The Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) was established in 1968 to encourage development of public art galleries, art museums, community galleries and related visual arts organizations in Ontario

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. It was incorporated in Ontario in 1970, and registered as a charitable organization. The OAAG is a successor organization to the Southern Ontario Gallery Group founded in 1947, renamed the Art Institute of Ontario in 1952. The OAAG runs courses and workshops and provides assistance to art galleries in areas such as conservation and arranging exhibitions. Most member galleries participate in a reciprocal admissions program, where membership of one gallery gives admission to the others. The organization provides a liaison between galleries and the Ontario Arts Council

Ontario Arts Council

The Ontario Arts Council is a publicly-funded Canadian organization in the province of Ontario whose purpose is to promote and assist the development of the arts for the enjoyment and benefit of all Ontarians...

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Membership

Th OAAG represents almost 120 member galleries, including:

• Agnes Etherington Art Centre
  Agnes Etherington Art Centre
  The Agnes Etherington Art Centre is in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and is operated by Queen's University. The centre holds 12-15 exhibitions annually, as well as artists' talks and performances, public lectures, symposia, workshops, and school and family programs...
  
  , Kingston
• Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden
• Art Gallery of Algoma
  Art Gallery of Algoma
  The Art Gallery of Algoma is an art museum located on the St. Marys River in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. Featuring local, national, and international artists, it holds a collection of over 4,000 works of art.-External links:*...
  
  , Sault Ste. Marie
• Art Gallery of Bancroft
• Art Gallery of Hamilton
  Art Gallery of Hamilton
  Art Gallery of Hamilton, is located in the heart of downtown Hamilton, Ontario on King Street West and is one of Canada’s oldest galleries with a collection of over 9,000 works of art.-History:...
  
  
• Art Gallery of Mississauga
• Art Gallery of Northumberland, Cobourg
• Art Gallery of Ontario
  Art Gallery of Ontario
  Under the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million redevelopment plan by architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation AGO. The new addition would require demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernist wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg...
  
  , Toronto
• Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton
• Art Gallery of Peterborough
  Art Gallery of Peterborough
  The Art Gallery of Peterborough is a free admission, non-profit public art gallery in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, a registered charity that depends on the support of its members. It was founded in 1974 by an independent board of volunteers. In 1977 it was given the Foster House by the City of...
  
  
• Art Gallery of Sudbury
  Art Gallery of Sudbury
  The Art Gallery of Sudbury is an art gallery in Sudbury, Ontario.Established in 1967 by the city's chamber of commerce, the gallery is located in the historic arts and crafts movement Belrock Mansion of William J. Bell, an early lumber baron in the city and philanthropist...
  
   / Galerie d'art de Sudbury
• Art Gallery of Windsor
  Art Gallery of Windsor
  The Art Gallery of Windsor is a not-for-profit art institute in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.Established in 1943, the gallery has a mandate as a public art space to show significant works of art by local, regional, and national artists...
  
  
• Art Gallery of York University
  York University
  York University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....
  
  , Toronto
• Bata Shoe Museum
  Bata Shoe Museum
  The Bata Shoe Museum is a museum in downtown Toronto, Canada that collects, researches, preserves, and exhibits footwear from around the world. It offers four exhibitions, three of which are time-limited, as well as lectures, performances and family events....
  
  , Toronto
• Blackwood Gallery, at the University of Toronto Mississauga
  University of Toronto Mississauga
  The University of Toronto Mississauga is a satellite campus of the University of Toronto, located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The university is set upon a park-like campus on the valley of the Credit River, approximately 33 kilometres west of Downtown Toronto...
  
  
• Burlington Art Centre
  Burlington Art Centre
  The Burlington Art Centre is an art centre in close proximity to Spencer Smith Park in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. There are exhibitions and educational programs, studios and activities at the Art Centre. The Centre is a non-profit registered charitable organization. It provides free admission...
  
  
• Cambridge Galleries
• Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
  Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
  The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery is a public art gallery located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The CCGG is a national gallery exhibiting Canadian silica artwork, including ceramic, glass and enamel work...
  
  , Waterloo
• Carleton University
  Carleton University
  Carleton University is a comprehensive university located in the capital of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. The enabling legislation is The Carleton University Act, 1952, S.O. 1952. Founded as a small college in 1942, Carleton now offers over 65 programs in a diverse range of disciplines. Carleton has...
  
   Art Gallery, Ottawa
• Design Exchange
  Design Exchange
  The Design Exchange is a design museum and centre for the advancement and promotion of Canadian design located in the historic Toronto Stock Exchange building. The DX hosts over 50 programs every year that promote the value of design as it contributes to the economy, quality of life and environment...
  
  , Toronto
• Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto Scarborough
  University of Toronto Scarborough
  The University of Toronto Scarborough is a satellite campus of the University of Toronto. Based in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the campus is set upon suburban parkland in the residential neighbourhood of Highland Creek...
  
