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
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
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
Munro
Ferguson: June with Paintings
and Drawings by Joyce Wieland
January 20 to February 27
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
Marion Tuu’luq
Organized and Circulated by the National Gallery of Canada
May 6 to July 18
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
Diane
Maclean: Lovely Weather
January
15 to April 18
Laurel
Woodcock: (play/pause/repeat)
January
15 to February 29, 2004
Skies
January
24 to February 29
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
Beyond the
Frame
Auction Exhibition
September 18 to November 15, 2003
Tony Scherman: A Donation of
Paintings
September 18 to November 9
Architectural
Competition Designs for City Hall
September 9 to October 5, 2003
Jesse
Stewart: Wheels of Time
September 7 to December 14
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
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.
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