Current Exhibitions

Scotiabank Photography Award Clara Gutsche

May 7–August 2, 2025
Main Gallery

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Alanis Obomsawin: Filmstrips. Educational Shorts from the NFB (1972/1975)

May 7–August 2, 2025
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Caroline Monnet: Creatura Dada

May 7–August 2, 2025
Curator: Emmy Lee Wall

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collage of roses and preserved moth specimens. text at footer saying 240 Message (White Knight) 241 Pink Peace

Rebecca Wood: On Being Despised

June 18–August 2
Student Gallery

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Clara Gutsche, *Les Sœurs Adoratrices du Précieux-Sang, Nicolet*, 1995, chromogenic print. Courtesy of the artist.

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Alanis Obomsawin, Snowshoes, single channel video (still), 1972. © National Film Board of Canada

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Caroline Monnet, Creatura Dada, single-channel video (still), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

Upcoming

Magnum's First

September 10–December 13, 2025
Returning January 14–April 4, 2026

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Little girl with short haircut and arm outstretched to scribble on chalkboard. — Fig.
David "Chim" Seymour, [Terezka drawing"home" on blackboard, Poland], 1948, gelatin silver print. The Image Centre, Gift of Ben Shneiderman, 2022. © David Seymour Estate/Magnum Photos

Chim's Children of Europe

September 10–December 13, 2025
Returning January 14–April 4, 2026
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Illustration of northern landscape with polar bears, snow, mountains and ice. — Fig.
Ali Kazma, *North*, 2017, double-channel video (still). Courtesy of the artist

Ali Kazma: North

September 10–December 13, 2025
Salah J. Bachir Media Wall
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Isabella Della Penna, *Boxed In,* 2023, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist

Isabella Della Penna: Storms and Butterflies

September 10–October 18, 2025
Student Gallery

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Two girls sit on the floor, one jumps up behind them. The girl closest to the camera is exhaling smoke. The one behind her surveys herself in a cosmetic mirror, propped on an office chair. — Fig.
Jessica Berger, *Smoke Break*, inkjet print, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

Jessica Berger: Lost and Found

October 29–December 13, 2025
Student Gallery

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Past Exhibitions

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Unidentified photographer, [Bride and groom], ca. 1925, lacquered gelatin silver print. The Wedding Photography Collection of Stephen Bulger and Catherine Lash, The Image Centre

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Logan Rayment, *Punctum 2 “Plane Crash”*, 2024, Inkjet Print. Courtesty of the artist.

The planet Saturn against a black background with a shadow cast towards the top left of the image blacking out half the planet and a portion of the rings — Fig.
Michael Benson, *Eclipse of the Sun by Earth,* April 2, 2011, digital chromogenic print (made 2012). Credit: NASA SDO/NASA. © Michael Benson, Kinetikon Pictures.

Exhibition Catalogues

As part of our exhibition program, The Image Centre publishes photo books in collaboration with a variety of partners and sponsors. Shop our exhibition catalogues.

The Faraway Nearby

What It Means To Be Seen

Archival Dialogues

Student Gallery

Call for Submissions:

The Image Centre is now accepting submissions for the Student Gallery. The deadline to apply is May 30, 2024. If you have any questions please contact The Image Centre Curatorial Coordinator, Sara Angelucci (s3angelu@torontomu.ca).

The Student Gallery showcases the art and curatorial practices of Toronto Metropolitan University’s current undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni from all disciplines. Rigorous yet inclusive, the program engages audiences with important issues through group or solo exhibitions of contemporary art and historical lens-based media. Presenting six exhibitions per year, the Student Gallery provides valuable, professional experience in the curation and display of artwork.

The exhibitions are selected annually, following a call for submissions, by a committee comprised of staff members from The Image Centre, along with students and faculty members from the School of Image Arts.

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