These works by Montreal artist Valérie Blass, on display for the first time, invite us to examine the unexpected relationships between surfaces, volumes and their underlying structures, and to picture the invisible bodies that might wear any given item.

Famous guitarist Kirk Hammett, of the heavy metal band Metallica, has created one of the world’s most extraordinary collections of classic horror and sci-fi movie posters. This exhibition explores Hammett’s significant collection and examines the connection between artistry, emotion, and popular culture through a selection of works from 20th-century cinema.

In the Blur series, Brewster explores layered experiences of identity – ones that may bridge relationships to Canada and elsewhere, as well as to the present and the past. She is influenced by vernacular photographs, particularly images of Caribbean Canadians not long after their arrival in this country.

The Gardiner presents the Canadian premiere of artist Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Every One, a monumental social sculpture commemorating victims of the crisis surrounding murdered and missing Indigenous women, girls, trans, and queer community members, with thousands of documented cases in both Canada and the U.S.

Deanna Bowen’s film is a conversation by Indigenous artists and writers John Hampton, Peter Morin, Lisa Myers, Archer Pechawis, and cheyanne turions.

An exhibition curated by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland, and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Age of You is a timely exhibition about how the self has become more extreme, and what it means to be an individual today.

Drawn from the extraordinary holdings of The Walther Collection, The Way She Looks revisits the history of African photographic portraiture through the perspectives of women, both as sitters and photographers.

Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and the RIC, the artist draws on the shared language of speculative fiction and political activism to transform the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall into a portal through which the next generation of racialized activists communicate with us, their ancestors, and offer us insights into the future.

How often do we take note of the strange weather? The artists’ works included in Weather Amnesia offer visual insight into the profound disruptions that are under way. With strangeness becoming the new normal, the exhibition makes us wonder and think about what kind of future awaits us

The exhibition at the Art Museum focuses on the expansive media activist project of Isuma and is produced in partnership with the Toronto Biennale of Art on the occasion and as extension of Isuma’s participation at the 58th International Art Biennale in Venice.

Among All These Tundras features contemporary art by Indigenous artists from around the circumpolar world. Together, their works politically and poetically express current Arctic concerns towards land, language, sovereignty and resurgence.

Detouring notions of home and domesticity, this project addresses an underlying impossibility to adapt to and conversely tame our environments in order to construct places where our bodies and psyches can fit in.

Mixed-media installation from Montreal based artist Adam Basanta. The piece creates images autonomously through self-generating techniques: a continuously running "art-factory" operating independently of human input.

Spanning two seasons, a rotating program of films and accompanying footnotes explores historical ruptures, documentation and archives.

Developed around the newly-commissioned immersive film installation Ultramarine, this exhibition proposes a re-exploration of history through archives, music and film.

Hold Everything Dear takes a single form — the spiral — as a starting point to reflect on processes of upheaval in human experience. Partly inspired by a collection of essays on survival and resistance by art critic and novelist John Berger, the works act as a meditation on undefeated despair and the possibilities for radical hope.

For his first solo presentation in Canada, American artist Rashid Johnson stages a major new site-specific commission. Entering the Clerestory, we find ourselves surrounded by two monumental tiled panels, each containing an accumulation of nearly one hundred faces.

This premiere exhibition, curated by Betty Julian, features photographic, video and sound artworks that expand our understanding of the complexities of living as an Indigenous artist and citizen in the twenty-first century. 

In the Still Life series, Bentham creates assemblages in an intimate scale from utilitarian and ornamental brass and bronze. Decorative figures and vessels are eloquently combined with planes and rods, transcending the materials’ original purposes and inspiring new meaning.

The exhibition highlights works the Flemish master produced between 1609 and 1621 – a crucial time that was the artist’s most innovative and inspired. Early Rubens includes such masterpieces as The Head of Medusa (from The Moravian Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic) and The Boar Hunt (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille), complementing treasures from the AGO Collection: The Massacre of the Innocents and his most finished oil sketch, The Raising of the Cross.

Savour: Food Culture in the Age of Englightenment explores the story of this transformation with rare objects, fascinating histories, and amusing stories.

Wear Your Soul in Wordy Yesterday Gold features the GUI caret icon as a light sculpture displayed against a patterned wall with checkers indicating transparency in graphic programs.

Familiar and strange: estranged. Hiding behind curtains and plastic furniture coverings. What is present but never named? How can we grieve the death of family itself?

New Bronze and Ceramic Sculptures by Victor Cicansky

Kim Dorland pushes the boundaries of painted representation through an exploration of memory, material, nostalgia, identity and place. Drawing heavily from the

Patel Gallery is pleased to announce its 7th annual holiday salon-style exhibition on display from October 23 - December 22, featuring hundreds of artworks at our Queen Street Location.

