Town of Oakville Oakville galleries
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at Centennial Square
Oakville galleries

Title: After My Own Heart
Artist: Barbara Hammer; Sharon Hayes, Kate Millett & Women’s Liberation Cinema; Onya Hogan-Finlay; Allyson Mitchell; Carrie Moyer; Ulrike Müller & Herstory Inventory; L.J. Roberts; Elisabeth Subrin
Date: 24 March - 18 May 2013
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Artist: Charles-Henry Bédué, Greg Curnoe, Moyra Davey, Hannah Hilary Enkel, Josh Faught, Laura Letinsky, Micah Lexier, Arthur Lipsett, Attila Richard Lukacs, Ken Lum, Gwen MacGregor, David Merritt, Brad Phillips, Cheryl Sourkes, Erdem Tasdelen, and Jim Verburg.
Date: 9 December 2012 - 17 February 2013
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Art Privé
Artists: Various
Date: 18 November - 25 November 2012
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Infrastructure Canada
Artists: Young & Giroux
Date: 16 September - 25 November 2012
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Form Is the Destroyer of Force, Without Severity There Can Be No Mercy
Artist: Tricia Middleton
Date: 16 September - 4 November 2012
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Freedom of Assembly
Artist: Roy Arden, Barbara Astman, Valérie Blass, Paul Butler, Sarah Cale, Aleesa Cohene, Jason de Haan, Georgia Dickie, Marcel Dzama, Geoffrey Farmer, Kristan Horton, Tiziana La Melia, Luanne Martineau, Jennifer Murphy, Jacob Whibley, Alison Yip, Balint Zsako, and Elizabeth Zvonar
Date: 24 June - 1 September 2012
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Based on a True Story
Artist: Keren Cytter
Date: 14 April - 10 June 2012
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Up All Night
Artists: Oakville Galleries' Youth Council
Date: 10 March - 1 April 2012
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: An Unregarded Art
Artists: Angela Grauerholz, Spring Hurlbut, David Mabb, Regan Morris, Anne Ramsden, Jeannie Thib, Joanne Tod, and Ben Walmsley
Date: 25 February - 1 April 2012
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Hyper Spaces
Artists: José Manuel Ballester, An Te Liu, Lynne Marsh
Date: 26 November 2011 - 4 March 2012
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Bright Limit
Artist: Chris Kline
Date: 26 November 2011 - 19 February 2012
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Art Privé
Artists:  Josef Albers, Edward Burtynsky, Paul Butler, Oscar Cahen, Harold Edgerton, Charles Gagnon, John Hartman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Ray Mead, David Milne, Annie Pootoogook,  Itee Pootoogook, Kananginak Pootoogook, Christopher Pratt, John Scott & Marshall McLuhan, Andy Warhol and William Percival Weston.
Date: 12 November & 13 November 2011 
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Kingdom Come
Artist: Denyse Thomasos
Date: 24 September - 13 November 2011
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Rooms
Artist: Marla Hlady
Date: 24 September - 6 November 2011
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Sobey Art Award: 2011 Ontario Long List
Artists: Aleesa Cohene, Gareth Long, Derek Sullivan, Josh Thorpe, and Daniel Young & Christian Giroux.
Date: 25 June - 3 September 2011
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: The Birds and the Bees
Artists: Céleste Boursier-Mougenot/Ariane Michel, Wendy Coburn, Aganetha Dyck, Karen Knorr, Kristiina Lahde, Neeta Madahar, Adam Makarenko, Liz Magor and Penelope Stewart.
Date: 5 March - 5 June 2011
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Sublimation
Artists: Arabella Campbell, Paterson Ewen, Yves Gaucher, Hadley+Maxwell, Bethan Huws, Laura Letinsky, Gareth Long, David Merritt, Sandra Rechico, and others.
Date: 5 March - 15 May 2011
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Un-home-ly
Artists: Lucy Gunning, Mako Idemitsu, Suzy Lake, Liz Magor, Luanne Martineau, Shana Moulton, Valérie Mréjen, Paulette Phillips, Pipilotti Rist, Martha Rosler, Nicola Tyson, Jin-me Yoon
Date: 27 November 2010 - 20 February 2011
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Diabolique
Artists: Bogdan Achimescu, Matilda Aslizadeh, Rebecca Belmore, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Dana Claxton, Douglas Coupland, Mario Doucette, David Garneau, William Kentridge, Wanda Koop, Fawad Khan, Emanuel Licha, Shirin Neshat, Michael Patterson-Carver, Dan Perjovschi, Raymond Pettibon, Nancy Spero, Althea Thauberger, Jason Thiry, Scott Waters and Balint Zsako
Date: 18 September - 14 November 2010 
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Real Life
Artists: Ron Mueck and Guy Ben-Ner
Date: 26 June - 4 September 2010
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Betty Goodwin: From the collection of Salah J. Bachir
Artist: Betty Goodwin
Date: 13 March - 6 June 2010
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Silent As Glue
Artists: Lynda Gammon, Matt Harle, Elspeth Pratt
Date: 13 March - 30 May 2010
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Four Echoes
Artist: Therese Bolliger
Date: 5 December 2009 - 28 February 2010
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Uneasy Pieces
Artists: Ed Burtynsky, Wendy Coburn, Colin Darke, Susanna Heller, Deirdre Logue, Ken Lum, Liz Magor, Kim Moodie, Monika Napier, Louise Noguchi, Ed Pien, Glenn Rudolph and John Scott
Date: 5 December 2009 - 28 February 2010
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Vimy Ridge, 2005-2008
Artist: Peter MacCallum
Date: 19 September - 22 November 2009
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Caux
Artist: Bertrand Carrière
Date: 19 September - 22 November 2009
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: The Apocalypse, the King and the Walking Sticks: An archive-based exhibition presenting William Gordon MacKendrick
Date: 19 September - 22 November 2009
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Two Parents and Three Children
Artist: Micah Lexier
Date: 20 June -­ 6 September 2009
Location: Gairloch Gardens
 
