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Bridging Past and Present: Invisible Made Visible

A Chinese Canadian Photographer’s Tribute to His Community

Suzy Lake explores the role of photography in shaping how we understand and see ourselves

How Oviloo Tunnillie achieved rare international acclaim as an Inuit female sculptor

William Kurelek traversed the country in a quest to capture its diverse inhabitants

Mary Pratt’s poetic scenes of home life are praised for their political edge

Annie Pootoogook’s art offers unprecedented insights into the contemporary Arctic

Sorel Etrog found new ideas in collaborative work

An excerpt from the ACI’s book “Revision and Resistance”

An excerpt from the ACI’s book “Revision and Resistance”

An excerpt from the ACI’s book “Revision and Resistance”

An excerpt from the ACI’s book “Revision and Resistance”

An excerpt from the ACI’s book “Revision and Resistance”

Jean Paul Riopelle’s break with Automatism

Agnes Martin and the currents of American Art

Mary Hiester Reid’s floral aesthetics

Greg Curnoe’s Canada

Françoise Sullivan’s conceptual 1970s

Tom Thomson’s diary of landscape

Jock Macdonald sought a new expression in art

Quebecois artist Ozias Leduc drew on Europe but created a Canadian ideal

General Idea’s art foregrounded the fight for LGBT rights

Hunched or standing, Inuit artist Oviloo Tunnillie’s sculptures feature figures shaped by loss

London artist Jack Chambers made the everyday profound

The pioneering work of New France priest Louis Nicolas

Helen McNicoll relied on the support of other female artists to find professional success

Gershon Iskowitz gave Canadians a new way of seeing trees and sky

Meeting Françoise Sullivan put Paterson Ewen at the epicenter of Montreal abstraction

The mathematical underpinnings of Alex Colville’s paintings

Huron-Wendat artist Zacharie Vincent’s response to colonialism

Largely self-taught, Pitseolak Ashoona forged a style all her own

No Canadian painter has ever been so simultaneously praised and reviled

William Notman turned pioneering photography into a prosperous business

Language played a key role in Greg Curnoe’s work

Jean Paul Lemieux never grew tired of making a muse of his hometown

Molly Lamb Bobak was the first woman accredited as an official Canadian war artist

Jock Macdonald’s move west breathed new life into his art

Impressionism had a short life in Canada but Helen McNicoll played a key role in its arrival

Time abroad laid the foundations of Jack Chambers’s regionalism

Why Homer Watson was at odds with the Group of Seven

Paterson Ewen’s painting gets physical

Unsuccessful as a missionary, Louis Nicolas created an invaluable visual record of New France

Documenting Francoise Sullivan’s Dance in the Snow, 1948

The censorship of Bertram Brooker

Harold Town held sway at galleries, parties, and politics

Why did Prudence Heward paint a series of black women?

Music guided the work of post-Plasticien painter Yves Gaucher

The entrance of Shuvinai Ashoona’s art into the contemporary canon and international museums

Did 19th-century artist Paul Kane appropriate Indigenous culture, or create a valuable visual record?

How an Ontario canoe trip led Tom Thomson to redefine Canadian landscape painting

Oscar Cahén was a driving force in early Canadian modernism, abstraction, and the Painters Eleven

Alternative theatre gave Canada’s great avant-garde collective the tools for a new kind of performance art

Norval Morrisseau pushed back against colonial expectations of Indigenous art

Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald portrayed the vital forces of the natural world

Robert Houle’s art critiques appropriation of Indigenous culture

50 years passed before Kathleen Munn's abstract art was recognized

Movies gave Joyce Wieland’s art a new direction

Why wildlife plays a part in Alex Colville’s art

Prudence Heward’s Girl Under a Tree

How widowhood began Pitseolak Ashoona’s career

Paraskeva Clark meets Dr. Norman Bethune

Paul-Émile Borduas’s Refus Global began a revolution

Norval Morrisseau’s 1962 exhibition changed Canadian art