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A public, contemporary art space that connects communities with the art of our time.

Oakville Galleries is a not-for-profit contemporary art museum, reaching communities in Oakville and wider audiences regionally, nationally and internationally. As a forum for engaging people with the questions that shape us as individuals, communities and cultures, Oakville Galleries draws on contemporary art to facilitate reflection and discovery in unexpected and stimulating ways. Oakville Gall

eries operates at two locations:

Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens:
1306 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville

Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square:
120 Navy Street, Oakville

Free admission

OPENING HOURS:

Gairloch Gardens Location: Tuesday to Saturday, 12 - 5 PM
Centennial Square: Tuesday to Saturday, 12 - 5 PM

09/04/2026

𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝗮𝗸𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀!🍁

This fall, come together with family, friends, and your community to experience art, nature, and creativity through two free programs with Oakville Galleries.

𝗚𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗳 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
𝗤𝘂𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲
Sunday, September 27 | 12:15PM–2:00PM

Get creative with the beauty of autumn in this hands-on printmaking workshop. Using provided leaves and Gelli plates, participants will experiment with layering and ghost printing to transform the unique shapes and textures of leaves into original botanical prints. It’s an accessible, sustainable way to explore the connections between art, science, and the natural environment.

𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘀: 𝗔 𝗦𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘂𝗿
𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘀
Saturday, October 3 | 1–3 PM

Take a guided walk through Gairloch Gardens, exploring sculptures from Oakville Galleries’ permanent collection alongside the garden’s design, plant life, and living landscape. Co-led by Exhibitions & Collections Manager Natalie Stone and Landscape Architect Victoria Taylor, the tour offers a chance to see Gairloch Gardens from new perspectives and discover how contemporary art and horticulture come together. Following the tour, visitors can also experience Ali Cherri’s 𝘛𝘰 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 on its final day.

𝗕𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆.✨️

🔗 Learn more at www.oakvillegalleries.com

09/02/2026

𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗵 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘀 🌿

This summer, Oakville Galleries was delighted to bring Art of Refreshment to Gairloch Gardens as we offered a new seasonal program that invited visitors to slow down, enjoy the gardens, and discover some of Oakville’s exciting local food talent.

Over the past few months, we’ve had the pleasure of welcoming small food businesses and entrepreneurs to the gallery, creating opportunities for visitors to enjoy something refreshing and delicious while exploring our exhibitions, participating in summer art camps, walking along the lakeshore, or simply lounging in the gardens. From coffee, fresh drinks and baked goods to açaí bowls, churros and tacos, each vendor brought something distinctive to Gairloch Gardens and helped us imagine new ways of connecting art, place, and community.

We are grateful to everyone who joined us, and especially to the local food makers who shared their creations with our visitors. Thank you to Shircuteriere, Oh.Fresca, and Chucho's Churros for feeding us and our visitors.

𝗔𝘀 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲, 𝘄𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟳. We thank our visitors and participating vendors for making the first season of this program such a success, and we look forward to exploring new ways to bring local food, culture, and community together at Gairloch Gardens next summer.

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 2026 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘥 3 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴.

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗢𝗮𝗸𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀!✨️

09/01/2026

𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲

Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square is closed today due to an unforeseen power outage in the building.

Our Gairloch Gardens gallery remains open and welcomes visitors during regular hours.

08/30/2026

𝗟𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴? 🌿

Set within the beautiful Gairloch Gardens, the Oakville Galleries Studio offers a bright, versatile space for private events, birthdays, workshops, meetings, showers, celebrations of life and more.

With 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, it’s the perfect time to plan your next gathering in one of Oakville’s most distinctive settings.

𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿:
Monday to Friday:
Half Day (5 hours) - $750 + HST
Full Day (10 hours) - $1,250 + HST

Saturday and Sunday:
Half Day (5 hours) - $875 + HST
Full Day (10 hours) - $1,450 + HST

𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵:
Monday to Friday:
Half Day (5 hours) - $700 + HST
Full Day (10 hours) - $1,050 + HST

Saturday and Sunday:
Half Day (5 hours) - $825 + HST
Full Day (10 hours) - $1,350 + HST

🔗 Discover more: https://www.oakvillegalleries.com/venuerental

08/28/2026

In 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘯, the viewers follows a soldier stationed in a watchtower along the divided territory of Cyprus. During his solitary watch, a robin repeatedly strikes the tower’s window, drawn toward a world separated from it by an invisible barrier. Its eventual death evokes, allegorically, a body falling in war, an image Cherri carries beyond the film into a watercolour painting. Through this quiet encounter, Cherri reflects on borders, surveillance, and the violence embedded within landscapes of conflict.

