2017 Events at the IMC

Guest Lecture with Professor Heather Ann Thompson

Join Professor Heather Ann Thompson for lecture titled Attica! The Prison Rebellion Watched Around the World and its Legacy.

Katherine Minich in Conversation with Alex Robichaud

Join Katherine Minich in conversation with Alex Robichaud as part of The Darkroom Project: Taloyoak, 1972–1973.

Noon Time Collection Talk with Emily McKibbon

Join Emily McKibbon, Associate Curator and Collections Manager at the McLaren Art Centre, as she discusses the different aspects of Notman's portraiture as well as the multiple points of entry into this unusual group of family photographs.

Artist Talk with Adam Pendleton

Join Adam Pendleton for a talk on his exhibition My Education, A Portrait of David Hilliard, which takes viewers to the site of a fatal 1968 gun battle between Black Panther Party activists and the police of Oakland, California.

Noon Time Collection Talk with Thierry Gervais

Join Thierry Gervais, Associate Professor and The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre) Head of Research, for an interactive discussion on his long-term research project, which examines how the practice of retouching was an integral part of publishing news images in the analogue era.

Tanenbaum Lecture with Dawoud Bey

Join us for a lecture with artist Dawoud Bey, best known for his innovative portraiture practice. On view at The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre) until April 9, 2017, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963 features Bey’s portraits commemorating the victims of the 1963 bombing of the city’s 16th Street Baptist Church, alongside photojournalistic prints from The Image Centre’s Black Star Collection.

Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival Launch Party

Join us for the official launch party of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival and our season of exhibitions and installations.

Artist Talk with Suzy Lake

Join artist Suzy Lake for a talk on her work, in conjunction with the exhibition Scotiabank Photography Award: Suzy Lake, on view until August 13, 2017 at The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre).

Artist Talk with Max Dean

Join artist Max Dean for a talk on his work, in conjunction with the exhibition Max Dean: As Yet Untitled, on view until August 13, 2017 at The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre).

Fall Exhibitions Opening Party

The Notman Studio: 1858–1915

Guest curated by Emily McKibbon, this exhibition surveys the diverse production of William Notman's bustling network of photography studios: through extraordinary portraiture, landscapes, and genre scenes, the Notman Studio portrayed the young Dominion of Canada as energetic and sublimely beautiful.

Noon Time Collection Talk with Denise Birkhofer

Join Denise Birkhofer, the The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre) Collections Curator and the co-curator of The Faraway Nearby, as she discusses photographs of Canada from The New York Times Photo Archive that did not quite make it into the exhibition.

Special Tour of The Faraway Nearby: Photographs of Canada from The New York Times Photo Archives

Join curators Gerald McMaster and Denise Birkhofer on a guided tour of the exhibition 

Nuit Blanche Toronto at The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre)

To celebrate the The Image Centre's fifth anniversary, we’ll be participating in Nuit Blanche Toronto this September–5 years to the day since opening its doors in Fall 2012.

Noon Time Collection Talk with Justine Kohleal

Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Regime of Representation
In the decade leading up to Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s 1968 election campaign, innovations in the field of communications technology altered the ways in which print publications disseminated information to the public, particularly in terms of photographic presentation.

Tanenbaum Lecture with Dana Claxton

Contributing to Consciousness Through a Lens Based Praxis
Join artist Dana Claxton for a talk as part of The Image Centre’s (formerly Ryerson Image Centre) Tanenbaum Lecture Series. This talk will unpack Claxton’s artistic practice/praxis and locate her work within ideas of consciousness.  

Opening Reception for Camille Rojas: System of a Gesture

Join us to celebrate the opening of Camille Rojas: System of a Gesture in our student gallery.

Artist Talk with Spring Hurlbut

Join acclaimed Canadian artist Spring Hurlbut for a talk on her video installation, Airborne. Captured in slow motion, Hurlbut opens the urns of six individuals, including her own beloved father James. The piece explores loss, the process of mourning, the essence of being, and the relationship between the animate and inanimate.

Camille Rojas: System of a Gesture

This video documents three moving bodies in dialogue with the social function of children’s handclapping games and their sexual implications.

Special Tour of The Notman Studio: 1858-1915

Join guest curator Emily McKibbon on a special tour of The Notman Studio: 1858–1915.

Curators in Conversation: Gerald McMaster and Jesse Wente

Join distinguished guest curators Gerald McMaster and Jesse Wente for an enlightening discussion of their respective exhibitions on view at The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre), their experience and background in the visual arts, and their curatorial motivations.

Noon Time Collection Talk with Laura Margaret Ramsey

Imaging Abbott
Join Laura Margaret Ramsey, Digital Imaging Assistant at The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre), as she discusses the complex process of imaging and preserving acetate negatives from the Berenice Abbott Archive.