The Image Centre

Current Exhibitions & Programs Past Exhibitions

• 2022 / core / exhibition

  

  Scotiabank Photography Award: Deanna Bowen. Black Drones in the Hive

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  Drawing on collections and archival materials, Bowen weaves together narrative threads of migration, racist dispossession, entrenched power networks, and hierarchies of remembrance
• 2022 / core / exhibition

  

  The Optics of Science: Early Western Stereographs from The Dr. Martin Bass and Gail Silverman Bass Collection

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  Focusing in on stereographic representations of Western science at a time of unprecedented change
• 2022 / core / exhibition

  

  Andréanne Michon

  états d’esprit – states of mind

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  A mixed-media installation addressing the dramatic forces of the Anthropocene and its irremediable consequences
• 2022 / core / exhibition

  

  CANADA NOW: New Photography Acquisitions

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  Ten Canadian artists employing photographic media to engage with issues of identity and belonging
• 2022 / core / exhibition

  

  Mauvais Genre/Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers

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  A photographic collection offering a candid look into the hidden worlds of people defying gender conventions
• 2022 / core / exhibition

  

  Red All Over: World War II Press Photographs From the Sovfoto Agency

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  Interrogating practices of photojournalism in photographs made in the USSR and Eastern Europe during World War II
• 2022 / core / exhibition

  

  Dominique Blain

  Dérive/Drift

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  A delicate, composite seascape commemorating the countless migrants who sail in search of freedom
• 2022 / core / exhibition

  

  From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective

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  A comprehensive selection of works exemplifying a unique, transcontinental, queer photographic vision
• 2022 / open call / exhibition

  

  Heather Rattray

  Things That I Know, Things That You Know

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• 2022 / open call / exhibition

  

  Chris Donovan

  The Cloud Factory

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• 2020 / core

  

  Scotiabank Photography Award: Stephen Waddell

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• 2019 / primary exhibition

  

  Meryl McMaster

  As Immense as the Sky

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• 2019 / primary exhibition

  

  Scotiabank Photography Award: Moyra Davey

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• 2017 / primary exhibition

  

  Suzy Lake

  Scotiabank Photography Award

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• 2017 / primary exhibition

  

  Max Dean

  As Yet Untitled

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• 2017 / primary exhibition

  

  Jeff Barnaby, Michelle Latimer, Kent Monkman

  Souvenir

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• 2016 / primary exhibition

  

  Angela Grauerholz

  Scotiabank Photography Award

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• 2016 / primary exhibition

  

  Annie MacDonell

  Holding Still // Holding Together

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• 2015 / primary exhibition

  

  Scott Conarroe

  Canada By Rail and By Sea

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• 2015 / primary exhibition

  

  Mark Ruwedel

  Scotiabank Photography Award

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• 2015 / featured exhibition

  

  A Telling Portrait : The Work and Collection of Michael Mitchell

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• primary exhibition

  

  Scotiabank Photography Award

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  May 1–Jun 1,  2014
• primary exhibition

  

  Faces and Phases

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  May 1–Jun 1,  2014
• 2013 / primary exhibition

  

  Arthur S. Goss

  Works and Days

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• 2013 / primary exhibition

  

  Arnaud Maggs

  Scotiabank Photography Award

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• 2023 / core / exhibition

  

  Sharing the Frame: Photographic Objects from the Lorne Shields Historical Photograph Collection (1840–1970)

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  This exhibition presents 19th and 20th century vernacular objects from the Lorne Shields Historical Photograph Collection at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Libraries. Donated in 2009, the collection comprises over 2,300 photographic objects, including snapshots, albums, cartes-de-visite, and lantern slides, depicting travel views, recreational and educational scenes, and family portraits. Together, these objects reveal a Western colonial desire for visual consumption in domestic, public, and commercial settings.
• 2023 / core / exhibition

  

  Jane Jin Kaisen

  Braiding and Mending

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  The two-channel video Braiding and Mending features South Korean-Danish artist Jane Jin Kaisen sitting with her sisters and nieces in a circle, the camera revolving around them in calm, meditative movements. Each participant combs and braids the hair of the woman in front of her, connecting them all in a perpetual cycle. The braiding becomes a memory-making gesture, and a process of mutual care and healing.
• 2023 / core / exhibition

  

  Jin-me Yoon

  Scotiabank Photography Award

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  Korean-born, Vancouver-based artist Jin-me Yoon reflects critically upon the construction of national and diasporic identities in relation to her personal experience and broader geopolitical contexts. Winner of the Scotiabank Photography Award (2022), she repurposes visual stereotypes and dominant narratives to explore gender, culture, and citizenship in a globalized era, reframing some of today’s most pressing issues, including the impacts of colonialism, militarization, displacement, and environmental devastation.
• 2023 / open call / exhibition

  

  Katrin Faridani

  Interconnected: From the Tap to the Lake and Back

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