Nuit Blanche and Art Toronto were the two big art events in Toronto in October. Our prize winners were well represented there as well as elsewhere in the city and farther afield.
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS in Ottawa, Toronto and the GTA
Anique Jordan —Artist Prize 2020
On view at the Ottawa Art Gallery until February 9, 2025, Through the Ground Glass is a dialogue between the work of historical Ottawa photographer William James Topley and six contemporary artists including Anique Jordan. Click here for more information
Alvin Luong – Artist Prize 2023
Camille Turner—Artist Prize 2018
Otherworld at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto is Camille Turner’s first major solo museum exhibition. The exhibition is on until March 22, 2025. Click here for more information
Camille Turner is featured in the new limited-series podcast Speculative Futures of Objects at The Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) as part of the Uncontainable Collections Research Project. Episodes are available at AGYU.art, on Apple Podcasts, or on Spotify.
The Visual Arts Gallery at Brock University, St Catharines presents Camille Turner’s exhibition, Afronautic Research Lab, from October 1 – 26, 2024. For more information on related events click here
Winnie Truong – Project Support 2021
Winnie Truong & Shanie Tomassini’s, As Above, so Below will be represented at Art Toronto (October 24 – 27); their current exhibition is at Patel Brown, in Montreal, until November 16. For more information click here
Maria Hupfield – Artist Prize 2023
Mashkiki is Movement challenges and inspires new ways of thinking about Indigenous fashion. This exhibition is at Patel Brown, Toronto, until November 23, 2024. Click here for more information
Isabel Okoro– Artist Prize 2024
By presenting photographs and paintings through a monochromatic lens, Isabel Okoro’s series Colour and Feel examines the interplay between colour and emotion. This exhibition runs at Patel Brown, Toronto, from October 19 – November 23, 2024. For more information click here
Sameer Farooq – Artist Prize 2022
In The Fairest Order in the World, Sameer Farooq arranges a series of new and recent sculptures and images to present ideas for repurposing the emptied spaces of museums. This exhibition is on until December 20, 2024 at the McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton. For more information click here
Co-commissioned and co-presented by the Toronto Biennial of Art and the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, the Flatbread Library is a sculptural installation by Sameer Farooq. The work focuses on the political and social significance of the tandoor, a large clay oven used in South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa, for over ten thousand years. This exhibition runs in Toronto at the AUTO Building, 9th floor, until December 1, 2024. For more information including details of the community talk on November 3rd, click here
Derek Liddingdon – Artist Prize 2011
Their horizon was mountain, their distance reveals is an exhibition that asks viewers to move slowly and look closely at what lies beneath surfaces. The exhibition at the Maclaren Art Centre in Barrie runs until November 8, 2024. Click here for more information
Erdem Tasdelen – Project Support 2021
Structural Integrity gathers together artworks that contextualize the built form through its social textures and includes assemblages by Erdem Taşdelen. This exhibition, at the Maclaren Art Centre in Barrie, is open until December 29, 2024. For more information click here
TRAVELLING TO BERLIN?
Micah Lexier – Founders Award 2014
The wall is a piece of paper is a new solo exhibition at einBuch.haus, in Berlin, from October 17 – November 16, 2024. Coinciding with the exhibition, Lexier’s book 1-100 was launched at the Miss Read Art Book Fair. For more information click here
RECENTLY CLOSED
At the Armory Show in NYC:
Sandra Brewster – Artist Prize 2018, and Esmaa Mohamoud – Artist Prize 2019, were both represented at The Armory Show in NYC, September 6 to September 8, 2024 through the Olga Korper Gallery. For more, click here
At the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut:
Winnie Truong – Project Support 2021, presented two stop-motion animations from September 9 to 29th. Click here for more information
At Nuit Blanche in Toronto October 5 & 6:
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Shahir Zazai – Artist Prize 2024
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Anique Jordan – Artist Prize 2022
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Lisa Steele – Founders Achievement Award 2023
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Lui Jacob – 20th Anniversary prize 2018
