Announcing the Art Museum’s Summer 2026 Exhibition Season

Celebrate the accomplishments of graduating students in U of T’s Master of Visual Studies programs through exciting new exhibitions

Images (clockwise from top left): Cullen Ritchie, Half Mile, 2026, video still, 16mm film print, digitized, 02:30 mins, looping, image courtesy of the artist; Pamila Matharu, Untitled 2, 2025, colour photograph, variable dimensions, image courtesy of the artist; Rita Ferrando, Modern Nature, 2026, film still, 1.33:1, colour, image courtesy of the artist; Helio Eudoro, Shrine, 2026, assemblage (detail), 30″ x 28″ x 24″, image courtesy of the artist.

2026 University of Toronto MVS Studio Art Graduating Exhibitions

May 1 – July 15, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 30, 6pm – 8pm
Architecture + Design Gallery
Daniels Building, 1 Spadina Crescent

Works by Helio Eudoro, Rita Ferrando, Pamila Matharu, and Cullen Ritchie

The Art Museum, in partnership with the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, is pleased to present the graduating projects of the 2026 Master of Visual Studies Studio Art graduate students Helio Eudoro, Rita Ferrando, Pamila Matharu, and Cullen Ritchie.

These exhibitions are produced as part of the requirements for the MVS Studio degree in Visual Studies at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto.

Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, Something from there, 2020. Still from video, 07:00 mins, Arabic, English (with subtitles in English). Image courtesy of the artist.

Little and Often

May 7 – August 1, 2026
Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 6, 6pm – 8pm
Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House Circle

Works by Maureen Gruben, Rachel Crummey, Miguel Caba, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, and Meech Boakye and Bhavika Sharma
Curated by Chloe Gordon-Chow

Little and Often traces how our relationships to land, material, and one another are sustained within conditions of precarity. From Palestine to the Philippines, Tuktoyaktuk to Toronto, life continues to be negotiated amidst ecological, political, and social disturbance. The exhibition does not imagine utopic futures or propose concrete resolutions. Little and Often looks around rather than forward to explore human-ecological entanglements and resiliencies on unstable terrain.

This exhibition is produced as part of the requirements for the MVS degree in Curatorial Studies at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto.

Shu Leah Cheang, UTTER (detail), 2023. Still from 36-minute video loop. Image courtesy of the artist.

Blind Spot

May 7 – August 1, 2026
Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 6, 6pm – 8pm
Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House Circle

Works by Shadi Habib Allah, Shu Lea Cheang, Jeremy Laing, Lou Sheppard, and Iris Touliatou
Curated by Gia Liapi

Blind Spot brings together five artists to examine how institutions and technologies decide what is seen, named, and valued. Across installation, video, performance, and software, these artists repurpose ‘default settings’—from museum archives and medical language to dictionaries, networks, and AI—to reveal the politics of classification. Meaning is made slippery in these artworks, disclosing the blind spots where control is negotiated and new forms of knowing and living can be imagined.

This exhibition is produced as part of the requirements for the MVS degree in Curatorial Studies at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto.

Public Programs

Opening Reception: 2026 MVS Studio Art Graduating Exhibition
Thursday, April 30, 2026, 6pm–8pm
Architecture + Design Gallery

Join the Art Museum, in partnership with the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, in celebrating the opening of the 2026 MVS Studio Art Graduating Exhibitions.

Opening Reception: 2026 MVS Curatorial Studies Graduating Exhibitions
Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 6pm–8pm
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery

Celebrate the opening of the 2026 MVS Curatorial Studies Program Graduating Exhibitions Little and Often, curated by Chloe Gordon-Chow, and Blind Spot, curated by Gia Liapi! Join us at the reception for welcoming remarks, student presentations, an awards ceremony, and a performance by artist Lou Sheppard, whose work is featured in the exhibition Blind Spot.

All programs are free and open to the public. More programs to be announced soon! For more information and to register, visit: artmuseum.utoronto.ca/programs/

Visiting the Art Museum

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Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7

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