Ontario Galleries

Ontario galleries have programs, special exhibitions, and permanent collections that not only bring a variety of provincial, regional, national, and international art to the community but also serve as tourist attractions. The collection includes different kinds of paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures from noted worldwide and Canadian artists as well as historical and contemporary works.

A full range of gallery services is also available as well as cleaning, repair, and restoration of old or damaged art. Ontario galleries offer custom conservation framing of two- and three-dimensional artworks and memorabilia, including delivery and hanging of completed work. Ontario galleries feature towering ceilings, showroom track lighting, hardwood floors, and a climate control system. A full season of exhibits by local artists, arts and crafts lessons for children and adults, and three needle art guilds make Ontario galleries a vital center for the visual arts. 

Ontario galleries promote emerging artists as well as established ones. They take great pleasure in discovering talented new artists and often give them their first chance to show work commercially. Ontario’s fine arts and exhibitions, through the years with Canadian and international artists are focusing on the interest of people but not completely showing figurative work. Emerging artists and students are also represented. Exhibits have themes based on current issues.

The galleries of Ontario envision promoting arts as part of everyday life through thought-provoking studies, classes, seminars, and art shows. The Art gallery of Hamilton was founded in 1914; it is Ontario's third largest public art gallery and houses a collection of 8,500 artworks. The gallery has three major collecting and programming strengths: the 19th-century European, Historical Canadian and Contemporary Canadian.