Galleries
Contemporary Art Galleries
Galleries
107Shaw Gallery / West Queen West
107Shaw takes the idea of opening a gallery in one's home to a certain extreme. Unlike those enthusiasts who cobble together makeshift exhibition spaces in small apartments that aren't...
36 Chambers / Parkdale
36 Chambers is a studio collective near Queen and Dufferin that is home to a number of artists working in different mediums. The space used to be home to Ushers...
918 Bathurst / Annex
918 Bathurst is an eclectic community centre located at--you guessed it--918 Bathurst Street, just a few blocks north of Bloor. Though to some it may be a well-kept secret, the...
99 Gallery / West Queen West
99 Gallery is the gallery space at 99 Sudbury. The 5,000 square foot space is committed to showcasing local and international emerging artists working in a variety of forms of...
A Space Gallery / Queen West
A Space is an artist-run gallery that features politically engaged issue oriented programming that is inclusive of a wide range of media, disciplines and views. ...
Angell Gallery / Ossington
Angell Gallery was one of the first to set up shop on the now art-centric West Queen West corridor. But having occupied its 750 sq. ft. space just southwest...
Arsenal Toronto / Junction Triangle
Arsenal Toronto has stayed mostly under the radar since its April 2012 launch, likely overshadowed when it first opened by the manic frenzy of the Contact Photography Festival. But as the...
Art Metropole (Dundas West) / Dundas West
Art Metropole, the venerable artist-run centre and retailer, has settled in nicely after moving from King Street to cozier digs near Dundas and Dufferin this past June. Packing must have...
Arts Etobicoke Gallery / Etobicoke
Contributed by Sameer Vasta It may be a small place, but the Arts Etobicoke Gallery is the home to big things. Doubling as the home offices for Arts Etobicoke --...
AWOL Gallery / Ossington
Established in 1999, AWOL Gallery and Studios was one of the first galleries to open in what is now a hot Toronto Queen West Gallery District. AWOL Gallery and...
Baitshop / Parkdale
The year is 1990. In between repeated viewings of Gleaming the Cube, my friends and I have managed to construct a quarter pipe ramp to help broaden our skateboarding...
Barbara Edwards Contemporary / Annex
Barbara Edwards Contemporary is the gallery belonging to local art dealer Barbara Edwards. Inside she features the work of both Canadian and International contemporary artists....
Bau-Xi Contemporary Art Gallery / Baldwin Village
Bau-Xi is a 2-story gallery that was first established in Vancouver before opening this, it's sister gallery in 1976....
Blue Dot Gallery / Distillery District
The Blue Dot Gallery represents a number of contemporary Canadian artists. It's also a popular venue for parties and other events. ...
Brayham Contemporary Art / Leslieville
Brayham Contemporary Art presents an ambitious exhibition program bringing the work of important national and international artists to Toronto, while supporting the local Toronto art scene by providing a venue...
Brockton Collective / West Queen West
Brockton Collective is housed in a nondescript industrial building on Dufferin just north of Queen. With tenants ranging from a reclaimed lumber shop to a chic hair salon to a...
Butcher Gallery / Dundas West
Butcher Gallery is a hidden space, off the beaten path, but its new location is just the start of its unconventional nature. The brainchild of artists Brad Tinmouth, Lili Huston-Herterich...
Chuck Akudu Gallery / Junction
Chuck Akudu Gallery opened in the Junction in September 2010. So far, the new gallery has showcased the work of local artists working primarily in illustration, mixed media and photography....
Clint Roenisch / West Queen West
Clint Roenisch Gallery, nestled in the hub of the West Queen West "Art + Design District," is a small gallery that packs a punch. Having opened its doors in 2003,...
Communication Art Gallery / Annex
Communication Gallery is a tiny art space on Harbord Street near Bathurst that exhibits fine art from a wide variety of visual mediums. Perhaps its most noteworthy exhibit to date...
Cooper Cole / Dundas West
Cooper Cole Gallery isn't exactly a complete departure from Show & Tell, the gallery space that Simon Cole opened up over two years ago on Dundas West, but the decision...
Corkin Gallery / Distillery District
Jane Corkin's eponymous gallery is one of the more impressive in the city. The gallery is divided into five exhibition spaces and showcases well known international contemporary artists. The photo...
