Education
Isaacs graduated with an bachelor"s degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto in 1950.
Isaacs graduated with an bachelor"s degree in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto in 1950.
Born Avrom Isaacovitch in Winnipeg, Manitoba, he moved to Toronto with his family in 1941. In 1955, he opened the Greenwich Art Gallery (renamed the Isaacs Gallery in 1959) where he represented numerous Canadian artists, including Michael Snow, Graham Coughtry, Gordon Rayner, Jack Chambers, Joyce Wieland, Mark Prent, John Meredith, Robert Markle and Gathie Falk. The Isaacs Gallery was noted for the broad range of work it showed, running from contemporary art to the art of New Guinea and west-coast Indian artists and even to Asian costumes.
Isaacs was famous for his "young talent" shows.
Isaacs opened the Innuit Gallery in Toronto in 1970, where he gave solo exhibitions to such distinguished artists as Karoo Ashevak and Jessie Oonark. In August 1991 Isaacs consolidated his two galleries to form the Isaacs/Innuit Gallery.
The gallery closed in 2001.