Summer Exhibitions and Events

Top left: Abdi Osman, Discover Me Series…2, 2017. Top right: Sojourner Truth Parsons, Black and white bitches lose their minds, 2018. Acrylic, flashe, archival glue and canvas on canvas, 60 x 60”. Courtesy of Daniel Faria Gallery. Bottom left: Skawennati, Becoming Skywoman, machinimagraph from She Falls for Ages, 2016. Courtesy of the artist. Bottom right: Theodore Wan, Name Change, 1979. Postcard. Image courtesy of Kate Whiteway.

Join the Art Museum at the University of Toronto for our summer exhibitions and event series

Please note: Wheelchair access to University College, and therefore the Art Museum’s University of Toronto Art Centre location, will be closed due to University College building revitalization. Accommodations for accessibility are available upon request. The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery location in Hart House is wheelchair accessible.

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Symposium:

What do we mean when we say ‘content moderation’?

Digital Censorship, Surveillance, and Creative Workers

Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26, 2019

Registration is required for both days. Click here to purchase your ticket!

May 25
$20 general admission
$15 students / under-waged admission

May 26
Free admission

This interdisciplinary symposium addresses urgent concerns regarding control of digital space within and beyond the art and creative communities in Canadian and international contexts. It explores how artists and creators can contribute to a more ethical web. The symposium will explore three approaches as examples of artist- and tech-involved activism against two main and interconnected systems of oppression: artists as developers/co-developers of the Web’s Infrastructure; artistic “gestures” as activism against online censorship and surveillance; and storytelling—changing narratives through technology and science fiction. Learn more.

This event is organized by Pegah Vaezi 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. Project support provided by TD Insurance.

Variations in Black, Queer, and Otherwise: Works by Abdi Osman

June 5 – July 27, 2019

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Curated by Dina Georgis and Sara Matthews
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University of Toronto Art Centre

Abdi Osman is a Somali-Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on questions of African-ness and Black-ness in the diaspora. In this multi-part exhibition Variations in Black, Queer, and Otherwise the artist incorporates sound, narrative, still and moving image, and fabric into his works that offer complex iterations of subjectivity. Learn more.

Joint Opening Reception
Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 6-8pm

Christina Sharpe in conversation with Abdi Osman
Wednesday, July 17, 6:30-8pm

Drop-In Tours
Tuesdays, 2pm

This research has been supported by the University of Toronto and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Common Place: Common-Place

June 5 – July 27, 2019

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Works by: Patrick Cruz, Catherine Telford Keogh, Erika DeFreitas, Walter Scott, Sojourner Truth Parsons
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Curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis
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University of Toronto Art Centre

The artworks included in this exhibition engage with notions of a common place through a variety of entry points by their conceptual and material presences. The artworks are accumulations of interconnectivity—kinships within themselves, with each other and with us. Learn more.

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. Project support provided by TD Insurance.

Joint Opening Reception
Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 6-8pm

Drop-In Tours
Tuesdays, 2pm

In & Out of Saskatchewan

June 5 – July 27, 2019

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Works by: Pat Adams, Ryan Arnott, Tammi Campbell, Dagmara Genda, Roy Kiyooka, Kenneth Lochhead, William Perehudoff, Edward Poitras, Jon Vaughn, Theodore Wan
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Curated by Kate Whiteway
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University of Toronto Art Centre

In & Out of Saskatchewan is an exhibition about Saskatchewan in Toronto, exploring artists’ works to illuminate the conditions by which art from ‘peripheral’ places is legitimized by travelling to and from ‘centres.’ The works offer alternate views on traditions associated with the Prairies, namely colour field abstraction, landscape painting and photography, weaving and ceramics. Learn more.

Joint Opening Reception
Wednesday, June 5, 2019, 6-8pm

Drop-In Tours
Tuesdays, 2pm

Carrie Mae Weems, Heave, installation view, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY.

Carrie Mae Weems: Heave

Until – July 27, 2019

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Organized by the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and co-presented with Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
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Justina M. Barnicke Gallery

Throughout her artistic trajectory, noted American artist Carrie Mae Weems has undertaken sustained investigations of social conflict. The multi-part installation Heave combines photography, video, news media sampling, as well as ephemera to probe the devastating effects of violence in our life and time. The complex installation explores the spectacle of violence in our contemporary lives relocating this present within sustained histories of conflict and uprising.

Weems’ exhibition in five parts, sited at distinct locations across Toronto, represents the artist’s first solo exhibition in Canada. Her work will be presented in two gallery exhibitions, including a new iteration of her recent project, Heave (2018), at the Art Museum. The CONTACT Gallery will display a series of Weems’ photographic works, and present three major public art installations downtown, including on the exterior of the TIFF Bell Lightbox, the headquarters of the Toronto International Film Festival. More information.

Supported by Liza Mauer and Andrew Sheiner, Cindy and Shon Barnett, anonymous donor, and The Stonefields Foundation.

Exhibition Tours
Tuesdays at 2pm

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Art Museum at the University of Toronto gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.