𝙒𝙚 𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙬 𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝙨𝙤 𝙁𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝘽𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙢 (1/13 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨), 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯
Watercolor and graphite on paper, framed

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙢𝙖𝙣, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯⁠
HD video, colour, sound⁠
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Images: Ali Cherri, 𝘛𝘰 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺, Installation view of 𝘞𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸 𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘮 (1/13 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴) and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘯, Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, 2026. Photo: Jimmy Limit. Courtesy of the artist and Imane Farès Gallery.

08/26/2026

A key binding element in this exhibition is mud, the primeval matter of our creation stories, both resilient and fragile, the gritty matter of dreams. In 2019, with Lina Mounzer, Ali Cherri wrote and published 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘶𝘥 (Dongola Limited Editions). This book is in part manifesto, in part reverie; a story of earth and water, which one can see strains of throughout this exhibition. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘶𝘥 is an exploration of the past and the ways in which it inscribes itself physically: eroding, shaping, reforming, becoming itself through upheaval and destruction. Cherri is a storyteller in conversation with writers in both English and Arabic, unveiling “a story of perpetually shifting geographies, of elemental forces and terrain that cracks and rumbles and breaks over eons into new topographical formations.”They ask, “if mud had its own memory, what might it deem worth remembering?”—Séamus Kealy, Curator⁠
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𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙪𝙖 𝘽𝙪𝙨𝙩, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯
Mumuye Mask, 20th/21st century (possibly made for trade) (Nigeria), clay, sand, pigments.

Images: Ali Cherri, 𝘛𝘰 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺, Installation view of 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢 𝘉𝘶𝘴𝘵, Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, 2026. Photo: Jimmy Limit.⁠ Courtesy of the artist and Slobodan Randjelovic.

08/22/2026

Ali Cherri’s Grafting series brings fragments of archaeological and natural histories into unexpected formations, drawing attention to the ways objects are collected, classified, and given meaning within museums. By assembling disparate materials, Cherri unsettles the categories and narratives through which histories are preserved and presented, asking us to consider what is revealed, altered, or left out when an object enters a museum collection.

On view at Gairloch Gardens, the series reflects Cherri’s ongoing interest in the museum as a site where histories are not simply preserved, but actively constructed. The works invite us to look beyond the objects themselves and consider the systems of collecting, display, and interpretation that shape how we understand the past.

𝗟𝗮 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗲, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯
Male head with ball headdress (Egypt, Late Period, ca. 664-32 B.C.),
clay, sand pigments, xps, steel.

Images: Ali Cherri, 𝘛𝘰 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺, Installation view of 𝘓𝘢 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘦, Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, 2026. Photo: Jimmy Limit. Courtesy of the artist and Imane Farès Gallery.

08/21/2026

"Installed in the porch facing the gardens, the neon sculpture 𝘓𝘦𝘴 (𝘚𝘶𝘳)𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 poetically references the perils of surviving catastrophe. Ali Cherri knows this sentiment personally, and speaks to the complex nature of surviving while others have perished in tragic or unjust circumstances, most notably in the war-torn region he and his family were raised in. ‘We all come with our baggage, we meet the other who has lived through the same experiences, and then we create a community of survivors,’ says Cherri." —Séamus Kealy, Curator⁠
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𝗟𝗲𝘀 (𝗦𝘂𝗿)𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀
Glass neon tube, white steel structure transformers, dimmer switches.

Images: Ali Cherri, 𝘛𝘰 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺, Installation view of 𝘓𝘦𝘴 (𝘚𝘶𝘳)𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴, Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, 2026. Photo: Jimmy Limit.
©Estate of Ali Cherri, courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.

08/19/2026

🍂𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹 & 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!❄️

Discover creative programs for kids, youth, adults and families at Oakville Galleries. Find something to inspire you this season and register today!

✨Learn more at oakvillegalleries.com

08/15/2026

In 𝘖𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘥, Ali Cherri traces the history of the Merowe Dam, one of Africa’s largest hydroelectric dams on the Nile River in Northern Sudan. The work premiered at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, where it was awarded the Silver Lion.

Following a seasonal brickmaker who shapes mud into bricks by day and secretly constructs a mysterious creature by night, Cherri explores displacement, labour, and the human and environmental consequences of the dam’s construction, which forcibly displaced more than 50,000 people.

Drawing on ancient myths of the flooding Nile, the golem, and Noah’s Ark, this work considers mud and water as forces of creation and destruction, and reflects on how histories and myths shape ideas of the “Other.”

𝙊𝙛 𝙈𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙪𝙙, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
Video Installation

Images: Ali Cherri, 𝘛𝘰 𝘍𝘢𝘭𝘭, 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺, Installation view of 𝘖𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘶𝘥, Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, 2026. Photo: Jimmy Limit. Courtesy of the artist and Imane Farès Gallery.

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1306 Lakeshore Road East
Oakville, ON
L6J1L6

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Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
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