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In a Different Light

Reflecting on Northwest Coast Art

Ongoing

Xicanx

Dreamers + Changemakers /
Soñadores + creadores del cambio

May 12, 2022 – January 15, 2023

Shake Up

Preserving What We Value

December 2, 2018 – January 15, 2023

The Great Hall Renewal Project

Building for a New Era

December 16, 2020 – January 15, 2023

Sankofa

African Routes, Canadian Roots

November 4, 2021 – March 27, 2022

A Future for Memory /
記憶のための未来

Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake /
東日本大震災後のアートと暮らし

February 11 – September 19, 2021 / 2021年2月11日〜9月19日

Shame and Prejudice

A Story of Resilience — By Kent Monkman

August 6, 2020 – January 3, 2021

Playing with Fire

Ceramics of the Extraordinary

November 22, 2019 – March 17, 2020

Shadows, Strings and Other Things

The Enchanting Theatre of Puppets

May 16, 2019 – October 14, 2019

Marking the Infinite

Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia

November 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019

Arts of Resistance

Politics and the Past in Latin America

May 17, 2018 – September 30, 2018

The Fabric of Our Land

Salish Weaving

November 19, 2017 – April 15, 2018

Amazonia

The Rights of Nature

March 10, 2017 – January 28, 2018

Traces of Words

Art and Calligraphy From Asia

May 11, 2017 – October 9, 2017

Layers of Influence

Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures

November 17, 2016 – April 9, 2017

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Unceded Territories

May 10, 2016 – October 16, 2016

In the Footprint of the Crocodile Man

Contemporary Art of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea

March 1, 2016 – January 31, 2017

(In)visible / 形(無)形

The Spiritual World of Taiwan Through Contemporary Art /
台灣當代藝術的靈性世界

November 20, 2015 – April 3, 2016

Canciones de las Madres / Songs of the Mothers

September 8, 2015 – March 27, 2016

Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In Between

Portuguese Popular Art

May 12, 2015 – October 12, 2015

c̓əsnaʔəm, the city before the city

January 25, 2015 – January 24, 2016

Pigapicha!

100 Years of Studio Photography in Nairobi

November 25, 2014 – April 5, 2015

Claiming Space

Voices of Urban Aboriginal Youth

June 1, 2014 – January 4, 2015

Without Masks

Contemporary Afro-Cuban Art

May 2, 2014 – November 2, 2014

The Marvellous Real

Art from Mexico, 1926-2011

October 25, 2013 – March 30, 2014

Speaking to Memory

Images and Voices from St. Michael's Indian Residential School

September 18, 2013 – May 11, 2014

Paradise Lost?

Contemporary Works From The Pacific

July 24, 2013 – September 29, 2013

Safar/Voyage

Contemporary Works By Arab, Iranian and Turkish Artists

April 20, 2013 – September 15, 2013

Pleased to meet you

Introductions by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott

November 3, 2012 – March 24, 2013

Luminescence

The Silver of Peru

October 5, 2012 – December 16, 2012

Visions of Enlightenment

Buddhist Art At MOA

May 10, 2012 - September 30, 2012

Kesu’

The Art and Life of Doug Cranmer

March 17, 2012 – September 3, 2012

ひろしま Hiroshima by Ishiuchi MIyako

October 14, 2011 – February 12, 2012

A Green Dress

Memory, Objects and the Museum

September 27, 2011 – April 8, 2012

Peter Morin’s Museum

April 20, 2011 – July 3, 2011

Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens

October 30, 2010 – January 23, 2011

Inuit Prints

Japanese Inspiration and the Faces and Voices of Inuit Art Market

June 19, 2010 – September 25, 2011

Carl Beam

April 8, 2010 – May 29, 2011

Border Zones

New Art Across Cultures

January 23, 2010 – September 12, 2010