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Archived Exhibitions

Russna Kaur: Been there twice, haven’t got there yet (the space behind a thin screen, and prying eyes)

09/20/2025 - 01/04/2026

Russna Kaur’s paintings engulf and disorient. They extend beyond the canvas—cascading across walls, slicing through corners, and redefining space with sculptural urgency.

A Vessel to Bend Water

05/02/2025 - 09/14/2025

Drawing from digital archives and physical postcards, Leila Fatemi explores the connection between photographic representation and props, which often symbolize societal status.

A Curve, Not A Line

05/09/2025 - 08/10/2025

The Art Gallery of Burlington’s 50th Anniversary Permanent Collection Exhibition, A Curve, Not A Line, continues the AGB’s quest to trouble time.

Time Isn’t Real

01/17/2025 - 04/27/2025

Time isn’t real. Well, it is, and it isn’t. The sun and moon rise and fall, and stuff happens in between. At the Art Gallery of Burlington, that stuff in between has been happening for fifty years!

Dry Thunder

01/11/2025 - 04/27/2025

Drawing upon memories from summer nights spent in her childhood home in Islamabad, Pakistan, visual artist Misbah Ahmed considers the phenomenon of dry thunderstorms - a storm that produces thunder and lightning without rain - as metaphoric and literal portal to meditate on eco-poetics, mythology and folklore, and urban and wildlife transformation in her first institutional solo exhibition, Dry Thunder.

Living Lab

02/02/2024 - 01/12/2025

Living Lab is an all-ages, flexible space designed to foster connectivity and meet the changing needs of Burlingtonians.

MIDNIGHT

09/20/2024 - 01/05/2025

A profound exploration of stillness rendered in material form, including stained-glass, handwoven linen, embroidery, and a monumental installation of over 10,000 ceramic bird forms.

WonderRoom

10/12/2024 - 01/05/2025

Step into a world of awe and fascination. WonderRoom invites you to explore the intricate beauty and malleability of clay. This exhibition seamlessly blends the artwork and the artifact, showcasing our mesmerizing permanent collection of contemporary Canadian ceramic works amongst natural wonders.

Exchanging Presence

06/29/2024 - 10/06/2024

Magdolene Dykstra uses clay as a medium for connection. The exhibition is comprised of two of her ongoing projects Gathering Presence and Exchanging Presence. Together, these works ask what it means to be seen and to what degree one wants to make themselves visible.

We Who Have Known Many Shores

05/10/2024 - 09/01/2024

We Who Have Known Many Shores brings together material practices rooted in Anatolian textiles, ceramics, and marbling, with contemporary mediums, to forge new directions for considering diasporic relationships to place and belonging.

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