Stewart Hall Art Gallery

The Stewart Hall Art Gallery is located on the third floor of a beautiful home built by Charles MacLean in 1905. The building was acquired by the City of Pointe-Claire from May Beatrice Stewart for a symbolic $1 in 1954 and became the Stewart Hall Cultural Centre in 1959.

Vi Duncanson, who had been instrumental in founding the Centre, became its Administrative Director. She also got the ball rolling to open an art gallery in the Centre and was officially mandated to do so with help from Evan Turner, Director of the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Jean-Paul Morisset, Director of Extension Services at the National Gallery of Canada, Professor Winthrop Judkins of McGill University, and his wife, Helen Judkins. The Stewart Hall Art Gallery opened its doors to the public in 1963.

The MacLean residence was already an art gallery: well before the Gallery’s official opening, the attic space on the third floor was used to present exhibits.

Working mostly with contemporary art, the Art Gallery actively participates in developing Québec and Canadian modern art by both recognizing established artists and encouraging up-and-coming artists. Through its cultural mediation programs and educational activities (workshops, lectures, screenings and meetings), the Stewart Hall Art Gallery encourages the community to get involved and helps to make art accessible to everyone.

For more information on Art Gallery programming, see Cultural Notes or our Events Calendar.

• The carefulness and the blade
• Cruel to be kind – Pictura 2023
• Provoke | fluid states: between the hardness of making and the delicacy of blushing
• Traversée/Crossing
• BACA 2022 – Land Back
• Little Toothed Whales – Second Edition
• What to Make ot It. Artists Collective of Tëtes Chercheuses
• Pictorial Researches
• Spillover Love
• Moving sound
• Through the Forest
• Pictoral Researches
• BACA 2020 – Honouring kinship
• Material, Mass and Dust
• LUMINA
• Momentum Molinari
• Geopoetics

176 Du Bord-du-Lac – Lakeshore Road (2nd floor)
Pointe-Claire, Québec  H9S 4J7
514-630-1221

The Boutique offers a wide selection of high-quality contemporary crafts made by over 90 Canadian artists, most of whom are from the greater Montréal area. Come see a beautiful collection of functional and decorative objects, including jewellery, stained glass, blown glass, pottery, baskets, textiles, wooden objects, and mixed media pieces.

Visit the Kids’ Corner!

The Kids’ Corner offers items for children that are designed and hand-made by local artisans.

To submit a proposal to the Stewart Hall Art Gallery, artists and curators must send their dossier during a call for submissions. The Gallery only accepts submissions during an open call for submissions.

There is no current call for submissions.

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The artists of the ArtduCommun collective delved into in the Pointe-Claire history archives for inspiration to create a mural that combines visual representations of different eras. The omnipresence of Lake Saint-Louis, which acts as a common thread here, reiterates the importance of water in the local history. The nautical, village and agricultural scenes are snippets of the collective memory that will be revealed to passers-by by the end of summer.

The ArtduCommun mural artist collective was founded in 2006 by Jasmin Guérard-Alie and Simon Bachand. They have created over forty murals in and around Montréal, including several large-scale works.

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