About the Artist Hayley Chi Hay Chiu (b. 2001) is a Toronto-based, second-generation Chinese Canadian painter. Working primarily in oil, she holds a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University (2023). Her practice traces an ongoing journey of becoming and a search for “home,” reimagining personal narratives through fable and fantasy. Chiu’s work features surreal […]
About the Exhibition In the 1950s, Frederick Varley wandered the halls of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) with pencil in hand. Sketching the Past invites visitors to share in the careful observations he made, and to think about why we visit museums: to see, record, and reflect. Varley visited the ROM several times, sketching in the Natural History and Art and Culture galleries, where the Chinese […]
About the Exhibition The artists in this exhibition work within states of in‑betweenness, using painting to assemble the memories, relationships, and events that shape their identities. Through layered processes and intuitive construction, they build worlds that hold them together—worlds offering coherence amid shifting selves and unstable histories. Par Nair reframes gender roles through intimate engagements […]
About the Exhibition In the 1950s, Frederick Varley wandered the halls of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) with pencil in hand. Sketching the Past invites visitors to share in the careful observations he made, and to think about why we visit museums: to see, record, and reflect. Varley visited the ROM several times, sketching in the Natural History and Art and Culture galleries, where the Chinese […]
About the Exhibition Cape Breton born, Toronto based artist Sameer Farooq presents a solo exhibition that offers a deeply poetic space to reflect on the fraught and violent histories of art and anthropological museums, their colonial origins, structures, and impulses. With The Fairest Order in the World, Farooq probes notions of provenance, repatriation, and repair, […]
Artists Franklin Arbuckle (1909-2001), A. J. Casson (1898-1992), J. S. Hallam (1899-1952), Francis Hans Johnston (1888-1949), Jean Paul Riopelle (1923-2002), William Goodridge Roberts (1904-1974), Herbert S. Palmer (1881-1970), Carl Schaefer (1903-1995), F. H. Varley (1881-1969) About the Exhibition There is something magical that happens when the warmth of summer begins to wane and the crisp […]
About the Exhibition Sights of Convergence features work by Jess Riva Cooper (Toronto, ON), Gabriela García-Luna (Saskatoon, SK), and Stanzie Tooth (Toronto, ON). Each artist brings a distinct material practice and set of concerns to their work, yet all explore the intimate entanglement of human and natural worlds. Rather than treating nature as a passive […]
About the Exhibition A border of purple and white pansies carpets the edge of a lush garden. Coneflowers, heavy with rain, nod in the breeze. Nearby, a single, perfect circle is cut from a hosta leaf — a tiny doorway left by a fat bumblebee dusted with pollen. This is Kejie Lin’s backyard: her subject […]
About the Exhibition Artists: Franklin Carmichael (1890–1945), A. J. Casson (1898–1992), Alan Collier (1911–1990), Kathleen Daly (1898–1994), Audrey Garwood (1927–2004), Lawren Harris (1885–1970), Maurice Haycock (1900–1988), A. Y. Jackson (1882–1974), Arthur Lismer (1885–1969), J. E. H. MacDonald (1873–1932), Doris McCarthy (1910–2010), James Wilson Morrice (1865–1924), Charlotte Price (1796–1898), Ernestine Tahedl (b. 1940), F. H. Varley […]
About the Exhibition Formed in 2004, the Z’otz* Collective is a multidisciplinary trio composed of Nahúm Flores, Erik Jerezano, and Ilyana Martínez. Of Latin American heritage, the artists merge drawing, painting, ceramics, and animation to create playful, storytelling-driven works that blend tradition with contemporary experimentation. Over time, the Collective has developed a unique communal process, passing works between […]
