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Gardiner Museum receives $9-million gift from The Radlett Foundation in honour of the late William B.G. Humphries to fund major transformation

The Gardiner Museum is excited to announce a transformational $9 million donation from The Radlett Foundation in honour of the late William B.G. Humphries. This generous philanthropic contribution will be the catalyst for a full-scale reimagining of the Gardiner Museum’s ground floor.

6 months ago

Gardiner Museum exhibits ceramics by Toronto-based artist Natalka Husar, on view for the first time in 46 years

The Gardiner Museum presents an exhibition of early ceramics and a recent monumental painting by Toronto-based artist Natalka Husar.

6 months ago
Magdalene Odundo in her studio standing between two vessels and wearing a red apron and headscarf

Gardiner Museum announces Canadian debut and largest ever North American exhibition of celebrated Kenyan-British potter Dame Magdalene Odundo

One of the world’s most esteemed ceramic artists, Dame Magdalene Odundo, will make her Canadian debut this fall at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects opens October 19, 2023. It will be the largest ever North American exhibition of Odundo’s work.

7 months ago

Gardiner Museum CONTACT Exhibition highlights Indo-Caribbean HerStories through ceramics and photography

Reclaimed: Indo-Caribbean HerStories, part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, opens at the Gardiner Museum on May 4. The exhibition highlights the complex, longstanding, and often unpredictable interplay between ceramics and photography.

11 months ago

Gabrielle Peacock Appointed Executive Director & CEO of the Gardiner Museum

Gabrielle Peacock has been appointed Executive Director & CEO of the Gardiner Museum. Currently Director of Partnerships and Development at Soulpepper Theatre and previously CEO of The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ms. Peacock will join the Gardiner in February 2023.

1 year ago

Karine Giboulo solo exhibition Housewarming opens at the Gardiner Museum on October 20

Enter a world at once familiar and uncanny. Montreal-based artist Karine Giboulo invites visitors into an immersive reimagining of her home. Brought to life by over 500 miniature polymer clay figures, this is no ordinary house.

1 year ago

Gardiner Museum to debut new public artwork by Santee Smith in a series of free outdoor performances

Talking Earth, a new permanent public artwork by Tekaronhiáhkhwa / Santee Smith will be unveiled in front of the Gardiner Museum, coinciding with the opening of the International Ceramic Art Fair (ICAF), a 10-day showcase of contemporary ceramics by Canadian and international artists. Part of ArtworxTO: Toronto’s Year of Public Art 2021–2022, the sculpture was commissioned by the Gardiner to honour the ongoing Indigenous presence on Turtle Island.

2 years ago

Gardiner Museum presents 10 days of contemporary ceramics, talks, tours, performances, and more

After a two-years hiatus, the International Ceramic Art Fair (ICAF) returns to the Gardiner Museum with an exciting roster of Canadian and international artists and galleries.

2 years ago

Kelvin Browne to retire as Executive Director and CEO of the Gardiner Museum

The Gardiner Museum announced that Executive Director and CEO Kelvin Browne will retire at the end of 2022.

2 years ago

Gardiner Museum presents major exhibition Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me, opening February 24

Step into a multi-sensory installation of ceramics, drawings, life-sized automatons, two-way mirrors, and coin-operated sculpture, set to an interactive score.

2 years ago

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