It is located in the Garden District neighbourhood on Gerrard Street East near Toronto Metropolitan University and the Church and Wellesley area.

Established in 1994 and opening in its present location in 1997, Gallery Arcturus has held many public exhibitions including Thomas Henrickson "Inner Mirror",[3] E.J.

Gold "Large As Life",[4][5] Peter Banks "Emergence",[6] Carol George "Asia Calling",[7] Deborah Harris "Toward the One",[8] and Dominique Cruchet & Joan Cullen "Crossing the Great Waters".

The gallery began acquiring an extensive permanent art collection for display and study, starting with a significant purchase of works by members of the "School of Reductionism" in Grass Valley, California, including paintings by E.J.

The Gallery Arcturus permanent art collection includes the following artists:[14] Dara Aram, Gisele Boulianne, William Caldwell, Peter Chung, Ed Cramer, Dominique Cruchet, Joan Cullen, Carol Currie and Stuart Leggett, Chris Dolan, Marie Fournier, Neil Fox, Camie Geary-Martin, Luke Gilliam, E.J.

Gold, Jeremy Gordaneer, Christopher Griffin, Scott Griffin, Marni Grossman, Deborah Harris, Michael Hayes, Della Heywood, Lenka Holubec, Randy Hryhorczuk, Louis Irkok Jr, Olena Kassian, Floyd Kuptana, Dongmin Lai, Grabriel Lalonde, Chris Langstroth, Elaine Ling, Yousha Liu, Ruth Luginbuehl, Jorge Luna, Andrea Maguire, Eric McConnachie, Larry Middlestadt, Sharon Naidos, Joachim Oepkes, Simeon Posen,[15] Terri Quinn, Kelly Rivera, Wendy Rombough, Paul Saari, R.C.