Sight Lines and Fault Lines: 2026 University of Toronto Scarborough Studio Art Graduating Exhibition

Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough

Sight Lines and Fault Lines
2026 University of Toronto Scarborough Studio Art Graduating Exhibition

April 14 – April 16, 2026
Opening Reception and Artist Talks: Saturday, April 11, 2 – 5pm
10-minute artist talks will take place at 2:45pm, 3:30pm, and 4:15pm
Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough

Faculty mentors: Lee Goreas and Will Kwan

The Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) is pleased to present Sight Lines and Fault Lines, an exhibition and publication featuring works by graduating students in the Studio Art Program.

The title of the exhibition offers two spatial analogies that harbour multiple, opposing connotations. A sight line establishes a link between an observer and an object by centring the gaze. A fault line is a fissure that portends an eventual fracturing and potentially convulsive event. Yet both analogies also carry within them the idea of an opening up, the emergence of a clearing, the creation of a zone of passage.

The forty artworks in the exhibition—encompassing painting, collage, photography, video, animation, sculpture, and installation—navigate a similar terrain of contradiction, tackling subject matter where competing realities coexist: the recognition of unseen labour, the increasing reliance on biased and harmful technologies, natural systems altered by human intervention, and the lived experience of diasporas in a world more hostile to difference. The artists in the exhibition do not turn away from this confounding state of affairs, but instead respond with humour and play, critique and satire, tenderness and hope.

About the Doris McCarthy Gallery and the Studio Art Program in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, UTSC

Since 2019, the Doris McCarthy Gallery has presented the University of Toronto Scarborough Studio Art Graduating Exhibition as part of the gallery’s commitment to offering curricular and experiential learning opportunities to students at the University of Toronto Scarborough. Gallery staff offer support and professional guidance throughout the development of the exhibition. This experience provides what is often a first opportunity for students to engage with a professional gallery and to present their work in a public venue.

The Studio Art Program in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough offers courses in a wide range of established and emerging artistic media. Our students learn to utilize artistic knowledge as tools to engage social, political, and ecological challenges locally and globally. The artistic training and experience offered by the University of Toronto Scarborough Studio Art program provides a rigorous visual art education for students interested in careers in the cultural and design sectors as well as for those intending to pursue advanced study in art and the humanities at the graduate level.

The Department of Arts, Culture, and Media is a multi-disciplinary research, teaching and creative environment at the University of Toronto Scarborough with programs in Art History and Visual Culture; Arts Management; Journalism; Media Studies, Music and Culture; Music Industry and Technology; New Media Studies; Studio Art; and Theatre and Performance.

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University of Toronto Scarborough
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Gallery Hours:
Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 11am – 4pm
Wednesday, 11am – 7pm
Saturday, 11am – 5pm

Admission is free.
Open to the public.
The gallery is wheelchair accessible.

Department of Arts, Culture and Media
University of Toronto Scarborough
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1265 Military Trail
Toronto, ON M1C 1A4
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Image Description:
1. A landscape photograph of a forested suburban area rotated ninety degrees. Superimposed onto the foreground of the landscape is a field of thin, multicoloured lines and rectangular blocks that give the impression of a corrupted image file.