Ali Sheikh: Loudest Sound

Presented by The Collective City Gallery Project

Ali Sheikh, Panorama

Ali Sheikh: Loudest Sound

January 21 – February 1, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 22, 6pm – 9pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 24, 1pm
Dupont Rail Gallery, Toronto
*Artist in residence on weekends

Collective City Arts is proud to present Loudest Sound, an exhibition by artist Ali Sheikh, January 22 to February 1 at the Dupont Rail Gallery. This exhibition is the first of eight shows being hosted in the 2026 season, by the Collective City Arts Gallery Project.

Ali Shiekh, Guido, 2025

Loudest Sound, a collection of recent works by Ali Sheikh, articulates a collision between information, noise, and affective experience. The cultural privileging of the visual against our simultaneous reliance on the auditory is explored through oil painting and site-responsive installation.

Informed by personal reference points and frameworks of the sublime and phenomenology. This series considers how listening, musical structures, and sensory dissonance shape human connection.

Ali Sheikh, Until the Timing Is Felt and Understood

About the Artist

Ali Sheikh (b. 2001) is a painter and illustrator working in Toronto. Sheikh received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University in 2024. His current practice is tethered to questions of emotional conduits and our trans fixation with sound. He seeks to express the intensities of life through oil paint, ink, pencil, and found object.

Collective City Gallery Project | Upcoming Exhibitions

Miriam Arbus: Pluvial Runoff
February 18 – March 1, 2026

Artists Annette Mangaard and Nathan Bruce and curator Miriam Arbus, propose Pluvial Runoff, an interactive site-specific installation that challenges viewers to reflect on our current climate crisis. This immersive exhibition will invite active participation through motion-responsive experiences

Jes Young: Single Serve
March 25 – April 5, 2026

Single Serve is an installation celebrating things we hold sacred in our normal routines; from essentials to vices, these things we buy, use, and then immediately discard; allowing for urban wildlife to discover and thrive.

About The Collective City Gallery Project

The Gallery Project will stage eight shows during the 2026 season that will feature the work of independent artists, arts collectives and curators not represented by a commercial gallery or institution in the Greater Toronto Region to showcase their work at no cost.

The Project aims to make the shows accessible to as broad a public as possible, allowing Collective City Arts to provide a public service to the community, a model for which does not otherwise currently exist In Toronto. For more information about the Collective City Arts Gallery Project visit The Gallery Project.

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Dupont Rail Gallery
1444 Dupont Street, Unit 10
Toronto, ON M6P 4H3

Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm – 5pm

Accessibility: Dupont Rail Gallery is fully accessible. For more information, visit Dupont Rail Gallery.