Sound and Vision
Photographic and Video Images in Contemporary Canadian Art – A Selection of Works from the MMFA, NGC and AGO

The exhibition Contemporary Canadian Art presents fifty works drawn from the collections of Canada's three biggest museums, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. This show proposes a new reading of contemporary Canadian art, with a particular focus on transformation and the development of photographic practices. All the big names from Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal – Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, Michael Snow, Geneviève Cadieux and Lynne Cohen – rub shoulders with the best of the following generations: Ken Lum, Stan Douglas, Tim Lee, Stephen Shearer, Mark Lewis, Nicolas Baier and Pascal Grandmaison, among others. This is the first time in several years that the three museums have worked together on an exhibition that proposes an in-depth examination of contemporary Canadian art.