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Installation view of Jagdeep Raina: Chase, displaying various paintings installed on the walls of the gallery.

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Carl Beam: Pieces of a Puzzle

Dates September 14.2023

Moving across genres including sculpture, painting, ceramics, printmaking, installation, and assemblage, Manitoulin Island-based multimedia artist Carl Beam created an extremely potent and influential body of work. Formally and conceptually proficient, he produced works that probed the interstices of world history, politics, science, and materiality, as well as Indigeneity. This exhibition, which draws on holdings from the Art Gallery of Guelph’s permanent collection, focuses on prints and paintings by Beam that illustrate not only his skill in both, but how his capacity for composition was able to confound and elucidate our ability to make meaning.

Image detail: Carl Beam, New World, 1990, photo-etching. Gift of Marion Oxley, 2006. Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Collection

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a black and white photo of Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull from the shoulders-up. Another black and white photo below shows men around a dead whal
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a black and white photo of Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull from the shoulders-up. Another black and white photo below shows men around a dead whal
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Carl Beam: Pieces of a Puzzle
September 14.2023 / December 17.2023

This exhibition of works by Manitoulin Island-based artist Carl Beam probes the interstices of history, politics, science, materiality, and Indigeneity.
a jacket made of blue and brown pieces of fabric, each with varied textures and designs including fish and Japanese characters. An ink painting of two fish is in a white circle in the center
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The Third Scenario
September 14.2023 / December 17.2023

The Third Scenario examines the act of art making through hyphenated conditions and what it means to create while being Asian and living in Canada.
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150 Acts: A Selection
February 21.2018 / April 8.2018

This is a selection of the foundational pieces from the AGG’s Indigenous collections and new art practices from across Canada that were included in 150 Acts: Art, Activism, Impact.

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Do You Remember Love

September 12.2024 December 15.2024

one person sits on top of another in embrace on a bed

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Some kind of we

September 12.2024 December 15.2024

a colourful abstract mural made up of small pieces of coloured paper layered together

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Entrelazados: Justin Favela

September 5.2024 December 29.2024

a close up of an Woodlands style painting showing a man in profile, surrounded by various rounded shapes and bright patters on a green background

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Yours in Native Spirit: Richard Bedwash

June 13.2024 August 25.2024

Explore the vivid, symbol-rich images of Anishinaabe artist Richard Bedwash that connects his work, his life, and the cultural landscapes of Guelph.
a photo of a hole in a blue surface through which a desert skyline is visible

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What Remains

May 2.2024 August 30.2024

What Remains provides windows, peering into and out from an ongoing global humanitarian crisis, assembled into a multimedia and multidisciplinary experience.
a drawing on on a dark green background of a woman swimming underwater dressed in blue, holding a string that extends down towards three whale tails that are visible at the bottom of the image, swimming downwards.

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ᑕᐅᑐᑉᐹ Tautuppaa | Long Looking
Tim Pitsiulak

January 18.2024 May 19.2024

an art installation with a semi-circle of "Life" magazines on the floor next to a quilt and a stone with a ceramic lid

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The Unsettlements: Moms

January 18.2024 April 21.2024

an abstract landscape painting with geometric shapes in various shades of green and brown, with a few houses nestled in between

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… An Experience of Nature: Landscapes from the Permanent Collection

December 23.2023 April 24.2024