The City of Ottawa and community arts organizations own visual arts spaces for exhibiting artwork. They are operated and programmed by the community arts organizations which also judge the artwork exhibited.
- Arts Network Ottawa Gallery
- Arteast at François Dupuis Recreation Centre
- Arteast at St-Laurent Complex
- Artists of Stonebridge
- BEING studio
- Foyer Gallery
- Galerie SAW Gallery
- Gloucester Pottery School – Dust Evans Gallery
- Kanata Civic Art Gallery
- Manotick Art Association
- Nepean Fine Arts League Gallery
- Ottawa Mixed Media Artists
- Ottawa Watercolour Society
- Ottawa Art Gallery
- Ottawa School of Art Byward Campus Gallery
- Ottawa School of Art Orléans Campus Gallery
- Ottawa Gatineau Printmakers Connective
- Ottawa West Art Association
- Promenade Arteast