Onsite Gallery invites you to celebrate the simultaneous launch of three new exhibitions, Becoming (in the light of the miracle) + The Delaney Family Emerging Curator’s Prize: Metabolic Loop + Diego Santamaría (HIDROCK) | The Shared Flight at our opening reception on Wednesday, January 21, from 5pm to 7pm.

Alex McLeod, 333 (detail), 2025. Image courtesy of the artist in collaboration with his PC.

Becoming (in the light of the miracle)

January 21 – May 16, 2026

Guest curated by Farah Yusuf, Becoming (in the light of the miracle) is an exhibition about emergent phenomena, spanning deep time to AI. The artworks draw inspiration from natural systems, neural networks, and social structures revealing how complexity occurs from simple rule-based interactions to create a whole that is more than the sum of its parts. Becoming (in the light of the miracle) invites viewers to consider other-than-human natures, how they might cohere as entities and come into being. Featured artists are Alexander McLeod, Catherine Blackburn, Camille Jodoin-Eng, Diane Landry, Ingrid Bachmann, Meryl McMaster, Robert Hengeveld, Sarah Friend and Zev Farber.

Becoming (in the light of the miracle) is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario through the Curatorial Projects: Indigenous and Culturally Diverse program.

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Maria Simmons, Membranous Boundaries (detail), 2025. Image by Sasha Azanova.

The Delaney Family Emerging Curator’s Prize: Metabolic Loop

January 21 – May 16, 2026

Guest curated by GAS Collective (Steffi Ng & Gizem Candan), recipients of the annual 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 Simmon. It foregrounds their artistic practices that render largely inaccessible environments such as peatlands, and invisible experiences such as metabolism more accessible, accentuating the tension and balance involved in translating natural phenomena into gallery spaces through technological means.

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Diego Santamaría (HIDROCK), The Shared Flight, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.

Diego Santamaría (HIDROCK) | The Shared Flight

Exterior Mural
On view until April 30, 2026

In collaboration with Culturans, a Mexico City–based NGO dedicated to reimagining cities as vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable spaces, Onsite Gallery presents a new digital mural by Mexican artist Diego Santamaría (HIDROCK). HIDROCK’s mural The Shared Flight (2025) brings together the creative spirit of Mexico and Canada in a vivid celebration of connection and reciprocity. Two countries meet not from afar, but through mutual recognition—their stories, colours, and roots intertwine cultural worldviews to imagine futures that are resilient, sustainable, and profoundly human. The Shared Flight brings the bold energy of the Neomexicanism movement to Toronto’s streets.

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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

Gallery admission and all events are free.

Onsite Gallery is an accessible venue with all-gender, single-user washrooms.
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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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