HISTORY

Founded in 1968, the Wynick/Tuck Gallery is dedicated to the representation, exhibition and promotion of contemporary Canadian and International artists. With painting, sculpture, works on paper, photo and film-based work, video and multidisciplinary works, it is committed to encouraging public interest in visual art.

Its origins, as Aggregation Gallery, were in the St Lawrence market area where, at the forefront of the cultural regeneration of that area, the gallery located in heritage buildings and established the first warehouse-style gallery space in downtown Toronto. In 1982 the gallery moved to 80 Spadina Avenue, where with fellow art dealer and gallerist Olga Korper, it pioneered the development of that building to become the major centre for galleries in the downtown west area at that time. The move in 2000 to 401 Richmond Street West further enhanced the gallery’s accessibility to deliver its programming.

Read a few stories about the gallery’s history on the blog.

The gallery has now presented well over 500 exhibitions, including many curated, thematic exhibitions. Works by the gallery’s artists have been collected by numerous public galleries, corporations and individual collectors across Canada and abroad. It has participated in many international art fairs since the mid 1980′s in Canada, the U.S. and Europe.

Gallery Directors Lynne Wynick and David Tuck have served on the boards and/or committees of many arts organizations and institutions, including the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board (CCPERB); the Board; the Executive and Appraisal Committee of the Professional Art Dealers Association of Canada (now ADAC); the Art Gallery of Ontario; the Doris McCarthy Gallery of the University of Toronto and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, among others.

ARCHIVE

archiveView exhibitions pages from 2002-2012 here on the archived WTG site.
View press releases from 2008-2012 here on the archived WTG site.

First location at 71 Jarvis prior to renovation, 1968

First location at 71 Jarvis prior to renovation, 1968

 

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Third location at 83 Front St E. c.1975

 

WTG at 80 Spadina

Fourth location at 80 Spadina Ave., second year (1983)

 

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Fifth location at 401 Richmond St W., exterior

 

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401 Richmond space during Gerald Ferguson exhibition, 2009

 

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Sixth location, 401 Richmond, Studio S27

 

Sixth location, 401 Richmond Studio S27

Sixth location, 401 Richmond, Studio S27

 

Booth at Art Cologne 86, Cologne, West Germany

Booth at Art Cologne 86, Cologne, West Germany

 

Booth at Arco Madrid, 1997, Madrid, Spain

Booth at Arco Madrid, 1997, Madrid, Spain