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Showing 19 of 43 places in Montreal
Espace VERRE is what happens when a centuries-old craft gets a second life in a decommissioned Montreal fire station. Si...
Eli Kerr’s current gallery practice reflects over a decade of evolving exhibition work rooted in site-specificity and a...
CLARK has spent over three decades carving out space for experimental art in Montreal. What started in 1988 as a scrappy...
Bradley Ertaskiran operates out of a restored industrial building in Saint-Henri, where its two gallery spaces support a...
BBAM! Gallery doesn’t fit neatly into categories—and that’s the point. Co-founded in 2012 by Alison Rogers and Ralph Alf...
Cosner Gallery and its newly opened 1130 Sherbrooke Ouest location extend the gallery’s longstanding focus on Canadian a...
Ada X is a feminist, artist-run centre in Montreal committed to reshaping who gets to create, access, and define new med...
The Fonderie Darling in Old Montreal is a cultural space dedicated to contemporary art, housed within two restored indus...
La Guilde is one of Canada’s oldest cultural institutions still actively reshaping how art and craft are seen, preserved...
Pangée may be small in scale, but its impact on Montreal’s contemporary art scene has been quietly significant. Founded...
Patel Brown opened its Montreal outpost in 2022, joining the Belgo Building’s roster of contemporary art spaces with a c...
Tucked into the Belgo Building’s stacked ecosystem of galleries and studios, Galerie POPOP runs on a refreshingly pragma...
Before Le Sino existed, Montreal's graffiti writers had to smuggle cans across borders or settle for hardware store pain...
Run by and for Concordia’s undergraduate Fine Arts students, the VAV Gallery is less a traditional exhibition space and...
McBride Contemporain opened in 2018 with a focus on showcasing the work of prominent living Canadian artists. Its progra...
Produit Rien is part gallery, part neighbourhood experiment—a 575-square-foot artist-run space carved out of a former to...
The FOFA Gallery functions as Concordia’s public window into the artistic and research activity of its Faculty of Fine A...
Before VOX became a hub for contemporary image-based research, it was Vox Populi—a grassroots initiative born out of 198...
S16 Gallery operates at the intersection of street culture and fine art, with a foot in the traditional gallery world an...
Showing 19 of 43 places in Montreal
Espace VERRE is what happens when a centuries-old craft gets a second life in a decommissioned Montreal fire station. Si...
Eli Kerr’s current gallery practice reflects over a decade of evolving exhibition work rooted in site-specificity and a...
CLARK has spent over three decades carving out space for experimental art in Montreal. What started in 1988 as a scrappy...
Bradley Ertaskiran operates out of a restored industrial building in Saint-Henri, where its two gallery spaces support a...
BBAM! Gallery doesn’t fit neatly into categories—and that’s the point. Co-founded in 2012 by Alison Rogers and Ralph Alf...
Cosner Gallery and its newly opened 1130 Sherbrooke Ouest location extend the gallery’s longstanding focus on Canadian a...
Ada X is a feminist, artist-run centre in Montreal committed to reshaping who gets to create, access, and define new med...
The Fonderie Darling in Old Montreal is a cultural space dedicated to contemporary art, housed within two restored indus...
La Guilde is one of Canada’s oldest cultural institutions still actively reshaping how art and craft are seen, preserved...
Pangée may be small in scale, but its impact on Montreal’s contemporary art scene has been quietly significant. Founded...
Patel Brown opened its Montreal outpost in 2022, joining the Belgo Building’s roster of contemporary art spaces with a c...
Tucked into the Belgo Building’s stacked ecosystem of galleries and studios, Galerie POPOP runs on a refreshingly pragma...
Before Le Sino existed, Montreal's graffiti writers had to smuggle cans across borders or settle for hardware store pain...
Run by and for Concordia’s undergraduate Fine Arts students, the VAV Gallery is less a traditional exhibition space and...
McBride Contemporain opened in 2018 with a focus on showcasing the work of prominent living Canadian artists. Its progra...
Produit Rien is part gallery, part neighbourhood experiment—a 575-square-foot artist-run space carved out of a former to...
The FOFA Gallery functions as Concordia’s public window into the artistic and research activity of its Faculty of Fine A...
Before VOX became a hub for contemporary image-based research, it was Vox Populi—a grassroots initiative born out of 198...
S16 Gallery operates at the intersection of street culture and fine art, with a foot in the traditional gallery world an...