Daniel Faria Gallery / Bloordale Village
Daniel Faria Gallery is a bright contemporary art space in Bloordale Village, found amongst a strip of industrial buildings in warehouse that was an auto body shop in its last...
Diaz Contemporary / King West
You could drop this gallery unmolested into any of the great contemporary art centres of the world and you wouldn't have to change a thing. Owner Benjamin Diaz...
Don't Tell Mama Gallery / Ossington
Don't Tell Mama Gallery is a new addition on Ossington, having had its soft opening in December and its first exhibition is January 2012. Located in a second floor space...
Edward Day Gallery / West Queen West
Contributed by Dory Carr-Harris Easy to miss if you're not looking for it, the Edward Day Gallery sits in a cosy enclave next to the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA)...
Erin Stump Projects / West Queen West
Erin Stump Projects is a small art space in the heart of West Queen West, near Dovercourt. Having opened its doors in April 2011, it's definitely a newcomer in an...
ESP Gallery / West Queen West
ESP Gallery, along with Ten Eighty Gallery, is one of the newest galleries to surface near Queen and Dovercourt. So far their exhibitions have featured emerging, talented contemporary artists....
Feheley Fine Arts / King East
Feheley Fine Arts is a gallery on Hazelton Avenue in Yorkville the features contemporary Inuit art from across the Canadian Arctic. ...
Galerie Lausberg / Baldwin Village
Lausberg Contemporary comes to Toronto by way of Düsseldorf, but in the five years since they opened their first space on Queen Street near Trinity Bellwoods park, their engagement with...
Gallery 1313 / Parkdale
Contributed by Laura Mendes Originally built as a police station at the height of Toronto's art deco boom, Gallery 1313 has been luring Queen West gallery hoppers to the district of...
Gallery at 129 Ossington / Ossington
Contributed by andi argast Another sign of gentrification along the once unloved Ossington Avenue strip, 129 Ossington is helping to make the area a destination for gallery-goers. Located at (surprise, surprise)...
Gallery Moos / Queen West
Contemporary Canadian, American and European painting, sculpture and works on paper....
Gallery One / Yorkville
Gallery One has been in Yorkville for three decades. Tucked away on sleepy Scollard Street, the mammoth gallery space showcases both emerging and international artists and a wide range of...
Gallerywest / Parkdale
Gallerywest is one of Parkdale's survivors, having risen from the ashes of the closure of gallery DK. Behind the space's resurrection is Saskatchewan native and multimedia artist Evan Tyler. As...
General Hardware Contemporary / Parkdale
General Hardware Contemporary really did used to be an old hardware shop, but you'd barely know it from the chic interior. Gallery director Niki Dracos, a 20-year veteran of the...
Georgia Scherman Projects / West Queen West
Located on Tecumseth just south of the Queen West strip, Georgia Scherman Projects is, as the name suggests, a project-based gallery. A circular sentence if I've ever written one,...
Goodfellas Gallery / Parkdale
Goodfellas Gallery opened in Parkdale last month, featuring mostly large-scale abstract works well-suited for commercial spaces. The owners, however, don't want to get too niche. "We enjoy participating in things...
Graven Feather / West Queen West
Graven Feather had piqued my interest long before I actually made it in to have a look around. A street-level door hinting at the staircase behind it in a plain...
Hashtag Gallery / Dundas West
Hashtag Gallery is the one of the latest entries to what has gradually become the arts-rich strip of Dundas West. Founded by Graeme Luey, Johnny Hollick and Charlie Jurczynski last...
Hotshot / Kensington Market
Hotshot is a new gallery in South Kensington Market that was started in late 2007 by a group of five artists, designers and creative entrepreneurs. The gallery showcases regular exhibits...
Huntclub / Little Italy
Huntclub is a new multidisciplinary studio and gallery space that calls Little Italy home. Over the last decade, Toronto's art scene has spread far beyond its original ground zero of...
Hunter and Cook / West Queen West
The Hunter and Cook headquarters unveiled itself to the world on Thursday night. The launch party for the new home of the arts and culture magazine started by Jay Isaac...
Ideas Incorporated / Annex
Ideas Incorporated, a new gallery space near Dupont and Bathurst, says it has one goal: human expansion into the universe. With this in mind, the art in shows on side...
Jessica Bradley Annex / Other
Jessica Bradley Annex is the brainchild of one of Toronto's most influential gallery owners, Jessica Bradley, who has always had a knack for predicting new trends in art and design....
