The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is Northern Ontario's largest art gallery specializing in the work of contemporary Indigenous artists. It is located on the campus of Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. The Thunder Bay Art Gallery is the largest public gallery between Sault Ste. Marie and Winnipeg, featuring over 4,000 sq/ft of exhibition space.Put Thunder Bay Art Gallery and other Thunder Bay attractions into our Thunder Bay trip itinerary maker website, and watch your holiday take shape.
As a non-profit, public art gallery, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery exhibits, collects, and interprets art with a particular focus on the contemporary artwork of Indigenous and Northwestern Ontario artists. The Gallery advances the relationship between artists, their art, and the public, nurturing a life-long appreciation of contemporary visual arts among visitors to Thunder Bay and community members of all ages.
The Thunder Bay Art Gallery opened on Feb 6, 1976 when funds were secured to construct a National Exhibition Centre on the campus of Confederation College. The Gallery was one of 26 newly-established national exhibition centres opened in Canadian communities.
By 1982, the Thunder Bay National Exhibition Centre and Centre for Indian Art – as the Gallery was called then – had expanded into w three exhibition galleries, a collection storage area, and new capacity for exhibition and acquisition of art.
Today, the Thunder Bay Art Gallery has over 1600 works of art in it's Permanent Collection. The Permanent Collection includes work by Norval Morrisseau, Carl Beam, Daphne Odjig, Robert Houle, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Shelley Niro, Bob Boyer, Susan Ross, and Benjamin Chee Chee.
The Gallery provides school tours, hosts artistic events or shares our space with community groups.
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Thunder Bay Art Gallery reviews
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This is a small gallery that really needs some paint works, as opposed to installations, to be bought in to supplement the local works. Surely Ontario can travel works of Art around the Province... more »
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More and more the gallery is catering to the general community. A great selection of First Nations Art. more »
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Excellent art gallery. Lots of cool art.
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Beautiful location sorry to see it leave it's current home
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