First solo show in Canada for the German artist, filmmaker, writer and cultural critic. Hito Steyerl is an acute observer and interpreter of globalized and digitized cultures; her work often blends the personal with the political and irony with seriousness as she investigates how images are created, packaged and consumed.

The artist works primarily in drawing and sculpture and this exhibition will be notable for its melding of the two with her largest, most ambitious undertaking thus far.

Head Gussett, like all exhibitions by Canadian artist Fin Simonetti, is set within a narrative where the desire for security is preeminently met with measures of control. Because Simonetti’s work always anticipates an intruder, her exhibitions can’t help but also serve as invitations for the uninvited guest.

COOPER COLE is pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring the works of Jagdeep Raina. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.

Rodriguez, in this recent body, pays tribute to the sun as our most primordial temporal compass, honouring its capacity to both guide life on Earth and, as of late, incinerate it.

Through a variety of different media, this group of female empowered artists aim to reposition the traditional western gaze, and reclaim the gendered body.

Heartspaces are not tidy. They are bloody and muscular and visceral. They throb with the rhythm of our life. As their chambers squeeze, then fill, they experience high and low tides in the space of a single beat.

It is through the bodily experience of encountering other readers through the traces that they left behind that I began to think of these books as a medium through which I was able to engage with others.

Shackleton’s inventive painting process has engaged over 15 million viewers online. Rather than paintbrushes, she uses squeeze bottles and gravity as her primary tools for creation. Liquid paint is dripped, poured and layered as the canvas is turned to navigate.

Meghan Price and Suzanne Nacha consider the structural and formal properties of rock materials, the concept of deep geological time and the aesthetics of geologic patterning.

Franz Kaka is excited to present a solo exhibition of new work by Montreal-based artist Marie-Michelle Deschamps.

For our second experiment, we explore feelings of alienation, vulnerability and comfort. When do we feel loved? What makes us feel safe? And how do we cope when we feel a loss of control?

Opening reception Thursday November 14 from 6 to 8pm

Since moving to England in late 2017, Stephen Appleby-Barr has been developing the next chapter in the narrative for his imaginative and exquisitely rendered paintings. Taking inspiration to the extreme, he fabricated an archive of intricate flora and architectural maquettes to inform the backgrounds and storylines for his paintings.

MOCA’s Artists on Artists series is a programme where local artists are invited to discuss MOCA’s current exhibitions, or a single artwork, in any format or direction of their choosing.

In this body of work, Dadson employs the act of painting to consider the various markings humans leave upon the environment. Notions of borders and (re)framing emerge in his work as he uses the edges of the canvas, literal fences, and empty spaces to suggest an infinite expansion beyond the painted gestures that often spill over and extend those very boundaries.

Dance, drink, and discover the ROM like never before, at Toronto’s most iconic Friday night event.

Naeem Mohaiemen researches former utopias and incomplete decolonizations through essays, films, and installations. He explores misrecognition within global solidarity, in order to imagine a future international left as an alternative to current dead-end silos of race and religion

Quench a thirst you didn’t even know you had in Bloodsuckers: Legends to Leeches, a ROM-original exhibition where nature and culture truly collide.

Patel Division Projects is pleased to present We the Centre, a group show featuring Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber, Karel Funk, Simon Hughes, Sarah Anne Johnson (courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery), Wanda Koop, and Micah Lexier (courtesy of Birch Contemporary).

The current paintings, produced in Hamilton before the artist's departure for Victoria, capture the liveliness of these objects and, especially, the plants – the late-summer window gardens full of overripe fruit or sunflower blooms, sagging heavy with seeds – located in these liminal spaces. Rather than asking us simply to identify the forms, the paintings invite us to daydream like Huysmans's protagonist and lose ourselves in their hallucinatory qualities.

Every living thing demonstrates a will to survive. A component of this survival instinct is commonly referred to as the “flight or fight response”, an evolutionary trait that allows humans, animals, insects and even some plants to sense and assess danger, and respond in ways that protect themselves.

In this body of work, Dadson employs the act of painting to consider the various markings humans leave upon the environment. Notions of borders and (re)framing emerge in his work as he uses the edges of the canvas, literal fences, and empty spaces to suggest an infinite expansion beyond the painted gestures that often spill over and extend those very boundaries.

It is through the bodily experience of encountering other readers through the traces that they left behind that I began to think of these books as a medium through which I was able to engage with others.

Part of the programing for “Above The Clouds, Below The Sky“, an exhibition of paintings and etchings by Stephen Appleby-Barr.

Patel Division Projects is pleased to present We the Centre, a group show featuring Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber, Karel Funk, Simon Hughes, Sarah Anne Johnson (courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery), Wanda Koop, and Micah Lexier (courtesy of Birch Contemporary).

