About the gallery
The School of Art Gallery has been serving the School of Art, the University of Manitoba, and broader communities since it was established in 1965 as Gallery One One One. Since 2012, it has been prominently situated as the physical and philosophical gateway to the ARTlab, a state-of-the-art facility which conceptually frames the Gallery as a site of both research and presentation.
This Category A facility houses two exhibition spaces and a significant permanent collection focused on Manitoban, Canadian and Indigenous art, as well as the FitzGerald Study Centre Collection, devoted to Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald and his contemporaries.
Exhibitions and collecting activities comprise the core of the School of Art Gallery’s activities, with outreach programming and publishing emanating from, and supporting exhibition research and collection development. Through its work, the Gallery aims to represent a diverse range of practices and perspectives, contextualizing contemporary and historical work to facilitate critical engagement with art and its many discourses. The School of Art Gallery supports the mission of the School by fostering creativity, supporting research, and encouraging critical thinking among undergraduate and graduate students alike.
The School of Art Gallery is generously supported by the University of Manitoba, the School of Art’s faculty and staff, national and provincial funding agencies, donors, and volunteers.
Exhibitions
Awakening Spirit
Recent Acquisitions from the Indigenous Student-Led Indigenous Art Purchase Program 2023-2024
October 30 to November 22, 2024
Organized by C.W. Brooks-Ip and Jory Thomas
Artworks selected by Indigenous Student-Let Indigenous Art Purchase Program Committee Members: Mackenzie Anderson, Jessica Tylor Canard, Danielle Hart, Aimée-Mihkokwaniy McGillis, Ciara McLeod, Jory Tomas, and Payton Whitehead
Jade Yumang: Next Door, Around the Corner, Inside the Bathhouse, By the Sea and Back
Curated by Blair Fornwald
November 21, 2024–February 1, 2025
Next Door, Around the Corner, Inside the Bathhouse, By the Sea and Back explores the mutable and unfixed aspects of diasporic identity. Queering the logic of linear historical analysis, artist Jade Yumang examines two disparate moments where cultural identity has been shaped and expressed in relation and opposition to dominant cultural paradigms: the evolution of filet lace in the Philippines and that of 90s-era gay porn-star Brandon Lee’s Asian-American “boy-next-door” persona.
Opening events on Thursday, November 21
Artist Talk: 12:00 PM @ 368 ARTlab (Also live-streaming on YouTube)
Reception: 5:00–8:00 PM @ the School of Art Gallery
Upcoming events
Archives
Gallery One One One was established in 1965 and served as the School of Art’s professional exhibition centre until 2011. In 2012, concurrent with the School of Art’s move to the purpose-built ARTlab, Gallery One One One was renamed the School of Art Gallery.
School of Art Gallery exhibitions: 2020-2024
2024 exhibitions
- Sheila Butler: Other Circumstances
- Women at War
- Agata Garbowska: hauntings
- Takashi Iwasaki: In My Living Room
- Benjamin Perron: What if the Sun Didn’t Rise
2023 exhibitions
- To Broadcast is to Scatter
- The Undead Archive
- Kiskithihta Mīthokwesowin: Discovering our Gifts
- Block Party: A Tribute to Cliff Eyland
- Timothy Brown: Waves
- Sonny (Yuncheng) Cai: 三生万物 Three Begat All Things
- Ashkan Nejadebrahimi: Autopsy of the Remains
- Niki Saghari: Fading Roots, Blooming Branches
- The Performance of Shadows
- Indeterminate Limits
2022 exhibitions
- Open Structure
- Moving Matter
- Eduardo Aquino: Tapume
- PJ Anderson: the weapons we become
- Pani Bolbolabadi: EXO
- Tracy Charette Fehr: MOTHERLAND
- Christopher Reid Flock: Process as Vacuum
- Jimmie Kilpatrick: SONGS FOR DAFOE ROAD
- Andrea Oliver Roberts: Sickroom
- Breaths, Monuments, Offerings
2021 exhibitions
- Sylvia Matas: There Was a City
- Alone Time
- Anna Binta Diallo: Wandering
- Robert Houle: The Sandy Bay Residential School Series
- TJ Cuthand: Medicine Bundle
- Surrealist Suggestions
- Playful Application: Designing the Elements of a Notion of Utopia
- Marcel Dzama: A Game of Chess
- . . . a story in the middle . . .
