Current
Exhibitions

Close to Home brings together paintings, drawings, and prints created in and around Kleinburg, Vaughan, Thornhill, North York, Markham, Bolton, Orillia, Barrie, and neighbouring locales.

Anishinaabe/Ojibwa artist Bonnie Devine’s site-specific mural installation is now complete and on view in the McMichael’s Grand Hall Alcove. Devine and her assistant, Mariah Meawasige, conducted research on the Carrying Place Trail, which historically provided an integral connection for Indigenous people between Ontario’s Lakeshore and the Lake Simcoe-Georgian Bay Region.

Early Days presents more than 100 works from the McMichael’s permanent collection spanning more than two centuries, from 18th-century regalia and trade items to Northwest coast masks, to the groundbreaking work of artists from the 1960s through the 1980s, and powerful contemporary pieces by leading voices today.

Old Growth invites visitors to experience the McMichael’s most iconic and enduring treasures, artworks that have shaped the way generations have seen and felt the Canadian experience.

Using drawing and photo-based gel transfer techniques, Toronto based Sandra Brewster’s site-specific installation at the McMichael depicts the Essequibo River in Guyana and its distinctive fish species, evoking the fluidity and dynamism of water as a metaphor for migration and transformation.