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Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario is the eighth largest art museum in North America. The Gallery's collection comprises more than 36,000 works representing 1000 years of extraordinary art. The collection includes European Old Masters, Group of Seven, and Canadian and International contemporary works. The AGO also houses the world's largest public collection of works by renowned British sculptor Henry Moore. Admission includes a visit to The Grange, Toronto's oldest remaining brick house, fully restored to its mid-19th-century elegance.
Foundation year: 1900
 
Artists
Carl Andre   1935, US
Roy Arden   1957, CA
Miroslaw Balka   1958, PL
Eugène-Louis Boudin   1824-1898, FR
Daniel Buren   1938, FR
Paul Cézanne   1839-1906, FR
Robin Collyer   1949, UK
Eugenio Dittborn   1943, CL
Paterson Ewen   1925-2002, CA
General Idea   1969-1998
Vincent van Gogh   1853-1890, NL
Betty Goodwin   1923, CA
Mona Hatoum   1952, LB
Peter Hill  , CA
Hans Hofmann   1880-1966, DE
Donald Judd   1928-1994, US
Franz Kline   1910-1962, US
Jannis Kounellis   1936, GR
Guillermo Kuitca   1961, AR
Jac Leirner   1961, BR
Mark Lewis   1958, CA
Sol LeWitt   1928-2007, US
Morris Louis   1912-1962, US
René Magritte   1898-1967, BE
Roberto Matta   1911-2002, CL
Mario Merz   1925-2003, IT
Keith Milow   1945, UK
Joàn Miró   1893-1983, ES
Claude Monet   1840-1926, FR
Henry Moore   1898-1986, UK
Robert Motherwell   1915-1991, US
Claes Oldenburg   1929, SE
Pablo Picasso   1881-1973, ES
Camille Pissarro   1830-1903, US
Michelangelo Pistoletto   1933, IT
David Rabinowitch   1943, CA
Pierre-Auguste Renoir   1841-1919, FR
Gerhard Richter   1932, DE
Martha Rosler   1943, US
Mark Rothko   1903-1970, LV
Cindy Sherman   1954, US
Alfred Sisley   1839-1899, FR
Robert Smithson   1938-1973, US
Michael Snow   1929, CA
Nancy Spero   1926, US
Julian Stanczak   1928, PL
Frank Stella   1936, US
Jana Sterbak   1955, CZ
Yves Tanguy   1900-1955, FR
Jeff Wall   1946, CA
Andy Warhol   1928-1987, US
 
Previous Exhibitions (92)
 
2007
Bernini in Focus
Chuck Close/Bob Holman
Hungry God
Emily Carr - New Perspectives on a Canadian Icon
 
2006
Ansel Adams
Present Tense - Ultra-red
Matisse - A Figurative Femininity
Swing Space - Tino Sehgal
Andy Warhol/ Supernova - Stars, Deaths and Disasters 1962–1964
Peter Doig - Works on Paper
Frank Gehry - Art + Architecture
David Milne - Watercolours
 
2005
Jill Crossen-Sargent - Works, 1968–1985
Transformation City
The Transformative Power of Art
Swing Space: Present Tense 31
Swing Space: Media Art Space
The Shape of Colour - Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950-2005
Swing Space: Wallworks
Massive Change - The Future of Global Design
Christo and Jeanne-Claude - Works from the Weston Collection
Present Tense: Kori Newkirk
The Group of Seven and the Art Gallery of Ontario - Past, Present and Future
 
2004
Social Graces
Modigliani - Beyond the Myth
Eye of the Beholder - Canadian Portraits of the 1940s and 1950s
Reading Portraits - Reality, Appearance, Interpretation
Kazuo Nakamura: A Human Measure
Mark Lombardi: Global Networks
IN SITU - Photographic Studies of Artists
Manufactured Landscapes. The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky
Speaking about Landscape - Speaking to the Land
 
2003
Degas Sculptures
E. Haanel Cassidy Photographs
Present Tense: Mark Bell
In Light - Francis Alÿs
Tom Thomson
Rebecca Belmore: The Named and the Unnamed
Present Tense: Harun Farocki
Käthe Kollwitz
 
2002
David Urban
Provisional Worlds
Paradise Revisited
Gauguin to Matisse: French Masterpieces from Russia's Hermitage Museum
Tissot and the Victorian Woman
Jonathan Monk
Janet Cardiff: Whispering Room
Josef Sudek
André Masson Inside/Outside Surrealism
Cologne Dada - Selections from the Fick-Eggert Collection
Mirror, mirror, on the Wall
William Wegman: Fashion Photographs
In Light: Euan Macdonald
No Escapin' This
Y E S YOKO ONO
Arturo Herrera
 
2001
F2F - New Media Art from Finland
Stanley Spencer
Goya’s Los Caprichos
Niki Lederer - Dog Show
Edward Weston and Affinities
Gwen MacGregor
Greg Curnoe
Greg Curnoe and the London Scene
Paris Itineraries - Photographs by Eugène Atget
 
2000
Instant Coffee
The Bigger Picture
The Magic Toy Shop
André Kertész: To Look Again
Quiet Harmony
Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art
Present Tense - Geoffrey Farmer
William Kentridge - WEIGHING … and WANTING
A Friendship - Harold, Virginia, Juliet, and Man Ray
A Practical Dreamer - The Photographs of Man Ray
Su-en Wong: Girl as Covergirl
Helmar Lerski - Lichtbildner/Photographs
 
1999
Joyce Wieland - The Female Nude
Arthur Rothstein - A Portfolio of Photographs
Cindy Sherman - Retrospective
Helen McNicoll - A Canadian Impressionist
Equinox
Present Tense: Juan Geuer
Present Tense: Karen Henderson
A Collector's Vision - J.S. McLean and Modern Painting in Canada
Don't Kiss Me - Disruption of the Self in the Work of Claude Cahun
Present Tense: Nestor Kruger
19th-Century Photographs of Japan - Western Visions, Japanese Identities
The Invisible Made Visible - Angels from the Vatican
waste management
Tom Dean - Selected Works Past and Present
Mastery and Elegance Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz
 

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