Narrative & Nourishment explores how food in painting becomes a way to tell stories about identity, memory, and connection.
Exhibitions
Curious Creatures invites audiences into an imaginative world where art and storytelling intertwine.
An immersive sound and photography exhibition, transforming the act of walking into an acoustic meditation on memory, progress, and loss.
Featuring iconic works by members of the Group of Seven alongside contemporary landscape artists.
The AGN hosts a vibrant juried exhibition showcasing a wide variety of artists and art works from across the region and beyond.
Through layered textures and shifting colour, Angus explores how the environment outside mirrors the landscape within.
This unique exhibition offers a glimpse into the diverse tastes, stories, and perspectives of the team who work with the collection everyday.
The Art Gallery of Northumberland is pleased to present an upcoming exhibition featuring Dragon Clay Ceramics, the studio of renowned ceramic artist Brenda Sullivan.
This showcase celebrates the talent and vision of local photographers and invites the community to see the world through their lens.
This display is in conjunction with the Ontario Hooking Craft Guild who is hosting their Annual Conference in Cobourg’s Victoria Hall on May 10.
The Shape of Space explores Greg McHarg’s innovative use of cutouts and repetition, transforming cardboard into a study of form, void, and rhythm.
In Northumberland, boxing photographer Pete Doherty reassembles the fragments of a life suddenly altered by illness and loss.
This exhibition highlights the avenues of abstraction unique to each artist, while finding commonalities and celebrating the differences. Curated by, Mary Reid, Director/Curator, Woodstock Art Gallery.
A Collection Built on Relationships: Inuit Art from the Art Gallery of Northumberland’s Permanent Collection on tour at the Kawartha Lakes Museum & Archives.
Stephen Gillberry’s artwork exemplifies a delicate, refined engagement with atmospheric effects and a nuanced approach to colour.
The objects in the Marsh Collection are a window into a crucial point in Inuit history and art history.
Tempus Fugit, ‘fleeting time’, by Mexican Canadian textile and tapestry artist Ixchel Suarez is about the life of trees.
Cartoon pop art blends the bold, colorful aesthetics of pop art with the playful, exaggerated styles of comic books and animated cartoons, creating a visually striking and often humorous effect.
This sculpture exhibition, with artworks from our permanent collection, reflects our undeniable connection with nature.
Martina Munroe, a fiber artist, has captivated us with her innovative use of rug hooking to create intricate mycelium-themed artworks.
In celebration of the Eye2Eye International Film Festival, Film Acces Northumberland presents two small exhibitions on view at the AGN.
The circle is the symbol that links the work this exhibition inspired by the ancient circular shapes found on the ceilings of Sri Lankan temples.
Through Judy, Kenney breathes life into this subversive spirit, reclaiming the art of fiber work as a means of empowerment and expression in the contemporary landscape.
Currently on display in the Sculpture Gallery, two ceramics selections from the Permanent Collection.
Inspired by the discarded fragments of our daily lives, Johnson embarks on a journey of discovery, scavenging for materials that carry untold stories.
The AGN hosts a vibrant juried exhibition showcasing a wide variety of artists and art works from across the region and beyond.
This exhibition is a culmination of Stewart’s use of bold colours and skillful mark-making.
Jay Dart will be exhibiting new works alongside a selection of pieces from recent chapters in the Yawnder series.
Oli Goldsmith’s performative and expository artworks, brings to us all, as audience, worlds as playful, transitory and evocative as the images, words and phrases in them.
This exhibition uses eleven works from the Permanent Collection to assess the relationship between humans and birds.
The AGN invited emerging and established artists living and working in Ontario to submit to its 44th Juried Exhibition offering artists exposure to the Northumberland County community.
The exhibit consists of an 8 x 12ft mural painted on-site, an Augmented Reality project expanding on the mural, and three additional paintings on canvas.
This membership exhibition explores the theme of ambient landscapes reflecting upon the natural environment.
A gifted musician and talented artist, come and explore Michael Kuczer’s commitment to abstract art with a fluid influence relayed through his musical background.
Elayne Windsor, uses walking as a purposeful part of the concept and process of her work.
POSE is a skill-building exhibition, designed to contextualize the nude portraits and sketches from the AGN’s Collection within the wider history of the genre.
Follow a trail of figurines and puppets through an otherworldly carnival installation with Kelly Kirkahm’s exhibition.
Exhibiting paintings, drawing and photographs presenting the intimate physical sensations evoked by the boundary setting protocols of the pandemic.
A Wanderer’s Mind brings together four recent bodies of work by Chinese-Canadian artist Xiaojing Yan.
