Oakville Galleries is currently embarking on a new chapter—under the leadership of Executive Director Séamus Kealy—that places artists at the center of its vision.
Our 2024 programme includes exhibitions by award-winning, international artists Tarik Kiswanson, Sung Tieu, Hedda Roman and Charles Stankievech, all of whom produce highly-charged and politically-informed artwork. Over the year these exhibitions touch upon notions of displacement; flight; identity in flux; border control; surveillance; imprisonment; historical forms of propaganda and contemporary forms of disinformation; and military and administrative violence upon individuals and nations; as well as investigations into the creation of meaning and profound explorations of our physical, representational and cosmic worlds.
We have recently unveiled a state-of-the-art website with improved design and accessibility, as well as innovative discursive and artistic content. We are also pleased to announce that we are offering an artist-in-residence program at Gairloch Gardens this year, which will complement our international programme by establishing an artistic laboratory for on-site experimentation and exhibition preparation. And a new outdoor avant-garde cinema programme, called Sunset Kino, debuted in June of 2024. Located lakeside at Gairloch Gardens, Sunset Kino was originally conceived in 2016 by Séamus Kealy in Austria.
