Photography by Lion (Ismail) Sher

What’s on at Onsite Gallery

You’re warmly invited to take part in Onsite Gallery’s upcoming November events, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982 – 2024).

Through engaging talks, poetry, and interactive experiences, explore identity, community, and the power of storytelling to foster a deeper sense of belonging. Whether you prefer to attend in-person or virtually, these events are free and open to all.

Courtesy of Jesse King

Exhibition Walkthrough with Jesse King
Wednesday, November 12, 5pm – 7pm
Onsite Gallery, Toronto
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Join us for a special walkthrough of Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982–2024) led by artist and curator Jesse King. Known for exploring themes of identity through their creative and curatorial practice, King will offer insights into Favell’s photographic works through the intersecting lenses of Indigiqueer expression, visual sovereignty, and cultural representation.

This event invites audiences to experience the exhibition from a unique perspective—one that merges personal and public storytelling with broader conversations around queerness, gender, and Indigenous presence in contemporary art.

Creative Writing x Onsite Gallery III
Friday, November 14, 5pm – 7pm
Onsite Gallery, Toronto
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Join us for a dynamic event showcasing OCAD U’s Creative Writing program community’s collective response to works in Onsite Gallery’s exhibition, Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982 to 2024) through an expressive public reading and recital of poetry, spoken word and experimental interpretations.

Photography by Zenab Kazmi

Kinship Through Art
Friday, November 21, 1pm – 3pm
Online via YouTube
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Join us for a compelling panel conversation where invited artists and researchers, Aylan Couchie, Meera Maragret Singh, Mallory Lowe Mpoka and Kai (Karyn) Recollet, delve into how familial histories, intergenerational memory, and kinship inform and inspire their creative practices and research. The panelists will share how personal and public archives come alive. Together, they reflect on how these layered, self-directed approaches to storytelling expand our understanding of identity, belonging, and collective memory. Moderated by Susan Jama

Current Exhibitions:

Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982 – 2024)
On view until December 6, 2025

Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982 – 2024) is the first retrospective of renowned Red River Metis artist Rosalie Favell, showcasing a powerful curated selection of her lens-based works from 1982 to 2024. This exhibition celebrates Favell’s groundbreaking photographic practice—from seminal series like Living Evidence and Plain(s) Warrior Artist to her expansive archive Facing the Camera—which invites us to bear witness and explore the complex themes of identity, empowerment, same-sex desire, community and the nuanced search for belonging through a lens that is both deeply personal and subtly subversive. Belonging (1982 -2024) is on view until December 6, 2025.

Check out our exclusive interview with Rosalie Favell.

Rosalie Favell | Facing the Camera: TSÍ TKARÒN:TO
On view until November 30, 2025

Presented as a unique, large-scale, mural on the façade of Onsite Gallery, Rosalie Favell’s TSÍ TKARÒN:TO comprises a suite of photographs selected from the Ottawa-based Red River Metis artist’s renowned portrait series Facing the Camera, a monumental national and international visual archive documenting the broad diversity of Indigenous arts and cultural communities. Facing the Camera: TSÍ TKARÒN:TO is on view until November 30, 2025.

About Onsite Gallery
www.ocadu.ca/onsite
Onsite Gallery, OCAD University’s flagship professional gallery, presents contemporary, Indigenous, and public art and design to advance knowledge creation and stimulate local and international conversations on the urgent issues of our time.

Onsite Gallery
199 Richmond Street West
Toronto, ON M5V 0H4

Gallery Hours
Wednesday: 12 – 7pm
Thursday to Saturday: 12 – 5pm

Gallery admission and all events are free.

Onsite Gallery is an accessible venue with all-gender, single-user washrooms.
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About OCAD University (OCAD U)
OCAD University (www.ocadu.ca) is Canada’s university of the imagination. Founded in 1876, the university is dedicated to art, design and digital media education, practice and research and to knowledge and invention across a wide range of disciplines.

Contact Information:
Susan Jama
Programs & Community Coordinator, Onsite Gallery
susanjama@ocadu.ca

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