Our galleries are closed for installations. Stay tuned for fall exhibitions!

Upcoming Exhibitions

Scotiabank Photography Award: Deanna Bowen. Black Drones in the Hive

September 14–December 3
Main Gallery
Guest curator: Crystal Mowry, Director of Programs, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina

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CANADA NOW: New Photography Acquisitions

September 14–December 3
University Gallery
Curator: Denise Birkhofer

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The Optics of Science: Early Western Stereographs from The Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass Collection

Fall 2022
Student Gallery

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Andréanne Michon: états d'esprit – states of mind

September 14–December 3
Media Wall
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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

Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81

Winter 2023
Main Gallery
Curators: Gaëlle Morel and Kaitlin Booher

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shirtless man, arm outstretched towards lens, strained expression

Mind's Eye: The Psychic Photographs of Ted Serios

Dates TBA (Winter 2023)
University Gallery
Guest curator: Emily Hauver, Curator of Exhibitions, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

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Young people carrying flags ride on top of a car in Prague.

Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press

Dates to be announced
Main Gallery
Curators: Paul Roth, Gaëlle Morel and Rachel Verbin

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A black and white photo of a backlit minor working underground.

Louie Palu: Cage Call

Dates to be announced
University Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Deanna Bowen, installation view of *Abolition* in Black Drones in the Hive, 2020. Inkjet prints on archival paper. Courtesy of the artist and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Photo: Toni Hafkensheid.

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Séamus Gallagher (Canadian, b. 1995), *A Slippery Place* #5, 2021, inkjet print. Purchase, Canada Now Photography Acquisition Initiative, with funds from Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas Metivier, 2021.

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Henry Draper (American, 1837–1882), published by C. Bierstadt Publishing, Niagara Falls, NY, *Full Moon*, ca. 1870, albumen prints mounted on card (stereocard). The Image Centre, Gift of Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass, 2014

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Andréanne Michon, *puissance énergie / energy power* (diptych), 2021, gelatin silver prints. Courtesy of the artist

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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 Studio, New York

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Ted Serios, [Ted Serios], ca. 1964-1967. Diffusion transfer print. The Jule Eisenbud Collection on Ted Serios and Thoughtographic Photography, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Coll23_11.1_1968

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Hilmar Pabel, Untitled [Youngsters protesting after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by five countries of
the Warsaw Pact (the USSR, Hungary, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Poland), Prague, Czechoslovakia], 1968, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, The Image Centre.

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Louie Palu, *Completion of drilling a breast in a shrinkage stope, 700 foot level, Cheminis Gold Mine, Larder Lake, Ontario*, from the series *Cage Call*, 1996 (printed 2005), gelatin silver print © Louie Palu, courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery

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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)

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

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Logo for the RIC's podcast, Sightlines.

Listen to Sightlines

Hear from artists, curators, and collectors about the representation of African women in photography on season 1 of our podcast, produced with The Walrus Lab for our fall 2019 exhibition, The Way She Looks.

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A man and woman looking at a black and white photograph on a wall. — Fig. 4
*Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection* (Nuit Blanche), The Image Centre, 2012 © The Image Centre

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male figure with makeup stands shirtless shrouded in pink loops around his body and colourful shapes behind him. Image has cartoon like graphics. — Fig.
Séamus Gallagher (Canadian, b. 1995), *A Slippery Place #5*, 2021, inkjet print. Purchase, Canada Now Photography Acquisition Initiative, with funds from Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas Metivier, 2021

News

Canada Now photography fund fuels acquisitions and exhibitions at The Image Centre and AGO beginning this fall

Thanks to the generosity of Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas Metivier Gallery, new artworks highlight range of contemporary image-making in Canada

TORONTO, August 3, 2022— Today, The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University and
the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) announce the acquisition and exhibition of new artworks, made possible by the Canada Now Photography Acquisition Initiative.

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