Program Family: Art

Part of the larger exhibition, Elaborate. Celebrate the marvel and resilience of an organism that endures for centuries

Colours sing as the human portrait encapsulates the potential beauty and vibrancy within.

Celebrate the work of five stunning artists and the fascinating story of decorated ceramics.

Explore the drama of daily life, emotion and imagination.

As humans continue to put pressure on the planet, what does nature’s revenge look like?

Not From Around Here is Alexa Samuels’ love letter to her hometown of Toronto and other places she’s visited. Her art celebrates urban streetscapes by shining unconventional light on hidden corners, back alleys, architectural underbellies and everyday landscapes’ seeming mundaneness. Her art turns iconic landmarks on their heads and rejoices in unsung street art. What […]

The Power Plant presents two Toronto-based exhibitions and artists who reflect on the garden as a built environment.

A reflection of nature’s bounty as a testament to the fluidity of existence, renewal and transformation.

A performance that combines contemporary circus, theatre, dance, music, projection mapping, and memoir.

Twenty-four photos of costumes worn during a 24-hour performance of 24-Decade History of Popular Music.

For Machine’s recent talk at the 2023 TED conference in Vancouver, he created Mother Nature, a detailed look that straddles the boundaries of costume and set.

Eight wearable sculptures created for Taylor Mac, who wore them in a film of the same name, will be on public view for the first time alongside a loop of the film.

Treasure is a future psyche-sex-adelic synth rock experience with stories about Machine’s mother, their relationship and the legacy she left to him.

Machine Dazzle’s Surreal Retrospective: Bespoke looks for special public events like Pride and Easter parade.

Mini fantasy worlds manifest throughout the vitrines of Harbourfront Centre’s main building, sharing an imaginary landscape of colour and pageantry.

Multi-disciplinary artist Machine Dazzle debuts his first major solo exhibition in Canada, exclusively at Harbourfront Centre

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 […]