  
• Durham Art Gallery, Durham, West Grey
• Durham West Arts Centre, Ajax
• Etobicoke Civic Centre
  Etobicoke Civic Centre
  The Etobicoke Civic Centre in the Eatonville neighbourhood of Toronto, once housed the municipal government of the former City of Etobicoke. The building was built in 1958 to replace the single storey brick Township of Etobicoke Municipal Hall at 4096 Dundas Street...
  
   Art Gallery, Toronto
• Galerie Glendon Gallery, Glendon College
  Glendon College
  Glendon College is one of the two campuses of York University, Canada's third-largest university, in Toronto, Ontario. A bilingual liberal arts college with 84 full-time faculty members and a student population of about 2400, Glendon is located in midtown Toronto's Lawrence Park neighbourhood...
  
  , Toronto
• Gallery 1313, Queen Street West, Toronto
• Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto
• Gallery in the Grove, Bright's Grove
• Gallery Lambton, Sarnia
• Gallery Stratford
  Gallery Stratford
  Gallery Stratford is a public art gallery located in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1967, the Gallery has established itself as one of the region’s leading art galleries, organizing exhibitions of local, national and international visual artists...
  
  
• Gallery TPW, Toronto
• Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
  Gardiner Museum
  The Gardiner Museum is the only museum in Canada devoted exclusively to ceramic art. It is located on Queen’s Park just south of Bloor Street in Toronto, opposite the Royal Ontario Museum. The nearest subway station is Museum.-History:...
  
  , Toronto
• Georgina Arts Centre & Gallery, Georgina
• Gibson Gallery, Fort Malden Guild of Arts and Crafts, Amherstburg
• The Gibson Centre, Alliston
• Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
• Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford
• Grimsby Public Art Gallery
• Haliburton Sculpture Forest
  Haliburton Sculpture Forest
  The Haliburton Sculpture Forest is a unique outdoor collection of sculptures located in Glebe Park near the village of Haliburton, Ontario, Canada. It is operated by the non-profit organization Haliburton Sculpture Forest et al....
  
  , Haliburton
• Homer Watson House & Gallery, Kitchener
• Institute for Contemporary Culture
  Institute for Contemporary Culture
  The Institute for Contemporary Culture is located in Toronto, Canada. The ICC is at home at the Royal Ontario Museum, and serves as the ROM’s window on contemporary society...
  
  , Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
• John B. Aird Gallery, Mowat Block
  Mowat Block
  The Mowat Block is an office building in Toronto, Ontario, home to Ontario's provincial Ministry of Education, Training, Colleges and Universities, Public Infrastructure and the Ministry of Culture...
  
  , Toronto
• Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, Toronto
• Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery
• Koffler Gallery
  Koffler Centre of the Arts
  The Koffler Centre of the Arts is a broad-based cultural institution, established in 1977 by Murray and Marvelle Koffler, in the North York area of Toronto, on Bathurst Street within the Bathurst Jewish Community Centre.-Activities and Facilities:...
  
  , Toronto
• Latcham Gallery, Stouffville
• Lindsay Gallery
• Living Arts Centre
  Living Arts Centre
  The Living Arts Centre is a 225,000 square foot multi-use facility which opened in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada in 1997. The Centre is visited by over 300,000 visitors annually, who come to view performing and visual arts programs, attend corporate meetings/conventions, or participate in a variety...
  
  , Mississauga
• Lord Cultural Resources
  Lord Cultural Resources
  Lord Cultural Resources is a cultural professional practice providing specialized planning services in the museum, cultural and heritage sector. The firm was founded in 1981 by Barry Lord and Gail Dexter Lord, and employs some 44 professionals and support staff, with offices in Toronto, Ottawa, New...
  
  , Toronto
• Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
• MacLaren Art Centre
  MacLaren Art Centre
  The MacLaren Art Centre is an art gallery and museum, located in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. It houses many important Canadian works of art, and is the permanent home to a cast of Rodin's The Thinker....
  
  , Barrie
• Market Gallery, Toronto
• McIntosh Gallery at The University of Western Ontario, London
• McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton
• McMichael Canadian Art Collection
  McMichael Canadian Art Collection
  The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is an art gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada, northwest of Toronto. It houses an extensive collection of paintings by Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, and First Nations and Inuit artists....
  
  , Kleinburg
• Mercer Union
  Mercer Union
  Mercer Union is an artist-run centre in Toronto, Ontario, established in 1979 to exhibit contemporary art.In 2009, the gallery moved to the Bloor and Lansdowne area in Toronto's west end. Previously the gallery had held homes at 29 Mercer Street , 439 King Street West, 333 Adelaide St...
  
  , A Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto
• Museum London
  Museum London
  Museum London is an art and history museum located in London, Ontario, Canada. Its collection includes more than 5,000 regional and Canadian works and over 25,000 artifacts that reflect the history of the City of London as an important urban centre in Southwestern Ontario.The museum itself is...
  
