XXXX Collective presents Threshold, an investigation of the physical and perceptual bounds informing bodily experience. The threshold is a point of demarcation, indicating the start of a new state or experience, and marking the point of the smallest detectable sensation. Threshold traverses the border between the permanent and malleable, the internal and external, the perceptible and imperceptible, and the spaces where things are not yet classified as one or the other.
XXXX Collective consists of Shannon Garden-Smith, Corrie Jackson, Emily Smit-Dicks and Polina Teif
Curated by Elizabeth Parke, a doctoral candidate in the University of Toronto Department of Art, this exhibition, installed in the UTAC art lounge, comprises 16 posters from the Mark Gayn Collection housed at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. The installation examines representations of the worker produced 1963 - 1967 during the upheavals of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Organized by UTAC and curated by Heather Diack, this exhibition reflects on the compelling power of photography to create relationships. The title plays off the collectors’ own confession that “we did not collect photography, photography collected us.” This exhibition explores the enigmatic humanity that is contained in each photographic moment collected by the Malcolmsons and how the very notion of a collection is held in tension by the disjuncture between being alone and being together simultaneously.
Right: John Vanderpant, Angles in Black and White, gelatin silver print, print: c. 1930. Collection of Ann and Harry Malcolmson
6 September – 26 November 2011 Organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, an affiliate of the National Gallery of Canada
Curated by Martha Hanna this exhibition highlights Angela Grauerholz’s photographic career over the past twenty-five years. Hanna particularly focuses on the way in which Grauerholz broadens our consideration of the medium of photography and explores photography in relation to time and memory, its relationship to archives and collections, to representation and to the collective imagination.
Angela Grauerholz, Privation Logo Book No. 146 (front), 2011, Angela Grauerholz / Courtesy Art 45, Montreal
30 April – 25 June 2011
Curated by Matthew Brower and Carla Garnet Organized by the University of Toronto Art Centre and the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
In May 2011 UTAC and Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival will mount Suzy Lake: Political Poetics a major themed exhibition of the work of a seminal figure in the history of Canadian art and feminist practice on the international stage.
30 April – 31 May 2011 Curated by Vanessa Fleet and Kristin Stoesz
A Master of Museum Studies Thesis Project A Featured Exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
Provocative and seductive, Chris Curreri’s images construct new and unexpected relationships between the human form and found objects. He treats his model's bodies as porous and pliable figures that are bent and contorted to destabilize the boundary between subject and object.
Sanaugaq: Things Made by Hand The 1950s mark the birth of the Inuit fine art industry, which quickly grew to national and international acclaim. Its origins, however, are complex and inextricably entwined with commercialism. Sanuagaq is a critical examination of these roots, seeking to explore the tensions between artistic expression and commercial expectations which arise from creating Northern art for a Southern audience. Join us also for a complementary symposium featuring some of the most progressive Inuit art experts discussing issues surrounding the curation and representation of contemporary Inuit art.
This Master of Museum Studies thesis exhibition is curated by Rheanne Chartrand, Lianne Maitland, Rebecca Noone and Lisa Truong.
Opening Reception: Thursday 31 March 2011 6 -- 8 pm
In January 2011 the University of Toronto Art Centre (UTAC) will mount the first major exhibition to highlight the riches and diversity of the University College Art Collection as a whole. Created largely through the generosity of donors over many generations, the University College Collection comprises some 500 works of art which range in date from the earliest years of the College to the present day.
Collection of Nicholas Bonner, courtesy of The Korea Society Gallery
North Korean Images at Utopia’s Edge spans three decades and features 24 wood block prints from the Nicholas Bonner Collection. These prints offer a fascinating picture of North Korean conceptions of daily life and work, family and "Fatherland." Four subject areas delineate the contours of North Korea’s vision of an earthly paradise: harmonious families, plenteous landscapes, male laborers and women at work.
Organized by The Korea Society andpresented by the Centre for the Study of Korea, Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and the University of Toronto Art Centre
ONE AT A TIME presented by Hart House and the University of Toronto Art Centre
A glistening mound of 1 million pennies devised by Canadian artist Gerald Ferguson is one of the exciting art projects that visitors will encounter at Hart House and the University of Toronto’s Art Centre. Other highlights include Marina Abramovic/Ulay's sensational performance Imponderabilia, involving two naked performers facing each other across an entrance way; and Orgasm Energy Chart, a widely disseminated questionnaire by General Idea first issued during the late 1960s sexual revolutions.
All projects involve artists’ interest in devising new frameworks through which we might see and experience the world, including ourselves and others.
19 June to 24 July 2010 Organized by the Doris McCarthy Gallery and Co-Presented with UTAC
On the occasion of Doris McCarthy’s one-hundredth birthday in July 2010, Roughing It in the Bush is a celebration of her inspiring life and work. With this exhibition, curator Nancy Campbell highlights an area of McCarthy’s practice that still remains relatively unexplored, looking at her much-loved art in a new way.
As CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival recognizes the influence of Marshall McLuhan on the 30th anniversary of his death, this biographical exhibition hosted at the University of Toronto’s Art Centre’s art lounge supports the adjoining The Brothel Without Walls exhibition by examining Marshall McLuhan’s life and thought in relation to photography. Utilizing archival material, this exhibit looks at McLuhan’s reflections on the photographic medium, while examining representations of this influential scholar in art and media.
