Directory -Canadian Artist-Run Associations

Gallery TPW is a not-for-profit artist-run centre dedicated to the presentation and critical investigation of contemporary still and time-based images, exploring the exchange between photography, film and video. Through a diverse program of exhibitions, screenings, performance, new critical writing …

Hamilton Artists Inc (The Inc.) is committed to the presentation of contemporary art and related cultural practices. The Inc. facilitates a national dialogue surrounding issues in contemporary art through exhibitions, publications, performances, education and outreach projects. The Inc actively …

Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle (the Centre) is a contemporary art exhibition space established in Ottawa, which supports and promotes the work of francophone and francophile artists to a wider audience. The programming of the Centre favours digital art in order to establish a dialogue between …

Incorporated in 2006, Le Laboratoire d’art (Le Labo), a Francophone media arts centre in Toronto, offers creative support to French-speaking artists whose works reach a broad public. Its objectives are to: - Support incubation, innovation, creation and production in the media arts. - Promote …

Mercer Union is an artist-run centre dedicated to the advancement of contemporary art. We provide a forum for the production and exhibition of Canadian and international contemporary art and related cultural practices. Since 1979, Mercer Union has maintained ambitious programming, exhibiting …

Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre is a non-profit organization facilitating the presentation, interpretation and production of contemporary visual, time-based and interdisciplinary arts. Modern Fuel aims to meet the professional development needs of emerging and mid-career local, national and …

Niagara Artists Centre is a not-for-profit, charitably registered, member-driven collective formed by and dedicated to serving the working artists and community of Niagara. Founded in 1969 as a collective of working artists, NAC is one of the oldest artist-run organizations in Canada and is …

Open Studio is a leading Canadian, non-profit, artist-run printmaking centre dedicated to the production, preservation and promotion of contemporary printmaking. Open Studio provides services for artists and the public, including exhibitions, education, print sales and affordable studio facilities. …

The Red Head Gallery, celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2015, is a professional artists’ cooperative committed to exhibiting the work of established and emerging artists, and to encouraging work that is critically engaged within a wide range of contemporary discourse. The Red Head Gallery …

The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival is a unique showcase of contemporary Asian cinema and work from the Asian diaspora. Works include films and videos by East, South and Southeast Asian artists in Canada, the U.S., Asia and all over the world. As Canada’s largest Asian film festival, …

Whippersnapper Gallery is an artist-run centre committed to the cultivation of inclusive spaces for emerging visual and media arts, community arts and experimental forms of exhibition-making. We provide artists and cultural producers with exhibition space and a flexible platform to expand the …

Founded in 1974, White Water Gallery is a not-for-profit artist-run centre committed to supporting artistic practices that prioritize risk and innovation. Understanding the need to advance the public’s threshold for viewing contemporary art, the gallery encourages outreach programming that promotes …