June 2025 Edition

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IN THE NEWS
Ydessa Hendeles – Founders Achievement Award 2004
The Archive May 2025 issue of Border Crossings features Ydesssa Hendeles who discusses making art from her inherited traumatic past.

Camille Turner – Artist Prize 2018
Kai Trotz-Motayne interviewed Camille Turner in a feature article published in Cmag on April 15.

Derek Sullivan – Artist Prize 2007
Kate Taylor very favourably reviewed Derek Sullivan’s exhibition Field Notes at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in The Globe and Mail on May 16.

Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka – Artist Prize 2023
Art Bank profiled Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka’s work Crossing the Current on their Instagram page on May 9 in celebration of Asian Heritage month.

Lotus L Kang – Artist Prize 2015
J. Cabelle Ahn interviewed Lotus L. Kang in a May 21 Artnet article, related to her recent exhibition at 52 Walker in Manhattan. Ahn refers to Kang as  a “channeler of memories—both collective and personal.”

Diane Borsato – Artist Prize 2008 and
Sameer Farooq – Artist Prize 2022
The artist residency at MacKinnon’s Brooks in Cape Breton, created by Diane Borsato and curator Amish Morell, is profiled in an article, Sitting in the Basin of All These Relationships: Outdoor School Residencies in Attunement on Cape Breton’s West Coast, written by Valerie Frappiermay for Visual Art News published on May 20. In the article Sameer Faroooq reflected on his residency there in 2024.

Sandra Brewster – Artist Prize 2018 and 
Inuit Art Foundation – Project Support 2023
A huge congratulations to Sandra Brewster along with Tarralik Duffy, a multidisciplinary artist and designer from Salliq, Nunavut, who explores contemporary Inuit culture and pop culture and was part of the Inuit Art Foundation’s “UpFront” public art project, who have both been shortlisted for the 2025 Sobey Art Award.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS IN AND AROUND TORONTO:

Steps Public Art – Project Support 2025
In celebration of Canadian Multiculturalism Day, and the new mural, Yellow Oasis, supported by TFVA and coming this summer, Steps Public Art is hosting a free evening, Culture Makes Waves, of family-friendly events to explore the community’s diverse cultures through art, food, music, and storytelling on June 27. Register here.  

Jennifer Rose Sciarrino – Artist Prize 2013 
On May 24 Jennifer Rose Sciarrino engaged in a discussion about sculpture and form with Ronan Stewart at Hunt Gallery in conjunction with his exhibition, The Throat of a Broken Husk, at the gallery.

Samer Farooq – Artist Prize 2022
On June 5, at the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery, there was a screeningof The Museum Visits a Therapist by Sameer Farooq and Mirjam Linschooten. It was followed by a conversation between Farooq and gallery director/curator, Jenifer Papararo.

Couzyn Van Heuvelen – Artist Prize 2024
If you are in the Kitchener Waterloo area this summer, check out Couzyn van Heuvelen’s show, Camp, at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery which explores Inuit cultural sovereignty and the tools and technologies of living on the land. The exhibition runs until August 24.

Winnie Truong – Project Support 2021
A new work by Winnie Truong was commissioned for installation at the Gardiner Museum’s annual art party fundraiser, SMASH: In Flux, which was held on May 28.

Emmanuel Osahor – Artist Prize 2025
On view at Princess Margaret Cancer Care Centre is a special project, Some Songs, by Emmanuel Osahor. In this work, Osahor offers a panoramic view of a lush garden in full bloom.

Osahor’s current solo exhibition at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery was featured in a report by Jess Smith on CTV on May 23.

Roula Partheniou – Artist Prize 2007
Maps and Models, on now until June 28, is Roula Partheniou’s  eighth solo exhibition at MKG Gallery. The exhibition showcases a new body of work which uses the visual language of model kits to reimagine the still life.

Alvin Luong – Artist Prize 2023
At Hunt Gallery is Alvin Luong’s  second solo exhibition, Calcium Breather.This exhibition brings together two interwoven video works into an immersive single installation, and is on until June 28.