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Title: hunter/gatherer
Artist: Vid Ingelevics
Date: 20 June - 6 September 2009
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Alex Metcalf: Tree Listening Installation
Artist: Alex Metcalf
Date: 25 May - 1 November 2009
Location:
Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Interfaces and Operating Systems
Artist: Michelle Gay
Date: 7 March - 5 June 2009
Location: Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: Novel Ideas
Artists: Adam David Brown, Ian Carr-Harris, Brian Dettmer, Paul de Guzman, Alexandre Itin, Nicholas Jones, Georgia Russell, Robert The
Date: 7 March - 31 May 2009
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Second, Third, Fourth
Artist: Gareth Long
Date: 6 December 2008 - 22 Feburary 2009
Location: Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell
Artists: Colin Campbell
Date: 6 December 2008 - 22 Feburary 2009
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Beyond Her Usual Limits
Artist: Deirdre Logue
Date: 13 September - 16 November 2008
Location: Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: Burning Cold
Artists: Shuvinai Ashoona, BGL, Brian Jungen, Tania Kitchell, Craig Le Blanc, Annie Pootoogook, John Sabourin, Doug Smarch Jr., Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
Date: 13 September - 23 November 2008
Location: Centennial Square 

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Title: Mnemonic Devices
Artists: Stephen Andrews, Bill Barrette, John Brown, Janet Cardiff, Stan Denniston, Attila Richard Lukacs, Duncan MacDonald, Regan Morris, Paulette Phillips, Colette Whiten
Date: 21 June - 31 August 2008
Location: Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: Société de ville
Artists: Claude-Philippe Benoit
Date: 31 May - 31 August 2008
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: What We Bring to the Table
Artists: Patrick Faigenbaum, Bettina Hoffmann, Instant Coffee, Laura Letinsky
Date: 9 February - 6 June 2008
Location: Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: Onward Future
Artists: T&T (Tyler Brett and Tony Romano)
Date: 9 February - 11 May 2008
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Is there a there there?
Artists: Roy Arden, Philip Bergerson, Molly Lamb Bobak, Roland Brener, Tony Brown, Robin Collyer, Susan Dobson, Isabelle Hayeur, Geoffrey James, Ken Lum, Euan Macdonald, David McMillan, N.E. Thing Co., Stephen Shore, Jeff Wall
Date: 17 November 2007 - 27 January 2008
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Sustenance
Artist: Neeta Madahar
Date: 8 September - 4 November 2007
Location: Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: 5,6,7: Economies of Good & Evil
Artist: Mitch Robertson
Date: 8 September - 4 November 2007
Location: Centennial Square 

