The Art of Canada comes alive as our exhibitions travel from sea to sea and beyond.

Canadian art doesn’t just live in Kleinburg. The McMichael Canadian Art Collection has a long history of circulating exhibitions to cities and countries around the world. Below is an ever-changing list of our touring exhibitions that may be coming to a museum or gallery near you. Check back often and tell your friends!
All details subject to change.

GENERATIONS: THE SOBEY FAMILY AND CANADIAN ART

Generations: The Sobey Family and Canadian Art tells the story of one family’s visionary engagement with Canadian and Indigenous art. 

TOUR INFORMATION

The Rooms
St. John’s, Newfoundland
June 24, 2022 – January 22, 2023

https://www.therooms.ca

Art Gallery of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
February 18 – May 21, 2023
https://www.youraga.ca

Confederation Centre of the Arts
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
June 10 – September 10, 2023

https://confederationcentre.com

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Halifax, Nova Scotia
October 12, 2023 – Jan 14, 2024

https://www.artgalleryofnovascotia.ca

The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Quebec City, Quebec
February 8 – May 12, 2024

https://www.mnbaq.org/exposition/generations-1305

JON SASAKI: HOMAGE

Jon Sasaki: Homage is a suite of photographs depicting petri dishes with bloomed bacterial cultures derived from swabs of the palettes and brushes used by members of the Group of Seven and Tom Thomson, objects held in the archives of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

TOUR INFORMATION

Tom Thomson Art Gallery
Owen Sound, Ontario
July 30 – October 15, 2022

https://www.owensound.ca/en/exploring/ttag-exhibitions.aspx

Art Windsor-Essex
Windsor, Ontario
February 17 – October 8, 2023

https://www.agw.ca

Judith and Norman Alix Gallery
Sarnia, Ontario
April 19 – September 1, 2024

https://www.jnaag.ca/en/index.aspx

MacLaren Art Centre
Barrie, Ontario
October 4, 2024 – January 12, 2025

https://maclarenart.com/

GATHIE FALK: REVELATIONS

Revelations explores the career of this legendary Canadian artist. Now 94, Falk has explored the disciplines of painting, ceramic, performance art and installation, marking her as one of Canada’s most visionary and experimental artists.

TOUR INFORMATION

Museum London
London, Ontario
February 4 – April, 2023

http://museumlondon.ca

Glenbow Museum
Calgary, Alberta
June 28 – October 15, 2023
https://www.glenbow.org

Audain Art Museum
Whistler, British Columbia
November 25, 2023 – May 6, 2024

https://audainartmuseum.com

RAJNI PERERA: FUTURES

Rajni Perera is one of Canada’s most promising contemporary multimedia artists. Experimenting with mediums as varied as painting, sculpture and photography, the Toronto-based artist expresses her vision of imagined futures in which mutated subjects exist in dystopian realms.

TOUR INFORMATION

Carlton University Art Gallery
Ottawa, Ontario
May 28 – September 3, 2023

https://cuag.ca/

Art Windsor-Essex
Windsor, Ontario
October 23, 2023 – January 21, 2024

https://artwindsoressex.ca//

McMaster Museum of Art
Hamilton, Ontario
February 8 – May 10, 2024

https://museum.mcmaster.ca/

Musée d’art de Joliette
Joliette, Quebec
June 15 – September 8, 2024

https://www.museejoliette.org/en/

WOLVES: THE ART OF DEMPSEY BOB

Wolves: The Art of Dempsey Bob offers a personal encounter with the work of the leading carver of British Columbia’s Northwest Coast, and an immersive experience of the Tahltan and Tlingit mainland cultures.

TOUR INFORMATION

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Montreal, Quebec
May 15 – September 10, 2023

https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/

Kelowna Art Gallery
Kelowna, British Columbia
October 14, 2023 – February 18, 2024

https://kelownaartgallery.com/

EARLY DAYS: INDIGENOUS ART FROM THE McMICHAEL

colourful painting in an abstract style of human figures and birds and animals

From its beginnings, the McMichael has had a long and proud history of collecting Indigenous art, now with more than 1,500 works ranging from eighteenth-century ceremonial regalia, through to items made for trade with settlers, to works by the vanguard of artists coming of age in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s — among them Robert Houle, Carl Beam, Norval Morrisseau, Alex Janvier, Greg Staats, Faye HeavyShield and Shelly Niro — and onward to leading contemporary artists like Kent Monkman, Meryl McMaster and Rebecca Belmore.

TOUR INFORMATION

Heard Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
September 1, 2023 – January 2, 2024

https://heard.org

Albuquerque Museum
Albuquerque, New Mexico
January 27 – April 21, 2024

https://albuquerquemuseum.org

Chrysler Museum of Art
Norfolk, Virginia
May 24 – September 2, 2024

https://chrysler.org

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.

TOUR INFORMATION

Remai Modern
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
July 21 2023 – January 2, 2024

https://remaimodern.org/

Musée d’art de Joliette
Joliette, Quebec
February 3 – May 12, 2024

https://www.museejoliette.org/en

Glenbow Museum
Calgary, Alberta
June – August, 2024

https://www.glenbow.org/

TOM THOMSON: NORTH STAR

oil painting of white tent slung between silver birch trees at the edge of a wooded shoreline of bright blue water

Tom Thomson (1877–1917) is indisputably Canada’s preeminent modern painter, and his catalytic achievement changed the face of Canadian painting forever. This exhibition will offer a close look at Thomson’s legacy, focusing on the small en plein air oil paintings, also know as oil sketches, of which he is the supreme master.

TOUR INFORMATION

Art Gallery of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
February 18 – May 29, 2024

https://www.youraga.ca

Audain Art Museum
Whistler, British Columbia
June 29 – September 30, 2024

https://audainartmuseum.com

Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Fredericton, New Brunswick
November, 2024 – March 17, 2025

https://beaverbrookartgallery.org/

COBALT: A MINING TOWN AND THE CANADIAN IMAGINATION

oil painting of rocky landscape with industrial buildings in foreground,, water in middleground and buildings on far shore on hillsides

Cobalt, Ontario—some 500 kilometres north of Toronto—was established in 1904 following the discovery of rich silver, cobalt, ore, and nickel deposits. At peak production in 1911, Colbalt provided approximately one eighth of the world’s silver. In its heyday, the story of Cobalt was known around the world, and the town attracted miners, scientists, scholars, and of course, artists.

TOUR INFORMATION

Art Gallery of Algoma
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
mid July – October 14, 2024

https://www.artgalleryofalgoma.com/

Ghosts of Canoe Lake: New Work by Marcel Dzama

Marcel Dzama’s delicate and fantastical drawings made with ink, watercolour paint and root beer catapulted the Winnipeg-born artist to international fame in the late 1990s. Since then, Dzama has relocated to Brooklyn, New York, expanding his practice to include performance, sculpture, and video. Ghosts of Canoe Lake: New Work by Marcel Dzama celebrates a new body of work inspired by the artist’s interest in Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, recalling as well his childhood spent in the landscape of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

TOUR INFORMATION

Contemporary Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
June 27 – October 27, 2024

https://www.contemporarycalgary.com//

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art
Winnipeg, Manitoba
November 24, 2024 – March 9, 2025

https://plugin.org/