Art galleries in Ottawa

Ontario, Canada

42 listings 6 artist-run centres 5 commercial galleries 2 municipal galleries 2 university galleries 2 public galleries 1 co-op gallery 1 non-profit space 23 type not confirmed

The National Gallery of Canada stands on Sussex Drive in Lowertown, and the Ottawa Art Gallery is at 50 Mackenzie King Bridge, at the east edge of downtown. Arts Court on Daly Avenue is a centre of its own: SAW, the Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa and the Available Light Screening Collective are all based there. The ByWard Market holds 8 listings, most of them on Sussex Drive and Murray Street, and Hintonburg has a small cluster on Gladstone Avenue. Carleton University Art Gallery is on Colonel By Drive, Voix Visuelle on Beechwood Avenue in Vanier. We count 6 artist-run centres and 2 public galleries among 42 listings; 23 spaces have no confirmed type yet. Each listing gives the type of space, the address and the gallery's own website, and says plainly which facts we have not confirmed.

Filter 42 listed
Type
Admission
Neighbourhood
  • Downtown 9
  • ByWard Market 8
  • Hintonburg 5
  • Little Italy 2
  • Centretown 1
  • Chinatown 1
  • Lowertown 1
  • New Edinburgh 1
  • Old Ottawa East 1
  • The Glebe 1
  • Vanier 1
  • Wellington West 1
What they show
  • Media art 1
Submissions
  • Accepts submissions 1

Public and municipal galleries 4

Publicly funded galleries and art museums with permanent collections or a public exhibition mandate. Exhibition spaces run by a city, often in a city hall or civic building.

Arts Court

Cour des Arts

Municipal gallery · Downtown

1 2 Daly Avenue artscourt.ca

Verified 19 October 2026

National Gallery of Canada

Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

Public gallery · Lowertown

Founded 1880 Paid admission

2 380 Sussex Drive gallery.ca

Ottawa Art Gallery

Galerie d'art d'Ottawa

Public gallery · Downtown

Free admission

3 50 Mackenzie King Bridge oaggao.ca

Free Verified 19 October 2026

Shenkman Arts Centre

Centre des Arts Shenkman

Municipal gallery · Ottawa

4 245 Centrum Boulevard shenkmanarts.ca

Verified 19 October 2026

Artist-run centres 6

Non-profit spaces run by artists, usually showing contemporary and experimental work.

Gallery 101

Galerie 101

Artist-run centre · Centretown

Founded 1979

7 280 Catherine Street g101.ca

Artist-run Accepts submissions Verified 19 October 2026

SAW

Artist-run centre · Downtown

Free admission

8 67 Nicholas Street saw-centre.com

Artist-run Free Verified 19 October 2026

Voix Visuelle

Artist-run centre · Vanier

10 67 Beechwood Avenue voixvisuelle.ca

Artist-run Verified 19 October 2026

University galleries 2

Galleries run by a university or art school, open to the public.

SPAO

University gallery · Little Italy

12 77 Pamilla Street

Non-profit spaces and arts centres 1

Community and non-profit exhibition spaces that are not artist-run centres.

Commercial galleries 5

Galleries that represent artists and sell their work.

de Montigny Contemporary

Commercial gallery · The Glebe

15 Suite 101, 858 Bank Street demontignycontemporary.com

Verified 19 October 2026

Galerie St-Laurent + Hill

Commercial gallery · ByWard Market

16 293 Dalhousie Street galeriestlaurentplushill.com

Verified 19 October 2026

NAK Gallery

Commercial gallery · Wellington West

17 1285 Wellington Street West nakgallery.ca

Verified 19 October 2026

Snow Goose

Commercial gallery · Downtown

18 83 Sparks Street snowgoose.ca

Verified 19 October 2026

Co-op galleries 1

Galleries owned and staffed by their member artists.

Type not confirmed yet 23

Places open data lists as galleries, where we have not yet confirmed what kind of space each one is.