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Title: Outlook Express(ed)
Artists: Lois Andison, Susan Collins and David Rokeby
Date: 29 June - 26 August 2007
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Accumulated Outlook
Artists: Dara Gellman and Leslie Peters, Cheryl Sourkes, Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead
Date: 29 June - 26 August 2007
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: mad, mad, mad, mad world
Artist: Monika Napier
Date: 7 April - 3 June 2007
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Burrow
Artists: Janice Kerbel, Adriana Kuiper, Liz Magor and Samuel Roy-Bois
Date: 7 April - 3 June 2007
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Metamorphosis
Artist: David Altmejd
Date: 27 January - 18 March 2007
Location: Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: Re-Envisioning Habitat
Artists: Kim Adams, Roy Arden, Jeremy Borsos, Edward Burtynsky, Robin Collyer, Stan Denniston, Susan Dobson, Rodney Graham, Susanna Heller, Geoffrey James, Euan MacDonald and Scott McFarland
Date: 27 January - 18 March 2007
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Tohu-Bohu / Tumult
Artist: Serge Murphy  
Date: 18 November 2006 - 21 January 2007
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Lakeshore
Artists: John Armstrong and Paul Collins
Date: 18 November 2006 - 14 January 2007
Location: Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: Urban Territories / Territoires urbains
Artists: Christian Barré, Martin Désilets, Isabelle Hayeur, Emmanuelle Léonard, Pavel Pavlov, Myriam Yates
Date: 9 September - 5 November 2006
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Wall to Wall Warhol: from the collection of Salah J. Bachir
Artist: Andy Warhol
Date: 23 June - 27 August 2006
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Inhabiting: the works of Isabelle Hayeur
Artist: Isabelle Hayeur
Date: 23 June - 27 August 2006
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Body: New Art from the UK
Artist: Various
Date: 8 April - 28 May 2006
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Somewhere, Somewhere
Artist: Laura Letinsky
Date: 28 January 2006 - 26 March 2006
Location: Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: Addressing Oakville
Artists: Various
Date: 28 January 2006 - 26 March 2006
Location: Centennial Square 

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Title: Weathervane
Artist: Various
Date: 19 November 2005 - 15 January 2006
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: Fuzzy
Artist: Various
Date: 10 September - 6 November 2005
Location: Centennial Square 

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Title: Unbidden
Artist: Jin-me Yoon
Date: 10 September - 6 November 2005
Location: Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: Soft Passages
Artist: Various
Date: 24 June - 21 August 2005
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: City Watch
Artist: Susanna Heller
Date: 9 April – 5 June 2005
Location: Centennial Square 

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Title: Drawing Painting
Artist: Ben Reeves
Date: 19 March – 25 May 2005
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Alltagszeit (In Ordinary Time)
Artist: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Date: 15 January – 13 March 2005
Location: Centennial Square 

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Title: Radient City
Artist: Eric Glavin
Date: 15 January – 13 March 2005
Location: Gairloch Gardens 

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Title: Le monde en chantier / Living Chaos
Artist: Alain Paiement
Date: 30 October 2004 – 2 January 2005
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Here and There, Then and Now
Artist: Janet Hodgson
Date: 30 October 2004 – 2 January 2005
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: David Rokeby
Artist: David Rokeby
Date: 25 June – 17 October 2004
Location: Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square

