Our galleries are open for fall exhibitions!

What's on

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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Andréanne Michon: états d'esprit – states of mind

September 14–December 3
Media Wall
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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

September 14–October 22
Student Gallery

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

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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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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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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

Visit past exhibitions

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

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Deanna Bowen, *The Sabbath Among Slaves. Illus. in: Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, New York, 1849*, 2020. Inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and MKG127, Toronto

News

The Image Centre Celebrates 10 Years in Focus

On its tenth anniversary, The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University forges ahead with a fresh season of fall exhibitions, acquisitions, research and public programs

TORONTO, September 8, 2022 –– After more than 160 dynamic exhibitions, over 200 public events, and numerous acquisitions growing our collection to over 375,000 objects, The Image Centre (IMC) at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) proudly commemorates its ten year anniversary this fall.