- cause to become
- Kyath Battie: Night Garden
- PAWS: Protest, Activism, Whimsy, Self Care in Animal Crossing
- Jon Sasaki: A Rest
- Dancing with Tantalus
- SWANA Film Festival
2020 exhibitions
School of Art Gallery exhibitions: 2012-2019
2019 exhibitions
- Reva Stone: erasure
- She Presses a Flower to Her Cheek
- Fragmented Realities: 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
- Labour, Work, Action. Contemplation
- Contemporary Traditions and Allusions: Anderson, Fowler and Ten Zulu Potters
- Winnipeg General Strike
- Superscreen: The Making of an Artist-Run Counterculture and the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop
- Superglow
2018 exhibitions
- An Obscure Miracle of Connection
- Re: Collecting
- Overlapping Violent Histories: A Curatorial Investigation into Difficult Knowledge
- 2017 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show
- Sébastien Aubin: no brighter in the middle
- Women of Colour @ SOA Gallery
- Built a Place: 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
- Robin Peck: Crania
- Sensibility
- Canada in Venice
- Forest Encounters
2017 exhibitions
- Ione Thorkelsson: Synthia's Closet
- From Painting to Relief: Seven Abstractions
- Lidwien Van de Ven: Living On
- Vines and Borderlines
- 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
- Unfolding Pages: Erwin Huebner's Artist Books
- Uncovering Artists' Books
- Once a Total Art Happening: Revisiting "artario 72"
2016 exhibitions
- Laura Letinsky: Still Life Photographs 1997 – 2012
- Grasp Nettle: 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
- Norman Schmidt: Typoems & Prints
- Hank Bull: Connexion
- Mcfanwy McLeod: Public Projects
- There's More Than One Way
- Caroline Dukes: Bring There
2015 exhibitions
- Nerd Time
- Towards Understanding: 2015 MFA Exhibition
- Erika Dueck: In Between Spaces
- Mud, Hands, Fire
2014 exhibitions
- On Principle: 100 Years of Creative Direction of the School of Art
- MFA Exhibition 2014
- They Made A Day Be A Day Here
- Photocity: Mass Violence and its Aftermath in the Sovfoto Archive
- Following the Ten Commandments
2013 exhibitions
- Bonnie Marin: What are you scared of?
- Bev Pike: Hymenal Views
- Unravelled: Artists & Designers Deconstructing Garments
- Perfect Imperfections
- 2013 MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Lyndal Osborne: Rivers
- Eli Bornstein: An Art at the Mercy of Light
2012 exhibitions
Gallery One One One exhibitions: 2000–2011
2011 exhibitions
2010 exhibitions
- The Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop Collection: The Bill Lobchuck Donation
- Donor Recognition Series: The Frank Mikuska Donation
- Donor Recognition Series: The Anna and Lyle Silverman Donation
- 27 x Doug: Portraits by Larry Glawson
- Jillian Mcdonald: Redrum
- Carolee Schneemann: Up Tp And Including Her Limits
2009 exhibitions
- Les Newman: Major Solo Retrospective
- Grace Nickel and William Pura
- BorderCrossings Study Centre
- Jeffrey Spalding: Neues Bild (Rotunda, Winnipeg) 1976/ 2009
2008 exhibitions
2007 exhibitions
- Kathleen Fonseca
- Bill Weege: Peace is Patriotic
- Ken Lockhead: Orange Corner
- FitzGerald in Context
- Arnaud Maggs: Nomenclature
2006 exhibitions
2005 exhibitions
- Celia Rabinovitch: Description without Place
- Winston Leathers: In The Moment
- Richard Williams
- Vibeke Sorensen: Sanctuary
- Gordon Lebredt: By the Number
2004 exhibitions
- The Book: A Technology of the Spirit
- From Bauhaus to Our House In Etobicoke: Andor Weininger in the 50s
- Jean McEwen: Last Works
- Printmaking in the 1950s
2003 exhibitions
- Newton's Prism: Layer Painting
- Myrel Chernick: "Out My Window"
- Kakegamic
- Terminations of View: A Series of Proposals
- Blind Spot: The Gothic Unconscious
2002 exhibitions
2001 exhibitions
- Charmaine Wheatley: Charmaine
- H.C. Fred Liang
- Paul Butler: "Getting there is half the fun!"
