Marc Mayer, Robert Storr 

This exhibition catalogue accompanies the first major retrospective of Thomas Nozkowski's works, organized by the National Gallery of Canada. The book includes stunning reproductions of over 60 paintings along with essays by Marc Mayer - curator of the exhibition and Director of the Gallery - and Robert Storr - Dean of the Yale School of Art. The texts provide new insight into the work of this contemporary artist, whose unrivalled originality has ensured the survival of abstraction, keeping it fresh and relevant for the twenty-first century. 

Hardcover | 171 pages 
30 x 29 cm (11.8 x 11.4 in.) 
Publication Date: 2009

Josée Drouin-Brisebois 

Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer is an ambitious exhibition which attests to the National Gallery of Canada's ongoing commitment to contemporary Canadian art. Eleven artists and collectives present an occasion for us to explore our roles as active participants in the artistic process; the active exchange between viewer and object becomes as significant as the artwork itself. The exhibition catalogue documents sixteen large-scale sculptural installations, while the essays provide illuminating perspectives on the artists' works in Caught in the Act. 

Hardcover | 256 pages
17 x 21.5 cm (6.7 x 8.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2008

Josée Drouin-Brisebois 

Flagrant délit. La performance du spectateur is an ambitious exhibition which attests to the National Gallery of Canada's ongoing commitment to contemporary Canadian art. Eleven artists and collectives present an occasion for us to explore our roles as active participants in the artistic process; the active exchange between viewer and object becomes as significant as the artwork itself. The exhibition catalogue documents sixteen large-scale sculptural installations, while the essays provide illuminating perspectives on the artists' works in Flagrant délit. 

Hardcover | 256 pages
17 x 21.5 cm (6.7 x 8.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2008

Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Bruce McCulloch, Ryan Doherty, Nancy Tousley, William Wood 

Over the last four decades Chris Cran has earned a reputation as one of the most important painters in Canada. He has challenged our experience of traditional genres of painting by creating tensions between the discordant styles and movements from which he samples, including Pop Art, Photorealism, Modernist Abstraction and Op art. To complicate this mix, he has introduced popular imagery from advertising and graphic art from magazines from the 1950s and 1960s, producing works that exude a rare and unapologetic boldness and confidence. 

Slipcase | 204 pages 
23.5 x 30 cm (9.2 x 11.8 in.) 
Publication Date: 2016

Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Bruce McCulloch, Ryan Doherty, Nancy Tousley, William Wood 

Over the last four decades Chris Cran has earned a reputation as one of the most important painters in Canada. He has challenged our experience of traditional genres of painting by creating tensions between the discordant styles and movements from which he samples, including Pop Art, Photorealism, Modernist Abstraction and Op art. To complicate this mix, he has introduced popular imagery from advertising and graphic art from magazines from the 1950s and 1960s, producing works that exude a rare and unapologetic boldness and confidence. 

Slipcase | 204 pages 
23.5 x 30 cm (9.2 x 11.8 in.) 
Publication Date: 2016

Marie Bouchard

For some 20 years, Marion Tuu'luq painted with woolen fabrics and cotton threads, stitching an art of many layers, both metaphoric and physical. This catalogue presents 37 colour plates and 28 figures.

Softcover | 110 pages
Publication Date: 2002

Peter Trepanier, Garry Neill Kennedy 

Known primarily as a painter, Garry Neill Kennedy has remained committed to a conceptual art practice in which he critiques painting, its processes, materials, and presentation, and reveals underlying assumptions about its making or its representation. Kennedy's printed matter serves as a valuable index to his artistic practice. This catalogue contains an inventory of more than one hundred items, and illustrates, identifies, and describes printed matter designed by or in collaboration with the artist from 1971 to 2009. 

