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Closing date: January 25, 2026
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Closing date: December 18, 2025
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Congratulations to the 2025 Lacey Prize winners! 🏆
✨ Winner: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, Yukon
✨ Runner-up: Hearth, Toronto, Ontario
✨ Runner-up: daphne, Montreal, Quebec
To learn more about the Lacey Prize, visit: www.gallery.ca/whats-on/art...
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👏 Congratulations to Tania Willard, winner of the $100,000 2025 Sobey Art Award, Canada’s most established contemporary visual arts prize. 👏
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In 2024–2025, we went beyond the frame to engage with Canadians and the world through art in more ways than ever.
Our annual report is now available: www.gallery.ca/about/govern...
The National Gallery of Canada, in partnership with the Audain Art Foundation, announces today a new research-based residency in historical Indigenous art.
This 3-year appointment, with a $50K per-annum stipend, is intended for senior Indigenous scholars, art historians, curators or conservators.
We're thrilled to present We come from the sea by Joan Jonas — on view Aug 10–Oct 12 at the Eltuek Arts Centre and the Inverness County Centre for the Arts 🌊
Organized by @artgalleryns.bsky.social and @gallery.ca, We come from the sea is unlike anything you’ve experienced before.
Through this exciting partnership, select works by #GGArts2025 winners are being prepared for an exhibition at the MacKenzie Art Gallery, in Regina, Saskatchewan.
📆 Exhibition opens on December 4, 2025.
We’re thrilled to announce a collaboration between the Canada Council for the Arts, the @mackenziegallery.bsky.social and the National Gallery of Canada, in celebration of the winners of the 2025 Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
Fireworks in the night sky behind the National Gallery of Canada.
What a great #CanadaDay we had at the Gallery with over 7,200 visitors! A significant increase over recent years. Thanks to all who came celebrate with us. 🍁
🖼️ Jennie C. Jones, Fractured Crescendo, Red Rest, 2020, acoustic absorber panel and acrylic on canvas, 9 1.4 x 125.7 x 5.1 cm. Gift of Michael Nesbitt, Winnipeg, 2022 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa © Jennie C. Jones. Photo: NGC
Our National Engagement initiative is generously supported by Michael Nesbitt, with additional funding from the NGC Foundation.
The exhibition places artworks from the donation are alongside a number of icons from the permanent collection, exploring “echoes” across artistic practices and movements.
COMING SOON!
THINGS WHICH ARE PER SE CONTINUOUS: The Michael Nesbitt Collection, Winnipeg showcases major recent donations to the Gallery by Winnipeg collector and philanthropist Michael Nesbitt, expanding the collection of Modern and Contemporary art.
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This latest donation brings the total of donated artworks to the Gallery by Mr. Rennie and family to more than 260 since 2012.
📸 Vincent Lee @ishot.ca
Today we announce a $22.8-million major gift to Canadians of 61 artworks by noted Vancouver-based businessperson and philanthropist Bob Rennie, a Distinguished Patron of the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, and The Rennie Family.
To read the press release: bit.ly/4n5ftxp
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The Lacey Prize is funded through a gift by Dr. John Lacey and his late wife Naomi and supported by the National Gallery of Canada Foundation.
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The first-place winner will receive $50,000 and two runners-up will each receive $20,000.
Deadline to submit applications is Sunday, October 12, 2025, at 6 p.m. EST.
For details about the submission process: www.gallery.ca/about/prizes...
We invite nominations of small-scale artists-run centres and community-focused galleries from across Canada for the 2025 Lacey Prize, which recognizes the contribution of local art organizations to Canada’s visual arts sector, providing financial assistance to support them in their mission.
Mark your calendar! 🗓️ Works by the six finalists will be on view at the Gallery from October 3, 2025, to February 8, 2026. 🏆 The winner will be announced on November 8, 2025.
For info on the finalists and independent jury: www.gallery.ca/whats-on/sob...
👏 Congratulations to all! 👏
🎉Congratulations to the six shortlisted artists of the 2025 #SobeyArtAward 🎉
◼️ Tarralik Duffy (Circumpolar)
◻️ Tania Willard (Pacific)
◼️ Chukwudubem Ukaigwe (Prairies)
◻️ Sandra Brewster (Ontario)
◼️ Swapnaa Tamhane (Quebec)
◻️ Hangama Amiri (Atlantic)
▪️ Monday May 26th: rolling closures on Sussex Drive (between Rideau Street and Rideau Gate) from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
▪️ Tuesday May 27th : full closures from 5 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Sussex Drive and Mackenzie Avenue between the Alexandra Bridge and the intersection of Wellington Street and Rideau Street).
🚧 ROAD CLOSURES 🚧
Please be advised that due to the Royal visit, there will be road closures impacting traffic to the Gallery. Details below.
We apologize for any delays.
Learn more: bit.ly/4kitDK2
On Sunday, May 25, Sussex Drive (between Rideau Street and Sir George Étienne Cartier Parkway), Alexandria Bridge and Saint Patrick Street (between Parent Street and Sussex Drive) will be closed to vehicles.
Public access to our parking garage will be unavailable. ⛔
📢 NOTICE
The Gallery will be open on Ottawa Race Weekend. 🏃
On Saturday, May 24, expect traffic in the downtown area to be delayed.
We agree! We're so lucky having this in our backyard (literally)!
It's absolutely magnificent!
