Beyond the Frame: 2025 University of Toronto Scarborough Studio Art Graduating Exhibition

Beyond the Frame
2025 University of Toronto Scarborough Studio Art Graduating Exhibition

April 12 – April 16, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 12, 2 – 5 pm
10-minute moderated artist conversations will take place at 2:45 pm, 3:30 pm, and 4:15 pm

Doris McCarthy Gallery
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, M1C 1A4
dorismccarthygallery.utoronto.ca

Artworks by: Janessa Lyzette Ardon, Aissatou Nesta Badio, Bai Zhesi, Marissa Brodie, Tiffany Chan, Coco Chen Shuyu, Shelly Chen, Chen Yifei, Jonathan De Vries, Leo Dong Yiliang, Eric Feng, Alexia Forovich, Sophie Jin Suheng, Athavan Krisnagopal, Jeea Lee, Zaid Lee, Petrina Leung, Li Zhuo Hui, Jennifer Lin Xinyi, Liu Shaoyu, Sydney Ly, Edward Ma Xiao Xuan, Rajsree Mandal, Marinus Màu, Markle Ning, Shirin Nozari, Gina Pang, Roxy Ren Yunxi, Chubi Sharon Shaibu, Tiffany Tang, Valen Trofimova, Owen Wang Long, Molly Wang Yimiao, Wong Chi Lok, Joanna Zhang Xin Yuan, Zhao Kemin, Judy Zhou Yuye

Faculty mentors: Will Kwan and Sanaz Mazinani

The Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough is pleased to present Beyond the Frame, an exhibition and publication featuring works by graduating students in the Studio Art program. We find ourselves in world beleaguered by conflict and unrest, in a political moment marked by division, restriction, and the raising of borders. The realm of art can offer a sanctuary from this chaos, but it is also a domain where the boundary is anathema. Beyond the Frame offers a counter-narrative to the current moment, reaffirming a conviction in the value of fluidity, heterogeneity, and otherness. Spanning painting, collage, photography, video, digital art, sculpture, and installation, the thirty-seven works in the exhibition probe the limits and potential of our senses, explore the interplay between self and society, and reckon with a myriad of internal and external conflicts, emotional, psychological, technological, ecological, and geopolitical in nature. Beyond the Frame is the panoply over the panopticon, the panorama as opposed to the snapshot.

The Studio Art program in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough offers courses in a wide range of established and emerging artistic media. Our students learn to utilize artistic knowledge as tools to engage social, political, and ecological challenges locally and globally. The artistic training and experience offered by the University of Toronto Scarborough Studio Art program provides a rigorous visual art education for students interested in careers in the cultural and design sectors as well as for those intending to pursue advanced study in art and the humanities at the graduate level.

The Department of Arts, Culture and Media is a multi-disciplinary research, teaching and creative environment at the University of Toronto Scarborough with programs in Art History and Visual Culture; Arts Management; Journalism; Media Studies, Music and Culture; Music Industry and Technology; New Media Studies; Studio Art; and Theatre and Performance.

Since 2019, the Doris McCarthy Gallery has presented the Studio Art Graduating Exhibition as part of the gallery’s commitment to offering curricular and experiential learning opportunities to students at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Gallery staff offer support and professional guidance throughout the development of the exhibition. This experience provides what is often a first opportunity for students to engage with a professional gallery and to present their work in a public venue.

For more information contact:
Department of Arts, Culture and Media
University of Toronto Scarborough
Arts and Administration Building, Room 301
1265 Military Trail, Toronto, Ontario, M1C 1A4
acm-com@utsc.utoronto.ca
uoft.me/acm
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