Photo by Zenab Kazmi

What’s on at Onsite Gallery

You’re warmly invited to take part in Onsite Gallery’s upcoming Spring programs, presented in conjunction with current exhibitions Becoming (in the light of the miracle) + The Delaney Family Emerging Curator’s Prize: Metabolic Loop. Through engaging talks and interactive experiences, discover the dynamic world of emergence, natural phenomena, and the interconnectedness of diverse worldviews.

Whether you prefer to attend in-person or virtually, these events are free and open to all.

Camille Jodoin-Eng, Cityscape (detail), 2023, Glass, wood, laundry lint, metallic leaf, electrical components, 12″ x 12″ x 12″. Photo: Polina Teif

Becoming Stories
Wednesday, March 25, 12:30 – 2:30pm
Onsite Gallery, Toronto
Registration is limited. To register, email onsite@ocadu.ca

Onsite Gallery invites Becoming (in the light of the miracle) artists Alex McLeod, Camille Jodoin-Eng and Zev Farber to share their stories that extend beyond professional trajectories, but also the creative and personal journeys that have shaped their practice. The storying intention is to create space for participants to learn about layered narratives, moments of growth, transition, challenge, and inspiration, that illuminate career development and the evolving selves behind the artworks.

Re-Imagining Through Art
Thursday, March 26, 1 – 3pm
Online via YouTube
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Join Onsite Gallery for a thought-provoking virtual panel featuring Peter Scott, Kwasi Bugyei and Emmanuel Osahor as they discuss how their creative practices, research, and artistic production engage with the re-constructing of histories, the re-building of legacies, and the re-imagining of Afro/Black/Indigenous futurities. Through photography, painting, textiles, and film, this discussion brings together panellists who challenge dominant narratives, center lived and ancestral knowledge, and reimagine past, present, and future as something we shape together, with others, with machines, and with the world.

Stay involved with a live Q&A session, moderated by Onsite Gallery’s Programs & Community Coordinator, Susan Jama.

ASL Interpretation will be available.

Pictured (left to right): Maria Simmons, Gizem Candan, Steffi Ng Sin Tung and Alyssa Alikpala. Photo: Brian Medina

Metabolic Loop Curatorial Tour with Gizem Candan and Steffi Ng Sin Tung (GAS Collective)
Friday, April 10, 3:30 – 4:30pm
Onsite Gallery, Toronto
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Join guest curators Gizem Candan and Steffi Ng Sin Tung of GAS Collective for an in-person curatorial tour of Metabolic Loop, offering exclusive insights into the exhibition’s themes, process, and vision, inviting the public to engage directly with the artworks.

Embodied Traces: In Conversation with Alyssa Alikpala and Maria Simmons
Saturday, April 11, 1 – 3pm
Onsite Gallery, Toronto
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Artists Alyssa Alikpala and Maria Simmons will be in conversation with guest curators, Gizem Candan and Steffi Ng Sin Tung (GAS Collective). Together, they will discuss their work through the lenses of metabolism, rituals and material memories, sharing ways to experience these ephemeral traces within a gallery setting. The discussion will be followed by sharing Simmons’ edible fermentations with bog-centred flavours and a tactile table featuring Alikpala’s material samples.

Current Exhibitions

Guest curated by Farah Yusuf, Becoming (in the light of the miracle) is a group exhibition about emergent phenomena, spanning deep time to AI with works featured by artists Alexander McLeod, Catherine Blackburn, Camille Jodoin-Eng, Diane Landry, Ingrid Bachmann, Meryl McMaster, Robert Hengeveld, Sarah Friend and Zev Farber.

Guest curated by GAS Collective (Steffi Ng & Gizem Candan), The Delaney Family Emerging Curator’s Prize: Metabolic Loop explores the in-betweenness of natural and artificial environments through the concept of metabolism. Metabolic Loop is a two-person exhibition featuring immersive works by artists Alyssa Alikpala and Maria Simmons.

On view until May 16, 2026

About Onsite Gallery
www.ocadu.ca/onsite
Onsite Gallery, OCAD University’s flagship professional gallery, presents contemporary, Indigenous, and public art and design to advance knowledge creation and stimulate local and international conversations on the urgent issues of our time.

Onsite Gallery
199 Richmond Street West
Toronto, ON M5V 0H4

Gallery Hours
Wednesday: 12 – 7pm
Thursday to Saturday: 12 – 5pm

Onsite Gallery is closed on Friday, April 3 and Saturday, April 4, 2026.

Gallery admission and all events are free.

Onsite Gallery is an accessible venue with all-gender, single-user washrooms.
» Detailed accessibility information found here

About OCAD University (OCAD U)
OCAD University (www.ocadu.ca) is Canada’s university of the imagination. Founded in 1876, the university is dedicated to art, design and digital media education, practice and research and to knowledge and invention across a wide range of disciplines.

Contact Information:
Susan Jama
Programs & Community Coordinator, Onsite Gallery
susanjama@ocadu.ca

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