Julie M. Gallery / Distillery District
Julie M. Gallery was originally established in Tel Aviv by Julie Mamon in 1975. The Toronto location of the gallery opened in 2009, and has a mandate to represent...
Katharine Mulherin / West Queen West
Katharine Mulherin, now in its tenth year, is spread across various store fronts on Queen Street West. Edgy and relevant, this gallery is one of the most respected and...
KWT Contemporary / Queen West
KWT Contemporary is the only gallery I know of that's owned by an elected official. Formerly known as XEXE Gallery, active since 2004 and founded by Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, the...
LE Gallery / Dundas West
Contributed by andi argast Much like its Dundas West neighbourhood, LE Gallery is quickly establishing itself as a destination of choice. When I stop by LE one evening to chat with...
Leonardo Galleries / Yorkville
Leonardo Galleries is devoted to the presentation and promotion of contemporary Canadian Art, specializing in painting, drawing, printmaking and photography.They represent a selection of artists from established and emerging categories. ...
Loop Gallery / Dundas West
loop Gallery is not an artist-run centre, at least in the traditional sense - nor is it a commercial gallery. loop is a collective, and loop Gallery is its exhibition...
Mercer Union / Bloordale Village
I've been meaning to check out the new location of the Mercer Union for quite some time. Although I live pretty close by, this was just one of those...
Meredith Keith Gallery / Dundas West
Meredith Keith Gallery is located in a friendly clutch of artistic small businesses at the western reach of Dundas West. Although it's only been open since November 2010, Keith has...
Milk Glass Co. / Dundas West
Milk Glass Co. is an art gallery on Dundas West that hosts a wide-range of art-based exhibits and events. They also specialize in archival custom framing....
Mira Godard Gallery / Yorkville
Mira Godard may not be with us any longer but her gallery on Hazelton remains. Established in 1962 when the neighbourhood was bohemian instead of Hugo Boss, the gallery has...
MKG127 / Dundas West
MKG127 might read like a postal code at first glance, but the gallery space actually borrows its initials from its founder Michael Klein and its address at 127 Ossington at...
MKG127 (Dundas West) / Dundas West
MKG 127's relocation is a familiar Toronto story. The loftification of Ossington continues to claim victims, as the art galleries that made the area so appealing for condo developers...
MOCCA / West Queen West
The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA for short) is slightly hidden behind a courtyard off Queen. Inside, the gallery showcases innovative art by Canadian and international artists whose works...
Moore Gallery / King West
Features paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Canadian contemporary artists....
Narwhal Art Projects / Junction
Narwhal Art Projects was opened by Magic Pony to host expanded exhibitions without retail crossover. Featuring the work of young Canadian and international artists, the gallery was first located at...
Neubacher Shor Contemporary / Parkdale
Neubacher Shor Contemporary (NSC) is only officially launching this month, but it's already a hive of activity. When I visited late afternoon the Friday before the official launch party, there...
Nicholas Metivier Gallery / King West
Features painting, drawing, graphics arts, sculpture and photography by international contemporary artists....
Odon Wagner Contemporary / Yorkville
Odon Wagner Contemporary is the sister gallery to nextdoor Odon Wagner on Davenport Road. As the name suggests, this gallery features established contemporary art....
Olga Korper Gallery / Roncesvalles Village
Olga Korper Gallery has a lengthy and fascinating history. Started in the basement of Korper's former apartment on Markham Street, after a few years the then makeshift gallery moved...
Open Studio / Queen West
Open Studio is one of Canada's leading printmaking centres. Part studio, part gallery space, it's dedicated to the production, preservation and promotion of contemporary original fine art prints. ...
Pari Nadimi Gallery / West Queen West
Pari Nadimi gallery is sort of hidden away on Niagara St. It's worth meandering south from Queen to take a look inside this large warehouse like space that showcases sculpture,...
Parts Gallery / Leslieville
Parts Gallery is a contemporary art gallery focused on emerging and established local and international artists....
Paul Petro / West Queen West
Paul Petro gallery is an institution on Queen West. Not to be confused with Paul Petro Multiples + Small Works down the street, this older sibling features two floors of...
PM Gallery / Dundas West
p|m Gallery is tucked into a bright stretch of Dundas West, between a Portuguese café and Henhouse (a bar), a few doors down. I stopped by the other day to...
