Galleries

The Visual Arts Department's in-house exhibition venue is The Gales Gallery. Managed by Visual Arts students, the Gales Gallery features solo and group exhibitions as well as shows mounted by each of the areas in the Visual Arts Department, the Design Department, and graduate thesis exhibitions. See what's on at the Gales Gallery.

Several other galleries are located on campus.

  • The nationally-renowned Art Gallery of York University (AGYU), a public gallery serving both the on-campus and off campus communities, offers research and educational resources alongside exhibitions of Canadian and international contemporary art.

  • The Akasa Gallery in the Student Centre, and

  • College-based, student-run exhibition spaces such as the Eleanor Winters Art Gallery, Arthur Haberman Gallery, Samuel J. Zacks Gallery, and many more.

An annual juried mural competition, co-sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs and the Faculty of Fine Arts, contributes to the growing collection of public and student art installed on campus. The largest mural installation at the University, in the Beatrice Ice Gardens, was created by students of the Faculty of Fine Arts.