Format: Exhibition

GUEST CURATOR: ALA ROUSHANASSISTANT CURATOR: JACQUELINE KOK, NANCY MCCAIN & BILL MORNEAU CURATORIAL FELLOW, 2021-2023 The Power Plant is pleased to announce a unique partnership with curator Ala Roushan, to present BREATHLESS, a multifaceted project that considers the urgencies evoked by today’s air crises, including a global respiratory pandemic, racial injustice (“I can’t breathe”), forest […]

CURATOR: GAËTANE VERNAASSISTANT CURATOR: JOSÉPHINE DENIS, TD CURATOR OF EDUCATION & OUTREACH FELLOW, 2021-2023 Toronto-based Canadian artist Sandra Brewster has been invited to create a new site-specific installation at The Power Plant. Within the scope of this project, Brewster will transform our light- flooded Clerestory into an arboreal landscape soaring across both sides of the […]

CURATOR: AMIN ALSADENASSISANT CURATOR: JACQUELINE KOK, NANCY MCCAIN & BILL MORNEAU CURATORIAL FELLOW, 2021-2023 In her first major solo exhibition in Canada, Shona Illingworth presents works that explore how space is occupied today. She probes how current modes of governance, surveillance, and weaponization are invading our interior worlds and transcending the borders of nation-states to […]

CURATOR: NOOR ALÉASSISANT CURATOR: JACQUELINE KOK, NANCY MCCAIN & BILL MORNEAU CURATORIAL FELLOW, 2021-2023 Swiss-Haitian artist Sasha Huber uses performance, photography, and film, among other media, to investigate colonial residues left in the environment. Her projects conceive of natural spaces—mountains, lakes, glaciers, forests, and craters—as contested territories, highlighting the ways in which history is imprinted […]

CURATOR: GAËTANE VERNAASSISANT CURATOR: JACQUELINE KOK, NANCY MCCAIN & BILL MORNEAU CURATORIAL FELLOW, 2021-2023 In her first major solo exhibition in North America, Miriam Cahn presents an expansive body of work across our gallery spaces. Encompassing oil paintings and works on paper in chalk, charcoal, pastel, and watercolour—from the diminutive to the monumental—as well as […]

The exhibition includes an additional image on view above Harbourfront Centre Parking – Main Entrance at 235 Queens Quay West, East Side. From a rising generation of Indigenous artists in Canada, Meryl McMaster (b. 1988, Ottawa) uses photography to explore identity and its distinct cultural landscapes with extraordinary visual impact. In this body of recent […]

For april martin the end thing is not the goal. Her practice is fuelled by systems of science, astrology, mythology and making. She creates curious objects and poetic installations transformed by materials, process, and embodied experience. This installation invokes the Three Fates with three elements, thread, ceramics and a tool (scissors) as a way of […]

Part of ArtworxTO. Toronto-born, international artist Robert Young created UNMASK FEAR in response to the devastating global pandemic and the international outcry for racial justice. This critical, multiple content series features photographic portraiture and filmed stories of Black Canadians who have made remarkable contributions to community, culture and country. Robert Young’s campaign began in Washington, DC on […]