- Germaine Koh: Around About
2000 exhibitions
Gallery One One One exhibitions: 1990–1999
1999 exhibitions
- Student Entity III
- Anne Meredith Barry: Down North — A Coastal Journey
- Alec Shepley: I Shot B..By
- Sharon Alward: Christian Woman of Virtue
1998 exhibitions
- Student Entity II
- Elizabeth MacKenzie: Radiant Monster
- Heimahagar — Homeplaces
- Critical Mass
- Kelly Clark: Vigilant Observer/ Vertical Invader
- Alex Livingston: Biopainting
- The 60s
1997 exhibitions
- Recent Acquisitions
- Student Entity
- Muse Ecology
- Diana Thorneycroft: Slytod
- Modernism at Play: Canadian Art of the 1940s and 1950s
1996 exhibitions
- Numbered Company: Graphic Based Works from Calgary
- Bernice Vincent: All Around Me ... All Around You
- Five to Ten or Life
- Legacies: The Alumni 75th Anniversary Exhibition
- The Faculty Collects
- Richard Williams: Flesh and Blood: The Art of Re-mythologizing
1995 exhibitions
- Matthew Jones
- Lui Shibiao: Paintings from China
- Martha Townsend
- Perception/ Reception: Manitoa Artists Who Use Text
- Robert Bruce: Works from the War
- William R. Newman: Selections from the University of Manioba's Newman Collection
- Ruth Chambers: Another Science Experiment
- Students' Thesis Show
- Anomalies in the Collection
- Inside the Lines
- Silke Grossman: Contemporary Photography from Germany
1994 exhibitions
- Austin Cooper: Imponderable Joys
- Tom Benner: Tecumseh
- Eyre with Honour
- Question
- Vivan Sundaram
- Those Who Stayed: Manitoba's School of Art, 1960—1970
- Robert Motherwell: The Octavio Paz Suite
1993 exhibitions
- German Expressionist Prints
- Attila Richard Lukacs: Lukacs/ Brandenburg
- Performance Art Night
- Prairie Video from International Festivals
- The Picturesque and the Sublime
1992 exhibitions
- Alethea Lahofer: 100 Minutes in Retrospect
- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: A Survey of Printmaking from 1507 to the Present from the Permanent Collection
- Part Fantasy (Festival du Voyageur)
- Small Works by Big Artists
- Modern Japanese Calligraphy – April 26 - May 8, 1992
- Tony Urquhart: Cells of Ourselves
- Performance Night II
- The Traditional Crafts of Japan
- An Intimate View of L. LeMoine FitzGerald
- Video and Orality
1991 exhibitions
- (De)constructed Realities
- Eye For I: Video Self-Portraits
- Joong Jae Tak: Recent Work
- Keith Oliver: Private Spaces — Public Views IV
- Under the Influence of Fluxus
- Rick Pottruff: The Landscape of Appliances
- Wanda Koop
1990 exhibitions
- Too Many People Suffering
- Debbie Mathew: Goddessence
- Susan Scott: Blind Man's Buff
- Honor Kever: Stations Along the Way
- Signs of the Times: The 1990 Faculty Exhibition – August 28 - September 22, 1990
- William MacDonnell: Hortus Siccuss
- Shot in the Dark
- Ex Patria
- International Poster Exhibition
Gallery One One One exhibitions: 1980–1989
1989 exhibitions
- Eleanor Bond: Work Station
- Beyond Electronics
- Wallhangings from the Central Arctic
- Once Upon a Time
- Art from the Institution
- Printshops of Canada: Printmaking South of Sixty
- Grant Guy: UBU TOO
- The Gallery: Faculty of Architecture
- Frank Zamkotowich: Oratory
1988 exhibitions
- Aganetha Dyck: Brain is not enough
- Eva Fritsch: Paintings
- Bob Sakowski: Recent Work – February 29 - March 13, 1988
- Dianne Higgins: Quilts
- Juan L. Gomez-Perales: Beyond Formalities
- William Pura: Crossroads
1987 exhibitions
- Arnold Saper: Recent Works
- Steve Higgins: Recent Work
- A Multiplicity of Voices: Work by Manitoba Women Artists
- Art Affairs North
- Hugh S. Provis: A Memorial Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by Hugh S. Provis
- Disrupted Lives: Children's Drawings from Central America
- Recent Acquisitions
- Mary Scott: Textu(r)al Stategies
- David McMillan: Photographs
- Hannah Cullwick: Purloined Portraits
- Two Worlds: Contemporary Canadian Indian Art
1986 exhibitions
- Diane Whitehouse: Rooms and Other Walled Places
- Michael Olito: But We Are All Captives
- Richard Williams: Lady Day
- Kenneth Coutts-Smith: Meditations on the Landscape - Interim State
- Treasures: Selections from the Collection of the Old Winnipeg School of Arts 1913-1950
- Susan Barton Tait: A Garden for Contemplation
- Ken Lulewich: What about the 21st century Canadian Nuclear Family?