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada c. 1965-1980 is the first major account of the development of Conceptual Art in Canada from the mid 1960s to the early 1980s. By far one of the most important and long-lasting art movements of the 20th Century, Conceptual Art originated within the social and political turmoil of the 1960s – from feminism and gay liberation to anti-racism and anti-war movements – and presented a profound challenge to the institution of art.
The exhibition is entitled Portrait of a Patron as the 60 to 70 works it will comprise stem from the collection of one individual: Janusz Dukszta. Dr. Dukszta first commissioned a portrait of himself from Olaf von Brinkenhoff in 1953, and has repeated this exercise on a regular basis since that time.
The Brothel Without Walls opening at the University of Toronto Art Centre on May 1 is the gallery’s inaugural Primary Exhibition for the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival. Presented in partnership with Scotiabank CONTACT this provoking show explores photography’s role in our contemporary media environment through the lens of communications guru Marshall McLuhan on the thirtieth anniversary of his death and one year before his centenary begins.
Presented by SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) in collaboration with UTAC
5 May to 1 August 2009
The One Year Drawing Project, is an experimental drawing exchange involving four of Sri Lanka’s most critically acclaimed contemporary artists - Muhanned Cader, Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan, Chandraguptha Thenuwara and Jagath Weerasinghe.
The University of Toronto Art Centre and the Master of Musem Studies program present an exhibition curated by Valentine Moreno on the embodiment of abstraction, featuring works from the University of Toronto collection.
Organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Chipstone Foundation with generous support from the Windgate Charitable Foundation
8 September to 5 December 2009
Gord Peteran uses all of: fine cabinetry, found objects, assemblage and sculptural techniques to create a series of works that do no function as furniture, that are quite distinct from craft and which are not classifiable as design.
Organized and Circulated by the Windsor Printmaker's Forum
5 May to 1 August 2009
Sense of Place is a cross-border juried print exhibition organized and circulated by the Windsor Printmaker’s Forum and juried by Iain Baxter&, Nancy Sojka and James Patten. The show brings together works by 30 artists from Canada and Michigan exploring the theme of place through printmaking.
Sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts
8 September to 5 December 2009
This exhibition of recent work will explore the body and the mentally prosthetic nature of our possessions, fitting neatly into the 2009-2010Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Artspressures on humans”.
A multiple-channel video installation by Mieke Bal
Visitors are invited to sit in armchairs or on sofas, around them women speak to someone else. The interlocutors are people close to them, intimates, but the relationship with whom has been interrupted due to the migration of the women’s children: a grand-child she didn’t see grow up; a child-in-law she didn’t choose or approve of; the emigrated child; in one case, three generations. The intimacy, but sometimes a slight uneasiness, is characteristic of the situation. Sometimes you hear the other voice, sometimes not.
This exhibition showcases both emerging and established designers and craft makers, alongside seminal artists who spearheaded the tradition of interpreting and celebrating Canadian countryside and wildlife in their artwork.
Combines car art galleries, original Xbox games, trampoline Second Life controllers, and architectural intervention to explore new communities of creative practice.
Jeff Thomas’ photographs explore the symbolic juxtapositions of past and present, historical imagery and contemporary reality, in the relationship of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples in North America. Drive-by is a road trip of inter-cultural exploration with Thomas at the wheel.
Irreverantly titled, this exhibition highlights academic and genre painting from the UC and UofT Collections, and shows that despite losing ground in the modern period, such works still have much to offer.
The Malcove Vision emphasizes the range and breadth of the Malcove collection by bringing together rarely seen objects from the collection in order to illuminate the consistency of the underlying aesthetic vision.
Living in the Landscape presents a small selection of Canadian paintings from the first half of the twentieth century. With one exception they offer images of rural and small-town Canada. They depict the habitations that generations of Canadians have created, or, at least, the marks that Canadians have left on their surrounding terrain through toil and cultivation.
This exhibition will constitute an important retrospective of the artist’s remarkable 25-year career as a painter and will provide the public with an opportunity to view this oeuvre in its entirety for the first time.
Considered together the works in Figure, Form and Ground allow an investigation of some of the major modes in which painting and drawing exert their claims on the viewer.
In 2008 University College received by bequest from Gail Sheard (UC B.A. 3T7) a gift of eleven works of art. This bequest has filled some gaps. Up to now, no works by Léon Bellefleur, Yvette Boulanger, Suzanne Guité or Robert Pilot were held in the collections cared for by the University of Toronto Art Centre.
Graduating Exhibition of Deanna Bowen, Erika De Freitas and Dara Gellman
1 April to 12 April, 2008
Linked by their investigations of duality and mirroring, memory, absence and presence, these three solo exhibitions incorporate works in video, photography, sculpture, and audio.
Works by the Group of Seven, and others, in UTAC Collections
Ongoing to 12 April, 2008
This exhibition, which is a celebration of the joys of nature as depicted by members of the Group of Seven, their contemporaries and others, is divided into three broad and overlapping sections. “The Waters” focuses on typical cottage country; “The Woods” offers images of cool and quiet shade; and “The Wild” presents more distant and panoramic landscapes.
For CITIES, John Hartman, one of Canada's leading contemporary painters, has painted cities both large and small: from Parry Sound, Port Severn and Owen Sound to London, New York, Toronto, Montreal and Glasgow.
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Canadian Art and Design
VEHICLE
A Road Trip with Jeff Thomas
18th and 19th Century Art
Works from the University's Permanent Collections
Paintings 1950-1975
27 January to 14 March 2009
To the University College Art Collection
Works by the Group of Seven, and others, in UTAC Collections
John Hartman