Visiting the Gallery

Gallery hours

During exhibitions we're open Tuesday - Saturday 1:00-5:00 PM, or by appointment.
We are closed Sunday and Monday.
 

Accessibility & Location

Thanks to the Ontario Trillium Foundation, we have installed a lift so both levels of our gallery spaces are fully accessible. Our front entrance is power-operated and at grade, and we have a gender neutral, barrier-free washroom on the ground floor.

We are located at 280 Catherine St, across from the former Greyhound Central Station. We are one and a half blocks west of Bank & Catherine Streets. 

Parking

During the week, G101 has one complimentary parking space: directly in front of our door. If this space is occupied, you will have to pay for parking at the meter located near the Minute Storage entrance.
Free visitor parking is available for evening events, and on Saturday afternoons from 1:00-5:00 .  Visitors must pick up a parking pass inside the gallery and place it on your dashboard.
Please use the spaces closest to Catherine St to avoid taking spaces reserved for customers of our neighbouring businesses.

 

About Gallery 101

Gallery 101 honours and respects the original people of the territory we currently occupy: unceded and unsurrendered Anishnaabe-Aki who have been living and working on this land since time immemorial.

Located in Ottawa, Ontario, Gallery 101 is a non-profit artist-run centre with charitable status dedicated to the professional presentation and circulation of visual and media arts. Each year, we present a stimulating array of solo and group exhibitions of Canadian and international contemporary artists working in all mediums. We also offer services and professional development opportunities to artists, curators, writers and critics. Commitment to artists and their work is our first priority.

As an artist-run-centre, G101 champions artists' rights and advocates for fair payment of arists in all our programming and partnerships. We are a not-for-profit and registered charitable organization, able to secure funding through all levels of government and various partnerships to produce exhibitions and events and pay CARFAC recommended artist fees.

 

Mission

Gallery 101’s mission centers on bringing people of diverse identities together. We believe in sharing perspectives across communities that don’t normally intersect. An essential risk we take is to embrace projects, programming, and partnerships that reach beyond visual arts communities to include and inspire allyship for front-line workers, thinkers, knowledge keepers, organizers and the communities that they serve.

 

Mandate

G101 exhibits contemporary visual, media, and performance arts that explore self-representations of decolonizing, feminist, intersectional counter-narratives. We strive to be an inclusive contemporary art space with awareness of current social, cultural, environmental discourses and movements guiding our curatorial practices. Powerful programming partnerships support our mission to present projects that provide a range of entry points for audiences to engage with and reimagine issues especially related to land, water, race, histories, gender, ability, age and the relationships between Indigenous, Black, settler, newcomer, and migrant communities.

 

Commitment

We support artists and curators at all stages of their careers, including emerging practitioners and voices that have been historically silenced, marginalized, or hidden.

We primarily exhibit local and regional artists, but we also welcome projects from across Canada and abroad.

We are committed to empowering agency and autonomy of voice; fostering artistic development; encouraging research, exploration and experimentation; and championing artists’ rights by advocating for the fair payment of artists in all our partnerships and programming.

 

Memberships & Donations

Become a Gallery101 Member.
Make a donation to Gallery101 on Canada Helps. Donations over $25 are tax-deductable.

Registered Charity #11879 0658 RR0001.

 

Acknowledgements

Gallery 101 gratefully acknowledges the support of the City of Ottawa, the Ontario Arts Council (an agency of the government of Ontario), the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Gallery 101 thanks the Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival, our members, volunteers, partners, and all our relations.