About the Exhibition Curated as a companion to I Think This Means I Could Fly in the Main Gallery, Framing Identity features photographic works by Joi T. Arcand, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Anique Jordan, Esmaa Mohamoud, John Reeves, and Katherine Takpannie. Bringing together diverse photographic practices, the exhibition examines the ways individuals and communities construct, […]
About the Exhibition In I Think This Means I Could Fly, Anique Jordan considers how truth is made, inherited, and given form. The exhibition grows from Jordan’s research into the Flying Africans—stories of enslaved people who escaped bondage by taking flight—and connections between the Gullah Geechee communities of the Carolinas and her family history in […]
About the Artist Hayley Chi Hay Chiu (b. 2001) is a Markham-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 […]
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 […]
