Summer 2026 Exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Guelph

Join us on Wednesday, May 27 at 6:30pm for the public launch of the Art Gallery of Guelph’s summer season, featuring two exhibitions that speak to land, memory, time, and relationships to place. Couzyn van Heuvelen: CAMP and Windfall Light encompass practices that span monumental sculptures to paintings, photography, prints, and textiles, considering how everyday experience is inseparable from the land and the natural cycles and rhythms that sustain it.

Artists and curators will be in attendance, and all are welcome. Refreshments will be served, and a cash bar will be available.

Couzyn van Heuvelen: CAMP

May 21 – August 30, 2026
Curated by Erin Szikora and Leila Timmins

Drawing on the seasonal practice of setting up camp in warmer months, this solo exhibition by Inuk sculptor Couzyn van Heuvelen explores Inuit cultural sovereignty and the tools and technologies of living on the land. The large-scale sculptural works included in CAMP are shaped by the artist’s formative experiences with his family and his desire to connect with the love and labour of his homelands. Demonstrating how the camp is a site for shared learning, community-building, and joy, van Heuvelen asserts the critical role of land-based practices in Inuit self-determination. read more >

Organized and circulated by The Robert McLaughlin Gallery with support from the Ontario Arts Council and the Government of Ontario.

Image: Couzyn van Heuvelen, Stretching Sealskin, 2023, wool yarn, rug cloth, rug backing pad, wood, and rope. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.

Windfall Light

May 21 – August 30, 2026
Curated by Shauna McCabe

The “windfall light” evoked by Dylan Thomas in his poem Fern Hill conjures the dappled golds and luminous greens, deepening warmth, and undulating fields of a landscape suspended in time. Like the poem, this exhibition does not describe summer directly so much as linger within its thresholds: in lengthening shadows, burgeoning birds and blossoms, and the acute awareness of a season always already beginning to recede. Windfall Light draws together the work of contemporary artists and artworks from the Art Gallery of Guelph’s collections, bringing into dialogue works by Monica Tap, Kim Dorland, Susan Dobson, Don Russell, Takao Tanabe, Gordon Couling, Ruth Qaulluaryuk, Kathleen Daly, George Pepper, J. E. H. MacDonald, A. J. Casson, William Goodridge Roberts, and Clarence Gagnon, among others. Together, they situate time and transformation as relational and continuous—“the sun born over and over”—where abundance and loss are held in delicate balance. read more >

Organized and presented by the Art Gallery of Guelph with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.

Image: Monica Tap, Summer Camp, 2021, oil on canvas, 132.1 x 109.2 x 3.8 cm. Courtesy of the artist

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