If you need another opportunity to pick their brains, the artists will be present at United Contemporary this Saturday November 16th, from 2 to 5 pm. Come say hello.

The current paintings, produced in Hamilton before the artist's departure for Victoria, capture the liveliness of these objects and, especially, the plants – the late-summer window gardens full of overripe fruit or sunflower blooms, sagging heavy with seeds – located in these liminal spaces. Rather than asking us simply to identify the forms, the paintings invite us to daydream like Huysmans's protagonist and lose ourselves in their hallucinatory qualities.

Every living thing demonstrates a will to survive. A component of this survival instinct is commonly referred to as the “flight or fight response”, an evolutionary trait that allows humans, animals, insects and even some plants to sense and assess danger, and respond in ways that protect themselves.

"Archiving Eden: Exchange" presents x-ray images of 5,000 seeds — the smallest number required to preserve a single plant species. Over time, the installation will change both physically and visually: from representational to actual, dark to light.

This session uses the anti-oppressive framework and an intersectional approach to explore anti-Black racism within a Canadian cultural context.

AGO marks the 100th birthday of American choreographer Merce Cunningham, one of the most influential figures in modern dance, with a night of performances in Walker Court. This free program is presented in partnership with Fall for Dance North, and will feature live accompaniment by pianist Adam Tendler.

In this talk, artist-curator Lauren Fournier will discuss her ongoing, site-responsive curatorial experiment Fermenting Feminism (2016-present) and her most recent publication CRITICAL BOOCH (Access Gallery, 2019): expanding on the form of a curatorial talk to present a working theory for slurpy feminisms, abd extending the multi-authored framework of “fermenting feminism” to a reconsideration of the limits of language, discourse, and signification.

A reading and tasting group, with Gabriel Levine and guests. Fermenting can be many things: a technique of radical queer and feminist healing, a mode of reclaiming “traditional” foodways, an easily-mocked sign of gentrification, a retreat from the violence of the industrial food system, a way of creating value-added products for niche markets, a path toward multi-species collaboration, a metaphor for collective political uprising, and a sign of settler or nationalist belonging. Often, it is many of these things at once.

Please join us in celebration of the 42nd annual, 2019 OAAG Awards! Please join us before the ceremony at 4:00 PM for a special reception with music, silent auction, food, and a cash bar.

Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art and the RIC, the artist draws on the shared language of speculative fiction and political activism to transform the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall into a portal through which the next generation of racialized activists communicate with us, their ancestors, and offer us insights into the future.

By exploring ideas of healing from trauma, and equivocating the Romantic sublime with contemporary mental health issues of self-awareness and empowerment, Laura aims to capture in images the disquiet she experienced while learning to reconnect mind and body, and find agency using the wilderness as a conduit.

It's that time of year! Our annual 4x4 Show is back with artwork from over 50 artists! Come by starting November 28th and see what miniature treasures adorn the walls!

This public symposium will convene a panel of Inuit artists and scholars to discuss the role and importance of materiality in the creation and presentation of Inuit art.

By exploring ideas of healing from trauma, and equivocating the Romantic sublime with contemporary mental health issues of self-awareness and empowerment, Laura aims to capture in images the disquiet she experienced while learning to reconnect mind and body, and find agency using the wilderness as a conduit.

For the North American premiere of If I had the words to tell you we wouldn’t be here now, Sin performs alongside percussionist Nikki Joshi and wears a specially commissioned oceanic costume by Athens-based designer Dimitra Petsa. First performed at Chi Wen gallery in Taipei and later travelled to the 2019 Venice Biennale.

It's that time of year! Our annual 4x4 Show is back with artwork from over 50 artists! Come by starting November 28th and see what miniature treasures adorn the walls!

Marine biologist, Alan Emery, and journalist, Jonathon Gatehouse, discuss the immense changes occurring in the oceans and how these shifts are affecting Canada, a country with three ocean coasts. This conversation delves into what can be done with technology, resources, changes, and sacrifice to address the global climate crisis.

Tour with Gaëlle Morel and Kenneth Montague. The Way She Looks revisits the history of African photographic portraiture through the perspectives of women, both as sitters and photographers.

In this workshop, we will navigate the impact of datafication to form a better understanding of our “data bodies” and how they are used, stored and shared by governments and corporations.

Japanese born, New York-based artist Miho Hatori brings to Jackman Hall a musical exploration of memory, identity and the philosophy of Martinique-born poet and thinker Édouard Glissant.

It is through the bodily experience of encountering other readers through the traces that they left behind that I began to think of these books as a medium through which I was able to engage with others.

The Hispanic Canadian Arts Association, a not-for-profit organization committed to supporting and promoting Latin arts and culture is providing these free art workshops.