Remai Modern

Remai Modern presents and collects local and international modern and contemporary art that connects, inspires, and challenges diverse audiences through equitable and accessible programs. The museum aims to be a welcoming and inclusive public gathering place where we recognize the past, engage with the present, and envision new futures together through art. In 2011, Saskatoon entrepreneur and philanthropist Ellen Remai announced a donation of $30 million to a new art museum on behalf of the Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation, to support construction and enhance Remai Modern’s exhibition program. In recognition of this generosity—unprecedented in Saskatchewan, and one of the largest private donations to the arts in Canadian history—Saskatoon City Council unanimously voted to name the museum in Ellen Remai’s honour. As well, in 2012, the Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation donated 405 linocuts by the iconic Spanish artist Pablo Picasso—the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world—to Remai Modern. Art specialist and philanthropist Frederick Mulder complemented the gift in 2014, with his donation of an additional linocut and 23 ceramic pieces by this iconic modern artist. Through a diverse and regularly changing exhibition program, the museum affirms the critical role that art and artists play in questioning, interpreting and defining the time we are living in. ​