We are YYZ Artists’ Outlet.

As artists, our practice is in an ongoing state of beginning. Since 1979, our mission as an artist-led platform has been to offer the space for our community to show, share, and grow—to experiment, push boundaries, and keep evolving.

Our gallery will always and has always been the place for Canadian and international artists to display the most diverse and exciting range of their work. Entry is free. We look forward to seeing you at our space in 401 Richmond.

Artists must be given the space to try something new, and then the space to show something new. We believe that artists are always in a moment of starting something new, whether that expresses itself in a new medium, new idea, new place, new boundaries. The artist-run center is a site where artists can engage the public with contemporary issues too contentious for the mainstream, paving the way for opening discourse and challenging notions of the normative. YYZ Artists’ Outlet is committed to providing opportunities to find new modes of expressions, and that’s why the gallery, publication, and archives exist to serve those principles—to remain and grow as a forum for the most diverse and exciting range of artwork in the past, present, and future.

Help us fund artists' work. To be an artist has always been a precarious form of labour; to be an artists’ outlet and publisher has always been a tenuous form of self-organizing. We are acutely aware of the risks of being a space for artists in the way that we are. We know what risks existed in the past and know enough to understand we can’t know what risks await us in the future. Seeing our peers and fellow platforms fall prey to the increasingly unstable nature of our industry has made us even more committed to our mission, and it has made the impact of your donation even more vital.