The Stewart Hall Art Gallery is dedicated to presenting professional-caliber exhibitions in contemporary and current art through a program of varied and innovative exhibitions.

The elevator at the Stewart Hall Cultural Centre will be temporarily out of service due to modernization work from March 2 to May 1, 2026. The ground floor will remain accessible to people with reduced mobility via the entrance located on the east side.

In the Spot Light

To Move Across the Land: What Remains When Borders Collapse

April 18 to June 21, 2026
Vernissage: Sunday, April 19, 2 p.m.

To Move Across the Land brings together a constellation of Indigenous voices across Turtle Island, Mesoamerica, South America, Oceania, Northern Europe and Africa.

Working in various mediums – performance, painting, ceramics, film, photography, sculpture, textiles, and installation – these artists are united by core concerns: colonial legacies, cultural survival, gender and body sovereignty, and ceremonial memory.

Defying imposed borders, both physical and symbolic, their works map relationships through memory, ritual, gendered embodiment, language, and land.

Artists featured in Pointe-Claire

Catherine Blackburn
Susan Blight
Mercedes Dorame
Orlando Dugi
Korina Emmerich
Colectivo H
Dion Kaszas & Megan Samms
Hayley Millar Baker
Juan Carlos Sanchez Munive
Feras Shaheen
Winsom Winsom

Curators: Michael Patten et Armando Perla

Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone (BACA)

Established in 2012, BACA is a major visual arts event in Québec, showcasing the work of artists from many nations across North America. This edition also features eight other exhibition venues: DRAC (Drummondville), the Art Mûr Gallery (Montréal), McCord Stewart Museum (Montréal), Maison de la culture de Verdun (Montréal), Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke (Sherbrooke), Expression – Centre d’exposition (Saint-Hyacinthe), Musée de Rimouski and Jardin botanique de Montréal.

Oscura – Anna Binta Diallo

Inspired by lunar phases, eclipses, global myths, and folklore, Anna Binta Diallo’s Oscura reimagines the garden as an ethereal space where we can explore the mysteries of the cosmos and its deep relationship with humanity.

Oscura features silhouettes of humans, animals, celestial bodies and natural elements that engage in a dialogue with the trees and plants of the park and the skies under which they are gathered. Relying on the interplay of light and shadow, they capture the metaphorical whispers of the moon as their rich visual narrative invites us to contemplate the secrets of our planet and the timeless dance of celestial bodies.

For a complete experience, discover the soundscape composed in collaboration with Tyler Fitzmaurice.

This project is presented by the Stewart Hall Art Gallery.

ARTISTS: Anna Binta Diallo

CURATOR: Manel Benchabane

Temporary outdoor exhibition in Stewart Hall Park

June 2025 – June 2026

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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.

The Art Gallery hosts about 10 exhibitions every year, displaying the work of professional, local and international artists that explore a variety of themes, approaches and mediums.

For more information on Art Gallery programming, see the Cultural Notes or the e vent calendar.

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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.

Current Call for Projects

Call for Artistic Projects: L’art de perruquer | Parallel Play

Deadline to submit your application: December 8, 2025

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