The Gardiner Museum has announced the appointment of Franchesca Hebert-Spence as the Gardiner Museum’s inaugural Curator of Indigenous Ceramics, a new position generously supported by the Lindy Green Family Foundation.

The Gardiner Museum is thrilled to announce a Leadership Gift of $2.5 million from The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation toward a full-scale transformation of the Gardiner’s ground floor. In recognition of this generous gift, the Museum’s lobby will be re-envisioned as The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation Hall, the welcoming point and central axis of the Museum’s reimagined ground floor and the site of year-round presentations of contemporary ceramics, including community partnerships.

Starting this summer, the Gardiner will undertake a full-scale reimagining of the Museum’s ground floor. We spoke with designer Andrew Jones about his vision, including how was inspired by the collection and which aspects of the design he’s most excited about.

Earlier this spring, I joined the Gardiner Museum as the 2023 Curatorial Resident. Generously supported by the Rebanks Family, this residency program supports the next generation of curators with an opportunity to develop, research, and create a small-scale museum exhibition. My exhibition project mediates on themes of sustenance, embodied memory, and Afro-diasporic plant life stories through traditional and experimental African pottery forms and practices.

The Gardiner Museum is excited to announce a transformational $9 million donation from The Radlett Foundation in honour of the late William B.G. Humphries. This generous philanthropic contribution will be the catalyst for a full-scale reimagining of the Gardiner Museum’s ground floor.

The Gardiner Museum presents an exhibition of early ceramics and a recent monumental painting by Toronto-based artist Natalka Husar.

One of the world’s most esteemed ceramic artists, Dame Magdalene Odundo, will make her Canadian debut this fall at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto. Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects opens October 19, 2023. It will be the largest ever North American exhibition of Odundo’s work.

Reclaimed: Indo-Caribbean HerStories, part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, opens at the Gardiner Museum on May 4. The exhibition highlights the complex, longstanding, and often unpredictable interplay between ceramics and photography.

Gabrielle Peacock has been appointed Executive Director & CEO of the Gardiner Museum. Currently Director of Partnerships and Development at Soulpepper Theatre and previously CEO of The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ms. Peacock will join the Gardiner in February 2023.

Enter a world at once familiar and uncanny. Montreal-based artist Karine Giboulo invites visitors into an immersive reimagining of her home. Brought to life by over 500 miniature polymer clay figures, this is no ordinary house.