Art Metropole is an artist-run centre that publishes, promotes, exhibits, archives and distributes artists' publications and other materials.

Art Metropole was founded in 1974 by the Canadian artist collective General Idea as a division of Art-Official, Inc.(1972), a not-for-profit corporation incorporated under the laws of the province of Ontario.

This service was discontinued in 1987 when Art Metropole began publishing artists' video in low-cost VHS format for general distribution instead.

The same year Art Metropole published "3 death stories" by Tom Sherman, the first of a long series of artists books.

In 1984 it presented the first exhibition on their own premises, a tenth anniversary overview of the Art Metropole Collection.