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Join us for our winter exhibition season, opening January 25, 2023. 

Upcoming Exhibitions

  1. Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81
  2. Mind’s Eye: The Psychic Photographs of Ted Serios
  3. Xie Rong: Cut Piece
  4. Xin He: Better City, Better Life
  5. Durga Rajah I am not the Artist, I am the Photographer: a series of conceptual photo retakes
  6. Jane Jin Kaisen: Braiding and Mending
  7. Scotiabank Photography Award: Jin-me Yoon
  8. Sharing the Frame: Photographic Objects from the Lorne Shields Historical Photograph Collection (1840-1970)
  9. Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press
  10. Louie Palu: Cage Call
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

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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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Red identification folded card with faded text and small photograph of Chinese man

Xin He: Better City, Better Life

January 25–February 25, 2023
Student Gallery

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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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Four East Asian woman braid each others hair in a circle, each braiding the next closing the loop

Jane Jin Kaisen: Braiding and Mending

Spring/Summer 2023
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Photo grid of 67 portraits of east asian people with a painted mountain landscape behind them

Scotiabank Photography Award: Jin-me Yoon

Spring/Summer 2023
Main Gallery and University Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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A black and white photograph shows a young boy with blonde hair and wearing a sleeveless top standing close to the camera lens and pictured out of focus. Behind him is a nondescript building, in focus.

Sharing the Frame: Photographic Objects from the Lorne Shields Historical Photograph Collection (1840-1970)

Spring/Summer 2023
Student Gallery

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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

Fall 2023
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

Fall 2023
University Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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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 (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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Xin He, Interior of upcoming demolishing buildings, 2007, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist

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

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Jane Jin Kaisen, Braiding and Mending (still), 2020, two-channel video. Courtesy the artist and Martin Asbaek Gallery

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Jin-me Yoon, A Group of Sixty-Seven, 1996, 135 chromogenic prints. Courtesy of the artist

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Unidentified photographer, [Portrait of boy], 1929, gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Toronto Metropolitan University Libraries

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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

A 3/4 portrait of a woman with dark hair wearing a dark button up dress and hand restraints.
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Mary Ellen Mark, [Carol T. in restraints, Ward 81, Oregon State Hospital, Salem, Oregon, USA], 1976, gelatin silver print © Mary Ellen Mark, courtesy of The Mary Ellen Foundation/Howard Greenberg Gallery