Hardcover | 213 pages 
20 x 26 cm (7.8 x 10.2 in.) 
Publication Date: 2012

Greg A. Hill, Candice Hopkins, Christine Lalonde 

The catalogue Sakahàn—meaning “to light [a fire]” in the language of the Algonquin peoples—focuses on the 2013 exhibition which brought together more than 150 works of recent Indigenous art by over 80 artists from 16 countries, including impressive installations created specifically for the project. Poetic, unexpected and challenging, the artworks document and interrogate distinct cultural and social issues. 

FEATURED ARTISTS: Vernon Ah Kee, Maria Thereza Alves, Pia Arke, Arnait Video Productions, Arnaqurq Ashevak, Shuvinai and John Noesthedan Ashoona, Sonny Assu, Mary Anne Barkhouse, Nanobah Becker, Christi Belcourt, Richard Bell, Rebecca Belmore, Corey and Larissa Healey Bulpitt, Andrea Carlson, Abraham & Jimena Mendoza Cruzvillegas, Cup'luaq (Jack Dalton), Beau Dick, Jimmie Durham, Suresh Kumar Dhurve, Nicholas Galanin, Billy Gauthier, Regina-José Galindo, Jeffrey Gibson, Daniel Guzman, Julie Edel Hardenberg, Marja Helander, Inuk Silis Høegh, Geir Tore Holm, Terrance Houle, Bayrol Jimenez, Jonathan Jones, Brian Jungen, Toru Kaizawa, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Shigeyuki Kihara, Walis Labai, EN Lei, Omero Leyva, César López, Erica Lord, Jimmy Manning, Teresa Margolles, Da-Ka-Xeen Mehner, Danie Mellor, Alan Michelson, Kent Monkman, Wangechi Mutu, Nadia Myre, Shelley Niro, William Noah, Fiona Pardington, Michael Parekowhai, Viggo Pederson, Outi Pieski, Jamasee Padluq Pitseolak, Tim Pitseolak, Edward Poitras, Annie Pootoogook, Itee Pootoogook, Rachel and Brett Graham Rakena, Abel Rodriguez, Gjert Rognli, Jangarh Singh Shyam, Mayank Shyam, Venkat Raman Singh Shyam, Greg Staats, Yama Taru, Jeff Thomas, Warwick Thornton, Jutai Toonoo, Maka'i Tubbs, Ingunn Utsij, Taika Waititi, Marie Watt, Steven Yazzie and Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun.

Softcover | 288 pages
24.5 x 21 x 2 cm (9.6 x 8.3 x 0.8 in.)
Publication Date: 2013

Available in French only

Edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. 

Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear—and even follow you home.

These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon.

Featured Writers: Norris Black, Amber Blaeser-Wardzala, Phoenix Boudreau, Cherie Dimaline, Carson Faust, Kelli Jo Ford, Kate Hart, Shane Hawk, Brandon Hobson, Darcie Little Badger, Conley Lyons, Nick Medina, Tiffany Morris, Tommy Orange, Mona Susan Power, Marcie R. Rendon, Waubgeshig Rice, Rebecca Roanhorse, Andrea L. Rogers, Morgan Talty, D.H. Trujillo, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr, Richard Van Camp, David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Royce Young Wolf, and Mathilda Zeller. 

Paperback | 416 pages 
13 x 20 cm (5 x 8 in.) 
Publication Date: 2023

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Many promote Reconciliation as a “new” way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Danser sur le dos de notre tortue : La nouvelle émergence des Nishnaabeg activist, editor, and educator Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence and must support the regeneration of Indigenous languages, oral cultures, and traditions of governance.

Simpson explores philosophies and pathways of regeneration, resurgence, and a new emergence through the Nishnaabeg language, Creation Stories, walks with Elders and children, celebrations and protests, and meditations on these experiences. She stresses the importance of illuminating Indigenous intellectual traditions to transform their relationship to the Canadian state.

