After a sixty-year suspension of the acquisition of First Nations art since 1927, the National Gallery of Canada purchased Carl Beam’s The North American Iceberg in 1986 and has since increased its …

Developing the First Nations, Inuit and Metis art collection is one of the AGO’s primary collecting goals. From Haida master carver Charles Edenshaw, to contemporary Mohawk artist Shelley Niro, the …

The museum's permanent collection includes over 120,000 works spanning the first century to the present day. [4] The museum collection includes a number works from Canadian, First Nations, Inuit, …

Jun 3, 2019 · Under my watch we acquired the first, historical, First Nations art ever. The museum hadn’t collected that material. We integrated First Nations art into displays of Canadian art on a …

Jun 29, 2018 · Canada Day, 1 July, ushers in a new era for the presentation of Modern and contemporary Canadian art at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto.

Uses the institution as an example of changes in museums' attitudes towards, and collection policies for, works by Aboriginals; from exclusion, to increased acquisition and more frequent exhibition.

Sep 26, 2022 · Obtained in 2002, the Anishinaabe Gunstock Club is the AGO’s first significant acquisition of historical Indigenous artwork. Another important piece is from Indigenous artist Charles …