- The Persuasive Image: Contemporary Posters form the People's Republic of China – November 23 - December 19, 1986
1985 exhibitions
- Peek and Poke
- Conscious Objections
- Alex Bruning: Recent Works
- Circe: A Homage to James Joyce
- British Printmakers
- Against Great Odds: Posters of Nicaragua
- Robert Flynn: Changes
- Keith Oliver: Furniture
- Chisel and Brush
1984 exhibitions
- Marcel Gosselin: Transience
- Sharron Zenith Corne: Taboo Images
- Joanne Jackson Johnson: Metaphors, Metamorphs, and Just Pictures
- Ann Smith: Visions and Shadows
- The School of Art: The Early Years 1913-34
- Kathy Koop: The Open Surface
- The Compelling Image: Contemporary Japanese Posters
- Eva Stubbs
- Stephen Phelps: Recent Work
1983 exhibitions
- Arnold Saper: Personae
- Notations, Four Winnipeg Photographers
- Don Reichert and Robert Archambeau: Recent Works
- K.J. Butler: Art/ Science Tables
- Vic Cicansky: Clay Sculpture
- The Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop: A Print Legend
- Ken Lulewich: Tell Me All Your Problems! – November 17, 1983
- Caroline Dukes: A Ten Year Survey
1982 exhibitions
- Paint, The Expressive Touch
- Gordon Lebredt: Gloss (Present Appearences) – January 18 - 29, 1982
- Jeff Funnell
- Robert Flynn, James Etskorn, Barbara Balfour: Recent Works
- FitzGerald as Printmaker
- Rosemary Kowalsky: Recent Paintings
- Some Facets of Japanese Culture
- Charlotte Werner: Recent Drawings
- Art in Winnipeg: 1955-1959
1981 exhibitions
- Faculty Members: Recent Works – September 23 - October 15, 1981
- Roland de Laforcade: Recent Work
- David McMillan: Photographs – November 16 - December 11, 1981
1980 exhibitions
Gallery One One One exhibitions: 1970–1979
1979 exhibitions
- The FitzGerald Study Collection
- Ron Kostyniuk: Relief Structures Crystalline Series
- Lewis Baltz: Nevada – March 12 - 23, 1979
- African Sculpture – March 28 - April 12, 1979
- An Exhibition of Eskimo Sculptures
- The Art of the Caves: An Exhibition of Photographs by Jim Hollander
- Artistry of Tunisian Weavers
1978 exhibitions
- Bernard Mulaire: Drawings
- Robert Archambeau: Recent Work (ceramics) – December 6 - 20, 1978
1977 exhibitions
- Circus Lithographs
- Weaver and Carver, Arts of Africa
- L.L. FitzGerald Exhibition
- Faculty and Staff Exhibition
- The Alumni Journal
1976 exhibitions
- School of Art Exhibition: 25 Years at the University of Manitoba
- K.J. Butler & William Pura: Recent Work
- Edward Dore
- Robert Bruce: Bruce
- The Mid-Western 1976
- American Art in Winnipeg Collections
- Ivan Eyre: Recent Paintings and Drawings
- Henry Saxe
1975 exhibitions
- Five Winnipeg Artists
- Joyce Smith
- Larry Cromwell
- Michael Snow: Camera Works
- Student Exhibition
- Photography Exhibition
- Edmonton Graphics
- Nicole Gravier
- Student Photographs
- Cavalliere Ketchum
- Greg Curnoe
- The Object Transformed
- Hervé Fischer
- Ted Luba and Steve Prudente
- Quebec Video
- Three From Calgary
- Robert Flynn
- African Textiles – October 6 - November 3, 1975
1974 exhibitions
- Virgil Hammock and Arnold Saper: Prints and Drawings – February 8 - 23, 1974
- Eric Cameron: Six Videotapes – March 14 - 21, 1974
- Permanent Collection
- Faculty Show
- Poster Art
- Eighteenth Century Stage Britain
- Icelandic Lithographs
- Sheila Butler
- William Crutchfield
- Don Mabie, Bill Kort, and Wendy Toogood
- Bauhaus
- Before the Kodak
1973 exhibitions
- Jack Shadbolt and Chilcoot Experience
- Marie Louise Kreyes
- Graphic Communication Canada
- Sam Nitikiman: The Artist Responds
- Dysart Memorial Collection
- New Staff Members
- Toyokuni, Kuniyoshi, Hiroshige, Yoshiku: 19th Century Japanese Woodblock Prints
- The Great Race – November 9 - ?, 1973
- Graphics '72 Japan
1972 exhibitions
- Eskimo Fantastic Art
- Ken Lochhead
- Doug Haynes
- Artario '72
- Carl Andre: 144 Plates of Copper
1971 exhibitions
- Design & Art Direction '71
- Tom Henderson
