Olga Korper Gallery

Olga Korper Gallery We love art. We love the heck out of art. Just ask. We'll tell you how much we love it. In 1973, the gallery opened as Gallery O on Markham Street in Toronto.

Established in 1973, the Olga Korper Gallery is dedicated to the promotion and exhibition of Canadian and international contemporary art, both locally and abroad. Having long demonstrated a strong commitment to painting and sculpture, the gallery's scope has expanded to include installation, video and photo-based work. In 1982, Olga moved to 80 Spadina Avenue with fellow dealers Lynne Wynick, Davi

d Tuck (Wynick/Tuck Gallery) and Fela Grunwald (the Grunwald Gallery), occupying the fourth floor, now a well-established destination for gallery-goers. In 1989 the Olga Korper Gallery opened at its current location on 17 Morrow Avenue.

Featured in the Capture Photography Festival is Katherine Takpannie’s Tulugaq #6 | ᑐᓗᒐᖅ | Raven (2025) 🐦‍⬛ “I’m Movable...
05/13/2026

Featured in the Capture Photography Festival is Katherine Takpannie’s Tulugaq #6 | ᑐᓗᒐᖅ | Raven (2025) 🐦‍⬛ “I’m Movable” curated by Jake Kimble is a multi-site public art project on five billboards along East Hastings St, between Hawks Avenue and Vernon Drive, Vancouver. Billboards featuring the works of Jeremy Dennis, Katherine Takpannie, and Maureen Gruben will be on view until May 31st 🐦‍⬛

“These artists grapple with and hold conversations with the attempted eradication of Indigeneity. The lens becomes a tool that all three artists use to carve out a presence that refutes dismissal… Katherine Takpannie, playing Raven in her piece Tulugaq | ᑐᓗᒐᖅ, carries forward the permanence of Indigeneity. Like Dennis, she is both the photographed and the photographer, continuing the lineage of correcting the representation of Indigenous peoples. Takpannie, an urban Inuk born in Montreal, situates herself in a contemporary nature, combining traditional storytelling with a cheeky regard to today.” - Jake Kimble

Installation photo: Dennis Ha

05/02/2026

Join us today from 2 - 5 pm for the opening of Close Encounter an exhibition of over thirty photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe 🤍🩶🖤

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Save the Date ⚫⚪⚫ We are proud to present Close Encounter, an exhibition of over thirty photographs by Robert Mapplethor...
04/26/2026

Save the Date ⚫⚪⚫ We are proud to present Close Encounter, an exhibition of over thirty photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, opening Saturday May 2nd from 2:00 -5:00 PM.

Close Encounter concentrates primarily on the human figure and the charged space between bodies. These images are as collaborative as they are confrontational, oscillating between tenderness and severity. A tightly cropped fragment of torso can verge on abstraction, a shoulder illuminated against the void can feel devotional. Bodies both intensely specific and universally emblematic.

At a scale that demands vulnerability, Close Encounter invites viewers to consider the moment of intimacy where the unknown becomes familiar, and then becomes desire. Mapplethorpe’s brilliance endures not because he shocked, but because he looked—closely—and because he asked us to do the same.

This is our featured exhibition for the 2026 CONTACT Photography Festival, a celebration of lens-based media throughout the GTA.

Image details:
Robert Mapplethorpe, Michael Roth, 1983 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission.

Today is the last day of our John Brown exhibition❤️ Thank you to all that have visited, shared stories of John (also kn...
03/21/2026

Today is the last day of our John Brown exhibition❤️ Thank you to all that have visited, shared stories of John (also known as Jack), and took the time to unpack the incredible depth of these paintings. It has been a fantastic show ⭐️

Photo credit (image 1) : Steve MacDougall

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17 Morrow Avenue
Toronto, ON
M6R2H9

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

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