Gallery at Home

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Art Museum at University of Toronto
Watch videos of past lectures, artist talks, and panel discussions; browse their online library of exhibition essays; and explore their permanent collections comprised of over 7,000 objects.
https://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/

Queen Elizabeth Park Cultural Centre, Town of Oakville:
Skye Stachowski: Skye’s Eye
Brenton Wang: My Robot Friend
Oakville Fibre Artists
Southern Ontario Visual Artists
Oakville Quilters’ Guild: Up, Up and Away

 https://www.facebook.com/QEPCCC/

Beyond Here Lies Nothing
https://www.bradnecyk.com/beyond-here-lies-nothing

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Artlab Gallery Virtual Exhibition • Showcasing Artwork of the BFA Practicum Class of 2020 at the Department of Visual Arts, Western University
https://www.uwo.ca/visarts/practicum2020/

Seneca Illustration (Virtual) Graduation Show 2020
http://www.senecaillustration.ca/gradshow/

Toronto Biennial of Art
Short Format Podcast Series
In expanding dialogues around the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art, selected artists discuss their practice and processes in a series of short format podcasts. Participating artists and collectives include Adrian Blackwell, Ayumi Goto, Caroline Monnet, Diane Borsato, Isuma, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Life of a Craphead, Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak, Maria Thereza Alves, Syrus Marcus Ware, and Tsēmā Igharas.
https://torontobiennial.org/programs-tba-podcast/

Henderson Lee Gallery
Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart: Animal Logic
A Featured Exhibition of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival
Online May 2020
www.hendersonleegallery.com

Contact Photography Show
Presenting highlights of the full roster of exhibitions online planned for Toronto’s celebrated month-long May Festival.
https://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/

Arts Etobicoke
Etobicoke artists and members showcase their works in an exciting interactive digital exhibition.
https://www.artsetobicoke.com/shifting-environs/

Latitude 53
Karen Kraven: Lull
Online exhibition
https://www.latitude53.org/lull

Simon Fraser University, School for the Contemporary Arts
RECURSION: BFA Project 2020
http://www.sfu.ca/content/sfu/sca/events—news/events/recursion.html
Skoden Indigenous Film Festival 2020
http://www.sfu.ca/sca/projects—activities/skoden-indigenous-film-festival.html
Next Online: The 4×3 Tragedy of Hamlet.
http://www.sfu.ca/content/sfu/sca/events—news/events/next-online–the-4×3-tragedy-of-hamlet.html

Queen Elizabeth Park Cultural Centre, Town of Oakville
Kristina Bradt: Fortunate
https://www.facebook.com/QEPCCC/

McMichael Canadian Art Collection
ArtVenture Online #McMichaelFromHome
https://mcmichael.com/artventure-online/

Queen Elizabeth Park Cultural Centre, Town of Oakville
Live Music, Vitrine Installation by Anna Lefsrud
https://www.facebook.com/QEPCCC/

Queen Elizabeth Park Cultural Centre, Town of Oakville
This is Mine, Drawings by David McClyment
https://www.facebook.com/QEPCCC/

A Book A Day
by Hotam Press Bookshop/Gallery
We are entering the third week of our online exhibition of artist’s books. Each day we will upload a new book.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ML-NAWQ0CTuzlOj47pyXw/videos

Ryerson Image Centre
Explore highlights from the photographs collection, watch over 60 videos of past artist talks and panel discussions, and listen to the Sightlines podcast, produced in collaboration with The Walrus Lab.

Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
The Hissing Folly by Cole Swanson
https://www.vac.ca/coleswanson.html

Art Gallery of Hamilton
AGH at Home
https://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/exhibition/agh-at-home/

PAVED Arts
Virtual Talk and Tour: Pippa Lattey / Into Orbit
Facebook Watch Party (https://www.facebook.com/events/261921311475677/)
Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 7pm

Virtual Tour of Stephen Bulger Gallery
Introduction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcFueHjot4I&feature=youtu.be
Virtual Tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlSK41RVH9c&feature=youtu.be
Stephen Bulger’s Interest in Photographs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fstiuR_55I

Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art
The Aura – a new podcast series
https://fondation-phi.org/en/article/the-aura-podcast-series/

Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
A piece of cloth, held taut (this is a commissioned audio art project in response to works of art in The Myth of Consensus, one of our current/now-closed exhibitions)
Artist: Aislinn Thomas
https://kwag.ca/content/myth-consensus

Centennial College first year Fine Arts Studio students
Metamorphosis
http://www.urbangallery.ca/

Varley Art Gallery
Varley’s 2020 Community-Artist-in-Residence, Annie Wong, was invited to Takeover the Varley Art Gallery Instagram from March 24 – 30 to give us some insight into her curatorial work, her art practice and her experience.
https://www.instagram.com/varleyartgallery/

The Social Distancing Festival
https://www.socialdistancingfestival.com/

Midi Onodera – film, video and interactive
http://midionodera.com/

An audio project by Aislinn Thomas with Anna Bowen, Angela Marie Schenstead, Crystal Mowry, Laura Burke, Catherine Frazee, Nicole Kelly Westman, and Shannon Finnegan
A distinct aggregation / A dynamic equivalent / A generous ethic of invention: Six writers respond to six sculptures

Koffler Digital
https://koffler.digital/

AkimboTV
https://akimbo.ca/akimblog/?fwp_categories_list=akimbotv

National Gallery of Canada
Invites you to read their online Magazine and to visit their YouTube channel to continue enjoying art from the national collection during this exceptional closure.

Bridget Moser
My Crops Are Dying But My Body Persists (2020)
Currently on view at Remai Modern which is currently closed to the public until gatherings become safe again. So please watch from home!

Esker Foundation – Watch & Listen
Latest mini-documentaries, exhibition montages, and insights from current and previous exhibiting artists, curators, programmers, preparators, and community members to discover more about their exhibitions and programs.
https://eskerfoundation.com/watch-and-listen/

The Walrus
Over 850 Talks on video and free journalism including their May cover story The Anatomy of a Pandemic.

Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University
On OwensTV you can watch artist talks, interviews, behind the scenes videos and more from the last ten years at the Owens.

Art Gallery of Ontario
Online Collections

URGNT LIVE
An ad hoc crowd-funded livestream series of 19 concerts in empty venues created in response to the covid-19 outbreak.
https://www.urgnt.ca/

International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA)
38th edition of the Festival is online
https://www.artfifa.com/en