About the Exhibition Beneath the Surface features the evocative works of Emma Nishimura and Gayle Uyagaqi Kabloona, who use printmaking to explore culture, family, and identity. Nishimura’s practice delves into themes of memory, loss, and resilience, focusing on her family’s experiences during the internment of Japanese Canadians in World War II. Her work reflects on the […]
About the Exhibition Markham-based artist Karen Kar Yen Law 羅加欣 works primarily with monoprints, blending the structured layers of printmaking with the fluid expressiveness of painting. Hand-cut stencils are central to her process, creating precise shapes and patterns that build visual layers and reveal or mask parts of the composition. Through colour layering, she forms […]
About the Exhibition This mid-career retrospective brings together, for the first time, a diverse collection of work by Meera Sethi, including painting, drawing, collage, soft sculpture, performance, and illustration. Spanning fifteen years, A Brief History of Wear offers a comprehensive look at Sethi’s creative evolution and how she challenges conventional notions of identity and representation. […]
About the Exhibition Andrew Benyei (b.1949), William Berzcy (1744–1813), Alma Duncan (1917–2004), Joseph Sydney Hallam (1899–1953), Christina Sealy, Philip Surrey (1910–1990), Frederick Horsman Varley (1881–1969). Curated as a companion to Meera Sethi: A Brief History of Wear in our Main Gallery, Tracing Patterns delves into the depiction of textiles in works from our permanent collection. […]
About the Exhibition Sonny Assu, Ana Diab, Rosalie Favell, Dara Gellman, Sky Hopinka, Stefana Fratila, Shelley Niro, Alex McLeod, Rajni Perera, Claire Scherzinger, Brendan Lee Satish Tang, and Syrus Marcus Ware. To go boldly explores how contemporary artists look to science fiction to confront the past, make sense of the present, and imagine the future. […]
About the Exhibition Artists: A. J. Casson (1898–1992), Joachim Gauthier (1897–1988), Frederick Hagan (1918–2003), Agnes Johnson (1881–1952), J. E. H. MacDonald (1873–1932), Henri Masson (1907–1996), Florence H. McGillivray (1864–1938), Goodridge Roberts (1902–1974), Dorothy Stevens (1888–1966), Philip Surrey (1910–1990), F. H. Varley (1881–1969) The summer solstice is an astronomical event when the sun is furthest from […]
About the Exhibition The two works on display in this gallery are recent donations by The York Wilson Foundation for the Visual Arts (YWFVA). The YWFVA’s mandate is to encourage public awareness, interest and involvement in the artistic legacy of renowned Canadian artist York Wilson (1907-1984). Wilson was born in Toronto where he trained and […]
About the Exhibition “A society is an act of communal imagination. And belonging is the outcome of that imaginative act.” – Adrienne Clarkson[1] Traversive Territories is about dislocation, migration and belonging. It presents territory as something that we create by making place rather than by staking claims. Sarindar Dhaliwal, Soheila Esfahani and Colette Urban all tell […]
About the Exhibition A monochromatic landscape sets the stage for Jennie Suddick’s newest body of work; a series of white architectural models of tree houses and forts. These diminutive buildings, along with miniature Muskoka chairs, rope bridges and trees, etc. are carefully crafted and assembled out of paper to create three-dimensional renderings of fantastical outdoor […]
About the Exhibition A ballet dancer steps onto an empty stage and performs an arabesque. With one leg firmly on the ground, she lifts the other behind her straight into the air; with arms extended, she arches her torso into a back bend. She takes two steps forward and repeats this series of movements as […]
