Past Exhibitions
Rewind: Resident Artist Exhibition
Rewind provides opportunities for artists to reflect on this past year, their practice and to find a way to begin again in this new world.
Meaningful Code
Meaningful Code looks at the ways in which artists are engaging with emerging technologies and tools in order to speculate on what our collective future might look like.
Visual Voices
The LAC and elementary teachers of the Peel District School Board invite you to Visual Voices 2019, a visual art exhibition wherein elementary students engage in an exploration of identity and the empowerment of their individual voices.
Explicit Transfer - Resident Artist Exhibition
The LAC’s Annual Resident Artist Exhibition focuses on artistic processes and artwork formation.
Rock, Paper, Scissors
This exhibition presents works in clay, paper and textiles. Artists innovate on crafting techniques to create unexpected portraiture. These portraits range from representational to conceptual images and energizing materials through detailed investigations, experimentation, and the integration of digital components or processes.
Contrasts and Contradictions - the Polarizing Qualities of Glass
Glass has many contradictory and opposing qualities. It can be fragile and strong, rough and smooth, beautiful and repulsive, heavy and weightless, transparent and opaque, colourful and clear.
TWO TRUTHS & ONE LIE
Photo series is born from a two- hour creative and collaborative workshop between the March of Dimes, Ahuri Theatre and the LAC. This exhibition asked participants to create an alter-ego for portraits with the intention of playfully subverting misconceptions related to disability.
Sanguine
Sanguine is a synonym for the ruby, the traditional gemstone to celebrate this milestone.
The Next Big Thing
The Next Big Thing showcases exciting new work from students and recent graduates of post-secondary art and craft programs in Canada, selected through an open call.
Visual Voices: Exploring Identity
The elementary teachers of the Peel District School Board invite you to consider how individuals express what they see; to explore identity. What do our youth have to say? Discover the world as seen through the eyes of PDSB's elementary students in Visual Voices.
Flashback/Fastforward
The Resident Artist Program has been an integral part of the Living Arts Centre since the Centre opened 20 years ago. The program provides professionally-equipped studios for emerging and mid-career artists to explore and exchange ideas while developing their bodies of work.
strung out and undone
strung out and undone is a culminating exhibition of artworks submitted to the 2014 International World of Threads Festival and selected for display at the Living Arts Centre Gallery.
The Word in Art 書法自然
Chinese scripts have been used to denote objects and meaning for thousands of years.
Workspace
This exhibition features three contemporary artists using a range of media to engage audiences in a conversation about work within a home or corporate setting.
Interrupted Landscapes
Interrupted Landscapes is an exploration of our collective desire to understand the world around us.
MORE DECENT EXPOSURE
MORE DECENT EXPOSURE is the culminating exhibition from a call for submissions to students and new graduates of post-secondary arts and design institutions.
Connection-Connexion
Connection-Connexion surveys present day Ontario in relation to its distinctive past.
geometry³
geometry³ is an exhibition of painting, photography and intaglio printmaking by a family of artists: Leszek, Lynn and Nadine Wyczolkowski.
Full Spectrum
Full Spectrum highlights a collection of bold and energetic new works in contemporary painting.
in production
The Living Arts Centre Resident Artists are thinkers and makers, both designers and labourers foremost driven by the desire to work with their hands and yearning for sustained creative engagement.
SYSTEMS & SEQUENCE
Introducing works by Dan Bernyk, Justin Blayney and Sabina Rak, this exhibition examines systems and sequence, as they relate to process, the exchange of information and experience.
Visual Voices - Through Our Eyes
The elementary teachers of Peel invite you to consider how individuals express what they see. What do our youth have to say? Discover the world as seen through the eyes of Peel's Elementary Students in Visual Voices.
in production
The Living Arts Centre Resident Artists are thinkers and makers, both designers and labourers foremost driven by the desire to work with their hands and yearning for sustained creative engagement.
Emerge
On an individual level, each artist seeks to master their material and processes to see their vision and voice emerge from the raw material of clay to the finished object.
Significant Objects
This exhibition showcases six emerging and mid-career artists who employ new methods in sculpture, mixed media, painting/drawing and installation.
me and you
The works in me and you were selected from submissions by artists to the 2016 International World of Threads Festival. The 21 artists use traditional and modern techniques to address contemporary concerns and issues.
Common Language
As Canada celebrates 150 years, many agree that one of the country’s great strengths is its diversity - of people, cultures, and languages.
Site Unseen
For their subjects, the artists in Site Unseen choose aspects of urban life that that we see every day – things to which we usually pay no special notice, like restaurants, old buildings, the river that’s always been there.
Visual Voices - Through our Eyes
The elementary teachers of the Peel District School Board invite you to consider how individuals express what they see. What do our youth have to say?
Mississauga Camera Club Proud to be Canadian, Our Stories
Proud to be Canadian, Our Stories is a juried photographic exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of Canada’s Confederation. Renowned artists Freeman Patterson, Richard Martin and Charles Pachter selected the images.
fête
The Living Arts Centre is pleased to partner with Sheridan to present the exhibition fête, which celebrates 50 years of Sheridan’s Craft and Design program and the crucial role the program continues to play in shaping the craft and design landscape in Canada. Featuring the work of some of Canada’s most celebrated craftspeople, this exhibition brings together accomplished makers from across the country whose work spans the five decades of the program’s history. The objects in this exhibition beautifully demonstrate the creative synergy of tradition and innovation in ceramics, furniture, glass, metal, and textiles.
Here and Now
As part of the Living Arts Centre’s 20th anniversary programs, Here and Now features emerging and mid-career artists with a connection to Mississauga. All of the artists currently live or work here, or spent formative years in the community. The works offer a variety of reflections upon identity – personal, cultural or community. The artists explore these themes in a range of media, and present ideas not only visually, but also through sound and scent. These diverse perspectives and practices capture the spirit of today’s Mississauga.
Comics: The Road to Independence
The artists in this exhibition, from Mississauga and Toronto, have published their works independently and use the comic format for personal creativity and expression.