Power Plant / Harbourfront
The Power Plant, one of Toronto's most established contemporary art galleries, is located in an actual power plant - one that was in operation for most of the 1900s. It's...
Propeller Gallery / West Queen West
Propeller Gallery is a community-oriented gallery on West Queen West....
Queen Specific / West Queen West
Queen Specific is located immediately west of Dufflet Pastries, who co-sponsors this unique art project on West Queen West. A two by eight foot window display, monthly exhibitions are programmed...
Red Head Gallery / Queen West
Located inside 401 Richmond, The Red Head Gallery has been presenting challenging contemporary visual art for over seventeen years. ...
Roadside Attractions / St. Clair West
Roadside Attractions is a unique window exhibition space, located on a lonely stretch of Davenport Road at Christie Street. Programmed by artists Kate Vasyliw and Roy Kohn, under their collective...
Roncy St. Gallery / Roncesvalles Village
Roncy St. Gallery is a new addition to the north end of Roncesvalles, showcasing contemporary work in a gallery space near Howard Park....
Scrap Metal Gallery / Bloordale Village
Scrap Metal Gallery joins Daniel Faria Gallery and other art spaces in the Bloor and Lansdowne neighborhood, occupying an industrial building on a small dead-end street. The space is in...
Studio Gallery / Chinatown
Studio Gallery isn't exactly the most conspicuous space I've ever visited. But, while the second floor location at College and Spadina may not be the easiest for pedestrians to...
Telephone Booth Gallery / Junction
Telephone Booth Gallery is an enthusiastic newcomer to the Junction. Representing up-and-coming artists, many of whom work in textile, clay, or other fine-craft media, the gallery fits well with the...
Ten Eighty Gallery / West Queen West
Ten Eighty Gallery is a new gallery near Queen and Dovercourt that shows work of young and talented Toronto artists....
Tomorrow Gallery / Bloordale Village
Tomorrow Gallery is located in a warehouse space near Bloor and Lansdowne and focuses on contemporary art and installation-based work. A not-for-profit organization, it is affiliated with the publication house...
Toronto Free Gallery / Bloordale Village
There's very little in this world more satisfying than coming across a gallery opening on a Thursday night that happens to have an open bar. If I was pushed...
Twist Gallery / West Queen West
Twist Gallery is now officially open after finishing up some recent renovations. Taking over the space formerly occupied by SPIN Gallery, just above the Social, new owner, Nadia Kakridonis,...
Urbanspace Gallery / Queen West
Urbanspace gallery, as its name promises, hosts exhibits that explore urban issues, many of which focus on Toronto in some way. Located on the first floor of the 401 Richmond...
VSVSVS Gallery / Port Lands
VSVSVS is a gallery in Toronto that doesn't rely on foot traffic or a board of directors to get things done. Instead it's an artist collective in the old school...
Walnut Contemporary / King West
Walnut Contemporary is Walnut Studios' new new affiliated commercial gallery and event space. It's also blessed with a great origin story: it replaces the defunct Canadian Corps Legion Hall (a...
Walnut Studios / West Queen West
When I first discovered Walnut Studios, I never expected it to be so hidden. Following the pungent smell of cow manure around the bend from The Old York bar...
Whippersnapper Gallery / Kensington Market
Whippersnapper Gallery has moved to a new space, and there's a brand new vision to go along with it. The gallery, now located at the southern tip of Kensington Market...
Wynick/Tuck / Queen West
The Wynick/Tuck is a 2000 square foot contemporary art gallery in 401 Richmond with three separate spaces called the Large Gallery, the Small Gallery, and the Project Room. ...
XEXE Gallery / Queen West
Showcases emerging and established contemporary artists in a variety of styles and media....
XPACE / Ossington
XPACE. XPACE. XPACE. This, my friends, is what is known as search engine optimization. The sooner I mention the name of what I'm profiling, the more...
XPACE (Lansdowne) / Dundas West
XPACE is one of the more recent victims of Ossington's rapid gentrification, having closed its doors at the end of last year due to rent increases. Thankfully, it did, however,...
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation / King West
More info coming soon....
YYZ / Queen West
Located in 401 Richmond, YYZ is dedicated to the support of work by contemporary artists working in all media including video, film and performance. ...
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