Sarah Milroy

Sans invitation : Les artistes canadiennes de la modernité offers commentary on a generation of extraordinary women painters, photographers, sculptors, architects and filmmakers from a century ago — pioneers who opened new frontiers for women artists in Canada — as well as works made by their Indigenous female contemporaries working in traditional media, for a cross-country snapshot of female creativity in this dynamic modern moment.

Hardcover | 320 pages
Publication Date: 2021

This notecard features the artwork Sans titre (1953) by Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002).

Card dimensions: 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 in.)
Blank inside. Envelope included.

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

This notecard features the painting Sans titre (1965) by Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002).

Card dimensions: 13 x 18 cm (5 x 7 in.)
Blank inside. Envelope included.

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

This set of 16 thick pulp board coasters features an assortment of bold and colourful Northwest coast designs by various artists, with images printed on both sides.

Individual coaster size: 10 cm (4 in.) diam
Box size: 11 x 11 cm (4.3 x 4.3 in.)
Reusable and biodegradable

This set of 16 thick pulp board coasters features an assortment of bold and colourful Northwest coast designs by various artists, with images printed on both sides.

Individual coaster size: 9.5 x 9.5 cm (3.6 x 3.6 in.)
Box size: 11 x 11 cm (4.3 x 4.3 in.)
Reusable and biodegradable

These fine bone china mugs depict four details from Group of Seven paintings: A. Y. Jackson's Bent Pine, A. J. Casson's White Pine, Arthur Lismer's Bright Land, and  Frank Johnston's Sunset in the Bush.

Set of 4 mugs
Holds 325 ml (11 fl. oz.)
Microwave and dishwasher safe
Packaged in a gift box

These fine bone china mugs depict details from the following four paintings by Lawren Harris (1885–1970): North Shore, Lake Superior (1926), Greenland Mountains (1930), North Shore, Baffin Island (1930), and Afternoon Sun, North Shore, Lake Superior (1924).

Set of 4 mugs
Holds 325 ml (11 fl. oz.)
Microwave and dishwasher safe
Packaged in a gift box

These fine bone china mugs depict details from four paintings by Tom Thomson (1877–1917): The Jack Pine (1916–1917), Autumn Foliage (1915–1916), Red Leaves (c. 1914) and Autumn's Garland (1916).

Set of 4 mugs
Holds 325 ml (11 fl. oz.)
Microwave and dishwasher safe
Packaged in a gift box

These fine bone china mugs depict four of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers (c. 1888), Irises (1890), Starry Night (1889) and Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889).

Set of 4 mugs
Holds 325 ml (11 fl. oz.)
Microwave and dishwasher safe
Packaged in a gift box

Josée Drouin-Brisebois

As the commissioning institution for the 55th International Art Exhibition, the National Gallery of Canada presents the work of Shary Boyle, a consummate object maker who uses imaginary narratives to explore human psychological and emotional states. The catalogue highlights the artist’s practice, which spans a diversity of media, including fine craft, drawing, sculpture, experimental performance and immersive installations.

Paper | 192 pages
Publication Date: 2013

English, French and Italian

Melissa Bennett, Greg Hill, and David W. Penney

Shelley Niro is widely known for her ability to explore Traditional Stories, transgress boundaries, and embody the ethos of her matriarchal culture. A member of the Six Nations Reserve, Turtle Clan, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, she uses a wide variety of media, including photography, installation, film, and painting to bring greater visibility to Indigenous women and girls.

Pushing the limits of photography, Niro incorporates imagery from Traditional Stories to focus on contemporary subjects with wit, irony, and parody. Throughout her work — in her portraiture, sculptures, landscape paintings, photography, and film and video work — Niro challenges common preconceptions about gender, culture, and Indigenous Peoples.

Hardcover | 304 pages
20.5 x 25 cm (8.1 x 9.8 in.)
Publication Date: 2023

Published by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and distributed by Goose Lane Editions.

Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch accompanies an international touring exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian with the collaboration of the National Gallery of Canada.

Melissa Bennett, Greg Hill, and David W. Penney

Shelley Niro is widely known for her ability to explore Traditional Stories, transgress boundaries, and embody the ethos of her matriarchal culture. A member of the Six Nations Reserve, Turtle Clan, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, she uses a wide variety of media, including photography, installation, film, and painting to bring greater visibility to Indigenous women and girls.

Pushing the limits of photography, Niro incorporates imagery from Traditional Stories to focus on contemporary subjects with wit, irony, and parody. Throughout her work — in her portraiture, sculptures, landscape paintings, photography, and film and video work — Niro challenges common preconceptions about gender, culture, and Indigenous Peoples.

