Curated by Maya Wilson-Sanchez, works by Eric Gallardo, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Tania Willard, and more explore how public spaces reflect our past, present, and future.
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Hiwa K’s Transformative Approach to Activist Art
The artist serves as a proxy through which the complexities of Gulf War politics, refugeeism, dictatorship, and resilience can be examined in intuitive and material ways.
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A Museum Sees its Collection Through a Queer Lens
Blurred Boundaries invites the viewer to recognize the ways in which queer art is not separate or other, but is actually always all around us.
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Sharif Bey’s Fractured and Beautiful Ceramic Figures
Bey’s ceramics weave in cultural and familial themes, and reexamine, shatter, and incorporate older works to create layers of change in both form and meaning.
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Images Festival: Slow Edition Considers Tenderness as Transgression in a soft landing
Alyssa Alikpala, Erika DeFreitas, Rihab Essayh, Eve Tagny, and Alize Zorlutuna consider entanglements of bereavement, spirit, and love in this Toronto exhibition.
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Brian Jungen’s Giant “Couch Monster” Comes to Toronto
The 13-foot sculpture of an elephant, initially created out of discarded sofas, was cast in bronze for the Art Gallery of Ontario’s first public art commission.
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Fierce and Fantastical Experiments in Ceramics
The ceramics-focused Earth Oracles is a garden of earthly delights, with sumptuous glazes and a mastery of the medium on proud display.
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A Parent’s Guide to Navigating Biennials
Seeing the Toronto Biennial of Art through my daughter’s eyes helped me push past some of its challenges by experiencing it on a primordial level.
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Indigenous Artists Take Center Stage at the Toronto Biennial of Art
Inspired by the multilayered histories of the city’s waterways, the biennial’s curatorial team has amassed an exciting array of contemporary Canadian and international artists, with a focus on Indigenous artists.
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Toronto’s Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival Launches 26th Edition
The 2022 festival includes exhibitions and installations by artists including Tyler Mitchell, Sunil Gupta, Mahtab Hussain, Brendan George Ko, Aïda Muluneh, and more.
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Fable for Tomorrow: A Survey of Works by Wendy Coburn at Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto
The first career survey of Wendy Coburn’s artwork, exploring representations of gender, sexualities, material culture, and human-animal relations, opens February 16.
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At Art Toronto, a Third of Galleries Are Showing Indigenous Artists
“There was no call out to galleries to submit any specific work, only to submit their best work,” said fair director Mia Nielsen.