Viewpoints: Annual Juried Exhibition
February 08 to March 10, 1991 

Sheila Ayearst
December 01, 1991 to February 03, 1991 

Confrontations of Form
November 03 to December 02, 1990 

Ron Shuebrook
September 29 to November 25, 1990 

Art and Objecthood: Sculpture from the Collection
September 14, 1990 to February 17, 1991 

A Propos d’une peinture des annees soixante
August 25 to September 23, 1990 

Western Works from the Collection
July 21 to October 28, 1990
 

Toronto Suite: Photographs by Michael Torosian
June 30 to September 10, 1990 

Treading Through Wellington: A Fibre Survey
June 23 to August 19, 1990 

Samuel Beckett Teleplays
May 05 to June 03, 1990 

Yosef Drenters: A Lifetime of Drawing
April 28 to July 15, 1990 

Roland Poulin Sculpture
April 28 to June 17, 1990 

Robert Hendrick Paintings
April 28 to June 17, 1990 

The Andrew Smith Papers
March 23 to April 22, 1990
 

County Artists
February 21 to April 15, 1990 

Lois Etherington Betteridge, Silversmith: Recent Work
February 17 to March 18, 1990 

View Points: Annual Juried Exhibition
February 16 to March 18, 1990 

From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography and the Power of Imagery
January 13 to February 11, 1990 

The Connoisseur Within
January 13 to February 11, 1990 

 

 

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