  
• Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
  Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
  The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art was founded from the former Art Gallery of North York in 1999, and exists as a not-for-profit, arms-length agency of the City of Toronto...
  
  , Toronto
• National Gallery of Canada
  National Gallery of Canada
  The National Gallery of Canada , located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries.The Gallery is now housed in a glass and granite building on Sussex Drive with a notable view of the Canadian Parliament buildings on Parliament Hill. The acclaimed structure was...
  
  , Ottawa
• Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto
• Niagara Falls Art Gallery
• Nipissing University
  Nipissing University
  Nipissing University is a public liberal arts university located in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, on a site overlooking Lake Nipissing. The university's unique character is defined by its location in Northern Ontario, and a large and highly respected faculty of education...
  
  
• Norfolk Arts Centre, Simcoe
• O'Born Contemporary Gallery
  O'Born Contemporary Gallery
  O'Born Contemporary is a commercial photography gallery located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Since opening its doors in 2008, the gallery has operated with a mandate to inform, enlighten, and intrigue the viewer and, in particular, inspire the collector....
  
  , Toronto
• Oakville Galleries
• Ontario Crafts Council, The Craft Gallery, Toronto
• Orillia Museum of Art & History
• The Ottawa Art Gallery / La Galerie d'art d'Ottawa
• Penetanguishene Centennial Museum & Archives
• Power Plant Contemporary Art Centre at Harbourfront Centre
  Harbourfront Centre
  Harbourfront Centre is a key cultural organization on Toronto, Ontario's waterfront, situated at 235 Queen's Quay West. Established as a crown corporation in 1972 by the federal government to create a waterfront park, it became a non-profit organization in 1991. Funding comes from corporate...
  
  , Toronto
• Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto
• Rails End Gallery
  The Arts Council~Haliburton Highlands
  The Arts Council~Haliburton Highlands is a not-for-profit organization that "strives to provide a strong voice for the arts in Haliburton County; serve as a catalyst for community economic development through the arts; and, through the facilitation of collaborative relationships among artists,...
  
  , Haliburton
• Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario, Toronto
• RiverBrink Art Museum, Queenston
• Robert Langen Art Gallery at Wilfrid Laurier University
  Wilfrid Laurier University
  Wilfrid Laurier University is a university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario and a future proposed campus in Milton, Ontario. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada....
  
  , Waterloo
• The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
  The Robert McLaughlin Gallery
  The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, is the largest public art gallery in the Durham Region of Ontario. The gallery houses a significant collection of Canadian contemporary and modern artwork...
  
  , Oshawa
• Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University
  Brock University
  Brock University is a comprehensive university located in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Brock offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degree programs that include co-op and other experiential learning opportunities to an enrolment of over 17,000 full-time students.The enabling legislation is...
  
  , St. Catharines
• Rotunda Gallery Kitchener City Hall
  Kitchener City Hall
  The City Hall of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, has gone through many iterations through the 20th century, culminating in the current building, which opened in 1993....
  
  
• Sculptors Society of Canada, Toronto
• St. Thomas-Elgin Public Art Centre, St. Thomas
• Station Gallery, Whitby
• Temiskaming Art Gallery, Haileybury
• TD Gallery, Toronto Reference Library
  Toronto Reference Library
  The Toronto Reference Library is located at 789 Yonge Street, one block north of Bloor Street, in Toronto, Ontario. Formerly the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library, the name was changed in 1998 when it was incorporated into the Toronto Public Library system..The 38,691 m² The Toronto Reference...
  
  , Toronto
• Textile Museum of Canada
  Textile Museum of Canada
  The Textile Museum of Canada, located Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the only Canadian museum dedicated to the collection, exhibition, and documentation of textiles. The museum was founded in 1975 by Max Allen and Simon Waegemaekers.-Collection:...
  
  , Toronto
• Thames Art Gallery, Chatham
• Thunder Bay Art Gallery
  Thunder Bay Art Gallery
  The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is Northwestern Ontario's primary art gallery specializing in the work of contemporary First Nations artists. It is located on the campus of Confederation College in Thunder Bay....
  
  
• Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre, South Porcupine
• Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound
• Toronto School of Art, Toronto
• Toronto Sculpture Garden
  Toronto Sculpture Garden
  The Toronto Sculpture Garden is located at 115 King Street East in a small 80 by 100 foot park directly across the street from Cathedral Church of St. James , in Toronto, Canada. It has operated since 1981-Amenities:...
  
  , Toronto
• University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto
• University of Waterloo
  University of Waterloo
  The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...
  
   Art Gallery, Waterloo
• V tape, Toronto
• Varley Art Gallery, Markham
• Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville
• WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay
• Woodland Cultural Centre, Brantford
• Woodstock Art Gallery
• Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
• York Quay Gallery, Toronto

Selected publications

• "Seminar and conservation survey" Roche, Roger. 1972