Wall Gazing represents the emergence of a new form of expression in Dimitri Papatheodorou’s artwork.
Victor Vasarely’s artistic oeuvre spans more than six decades. Born in 1906, a Hungarian-born Frenchman, the founder of Op Art is one of the great artists of the twentieth century.
Over the past seven years, Niezen has created a series of paintings that pay a testament to the vibrancy of the city at night: traffic lights, shop windows, and neon signs are reflected and enhanced on rainy streets.
Toronto based artist Michael Adamson approached this exhibition with the idea of creating a suite of contemporary paintings that reflect aspects of the AGN’s Permanent Collection.
Inspired by the landscapes of eastern Ontario and the traces of its earlier agricultural settlement, Felicity Somerset and Peter Large have created a collection of drawings and photographs.
A Fine Line features local artist deborah uman-sures, winner of the AGN’s Juried Exhibition in 2018.
Daemon & Saudade explores emotion, grief, loss and preservation through a series of photographic prints and sculptural garments paired to reveal both the beauty and pain of emotion.
About Face explores the role of drawing in portraiture, focusing in particular on the relationship between artist and sitter.
The large installation is comprised of thousands of these pieces installed by single threads hanging from the gallery ceiling creating a field of flowers and a field of colour.
This fall we celebrate our 41st Juried Exhibition offering participating artists both exposure to the Northumberland County community, as well as an opportunity to meet fellow artists, encourage activity in the visual arts and most importantly support artists.
The Art Gallery of Northumberland (AGN) celebrates 60 years in 2020. We are honouring this milestone with an exhibition featuring some unseen collection treasures, familiar classics and predictable favourites.
This fall we celebrate our 42nd Juried Exhibition offering participating artists both exposure to the Northumberland County community.
New Acquisitions presents eight works of art recently donated to the permanent collection of the Art Gallery of Northumberland.
Our 43rd Juried Exhibition welcomed 150 works in a variety of mediums, big and small from our community and beyond.
Tension | Selections from the Permanent Collection features 6 sculptural works from the Art Gallery of Northumberland’s Permanent Collection.
This exhibition features 79 artworks from 39 Canadian artists, as a gift to the AGN and to the public.
Artist Amy Shackleton and graphic designer/animator Julian Brown are taking over the Permanent Collection Gallery with their collaborative exhibition, Playing with Fire and Ice.
The suspension and tension of two-dimensional forms exist quite comfortably in Leszek Wyczolkowski’s series of paintings and prints.
This exhibition explores the community’s relationship with Marie Dressler over the past 90 years.
The AGN presents intellectually stimulating exhibitions that spark conversations, inspire creativity and enlighten the minds of all-ages. Featuring a year-round program of exhibitions, the AGN is committed to nurturing and promoting Canadian artists, and we strive to exhibit works that advance critical enquiry and community connection to contemporary visual arts.
Current Exhibitions
A Collection Built on Relationships: Inuit Art from the Art Gallery of Northumberland’s Permanent Collection on tour at the Kawartha Lakes Museum & Archives.
Exploring how portraiture and the human figure convey identity, emotion, and existence.
Narrative & Nourishment explores how food in painting becomes a way to tell stories about identity, memory, and connection.
The AGN hosts a vibrant juried exhibition showcasing a wide variety of artists and art works from across the region and beyond.
An immersive sound and photography exhibition, transforming the act of walking into an acoustic meditation on memory, progress, and loss.
Curious Creatures invites audiences into an imaginative world where art and storytelling intertwine.
Featuring iconic works by members of the Group of Seven alongside contemporary landscape artists.
Through layered textures and shifting colour, Angus explores how the environment outside mirrors the landscape within.
This unique exhibition offers a glimpse into the diverse tastes, stories, and perspectives of the team who work with the collection everyday.
This showcase celebrates the talent and vision of local photographers and invites the community to see the world through their lens.
The Art Gallery of Northumberland is pleased to present an upcoming exhibition featuring Dragon Clay Ceramics, the studio of renowned ceramic artist Brenda Sullivan.
This display is in conjunction with the Ontario Hooking Craft Guild who is hosting their Annual Conference in Cobourg’s Victoria Hall on May 10.
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Gallery Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Wednesday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Thursday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Friday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: Closed
Memberships
Help support art and culture in Northumberland by joining the AGN as a member today!
Membership at the Art Gallery of Northumberland provides these benefits:
- Free admission to over 80 participating GOG institutions
- Discounted fee for entering Annual Juried Exhibition
- Subscription to electronic Gallery Newsletters
- Voting privileges at the Annual General Meeting
- Membership Card
- Member pricing on selected educational programs and events
