Winnipeg Art Gallery
Winnipeg Art Gallery's Two Management Appointments
The Winnipeg Art Gallery is welcoming Riva Symko as head of collections and exhibitions and curator of Canadian art, as well as Julia Lafreniere as manager of Indigenous initiatives. Read more
Two New Indigenous Exhibitions in Winnipeg
The Winnipeg Art Gallery opens two new Indigenous shows. Read more
Greening the Gallery
Amid growing worries about the climate crisis, are cultural institutions doing enough to shrink their ecological footprint? Read more
Kent Monkman Painting Donated to Winnipeg Art Gallery
A major painting, The Deposition, by Kent Monkman has been donated to the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Read more
Business Donates $2 Million to Inuit Art Centre
The Winnipeg Art Gallery has received $2 million for a community plaza adjacent to its new Inuit Art Centre. Read more
Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada at Winnipeg Art Gallery
The Winnipeg Art Gallery presents Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Manitoba’s first major exhibition celebrating contemporary artists with roots in India. Read more
Winnipeg Art Gallery Adds Two Indigenous Positions
The Winnipeg Art Gallery has hired Lisa Charleyboy as manager of Indigenous initiatives and Jocelyn Piirainen as assistant curator of Inuit art. Read more
Winnipeg Show Celebrates Robert Archambeau
The show, A Conversation in Clay, is curated by gallery director Stephen Borys, and is on view until March 10. Read more
Mary Yuusipik Singaqti: Back River Memories
Mary Yuusipik Singaqti, born in the remote Back River area north of Baker Lake in the Nunavut interior, is known for her wall hangings and carvings. Read more
Indigenous Biennial Launched at Winnipeg Art Gallery
The Winnipeg Art Gallery has established an Indigenous Biennial to launch the 2020 opening of its Inuit Art Centre. Read more
Salon Style at Winnipeg Art Gallery
Some of the oldest works in the Winnipeg Art Gallery's collection are back on view in a new way. Salon Style: Reimagining the Collection brings together almost 200 historical paintings, displayed one atop another, starting Oct. 16. Read more
$1 Million Gift to Inuit Art Centre
Doug and Louise Leatherdale have donated $1 million for the Inuit Art Centre under construction in Winnipeg. Read more
Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut
A fascinating show of little-known work from Labrador sheds light on the unique visual culture of the world’s most southerly Inuit population. Read more
Ground Broken for Winnipeg's Inuit Art Centre
The centre, part of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, will share art and stories as well as hands-on programming for students when it opens in 2020. Read more
Botanical Art's New Leaf
Linda Fairfield Stechesen drew Manitoba's native plants for decades. A show of her work at the Winnipeg Art Gallery is part of a wider resurgence of interest in botanical illustration. Read more
All-Inuit Curatorial Team for Inuit Art Centre Announced
The team will be led by curator and academic Heather Igloliorte with emerging curators/artists Asinnajaq, Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter and Krista Ulujuk Zawadski. Read more
![Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "The Vineyards at Cagnes," 1908](https://www.gallerieswest.ca/downloads/12784/download/51.219_WAG.jpg?cb=8c93f85ded4fe5f41bc73bc56c1c54e7&w={width}&h={height} "Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "The Vineyards at Cagnes," 1908")
Winnipeg Art Gallery Features Impressionists This Summer
The biggest names in Impressionism are coming to Manitoba for a summer blockbuster at the Winnipeg Art Gallery from June 16 to Sept. 9. Early bird tickets are on sale Feb. 6. Read more
![Teva Harrison, "Pain Management," 2016](https://www.gallerieswest.ca/downloads/12548/download/InBetweenDays_ISTC_int_42.jpg?cb=f413d5e707f1acfbbd3fd667277c36dd&w={width}&h={height} "Teva Harrison, "Pain Management," 2016")
A Creative Response to Cancer
Artist Teva Harrison was just 37 when she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. She went on to publish an award-winning graphic novel and now is having her first major exhibition. Read more
WAG’s Inuit Art Centre Receives $10 Million from Province of Manitoba
The initiative now has support from all three levels of government as well as private sector funding, underscoring the value of the Inuit Art Centre for the province and country. Read more