2024 / public program / artist talk
Ryan Walker
Ryan Walker is a Toronto-based artist, specializing in documentary, editorial photography, and visual advocacy. Walker’s work has been exhibited across Canada, in the United States, Russia, Italy, Finland, The Netherlands and Australia. Having graduated in 2013, he holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU, formerly Ryerson University). He is also an educator for the BFA Photography Programs at TMU and Sheridan College. His creative practice and research focuses on humanity’s evolving modern-day relationship with nature through photography, cinema and installation.
Current Exhibitions & Programs
From the Archives
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2022 / core / exhibition
Vid Ingelevics & Ryan Walker
How to Build a RiverA third instalment charting the progression of the massive Port Lands Flood Protection project and its creative ecology -
2021 / core / exhibition
Vid Ingelevics & Ryan Walker
A Mobile LandscapeDocumenting the fluctuating landscape of an extensive revitalization project -
2020 / core / exhibition / Outdoor
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2018 / open call / exhibition
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2022 / public program / conversation
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2023 / core / outdoor
Vid Ingelevics & Ryan Walker
GreenworkMay 1, 2023–Apr 1, 2024Since 2019, Toronto-based artists Vid Ingelevics and Ryan Walker have photographically documented the Port Lands Flood Protection Project, one of the most ambitious civil works programs in North America. Presented along Toronto’s Villiers Street median, this series of images—the fourth in their ongoing documentation—focuses on the social nature of labour and the greening process, as well as the juxtaposition between manual labour and heavy machinery.