Celebrate 10 years of The Image Centre — plan your visit to explore our winter exhibition season!

What's on

A woman peeks out of a small window in a doorway. Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark.

Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81

January 25–April 1, 2023
Main Gallery
Curators: Gaëlle Morel and Kaitlin Booher

shirtless man, arm outstretched towards lens, strained expression

Mind's Eye: The Psychic Photographs of Ted Serios

January 25–April 1, 2023
University Gallery
Guest Curator: Emily Hauver, Curator of Exhibitions, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

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Xie Rong: Cut Piece

January 25–April 1, 2023
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Guest Curator: Simone Estrin

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Woman in brown boots, blue jeans and green turtleneck sits with arms in her lap holding a microphone with the cord extending forward out of frame. She sits on one of four black folding chairs lined up in a row.

Durga Rajah. I am not the Artist, I am the Photographer: a series of conceptual photo retakes

March 8–April 1, 2023
Student Gallery

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Mary Ellen Mark, [Tommie peeking out of room window, Ward 81, Oregon State Hospital, Salem, Oregon, USA], 1976, gelatin silver print © Mary Ellen Mark, courtesy of The Mary Ellen Mark Foundation/Howard Greenberg Gallery

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Ted Serios, [Ted Serios], ca. 1964-1967, diffusion transfer (Polaroid) print. The Jule Eisenbud Collection on Ted Serios and Thoughtographic Photography, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

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Xie Rong performing *Cut Piece* (for the exhibition *Yoko Ono: Peace is Power* at the Museum of
Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany), 2019. Photograph by Alexander Schmidt

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Durga Rajah, *The Fourth Chair,* 2019, chromogenic print. Courtesy of the artist

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Klaus Kindermann, [East Berlin riots against SED government], June 1953, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, The Image Centre (BS.2005.018313)

Browse our collection

View highlights from our collection of nearly 375,000 objects spanning the history of the medium of photography, including the iconic Black Star Collection and several major artist archives.

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Time-lapse video of The Image Centre. Created by Anthony Saleh

Explore our video archive

Watch over 60 videos of past artist talks and panel discussions featuring seminal curators and photographers.

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A man and woman looking at a black and white photograph on a wall. — Fig. 3
*Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection* (Nuit Blanche), The Image Centre, 2012 © The Image Centre

Delve into past exhibitions

Explore the wide range of exhibitions on view at The Image Centre since our opening in 2012.

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Portraits of Dr. Neville Poy and the Honourable Vivienne Poy. — Fig.
Dr. Neville Poy, left, and the Honourable Vivienne Poy, right.

News

The Image Centre receives $1 million gift from the Honourable Vivienne Poy and Dr. Neville Poy for youth outreach program and new positions for emerging scholars

The donation will bolster The Image Centre’s Youth in Focus community outreach program and provide advanced internship opportunities to recent graduates of Toronto Metropolitan University.

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