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Title: Clues and Curiosities
Artist: Paulette Phillips
Date: 17 April  –  6 June 2004
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Get a little closer... Oakville Selects from the Permanent Collection
Artists: Harold Town, Naoko Matsubara, Walter Redinger, Judith Schwarz, Ian Carr-Harris, John Scott, Rodney Graham, Joanne Tod, Robin Collyer, Zacharias Kunuk, Louise Noguchi, April Hickox, Kim Moodie, John Brown, Attila Richard Lukacs, Stan Denniston, Peter MacCallum, Magdalen Celestino, Sandra Rechico, Geoffrey James, Edward Burtynsky and Jeremy Borsos
Date: 17 April  –  6 June 2004
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Sprawlville or, Life at the Highway Ramp
Artist: Sven Påhlsson
Date: 7 February – 4 April 2004
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Scouting for Indians
Artist: Jeff Thomas
Date: 31 January – 4 April 2004
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Fig Trees: a video opera
Artists: John Greyson and David Wall
Date: 15 November 2003 – 25 January 2004
Location: Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square

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Title: Landmarks
Artist: Ed Burtynsky
Date: 6 September – 9 November 2003
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Larus Delawarensis
Artist: Peter MacCallum
Date: 30 August – 2 November 2003
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Walk Ways
Artists: Francis Alÿs, Eleanor Antin, Janine Antoni and Paul Ramirez-Jonas, Mowry Baden, Jim Campbell, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Hamish Fulton, Sharon Harper, Martin Kersels, Tom Marioni, Matthew McCaslin, Curtis Mitchell, François Morelli, Douglas Ross, Nancy Spero, Rudolf Stingel and Richard Wentworth
Date: 14 June – 20 August 2003
Location: Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square

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Title: Revealing the Subject
Artists: Bill Barrette, Ian Carr-Harris, Norman Cohn, Marlene Creates, Stan Denniston, Patrick Faigenbaum, Angela Grauerholz, April Hickox, Micah Lexier, Attila Richard Lukacs, John Massey and Becky Singleton, Regan Morris, Louise Noguchi and Jin-me Yoon
Date: 17 April –  8 June 2003
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Then Again
Artist: Jeremy Borsos
Date: 12 April  –  1 June 2003
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Karilee Fuglem
Artist: Karilee Fuglem
Date: 8 February – 6 April 2003
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Food Chain
Artist: Catherine Chalmers
Date: 25 January – 30 March 2003
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Home and Garden
Artist: Andrew Wright
Date: 23 November 2002 – 26 January 2003
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Sprawl
Artist: Susan Dobson
Date: 16 November 2002­ – 19 January 2003
Location: Centennial Square
Title: Brides and Bases
Artist: Rachel Harrison
Date: 14 September – 17 November 2002
Location: Gairloch Gardens
Title: Shadow Grappling
Artist: Doug Back
Date: 14 September – 10 November 2002
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: No Man's Land: The Photographs of Lynne Cohen
Artist: Lynne Cohen
Date: 15 June – 25 August 2002
Location: Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square

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Title: The Jennifer Show
Artists: Jennifer Dorner, Jennifer Marman, Jennifer McMackon, Jennifer Murphy, Jennifer Reeder, Jennifer Reeves, Jennifer Stillwell, and Jennifer Weih
Date: 20 April – 16 June 2002
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Gwen MacGregor
Artist: Gwen MacGregor
Date: 6 April – 2 June 2002
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Selected Works, 1985-200
Artist: Roy Arden
Date: 2 February – 7 April 2002
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Fragments, Photographs, 1981-85
Artist: Roy Arden
Date: 26 January – 24 March 2002
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Construction Compulsion: Reconfiguring the Permanent Collection
Artists: Kim Adams, Greg Curnoe, Gathie Falk, Murray Favro, Paul Kipps, Tania Kitchell, Darci Mallon, Tatsuo Miyajima, Daniel Olson
Date: 10 November 2001 –  20 January 2002
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square
Artist: Shui-Bo Wang
Date: 1 September – 4 November 2001
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Philosophical Moments
Artist: Daniel Olson
Date: 25 August – 28 October 2001
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Earthly Delights: Deep Gardening
Artists: David Rokeby, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Shani Mootoo, Rhonda Abrams, Joanne Bristol, Michèle Waquant and Mike MacDonald
Date: 23 June – 22 August 2001
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Bruegel-Bosch Bus
Artist: Kim Adams
Date: 5 May – 12 August 2001
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: The Visitor
Artist: Panya Clark Espinal
Date: 21 April – 10 June 2001
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Contemporary Registers
Artist: Carol Wainio
Date: 10 February – 27 March 2001
Location: Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square

