Touring
Exhibitions
Fresh Air: The Changing Landscape of Canadian Art
Fresh Air brings historical and contemporary artists into conversation around one of Canadian art’s most enduring subjects: the landscape. Iconic early twentieth-century paintings are shown alongside contemporary works in painting, sculpture, photography, and textile — practices that expand the genre to embrace environmental change, Indigenous land relations, and personal memory. Together, they invite visitors to consider landscape not as a fixed subject but as a living one, to which artists across generations have felt compelled to return.
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
MAY — AUG 2027
Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC
NOV 2027 — MAY 2028
Listen to the Land
Listen to the Land brings together approximately fifty oil sketches by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven with Wave Sounds, a sculptural installation by renowned Anishinaabekwe artist Rebecca Belmore. Drawn from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the exhibition traces changing artistic responses to the Canadian landscape across more than a century — from the Atlantic coast to the Arctic tundra and the Rocky Mountains.
By bringing landmark works of historical landscape painting into conversation with Belmore’s powerful meditation on land, place, and listening, the exhibition invites visitors to consider how our understanding of the natural world has evolved — and what it means, across time and culture, to truly listen to the land.
Varley Art Gallery, Markham, ON
JAN — MAY 2027
The Muse, Kenora, ON
JUNE — SEPT 2027
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
OCT 2027 — JAN 2028
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Maria, ON
JULY — SEPT 2028
The Rooms, St. John’s, NL
JUNE — SEPT 2029
Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON
OCT 2028 — JAN 2029
Meryl McMaster: Bloodline
The McMichael and Remai Modern are proud to present a survey exhibition of a remarkable Canadian artist whose pioneering large-scale photographic works reflect her mixed Plains Cree/Métis, Dutch and British ancestry.
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON
NOV 2025 — MAR 2026
Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, QC
NOV 2026 — SEPT 2027
Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON
OCT 2027 — MAR 2028
People of the Watershed: Photographs by John Macfie
The exhibition includes more than 100 photographs taken by John Macfie (1925–2018), a settler trapline manager who worked in Northern Ontario in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Muse, Kenora, ON
SEPT — DEC 2025
Timmins Museum, Timmins, ON
FEB — MAR 2026
Art Gallery of Sudbury, Sudbury, ON
MAY — JULY 2026
North Bay Museum, North Bay, ON
JULY — OCT 2026
Museum of Atikokan, Atikokan, ON
NOV 2026 — JAN 2027
Rita Leistner: The Tree Planters
A striking photographic series by award-winning Canadian photographer Rita Leistner. Through large-scale, painterly portraits captured in real-time, Leistner documents the gruelling and heroic labour of professional tree planters in British Columbia. Her work explores themes of human endurance, environmental stewardship, and Canada’s evolving relationship with its forests.
Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
JAN — MAY 2026
Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, Red Deer, AB
JUNE — AUG 2026
Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YT
SEPT — NOV 2026
Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON
APR — AUG 2027
River of Dreams: Impressionism on the St. Lawrence
In the late 19th century, the Impressionist movement found a footing in Canada, and Quebec artists quickly responded with works of rare beauty and sophistication. This show will assemble a choice collection of master works that trace a journey from the bustling streets of Montreal—then Canada’s financial capital—down the St. Lawrence River to Quebec City and through the beloved Charlevoix region.
Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, QC
NOV 2025 — AUG 2026
Stan Douglas: Tales of Empire
A focused survey of the acclaimed Vancouver-based artist’s career. For over four decades, Douglas has been recognized as one of Canada’s most important contemporary artists, with a significant international reputation across Europe, the United States, and beyond.
Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC
JUNE — OCT 2027
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, IL
JAN — MAY 2028
Worlds on Paper: Drawings from Kinngait
The recent digitization of the Kinngait Drawings Archive—90,000 works strong and held by the McMichael for more than three decades—has allowed unprecedented curatorial access to the origins of this now world-renowned graphic tradition.
Museum London, London, ON
APR — SEPT 2027
Details subject to change without notice.