Paperback | 222 pages 
14 x 20.5 cm (5.5 x 8 in.) 
Publication Date: 2018

Megan Madison and Jessica Ralli, with illustrations by Anne/Andy Passchier 

Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven book offers clear, concrete language and beautiful imagery that young children can grasp and adults can leverage for further discussion. 

Hardcover | 40 pages 
23.64 x 26.19 cm (9.31 x 10.31 in.) 
Publication Date: 2023

bell hooks

Defining love as an act rather than a feeling, the writer dismantles all the obstacles that patriarchal culture places in the way of healthy romantic relationships, and envisages an art of loving that goes beyond attraction and tenderness. Drawing on moral philosophy and psychology, she restores the nobility of the possibility of love, from a feminist perspective. 

Paperback | 241 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm (8 x 5 x 1 po)
Publication Date: 2022 

Available in French only

Amy Novesky 

A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Cloth Lullaby captures the life of Louise Bourgeois, a world-renowned artist, and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all. 

Hardcover | 40 pages
28.5 x 23.5 cm (11 x 9 in.) 
Publication date: 2016

Amy Novesky 

A beautifully nuanced and poetic story, Une berceuse en chiffons captures the life of Louise Bourgeois, a world-renowned artist, and tells the story of a relationship between a mother and daughter, the birth of an artist, and how memory is stitched into us all. 

Hardcover | 40 pages
28.5 x 23.5 cm (11 x 9 in.) 
Publication date: 2016

Paul-Émile Borduas 

In 1948, four hundred copies of an explosive manifesto appeared secretly in Quebec: Refus global, which paints a portrait of a bigoted and withdrawn society, and calls, in virtuoso language, for a poetic revolution. Borduas denounces the fears that surround individuals and calls for a poetic and anthropological revolt to give birth to a "new collective hope". 

Paperback | 64 pages 
10 x 17 cm (3.9 x 6.7 in.)
Publication date: 2023
Only available in French.

Joan Murray 

A treasury of Tom Thomson's (1877–1917) most influential paintings as chosen by his friends and collectors, illustrating a moving, untold story in Canadian art.

Paperback | 152 pages
21.5 x 21 x 1 cm (8.5 x 8.3 x 0.4 in.) 
Publication Date: 2012

Anne Newlands

For decades, the paintings of the Group of Seven have been instantly familiar to Canadians. But in the early part of the 20th century, these artists were engaged in a struggle for acceptance, mocked by critics and the public alike. In The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson author Anne Newlands explores the ambitions and visions of this unique cast of characters, capturing the cultural and historical realities of their time and bringing to life their artistic response to the Canadian wilderness.

Paperback | 66 pages 
23.5 x 23.5 cm (9.25 x 9.25 in.) 
Publication Date: 2008

Denise Leclerc 

Les années soixante au Canada follows the trends in Canadian artistic production during that decade which tested the conventional boundaries of artistic disciplines; photographic works also testify to the experimentation and eclectisicm that characterize Canadian photography. Nearly 180 featured works by Canadian artists pinpoint the diversity of artistic expression throughout this remarkably prolific period. 

Paper | 188 pages
23 x 28 cm (9 x 11 in.) 
Publication Date: 2005 
Only available in French.

Kitty Scott, Jonathan Shaughnessy 

The Art Metropole Collection is a truly unique ensemble of objects collected by a group of artists known as General Idea. Comprising more than 100 objects and including works by more than 125 Canadian and international artists, Le top 100 gives greater exposure to this extensive collection and brings to light some of the rare material contained within. 

Paper | 140 pages 
18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2006

Kitty Scott, Jonathan Shaughnessy 

The Art Metropole Collection is a truly unique ensemble of objects collected by a group of artists known as General Idea. Comprising more than 100 objects and including works by more than 125 Canadian and international artists, The Top 100 gives greater exposure to this extensive collection and brings to light some of the rare material contained within. 

Paper | 140 pages 
18 x 23 cm (7 x 9 in.) 
Publication Date: 2006