The Art Gallery of Mississauga is a public, not-for-profit art gallery in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the Mississauga Civic Centre right on Celebration Square across from Square One Mall. The Gallery is open every day and offers free admission and guided exhibition tours in addition to regular art social events, workshops for adult learners, and youth programmes for schools, universities and community groups.The gallery is envisioned as a centre for community building which aims to energize the cultural producers of Mississauga and beyond. A particular interest is in projects that engage our community and reflect our awareness of contemporary and relevant cultural topics and issues. Crossing of social boundaries in terms of artistic discipline is vital by linking elements, concepts and notions that are at the core of universal artistic expression, and traversing social and class lines in valuing multiple audiences is paramount to visual art experiences at the AGM.The Gallery connects with the people of Mississauga through the collection and presentation of relevant works from a range of periods and movements in Canadian art and holds approximately 18 exhibitions a year on a rotating basis.HistoryIn 2013, the AGM hired artist Camille Turner to be Mississauga’s first ever Artist in Residence. Turner was interested in the hidden histories of Mississauga. Her projects for the AGM included the (un)settler Community Journal Project and the 5&Dime walking tour, exploring strip malls as cultural spaces.In 2014, the AGM launched an extensive re-branding campaign, characterized by a new design created by The White Room in Toronto. This campaign has received international recognition in design magazines, and a finalist in the Graphis 2015 annual design competition.
