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2022 — ExhibitionI am my own museCorkin Gallery
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artistVivek ShrayaVivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, and film. Her album Part-Time Woman was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize, and her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel.” She is also the founder of the award-winning publishing imprint VS. Books, which supports emerging BIPOC writers. A seven-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Vivek was a Pride Toronto Grand Marshal and has been a brand ambassador for MAC Cosmetics and Pantene. She is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation, an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, and is currently adapting her debut play, How to Fail as a Popstar, for television with the support of CBC.
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2023 — Exhibition — outdoorWriting Without Words: The Autoportraits of Hélène AmouzouMetro HallTogolese-Belgian photographer Hélène Amouzou creates distinctive imagery through long exposures, generating photographic apparitions that speak to the issues of displacement and exile. Presented in an outdoor installation at Metro Hall, the 13 haunting, larger-than-life images both reveal the deepest parts of the artist herself, and evoke the spectre of people forced into movement across the globe.
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2023 — ExhibitionBetween UsArt Gallery of MississaugaStraddling the worlds of fashion photography and intimate portraiture, Jorian Charlton’s work emphasizes the beauty and style of her subjects while exploring contemporary modes of Black representation. This expansive solo exhibition by the Mississauga-based artist is grounded in relationships and interpersonal connections, reflecting varied expressions of cultural and personal identity.
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2023 — ExhibitionLatent Images On My SkinChristie ContemporaryLobbies, doorways, and escalators populate Toronto artist Jessica Thalmann’s video essay, Latent Images On My Skin. A rumination on time as a measure of distance, as a transformational space that converts experience into lingering imprint, the work traces the history of photographic chemistry, folding in photography’s earliest pioneers (and friends) John Herschel and Julia Margaret Cameron.
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2024 — WorkshopBookbinding for PhotographersCONTACT Gallery
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2023 — ExhibitionBefore the FallArterial Toronto
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2023 — ExhibitionEvery animal was too busyNow & Later
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2022 — ExhibitionNew Generation Photography AwardArsenal ContemporaryEmerging photographers probing the challenges in contemporary representations of identity, culture and the environment
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2023 — ScreeningWolfgang Tillmans: Video WorkArt Gallery of Ontario
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2023 — PanelPanel: FEELS LIKE HOMEArt Gallery of Ontario, Jackman Hall
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2022 — ExhibitionMaximum Exposure 27TMU Image Arts
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2022 — Exhibition#ripBrickbox Studio
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artistAndrew DavisAndrew Davis is a Canadian artist living in Toronto, a graduate of Ryerson University with a degree in Film studies. Davis’ film, good hair, pretty hair, curly hair (1991), was selected for the 1991 Toronto International Film Festival. A fan said, “It was the Black Film of the Year.” In 2012 Davis wrote and produced Lions In Winter, an adaptation of a short story made into an animated short film. Davis has written two award-winning screenplays, I Live in the City, best short screenplay 2018 and Cyclopes Plaza, best writer North America 2021.
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2022 — postDear Nani: Zinnia Naqvi and Robyn York in ConversationA discussion about the difference between exhibitions and photobooks, the challenges of working through a pandemic, and funding opportunities for artists and small publishers.
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2021 — ExhibitionROAD!Virtual