Announcing the Art Museum’s Winter 2026 Exhibition Season

Opening February 25, Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt. and Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق challenge and explore the meanings of home and belonging

Las Nietas de Nonó, en el lugar de sal, 2018. Digital photograph on fabric, 16″ x 24″. Image courtesy of the artist.

Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt.: Terrestrial and Aquatic Contemplations of the Caribbean

February 25 – August 1, 2026
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 25, 6 – 8pm
Art Museum at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle

Works by Alexandre Arrechea, Charles Campbell, Carolina Caycedo, Giana De Dier, Braxton Garneau, Deborah Jack, Las Nietas de Nonó, Hew Locke, Farihah Aliyah Shah, and Kara Springer
Curated by Sally Frater and Michelle Jacques

Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt. offers a space of reflection about the Caribbean through the work of eleven artists, who continue to have familial and lived ties to the region. Each of the works speaks to an intimate engagement with the land, sharing a way of knowing it through physical experience and embodied knowledge. The work attests to the ways in which Caribbean communities resist, adapt, and create—sustaining powerful traditions of solidarity, cultural expression, and environmental care in the wake of the pressures of colonial legacies, social and economic inequity, and environmental incursions and climate change.

The exhibition is circulated by Remai Modern with the support of the Frank & Ellen Remai Foundation.

Hangama Amiri, Man With Vase of Tulips, 2024. Muslin, cotton, chiffon, velvet, polyester, silk, suede, and linen, 62.5″ x 53.5″. Image courtesy of the artist and T293, Rome. Photo by Blaine Campbell.

Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق

February 25 – April 11, 2026
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 25, 6 – 8pm
Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House Circle

Works by Hangama Amiri
Curated by Elizabeth Diggon

Hangama Amiri creates intricately layered textile compositions that muse on kinship, and memory, and the meaning of home. PARTING/فراق builds on an ongoing body of work that focuses on the artist’s personal history and diasporic experience during the nine-year period of familial separation that followed her family’s migration from Kabul in 1996, when the artist was seven years old. In the present, Amiri draws on family photographs and letters to create dense and lush collages that tend to her and her family’s daily lives in the diaspora, and witness the immense labour of caring for a family amidst migration and separation.

Organized and circulated by Esker Foundation, Calgary.

Carolina Caycedo, Fuel to Fire, 2022. Still from video, 07:34 mins. Image courtesy of the artist.

Public Programs

Opening Reception: Winter 2026 Exhibitions
Wednesday, February 25, 6 – 8pm
University of Toronto Art Centre and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery

Join the Art Museum in celebrating the public opening of exhibitions Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt.: Terrestrial and Aquatic Contemplations of the Caribbean and Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق

Contemporary Art Bus Tour: Art Museum to the Blackwood
Saturday, February 28, 11:30am – 4pm
University of Toronto Art Centre, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, and the Blackwood Gallery

Join the free Contemporary Art Bus for an afternoon of curator-led tours of four exhibitions. Stops include Land. Sea. Sugar. Salt. and Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق at the Art Museum, and STIM CINEMA and Spreads from the Multiverse at the Blackwood Gallery. Registration details coming soon.

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

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
(in Hart House)
7 Hart House Circle
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H3

University of Toronto Art Centre
(in University College)
15 King’s College Circle
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H7

Admission is free. All are welcome.

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Tuesday to Saturday, 12 noon – 5pm
Wednesday, 12 noon – 8pm
Sunday and Monday closed

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