Back in April, we published “Snow in April: This Month in Michael Snow’s History,” providing a snapshot of featured exhibition artist Michael Snow. A career as long and prolific as Snow’s takes much more than a single article to cover – just as the previous article focused on the artist’s exhibitions mounted in April throughout … Continued

Spanning Thursday, August 6 through Saturday, August 8, this week marks the start of the 14th annual Photophobia, a festival of short-format contemporary media, film, video, and moving image hosted in partnership between the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Hamilton Artists Inc. For this week’s Film Favourites, we collected some of our favourite works from … Continued

If we can’t picnic together, we can still picnic apart! The AGH Summer Picnic is an annual event, now in its seventh year, that began as a public celebration of the gallery’s centenary back in 2014 and has been a late July fixture ever since, drawing a community of roughly 500-plus people every year, and offering tours, … Continued

Welcome back! The AGH reopened our doors this past weekend for the first time since March, and we are thrilled to see the lovely faces of our visitors once again! We are so excited, in fact, that admission to the entire Gallery is FREE for the remainder of July. Please also note that, until further … Continued

From photographing patterns of dazzling sweets to shooting hockey pucks at a white canvas, multimedia artist Liss Platt often combines familiar objects with personal narrative, critical analysis, gender politics, and strategies of appropriation to challenge various dominant discourses and representations.[1] Last year, the AGH acquired its first artworks by the Hamilton-based artist: fourteen photographs from the … Continued