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1 Darling Foundry Montréal -
2 Ottawa Art Gallery Ottawa -
3 The Image Centre Toronto -
4 deGarthe Gallery Halifax -
5 Burnaby Art Gallery Vancouver
Photographs: 1 Fonderie Darling · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2 Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 3 Secondarywaltz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 4 Shellysimpson · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 5 Xiao23 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
An independent guide to art galleries and exhibition spaces in Canada
Art galleries in Canada, city by city
547 public galleries, artist-run centres, university and commercial spaces in 12 cities, sorted by type, with the facts to check before you go.
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- Vancouver · Vancouver Art Gallery · Photo: Unknown author · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
- Toronto · Art Gallery of Ontario · Photo: Owen Byrne from Ottawa, Canada · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Montréal · Artexte · Photo: Jeangagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Ottawa · National Gallery of Canada · Photo: Taxiarchos228 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Calgary · Contemporary Calgary · Photo: MapleSoy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Edmonton · Art Gallery of Alberta · Photo: Stella Blu · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Winnipeg · Winnipeg Art Gallery · Photo: Cayla at English Wikipedia · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
- Halifax · Art Gallery of Nova Scotia · Photo: Skeezix1000 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Victoria · Art Gallery of Greater Victoria · Photo: Joe Mabel · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Québec City · Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec · Photo: colros · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Hamilton · Art Gallery of Hamilton · Photo: MeganAGH · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
- Saskatoon · Remai Modern · Photo: Jmc881 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Free to visit
Free galleries by cityMaison Keï Akai - Galerie d'art contemporain
Commercial gallery · Ville-Marie, Montréal
Free admission
1428 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest maisonkeiakai.com
Free Verified 19 October 2026
50 Mackenzie King Bridge oaggao.ca
Free Open now Verified 19 October 2026
1145 Kensington Crescent NW, unit 5 franzdopfgallery.com
Free Open now
10186 106 Street NW albertacraft.ab.ca
Free Open now Verified 19 October 2026
52 Albert Street, unit 102 lucentgallery.ca
Free Open now Verified 19 October 2026
For artists
All guidesPlain-language guides to how galleries work: who runs each kind, how to approach one with your work, and what Canadian galleries pay artists.
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What is an artist-run centre?
How Canada's artist-run centres began, who runs and funds them, what they show, how they differ from other galleries, and how artists get shown.
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Types of art galleries explained
Public museums, municipal and university galleries, artist-run centres, co-ops, dealers, rental spaces and pop-ups: who runs each and who pays whom.
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How to get your art into a gallery
A practical route into Canadian galleries: finding the right fit, how dealers really find artists, what to send each type, how to follow up, and what to avoid.
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What Canadian galleries pay artists: the CARFAC fee schedule
The CARFAC-RAAV minimum fee schedule explained: who it binds, the 2026 exhibition and talk fees, how to invoice, and what to do when a gallery will not pay.
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Sources
Listings start from open data (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and the artist-run centre associations), then each fact is checked against the gallery's own website. Every page lists its sources.
Dates
Each listing shows when its facts were last verified. Listings we have not checked yet say so, and we never fill a gap with a guess: a missing fact reads “Not listed”.
Corrections
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