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About Onsite Gallery
Onsite Gallery, the flagship professional gallery of OCAD University, presents contemporary, Indigenous, and public art and design to advance knowledge creation and professional creative practices to stimulate local and international conversations on urgent issues of our time.
A newly built Onsite Gallery was officially opened on September 16, 2017. The expanded gallery is a stunning 8,000 square-foot designed as a Category A space located at 199 Richmond St. W. Toronto ON.
Onsite Gallery successfully:
- Curates and hosts intriguing exhibitions of art, design and digital media from audacious Canadian and international creators
- Creates unique opportunities for public art within and outside the Gallery
- Stewards OCAD University's permanent collection
- Offers meaningful public engagement programs for the public and OCAD U community free of charge
Onsite Gallery Mandate
- To advance the goals, aspirations and strategic priorities of OCAD University
- To collaborate with professional artists, designers and curators
- To develop public art, design and media interventions and works outside of the gallery
- To play a leadership role in developing dialogues and programming of relevance to Toronto, and to link these to international practices and issues
- To involve and respond to a diverse public of students, faculty and staff, as well as local and international cultural participants
- To stimulate curricular and co-curricular learning and innovative research in art, design and curatorial practice
- To heighten the public profile of OCAD University and to provide vital encounters between the university and the public
- To develop programs, systems and policies that involve and converse with people of widely differing experiences, including students, faculty, staff, researchers, artists, designers, curators and the general public
- To support excellence in visual culture
- To promote engaged citizenship through exploration of society, culture and aesthetic
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Onsite Gallery gratefully acknowledges that the gallery construction project is funded in part by the Government of Canada's Canada Cultural Spaces Fund at Canadian Heritage, the City of Toronto through a Section 37 agreement and Aspen Ridge Homes; with gallery furniture by Nienkämper. Onsite Gallery logo by Dean Martin Design.
Onsite Gallery’s education program is generously supported by Nexus Investment Management.
Onsite Gallery acknowledges Toronto Friends of Visual Arts for their support in the Permanent Collection Digitalization.
Onsite Gallery is generously supported by The Delaney Family.
Current & upcoming exhibitions
Upcoming events
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Location
199 Richmond St. W.
Toronto, ON
M5V 0H4
Free admission
Hours
Mondays: closed
Tuesdays: closed
Wednesdays: 12:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Thursdays: 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Fridays: 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Saturdays: 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Sundays: closed
Contact
Email: onsite@ocadu.ca
Phone: 416-977-6000, Ext. 265
Hours
Ryan Rice
Executive Director & Curator, Indigenous Art, Onsite Gallery
rrice@ocadu.ca
416-977-6000 ext. 314
Lisa Deanne Smith
Senior Curator, Onsite Gallery
ldsmith@ocadu.ca
416-977-6000 ext. 2208
Susan Jama
Programs & Community Coordinator, Onsite Gallery
susanjama@ocadu.ca
416-977-6000 ext. 456
Kesa Smith
Curatorial Assistant, Onsite Gallery
ksmith@ocadu.ca
Heather Darling Pigat
Collection Steward, Onsite Gallery
heatherpigat@ocadu.ca
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