WAG Current Exhibitions
We are currently changing over our exhibitions for Summer 2025. The Dr. Leonard Reeves Gallery on the first floor and the Main Gallery and Community Gallery on the second floor are closed during installation. The second floor hallway and first floor lobby are open to the public. To find out what’s coming soon, visit our Upcoming Exhibitions webpage.
2025 Friends of the Woodstock Art Gallery Legacy Scholarship
Exhibition Run: June 29 – Aug. 2, 2025
Finn McCallum of Thamesford is the recipient of the 2025 Friends of the Woodstock Art Gallery Legacy Scholarship. A graduating student from H.B. Beal Secondary School, he will be attending the studio art program at Western University in the fall and plans to become an art therapist.
In addition to receiving $1000 towards post-secondary education, McCallum's work is on display in the second floor hallway.
Finn McCallum with his artwork, A Self Deprecators Self Portrait, 2025, chalk pastel. Photo Credit: Trish Roberts, Custom Concept Photography.
Carl Beam: Selections from The Columbus Suite
Exhibition Run: April 22 – Oct. 11, 2025
Curator: Danielle Hoevenaars
Carl Beam (1943 – 2005) was a groundbreaking Ojibwe artist from Manitoulin Island. A residential school survivor, Beam was also a prominent advocate for Indigenous rights. His work, The North American Iceberg, 1985, was the first piece by an artist from a First Nations community to be purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as contemporary art.
The Columbus Suite is a series of 12-large etching on paper, which Beam described as intellectual puzzles, or interesting little games. Each piece is a collage of imagery from Indigenous and Western Colonial histories layered with horizontal lines, numbers, letters, formulas, faint scribbles, paint blotches and text. Two printers’ proofs from the Woodstock Art Gallery’s collection are on display.
Photo Credit: Stephan Cam
