Stewart Hall Art Gallery
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IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Afrotopos
Afrotopos is an exhibition that explores possible futures for the African continent based on the concept of Afrotopia. As an extension of the work of Felwine Sarr (Afrotopia), the exhibition considers Afro-contempraneity as a space of creativity and radical transformation. As such, it seeks to embody “the present moment, the psychological continuum of the African experience,” while offering a pluralist and dynamic vision of that territory. Through the work of seven artists, the public is invited to engage in a deeply reflective process at the intersection of history and speculative fiction, to reconfigure stories from the past and imagine new emancipating perspectives.
In collaboration with Nigra Iuventa.
ARTISTS : Damien Ajavon, Anna Binta Diallo, Delali Cofie, Marie-Danielle Duval, Berirouche Feddal, Ibiyane, Roxane Mbanga
CURATOR : Diane Gistal
Vernissage :
Sunday, January 26, 2 p.m.
Demystifying art:
Wednesday, February 19, 10 a.m.
January 25, 2025 to March 30, 2025
STEWART HALL ART GALLERY
Opening hours (September-May)
Sunday to Friday: 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday: 1 to 8 p.m. Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
History
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.
Programming
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.
Previous exhibitions
- The 2025 Art Rental Collection
- De terre et d’onde / This shore is a body is a world is a house
- Prendre empreinte – Holding Knowledge
- BACA 2024 – Creation Stories
- 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
Boutique
176 Du Bord-du-Lac – Lakeshore Road (2nd floor)
Pointe-Claire, Québec H9S 4J7
514-630-1221
Regular schedule September to May |
Summer Schedule June, July and August |
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday, 1 to 8 p.m. Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday: 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday: 1 to 8 p.m. Saturday : Closed |
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.
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File submission process for exhibition projects
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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Historical mural in the Pointe-Claire Village
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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Information
For more information, please call 514-630-1254, or email galerie.stewarthall@pointe-claire.ca.
Art Gallery
176 Du Bord-du-Lac – Lakeshore Road
Pointe-Claire, Québec H9S 4J7
514-630-1254
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The Art Gallery can be reached by buses 211, 411, 405 or 485, leaving from Lionel-Groulx metro. Visit www.stm.info for more information.
Regular schedule September to May |
Summer Schedule June, July and August |
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. Thursday, 1 to 8 p.m. Saturday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. |
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday: 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday: 1 to 8 p.m. Saturday : Closed |
Free admission. Accessible by elevator.