50 Bayswater

Gallery · type not confirmed · Hintonburg

20 50 Bayswater Avenue

Art + Galerie

Gallery · type not confirmed · ByWard Market

Free admission

22 531 Sussex Drive

Free

Art Flow Gallery

Gallery · type not confirmed · Chinatown

23 838 Somerset Street West

Capital Art Fair

Gallery · type not confirmed · Downtown

Free admission

24 71 Sparks Street

Free

Da Artisti Studio

Gallery · type not confirmed · Ottawa

25 2565 Old Montréal Road

Kabeshinan

Gallery · type not confirmed · ByWard Market

28 453 Sussex Drive

Koyman Galleries

Gallery · type not confirmed · Ottawa

29 1771 St-Laurent Boulevard

L.A. Pai Gallery

Gallery · type not confirmed · ByWard Market

30 13 Murray Street

Lorimer Gallery

Gallery · type not confirmed · ByWard Market

32 495 Sussex Drive

Rothwell Gallery

Gallery · type not confirmed · Ottawa

34 1718 Montréal Road

Santini Gallery

Gallery · type not confirmed · Little Italy

36 422 ½ Preston Street

Studio 50

Gallery · type not confirmed · Old Ottawa East

37 50 Main Street

Where they are

Whole area

1. Arts Court 1 2. National Gallery of Canada 2 3. Ottawa Art Gallery 3 4. Shenkman Arts Centre 4 5. Available Light Screening Collective 5 6. Digital Arts Resource Centre 6 7. Gallery 101 7 8. SAW 8 9. The Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa Inc. (IFCO) 9 10. Voix Visuelle 10 11. Carleton University Art Gallery 11 12. SPAO 12 13. Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts 13 14. Bank Street Gallery 14 15. de Montigny Contemporary 15 16. Galerie St-Laurent + Hill 16 17. NAK Gallery 17 18. Snow Goose 18 19. Ottawa Glassblowing Cooperative 19 20. 50 Bayswater 20 21. Alpha & Omega Art Gallery 21 22. Art + Galerie 22 23. Art Flow Gallery 23 24. Capital Art Fair 24 25. Da Artisti Studio 25 26. Enriched Bread Artists 26 27. Jean-Claude Bergeron Art Gallery 27 28. Kabeshinan 28 29. Koyman Galleries 29 30. L.A. Pai Gallery 30 31. Loretta Studio & Gallery 31 32. Lorimer Gallery 32 33. Manotick Art Gallery 33 34. Rothwell Gallery 34 35. Samir Ghalem Art Studio 35 36. Santini Gallery 36 37. Studio 50 37 38. The Crichton Street Gallery 38 39. The Little Red Spade 39 40. The Loft Art Studios 40 41. Tracy's Art Studio 41 42. Wild Pigments Art Studio 42 Downtown Hintonburg 5 km N

Closer in

1. Arts Court 1 2. National Gallery of Canada 2 3. Ottawa Art Gallery 3 5. Available Light Screening Collective 5 6. Digital Arts Resource Centre 6 7. Gallery 101 7 8. SAW 8 9. The Independent Filmmakers Co-operative of Ottawa Inc. (IFCO) 9 12. SPAO 12 13. Saint Brigid's Centre for the Arts 13 14. Bank Street Gallery 14 15. de Montigny Contemporary 15 16. Galerie St-Laurent + Hill 16 17. NAK Gallery 17 18. Snow Goose 18 19. Ottawa Glassblowing Cooperative 19 20. 50 Bayswater 20 21. Alpha & Omega Art Gallery 21 22. Art + Galerie 22 23. Art Flow Gallery 23 24. Capital Art Fair 24 26. Enriched Bread Artists 26 27. Jean-Claude Bergeron Art Gallery 27 28. Kabeshinan 28 30. L.A. Pai Gallery 30 31. Loretta Studio & Gallery 31 32. Lorimer Gallery 32 36. Santini Gallery 36 37. Studio 50 37 40. The Loft Art Studios 40 Downtown ByWard Market Hintonburg Little Italy 1 km N
Numbers match the list above; each marker links to the gallery. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors

Also in Ottawa, not yet confirmed

Open data lists these places as galleries, but with no street address and no website on file, so they do not have a page of their own yet. If you know one of them, tell us.

  • Ace Arte Studio Gallery · type not confirmed
  • Beaverbrook Collection of War Art Public gallery
  • Lee Matasi Gallery Gallery · type not confirmed
  • Nature's Window Gallery · type not confirmed
  • Nepean Creative Arts Centre Non-profit space
  • Stonebridge Artists Gallery · type not confirmed

How we verify

Sources

Listings start from open data (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and the artist-run centre associations), then each fact is checked against the gallery's own website. Every page lists its sources.

Dates

Each listing shows when its facts were last verified. Listings we have not checked yet say so, and we never fill a gap with a guess: a missing fact reads “Not listed”.

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