Liquid Gold art with vivid pink and blue hues.

Liquid, Gold

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A pile of bicycle materials

Human Made Stuff

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Computer keyboard with a red blank key in the middle

Micah Adams: Reworking

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Black and white brooch pin

Thirty-Six Brooches

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Woven into refinement

Woven Into Refinement

For centuries, the island nation of Taiwan has sustained the growing habitats of bamboo, bulrush and banana throughout the country due to its humid, subtropical climate. Woven into Refinement: A Sampling of Contemporary Fibre Works from Taiwan uses the fibre found in these plant species.   This exhibition, in collaboration with four weaving design studios, takes time-honoured techniques […]

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everyday lighting 2

Everyday Lighting II

Lighting is an essential element of everyday life. Like moths to a flame, we are inherently drawn to it. Lighting is beautiful and functional, technical and sculptural. It can simply reduce darkness, but it can be so much more. Everyday Lighting investigates illumination at the intersection of craft, art, sculpture and design.   Through the Artists-in-Residence […]

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revisiting sycorax

Revisiting Sycorax

Revisiting Sycorax is a sculpted wire figure that emerges from Shakespeare’s play, The Tempest, and conjures an errant entrance into a new landscape. She is a supernatural force formed from an accumulation of twists and coils of wire. Tactile and visual forms intertwine race, science and art to craft a resonant hum, a toned and […]

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on any given day 2

On Any Given Day II

Central to the Craft & Design Studio’s ethos is a commitment to broaden the dialogue around contemporary craft and design practice. For our artists and designers, method and meaning are not disparate; connections are made with the past and present and with an eye to the future. Harbourfront Centre Artists-in-Residence explore ideas of technology, identity […]

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Future Matters

Future Matters

Future Matters, a group exhibition featuring the work of eight local and international artists and designers, explores themes related to material expression, innovation and environmental sustainability.  Including an eclectic range of works in sculpture, video, photography, installation and textiles, this multidisciplinary exhibition embraces the intersection of both traditional and futuristic practices and materials.   In fact, […]

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Stephen Tayo

Stephen Tayo

Presenting in Toronto for the first time, Nigerian-based fashion and documentary photographer Stephen Tayo exhibits work from his two recent photographic series, Headstart made in Accra and Which Lagos You Dey?.  Tayo, who has shot for The New York Times, VICE and Vogue, has been acclaimed internationally for capturing Nigeria’s unconventional and unique street style culture and other cities […]

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Screaming into the void

(Screaming)…into the void

Visionary multidisciplinary artists Aaron Jones and Tiffany J. Sutton co-present (Screaming)…into the void: a compelling visual arts exhibition that explores themes of Black identity, the complexities of existence and the depth of shared human experience through lens-based media. Using interwoven and multilayered images, photography, collage and portraiture, each artist will present intimate works that offer a narrative […]

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Drawing say dhaga

Drawing Into Threads

Drawing into Threads is a collective of textile artists, designers, embroiderers, researchers and civil society advocates spread between Toronto, Karachi and Islamabad. Each of us have varied expertise, and these drawings and embroideries trace the encounter between our different worlds. All the works presented here are made collectively; no single author or lead exists. Done […]

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Joy in resistance

Joy In Resistance

These illustrations collectively demonstrate and define the essential hopefulness of my work. They are celebrations of diversity and of LGBTQ+ joy, where we envision a bright future; where people can flourish and dream wildly, and be wholly themselves without danger or hate. I have a love of 60’s and 70’s popular culture aesthetics, which spans from the golden age of Bollywood, to Studio 54 disco fever, appearing throughout my work to convey a warm nostalgia amidst […]

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Commonality

Commonality

At first glance, the works of Mohammad Tabesh and Jinming Li are quite dissimilar; however, there is a commonality linking them – they both reference the body, albeit in very different ways.    Tabesh’s sculptures are evocative of sound – heard and unheard. There is the implication of voices crying aloud and voices silenced.   Li’s work references architecture and spaces inhabited […]

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Connections

Commonality

At first glance, the works of Mohammad Tabesh and Jinming Li are quite dissimilar; however, there is a commonality linking them – they both reference the body, albeit in very different ways.   Tabesh’s sculptures are evocative of sound – heard and unheard. There is the implication of voices crying aloud and voices silenced.  Li’s work references architecture and spaces inhabited […]

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Soft launch for a hard fall

Soft Launch For A Hard Fall

Soft Launch for a Hard Fall – This exhibition probes the visceral and cerebral, triumphs and vulnerabilities in human connections. 

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Double Pendulum

Double Pendulum

In her practice, artist Maggie Groat investigates decolonial ways of being, alternative archiving, sustainable exhibition practices, and the transformative potential of salvaged materials during times of climate emergency. Implementing a collage-based approach, Groat presents newly commissioned artworks across three sites as part of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival—at CONTACT Gallery, on billboards, and outdoors at […]

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Focus

Forecast

‘Forecast’ is a group exhibition featuring the work of nine local and international artists and designers exploring themes related to the climate crisis specifically as it relates to the weather and how environmental changes impact communities on a global scale.  Featuring Christina Battle, Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram, Vardit Goldner, Grace Grothaus, Lisa Hirmer, Malu Luecking, Joel […]

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Dispatches

Dispatches

Around the world, young people have been at the forefront of climate action, highlighting the effects of rising greenhouse gas emissions and demanding more from politicians and corporations. With these two notions in mind, the Nordic-Canadian Fellowship in Environmental Journalism was born: a chance for emerging journalists under 25 from both regions to report on […]

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Meat

Kjøt (Meat)

The beliefs and practises surrounding meat as a food resource are centuries old and still exist in the Faroe Islands. Heiðrik á Heygum presents this series of new paintings as a subtle commentary. The subjects seem far removed from the land and sea they were harvested from, but the connection between heritage and nature remains.  […]

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Opening Reception

Opening Reception

In celebration of a year-long cultural initiative Nordic Bridges, Harbourfront Centre invites you to the opening reception of the Nordic Collaborations exhibitions: Animal Vegetable Mineral, Fuglakvæðið (The Bird Ballad) – Edward Fuglø and Eyes as Big as Plates. These exhibitions, led by Nordic and Canadian artists, will explore human nature’s relationship, connection and disassociation with […]

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Mary Anne Barkhouse

Animal Vegetable Mineral c.1700s

This installation is a commentary on the historical and ongoing resource extraction employed by Canada. Barkhouse presents “Canada’s colonial souvenir shop as a representation of the commodification of Canada’s natural landscapes.”  Mary Anne Barkhouse would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. In addition, she would […]

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The Bird Ballad

Fuglakvæðið (The Bird Ballad)

The exhibition is a selection of recent original paintings by the Faroese artist Edward Fuglø that will be presented in a non-traditional gallery space: the 245 Queens Quay West warehouse.   Fuglakvæðið is a traditional Faroese fable from 1806, written as a ballad containing 226 verses. It is a kind of Robin Hood story, where the […]

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