Current Show:
Our Established Artists
May 1 - June 25, 2025
Previous:
Vernissage: A Show By Women
April 1 - May 1, 2025
Upcoming:
Behal & Catchpole -
Worlds Of Wonder
June 27 - July 27, 2025
ARTISTS
ESTATES AND CONSIGNMENT
Here at O'Connor Gallery, we deal with estates and
take in work for consignment and resale.
This includes artwork by
Edward Muybridge, Elizabeth Frink, Alan B. Stone,
Jack Nicols , E.B. Cox, Andrew Bell, Norval Morriseau and Carlos Quiros
FRAMING
For over 30 years O’Connor Gallery has been custom framers to Queens Park, the University of Toronto, Delta Hotels, interior designers, art collectors and consumers.
We have been honoured to be one of the top framers in North America two years in a row.
In the last eight years we have been in Gananoque, while keeping many of our old clients from Toronto and new ones here in Eastern Ontario.
Since the change regarding our neighbours to the south, our stock is almost only Canadian.
Remember to support our local economy.
We are happy to give free advice and quotes, plus discounts to artists and the military.
BIO
Dennis R. O’Connor was born in 1954, in Sudbury, Ontario. He completed high school at St. Charles College For Boys, graduating in 1971. He moved to Montreal to attend Concordia University, where he got his BFA in Art History, graduating in 1983.
One of his favourite memories there was a studio art class with Francoise Sullivan who was one of the founders of the Automatistes.
Dennis is fluent in both English and French.
He opened the O’Connor Gallery in 1995 in the Church-Wellesley Village, in Toronto.
The gallery was quickly acclaimed both nationally and internationally, and a growing roster of artists necessitated a move to Maitland Street in the same area, next to the National Ballet School.
The O’Connor gallery, at this point, was the longest-running LGBTQ+ gallery in the world. Well-known artists who showed during this time included Judy Chicago, Edward Lucie-Smith, Arthur Tress, Michael Chambers, Michael Alago, Zilon, Carl Stewart, Peter Flinsch.
He gave Del Newbigging the commission for the largest freestanding bronze sculpture erected in Toronto for decades: The Alexander Wood statue.
He also discovered and launched the careers of Daniel Barkley and James Huctwith.
He mentored many young artists and reintroduced the photography of Quebec artist Alan B. Stone. He was involved with the Canadian Society Of Painters In Watercolour (CSPWC), holding an exhibition of the seventy-five watercolours gifted to the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.
Dennis moved the O’Connor Gallery to Gananoque, Ontario in the Thousand Islands region, in 2018. During his four years as town councillor, he held and managed Gananoque’s Arts Portfolio.
Although still continuing to have many LGBTQ+ artists, the gallery now also has a new regional and national emphasis.
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In 2023, Dennis was invited to curate a show in Berlin, Germany, at C/O Galleries.
Dennis lives in Gananoque with his husband John, married for thirty-one years, with their rescued family of two dachshunds and six cats.
“I believe that art and culture is the great healer, and is vital for humanity’s wellbeing”. - Dennis R. O’Connor
Contact Us
Address
The Art House
130 King Street East
Gananoque, Ontario
Canada
K7G 1G2
Write Or Call
Phone:
343 363 6844
Opening Hours
Mon Closed
Tue - Sat 10am5pm
Sun By appointment
or chance