David Liss – Founders Achievement Award 2015
Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart’s exhibition, Wonder, at Koffler Arts, is curated by David Liss. Working in staged photography and video, Szkabarnicki-Stuart’s practice intersects early cinema, vaudeville and slapstick comedy, advertising, social media, performance, and contemporary art. She has transformed Koffler Arts new gallery space into a site-responsive architectural environment of visual play and theatricality. The exhibition is on until July 12.

Liss also has a solo exhibition, Land/Mine, of recent paintings at Blouin/Division which closes June 21.

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS FOR TRAVELLERS: 

Across Canada

Anique Jordan – Artist Prize 2020
As part of the 2025 Momenta Biennale, Anique Jordan will have an exhibition, Underbelly, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition will open July 28, and run until February 1, 2026.

Vessna Perunovich – Artist Prize 2005
The eleventh edition of the Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf, which is on until October 5, at Moulin de La Chevrotière in Deschambault-Grondines, Quebec, includes work by Vessna Perunovich.

Gwen MacGregor – Artist Prize 2003
Some of Gwen MacGregor’s work is included in a group exhibition, Knowing Trees, on until July 18 at Nickle Galleries in Calgary.

South of the Border

Tau Lewis – Artist Prize 2019
In collaboration with Sylvie Fleury, Tau Lewis  is creating a newly commissioned series of sculpture, movement and sound performances as part of Performa 2025 Biennale to take place in New York City in November 2025.

Lewis’ work will also form part of the inaugural exhibition of the expansion of the New Museum in Manhattan, New Humans: Memories of the Future. New Museum, which will bring together more than 150 artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers in an ambitious cross-disciplinary, cross-generational, exploration of what it means to be human amid ever-shifting technological changes. It opens in the Fall.

Edward Burtynsky – Founder’s Achievement Award 2008
New York City is the focal point for Edward Burtynsky’s work this Summer. In addition to the retrospective at the International Centre of Photography, referred to in the May Newsletter,  Metrograph will screen The Anthropocene Trilogy, a collaboration between Burtynsky and filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier on June 20, 21, 28 and 29. From August 7 – September 20, Howard Greenberg Gallery will present Natural Commodities, a solo exhibition including previews from a forthcoming project, Mining:For the Future. 

Lotus L Kang – Artist Prize 2015
Now installed in MOMA Gallery 212 on an ongoing basis as part of a group exhibition, What Is Parasite, and What is Kin, is Lotus L Kang’s work.  In this exhibition Kang and the other artists  describe forms of selfhood, both human and nonhuman, that are entangled with past and place.

International 

Ghazaleh Avarzamani – Artist Prize 2002
Concurrent with her exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, referred to in our May Newsletter, Ghazaleh Avarzamani together with Ali Ahadi (working together as Freudian Typo) will have a second exhibition in London at the Delfina Foundation, of newly commissioned work, Condensed Word, Displaced Flesh, which runs from June 11 to August 31.

Edward Burtynsky – Founders Achievement Award 2008
From May 14-18, Edward Burtynsky’s work was on view at Somerset House, London, as part of the tenth edition of Photo London 2025.

Burtynsky’s  work is on view in an exhibition, China in Africa, at Hong Kong’s Flowers Gallery. This exhibition explores China’s role in global manufacturing and is on until July 12. It was reviewed in the South China Morning Post on May 25 by Kylie Knottis.

And if you are in Avignon, France, Burtynsky has an exhibition Mounds and Voids From Human to Global Scale at the Villa Créative, Avignon Université, until October 31.

Tau Lewis – Artist Prize 2019
Exciting news for Tau Lewis! Her first solo show at Sadie Coles, London, The ways of the underworld are perfect, is on until July 19. The show comprises four sculptural masks which come together like a poem, while individually personifying a chapter in the odyssey of Venus in retrograde.

Emmanuel Osaher – Artist Prize 2025
If you are in Paris this Summer, check out the group show, Other Territories, running until September 19 at the Canadian Cultural Centre.Emmanuel Osaher will be exhibiting work as part of this show along with 4 other artists from African and Caribbean diasporas.