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47th Annual GOG Awards, 2024. Image Courtesy: Ammar Bowaihl, Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries.

Celebrating Excellence: Congratulations to the 48th Annual Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries Award Winners!

On Monday, December 1, 2025, GOG announced the award winners of the 48th Annual GOG Awards held at the Toronto Reference Library. We were thrilled to celebrate the achievements of public art galleries with arts professionals, and we are immensely grateful to our members, sponsors, and event partners for the success of this event.

This year’s theme, Make Your Mark – Laissez Votre Marque, focuses on defending Canadian cultural sovereignty, and supporting the arts as a public good. This theme calls for collective imagination and urgent action: to protect and nurture the expressions that make us feel alive, connected, and human. In a time of heightened social, environmental, economical and political volatility, Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) is leading the dialogue on protecting and standing up for Canadian culture – that it is not a commodity, vulnerable to political pressures, but is essential to our sovereignty.

Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) is pleased to announce the 48th Annual GOG Award Winners!

As the only annual juried awards of its kind, the iconic GOG Awards celebrate the outstanding achievement, artistic merit, and excellence of arts institutions and professionals in the public art gallery sector.

We extend our sincere gratitude to our jurors for their dedication, insight, and diligent work in peer-assessing the nominations!

Julie Bevan, Alexis Boyle, Demetra Christakos, Tatum Dooley, Nicola Hamilton, Luis Jacob, Fynn Leitch, Shauna McCabe, John Montgomery, Vicky Moufawad-Paul, Margaux Parker, Yuluo Wei

47th Annual GOG Awards, 2024. Image Courtesy: Ammar Bowaihl, Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries.

EXHIBITION AWARDS

Exhibition of the Year Budget Over $50,000

The Clichettes: Lips, Wigs and Politics
McMaster Museum of Art

Exhibition of the Year Budget Over $20,000 Thematic

To go boldly
Varley Art Gallery of Markham

Exhibition of the Year Budget Over $20,000 Monographic

Otherworld
Art Museum at the University of Toronto

Exhibition of the Year Budget Under $20,000 Thematic

What Remains
Art Gallery of Guelph partnering with ArtsEverywhere, Musagetes

Exhibition of the Year Budget Under $20,000 Monographic

Jinny Yu: at once
Art Gallery of Ontario

Exhibition of the Year Budget Under $10,000

Jordan Sook: The Closest I’ve Felt to God
Art Windsor-Essex

Innovation in a Collections Based Exhibition

ᑕᐅᑐᑉᐹ Tautuppaa | Long Looking – Tim Pitsiulak
Art Gallery of Guelph

First Exhibition in a Public Art Gallery

Behnaz Fatemi: Rhythm of Remembering
Art Windsor-Essex

Best Exhibition in a Commercial Gallery

Inviting the Conflict
Ottawa Art Gallery / Galerie d’art d’Ottawa

Exhibition Design and Installation

Miles Rufelds: Salvage Archives
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

Public Program

A Journey through Otherworld
Art Museum at the University of Toronto

Education

Sandwich Visionaries
Art Windsor-Essex

47th Annual GOG Awards, 2024. Image Courtesy: Ammar Bowaihl, Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries.

WRITING AWARDS

Curatorial Writing: Major Text

Ingrid Jones – “Labour”
Art Museum at the University of Toronto

Curatorial Writing

Richard Hill Sr – “Path of Liberation: Artistic Healing of Greg Staats”
Art Gallery of Hamilton

Curatorial Writing: Short Text

Lillian Allen – “Dubbing a Political History of The Clichettes (They Blew the Whole Shit Up!)”
McMaster Museum of Art

Art Writing

Kristi Leora Gansworth – “Sacred Mirror, Blood of the Earth”
Carleton University Art Gallery

Art Publication

Worlds on Paper: Drawings from Kinngait
McMichael Canadian Art Collection

DESIGN AWARDS

Art Book Design

Robert Tombs – Marina Roy, Jinny Yu & the Painted Object
Royal Canadian Academy of Art

Exhibition Catalogue Design

OTAMI / Sebastien Aubin – Greg Staats: Runners Continuum
Art Gallery of Hamilton

Other Publication Design

Patrick Côté – The Air of the Now and Gone
Carleton University Art Gallery

Identity Renewal Design

Mark Bennett – The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University identity
The Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University

Design Budget Under $1,500

Marc Ngui – Recitation Test
Art Windsor-Essex

PERSONNEL AWARDS

Changemaker BIPOC

Yan Wu
Public Art Curator
Varley Art Gallery of Markham

Colleague of the Year

Emma Campbell
Executive Liaison Officer
6 Years of Service
Ottawa Art Gallery / Galerie d’art d’Ottawa

Volunteer of the Year

Bryce Kraeker
Past Chair/Vice-Chair Board of Directors Member, Permanent Collection Committee
15 Years of Service
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

Key Partnership Award

Ontario Science Centre
Illuminating Minds: The Art and Science of Light
Aga Khan Museum

Congratulations to all the winners! Please visit our Awards Website to view the full list alongside the shortlist.

The 48th Annual GOG Awards would not be possible without the support of our funders and sponsors.

Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) has a 50 year history as an arts service organization (ASO) which represents over 270 members—public art galleries, museums, artist-run-centres, and arts organizations. Over 40 years, its annual award program has been defining the standards of excellence for the visual arts in Canada. Through advocacy on issues, policy, legislation to all levels of government, and delivery of innovative and cutting-edge professional development opportunities and network-building, GOG advances, empowers, and strengthens the visual arts sector in Canada.

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