Hardcover | 304 pages
20.5 x 25 cm (8.1 x 9.8 in.)
Publication Date: 2023

Published by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and distributed by Goose Lane Editions.

Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch accompanies an international touring exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian with the collaboration of the National Gallery of Canada.

Shine a Light Surgir de l'ombre: Canadian Biennial 2014 (Bilingual)

Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Greg Hill, Andrea Kunard, Jonathan Shaughnessy and Rhiannon Vogl

Shine a Light Surgir de l’ombre highlights an exemplar selection of recent acquisitions to the National Gallery of Canada’s Canadian Contemporary, Indigenous and Photographs holdings. This biennial showcases the production of twenty-six artists from different generations and backgrounds, and features over eighty works ranging from film and video installations to sculptures, paintings, drawings and photographs. Often looking to past events, literature, films, places, cultural movements and traditions, the artists in the exhibition are very much ingrained in issues of the present day. Their works encourage us to reconsider time and the writing of history, our relationship to the natural world, the powerful role of images in how information is communicated, and how we perceive and interpret accepted facts.

Featured artists: David Armstrong Six, Shuvinai Ashoona, Nicolas Baier, Shary Boyle, Edward Burtynsky, Tammi Campbell, Mario Doucette, Geoffrey Farmer, David Hartt, Isabelle Hayeur, Phillippa Jones, Stéphane La Rue, Rita Letendre, An Te Liu, David McMillan, Damian Moppett, Luke Parnell, Vanessa Paschakarnis, Ed Pien, Tim Pitsiulak, Kelly Richardson, Jeremy Shaw, Althea Thauberger, Jutai Toonoo, Howie Tsui, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Softcover | 260 pages
20.32 x 27.3 cm (8 x 10.75 in.)
Publication Date: 2014

The premium sketchbook is ideal for drawing, sketching, and colouring using graphite, charcoal, conté, and pastels.

27.9 x 20.9 cm (11 x 8 ¼ in.)
192 pages
Acid free paper

This triple-milled French soap is handcrafted in Provence.

200 g (7 oz.)
Contains pure organic shea butter
All vegetable French soap
Mistral products are not tested on animals

This triple-milled French soap is handcrafted in Provence.

200 g (7 oz.)
Contains pure organic shea butter
All vegetable French soap
Mistral products are not tested on animals

Jin-me Yoon (b. 1960)
Souvenirs of the Self (Lake Louise), 1991

Yoon emigrated from South Korea to Vancouver in 1968. While studying contemporary art, she was exposed to artists and theorists engaged with questions of sexual and cultural difference. Her work is recognized for contributing to the ongoing discussions concerning identity and place.

9 x 6.5 cm (3.5 x 2.5 in.)

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Jin-me Yoon (b. 1960)
Souvenirs of the Self (Lake Louise), 1991

Yoon emigrated from South Korea to Vancouver in 1968. While studying contemporary art, she was exposed to artists and theorists engaged with questions of sexual and cultural difference. Her work is recognized for contributing to the ongoing discussions concerning identity and place.

Card dimensions: 17.5 x 13.5 cm (6.8 x 5.3 in.)
Blank inside. Envelope included.

In the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Edited by Reid Shier with contributions by Ma’an Abu Taleb, Erika Balsom, Samir Gandesha, and George E. Lewis.

Stan Douglas, one of the most compelling voices in Canadian contemporary art, has long explored critical sociocultural and political change. His exhibition for the 59th Biennale di Venezia, 2011 ≠ 1848, reflects upon the language of protest, revolution and the uprisings witnessed across the globe in 2011. Douglas’ four large-scale hybrid documentary photographs re-stage protests in Tunis, London, New York and Vancouver, and his two-channel HD video, ISDN, presents Grime and Mahraganat rappers exchanging subversive lyrics between studios in London and Cairo.

This stunning 288-page illustrated catalogue, published in English, French and Arabic, features some 100 full-colour detailed images that meticulously capture behind-the-scenes views of Douglas’ elaborate productions. Essays by leading international cultural thinkers examine the artist’s work in relation to music, political economy, contemporary media theory and the rise of Grime and Mahraganat.

Hardcover | 288 pages (100 illustrations)
24.8 x 27.5 cm (9.8 x 10.8 in.)
English, French and Arabic
Publication Date: 2022

Add sculptural flair to your home or workplace with this delightful, modern stand-up mobile.

Circles: white, green, blue, red, yellow
Base: black

38.1 x 38.1 x 15.2 cm (15 x 15 x 6 in.)
Aluminum and steel
Packaged in a gift box