Call for Submissions: Juried Show of Visual Arts 2025 at the Art Gallery of Mississauga

Last year’s Juried Show award winners. Top row (left to right): Sumaira Tazeen (first prize), Raha Fard (second prize), Wen Li (third prize). Bottom row (left to right): Omar Canales-Cisneros (honourable mention), Hafsa Murtaza (honourable mention), and Carmen Mahave (curator’s choice).

Call for Submissions: Fifth Annual Juried Show of Visual Arts at the Art Gallery of Mississauga

Application Deadline: Friday, September 5, 2025, at 5:59pm, or when the 300-submission capacity is met, whichever comes first.

Exhibition Dates: October 25, 2025 – January 11, 2026

The Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) invites emerging and established artists living and working in Ontario to apply to its Fifth Annual Juried Show of Visual Arts.

Submissions must include a complete application form.

Jurors (left to right): Lyla Rye, Gary Taxali, and Tamara Toledo

Meet the Jurors

Lyla Rye is a Toronto-based, multi-disciplinary artist who works in installation, sculpture, video, drawing, and photography to create encounters with real and illusionary space. For over 35 years her work has been exhibited in galleries and screenings across Canada and internationally. She has exhibited at The Power Plant, Prefix ICA, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and as part of the Karachi Biennale in Pakistan. She has work in the public collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, York University, Cadillac Fairview Corporation, The Tom Thomson Art Gallery, and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery.

Gary Taxali is a Mississauga-based artist and illustrator. He has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout North America and Europe including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Jonathan LeVine Gallery, The Antonio Colombo Gallery, Steve Lazarides/The Outsiders, and The Andy Warhol Museum. His clients include Sony, Converse, Time, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, GQ, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He has won hundreds of illustration and design awards including a nomination for a Cannes Lion, and a 2009 Grammy Award Nomination. Taxali was listed as one of the top 100 illustrators in the world by art book publisher Taschen. He is a tenured professor at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada.

Tamara Toledo, Ph.D. is a Toronto-based curator, writer, and scholar, co-founder of the non-profit arts organization, Latin American Canadian Art Projects. Her research focuses on Latin American diasporic art in Canada shaped by violence, trauma, and displacement, following decolonial artistic practices that defy hegemonic tendencies within contemporary art. Toledo has presented at various conferences in Canada and the United States, and her writing has appeared in ARM Journal, C Magazine, Fuse, Canadian Art, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture Journal of the University of California, and Concordia University Press. Toledo is currently the Director/Curator of Sur Gallery.

Virtual Juried Show Preparation Seminar
Saturday, August 16, 2025 at 10:30am

Join Mississauga-based artist Fausta Facciponte in an online seminar to help you prepare your submission for the upcoming AGM Juried Show of Visual Arts.

Prior registration is required. Please register on Eventbrite.

Important Information & Dates

Selected artists will be notified between Monday, September 29 and Friday, October 2, 2025.

Selected art must be delivered to the AGM at 300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga on Saturday, October 11 or Sunday, October 12, 2025 from 12pm to 4pm, or Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from 11am to 4pm.

The Opening Reception and Awards Presentations to take place on Thursday, October 30, 2025 from 6pm to 8pm.

Art must be collected between Thursday, January 15, 2026 and Friday, January 16, 2026 between 11am and 4pm.

$3,500 in Prizes:
1st prize – $1,500
2nd prize – $1,000
3rd prize – $500
Honourable Mention – $250
Curator’s Choice – $250

All successful artists will receive an exhibition fee of $100

Entry Fee: $45

Payment: Non-refundable entry fees and memberships are payable through the online application.

Terms of Entry

Applications are only accepted electronically and should be sent through our online form.

Artists may submit 1 recent piece for jurying. Open to all artists 18 years of age and older, living and working in Ontario.

Submissions can include paintings in any medium, drawings, mixed media, fibre art and sculpture, photography, new media and video. Work must be original.

All work must be exhibition-ready. For 2-dimensional work, this includes being professionally framed or mounted on a rigid surface with appropriate mounting hardware.

For 2-dimensional submissions:

• Send only one digital image of the entire artwork as per the specifications provided on the online form
• Maximum size of actual artwork: 153cm wide x 360cm high
• Diptychs and triptychs must fit within these dimensions

3-dimensional/sculptural pieces:

• Please send two images (two different views) or a video of work in-site demonstrating audio, visual, kinetics as applicable.

Film, Video and New Media

• Submissions must be accompanied by clear exhibition specifications.

Additional Guidelines for New Media Submissions:

The AGM can provide multimedia equipment for exhibition use. Supplies include four (4) 65-inch high-definition monitors, and a limited number of media players, headphones, and speakers. If your installation requires technical equipment, please include these details in the “Installation Notes” section of your application.

No substitutions – only work that has been submitted and accepted will be included in the exhibition. Works sold are subject to 20% commission to the Art Gallery of Mississauga. The application entry fee is non-refundable.

The AGM reserves the right to decline a submission deemed unsuitable for the show – this includes work that is not dry, not properly framed, reproductions, or copies of another’s artwork.

Shipping and Insurance:

All shipping arrangements and insurance to and from the Art Gallery of Mississauga are the responsibility of the artist. Artwork selected for the Juried Show of Visual Arts will be insured by the AGM for the duration of the exhibition.

About the Art Gallery of Mississauga

The Art Gallery of Mississauga is a public Gallery supported by the City of Mississauga, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, TD Bank Group, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, corporations, private citizens, and Gallery members. AGM is located at 300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga, ON.

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