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Title: White Out
Artist: Tanya Kitchell
Date: 9 December – 28 January 2001
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Cinema
Artist: Christian Marclay
Date: 9 December – 4 February 2001
Location: in Gairloch Gardens

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Title: New and Recent Photographs
Artist: Patrick Faigenbaum
Date: 6 October – 26 November 2000
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Decorating Business
Artist: David Mabb
Date: 6 October – 26 November 2000
Location: Gairloch Gardens
Title: Contaminated Symptoms: Photo-Based Works from the Permanent Collection
Artists: Stephen Andrews, Roy Arden, Sylvie Bélanger, Robin Collyer, Stan Denniston, April Hickox, Ken Lum, John Massey and Becky Singleton, Al McWilliams, Louise Noguchi, Glenn Rudolph, Ken Straiton, Carolyn White
Date: 29 July –  27 September 2000
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: ICELIGHT
Artists: various
Date: 29 July – 17 September 2000
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Beaver Tales
Artists: various
Date: 20 May – 16 July 2000
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: A Studio Practice in Furniture
Artists: Donald L. McKinley
Date: 20 May – 16 July 2000
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: One Thing After Another: Works from the Permanent Collection
Artists: Stephen Andrews, Sylvie Bélanger, Magdalen Celestino, Aganetha Dyck, Micah Lexier, Sandra Rechico, Jeannie Thib
Date: 23 October 1999  –  2 January 2000
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Odd Bodies 
Artists: various
Date: 18 March – 7 May, 2000
Location: Gairloch Gardens and Centennial Square 

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Title: Felt Histories (re: the fact of a doorframe)
Artists: Thecla Schiphorst
Date: 15 January – 5 March 2000
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Tokyo
Artist: Ken Straiton
Date: 18 December  – 13 February 2000
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Petal Pushers
Artists: David Merritt, Tomiyo Sasaki, Chrysanne Stathacos and Laura Vickerson
Date: 14 August – 3 October 1999
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
Artist: Johan Grimonprez
Date: 14 August – 3 October 1999
Location: Centennial Square 

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Title: The Language of the Rope
Artist: Louise Noguchi
Date: 12 June – 1 August 1999
Location: Centennial Square 

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Title: Les Fleuves invisibles/Invisible Rivers
Artist: Raymonde April
Date: 17 April – 6 June 1999
Location: Centennial Square and Gairloch Gardens

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Title: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Artist: Keith Piper and Ramona Ramlochand
Date: 20 February – 11 April 1999
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Comms
Artist: Colin Darke
Date: 23 January – 14 March 1999
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Materializing Memory
Artists: various
Date: 8 August – 4 October 1998
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Dressing Down
Artists: various
Date: 15 August – 4 October 1998
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Residing in the Floating World
Artists: Stephen Andrews and Philippe Laleu
Date: 13 June – 9 August 1998 
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Our Red Scarf
Artists: Darci Mallon
Date: 13 June – 2 August 1998 
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Cathexis
Artists: Paul Kipps
Date: 4 April – 27 May 1998
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: Basket Works and Other Related Objects
Artists: Robert Fones
Date: 28 March – 10 May 1998
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: Earthly Weathers/Heavenly Skies
Artists: Paterson Ewen
Date: 17 January – 15 March 15 1998
Location: Centennial Square

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Title: The Acoustic Gaze
Artists: Raymond Gervais and Rober Racine
Date: 23 October 1998 – 3 January 1999
Location: Gairloch Gardens

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Title: New Work
Artists: Euan McDonald
Date: 19 December 1998 – 31 January 1999
Location: Centennial Square

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