- Howard Kottler
1970 exhibitions
- Alex Bruning – January 16 - February 7, 1970
- Incunabulae
- Geigy Graphics – January 19 - February 10, 1970
- Tiktak
Gallery One One One exhibitions: 1965–1969
1969 exhibitions
- Eric Freifeld
- James McGarnell
- Krushenick and Trova Prints
- The First Hundred Years of Engraving
- Three Printmakers: W. Bachinski, A. Saper, A. Weinstein
- Edwin Binney III Collection
- Drawings: François Dallégret & François Soucy
- Macleary Drope (March 4 - 22)
- Don Reichert: Paintings
- 13 Rembrandt Etchings: Rembrandt van Rijn
1968 exhibitions
- 10 Catalan Artists: Painting and Sculpture
- Centennial Exhibition
- Stanley Boxer Paintings
- Three Innocents: Winnifred Warters. Esther Rogatnick, Hugh Calvery
- John Chambers
- Colleen Nelson
- Wildlife Sculpture
- Jack Sures
1967 exhibitions
- Jean McEwen and Harold Town: Paintings
- Sculptures from West Africa
- Maxwell Bates: Hotel Series
- German Expressionist Prints
- Henry Moore
- John Daniel: Sculptures
- Bruce Barton: Painting
- BFA Graduating Exhibition
- Bishop Kojo Sakamoto: Japanese Calligraphy
- Cape Dorset: A Decade of Eskimo Prints and Recent Sculptures
- Pop Art from Benson and Hedges Collection
- New Teaching Staff Exhibition
- Pre-Columbian Medical Art
- Jean Dubuffet: Paintings and Drawings
- Photography in the Twentieth Century
- Balthus
- Ernest Lindner and Kenneth Noland
1966 exhibitions
- Works From the Collection of Sam Sair
- Chown Weavings – January 25 - February 10, 1966
- Miniature Prints
- Henry Kalen: Photographs
- Brian Fisher: Recent Paintings
- Ted Godwin: Paintings
- Eroolik and Tiktak, Rankin Inlet
- Sculpture from John A. MacAulay's Collection
- Jean Forest: People in Paris
- Margaret Schmidt: Etchings
- Sculpture by Ekoota and Makpa
- Four Sculptors from Repulse Bay
- Jacques Henri Lartigue: Photographs
- Avant Garde Prints by American Artists
- Mother Rogatnick: Paintings and Drawings
1965 exhibitions
Collections
The School of Art Gallery collects historical and contemporary art, maintaining and evolving a growing collection of over 4100 artworks – the largest art collection within the University of Manitoba.
This collection has two parts: the FitzGerald Study Centre Collection and the Permanent Collection. The former is a tight, well-documented collection devoted to Group of Seven artist Lionel Lemoine FitzGerald and his contemporaries. The latter has a wide range of historical and contemporary artwork and is broadly focused on Manitoban, Canadian, and Indigenous artwork, with special focus on artists affiliated with the School of Art and the University of Manitoba. These collections are maintained and developed via gifts and purchases through the advisement of the School of Art Gallery Acquisition Committee.
For more information about the School of Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection and/or FitzGerald Study Centre Collection, please visit the School of Art Gallery, or contact C.W. Brooks, Registrar/Preparator, at 204-474-8980 or C.W.Brooks@umanitoba.ca.
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Submissions
The School of Art Gallery is a research-based institution. Our exhibitions are developed by the Director/Curator, gallery staff, and guest curators. The exhibition schedule is programmed approximately two years in advance.
The School of Art Gallery does not actively solicit submissions from artists, but welcomes artists to send information packages, which will be reviewed by the Director/Curator. Information packages will not be returned and will not necessarily receive a response. Exhibition proposals from independent curators and other institutions may be considered.
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School of Art Gallery
255 ARTlab
180 Dafoe Road
University of Manitoba (Fort Garry campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2