Exhibitions in Toronto
July 2026
July 2026 at a glance: 4 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 14 more were on view across the city.
Opened in July
Kamrooz Aram: Lapis Intervention14 JulAga Khan Museum
Artist Kamrooz Aram co-curates a gallery intervention setting his lapis-blue Arabesque paintings among collection works to challenge Eurocentric display.
Spotlight: Spanish Holbein Carpet21 JulAga Khan Museum
A 15th-century carpet from Alcaraz, Spain, on loan from MFA Boston, where Muslim weavers blended Turkish designs with Iberian techniques.
Toronto Biennial of Art at the Aga Khan Museum23 JulAga Khan Museum · Free
Contemporary works from the Toronto Biennial of Art 2026 across the park, atrium, façade and galleries, including Dawit L. Petros. Free to visit.
Dawoud Bey: Material Histories, Living Landscapes25 JulArt Gallery of Ontario
Dawoud Bey's landscape photographs and the two-channel video 350,000 meditate on North American land and Black diasporic history, with works from the AGO's Frum Collection.
Was on view in July
Rough & Ready: A History of the Cowboy Bootto 20 SeptBata Shoe Museum
The cowboy boot from its late-19th-century invention to ranches, cinema and contemporary fashion, with pieces from the collection and 13 lenders.
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Alize Zorlutuna: Surface Tension: To Comb [Tarak]to 22 SeptMercer Union, a Centre for Contemporary Art · Free
Alize Zorlutuna's sculptural banners cut into large-format reproductions of Ebru, the marbled hydrographic printing technique, releasing the movement within.
Dressing The Abbeyto 30 SeptCasa Loma
Original costumes worn by the stars of Downton Abbey, from tweeds and servants' uniforms to beaded evening gowns, shown on Casa Loma's 2nd and 3rd floors.
Diego Marcon: The Bubble Boyto 4 OctArt Gallery of Ontario
The Italian filmmaker's Canadian debut: unsettling, tender films using CGI, prosthetics and robotics, centred on his newest work Krapfen (2025).
BEES: A Story of Survivalto 18 OctRoyal Ontario Museum
Immersive art-meets-science show by National Museums Liverpool and sculptor Wolfgang Buttress tracing 120 million years of bee adaptation and survival.
The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Artto 18 OctArt Gallery of Ontario
Canadian debut of the Dallas Museum of Art's survey of Impressionism and its legacy, with Monet, Morisot, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Gauguin, Matisse, Mondrian and Munch.
Psychedelics: Art. Culture. Science.to 6 DecRoyal Ontario Museum
A research-driven look at the cultural, historical and scientific significance of psychedelics through artworks, objects, botanical specimens and interactives.
In Search of Imperfection: The Macdonald Collection of Japanese and Japanese-Inspired Ceramicsto 31 DecGardiner Museum
The Macdonald Collection shown in full for the first time: early Edo-period Japanese porcelain and Japanese-inspired ceramics, explored through nature, leisure and global trade.
Crawford Lake: Layers in Timeto 3 JanRoyal Ontario Museum
How sediments of a small lake near Milton, Ontario record 1,000 years of human impact, making it the "golden spike" candidate for the Anthropocene.
Critical Minerals: Critical Choicesto 3 JanRoyal Ontario Museum
Gallery installation in Earth's Treasures on the minerals essential to a net-zero society, and the lifestyle choices tied to them.
Always In Fashionto 3 JanTextile Museum of Canada
Curated by Amber-Dawn Bear Robe, an immersive look at how contemporary Indigenous couturiers blend ancestral knowledge with innovation, featuring Kent Monkman, Brian Jungen and more.
Chinese Zodiac Case: Year of the Horseto 31 JanRoyal Ontario Museum
ROM's annual zodiac installation marks the Year of the Horse with horse figures from early China, once placed in tombs to serve the dead.
Made By Many: 50 Years of the Textile Museum of Canadato 1 FebTextile Museum of Canada
A 50th-anniversary show tracing five decades of exhibitions back to the 1970s, with works by Bev Koski, Marimekko, Melinda Patterson, Thor Hansen, You Wenfeng and more.
André Perugia: A Design Legend Unveiledto 4 AprBata Shoe Museum
Over 95 designs by André Perugia (1893-1977), pioneer of the stiletto heel, made for Dior, Schiaparelli, Josephine Baker and other clients.
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