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Past Exhibitions

Small dead bird on concrete at the edge of a dry waterbed

Samuel Toward

Sep. 11 – Oct. 19, 2024

Sheikh: The Test

Jun. 26 – Aug. 3, 2024
Woman in a garden wearing a straw hat and holding her body and neck in contemplation

Lum Scotiabank Photography Award

May. 15 – Aug. 3, 2024

Tossin Streamlined

May. 15 – Aug. 3, 2024

Hypervisibility: Early Photography and Privacy

May. 15 – Aug. 3, 2024

Working Machines

May. 15 – Jun. 15, 2024

In Dimension

May. 15 – Aug. 3, 2024
A carpeted room with photographs covering the entire floor.

Peyton Keeler-Cox: Questions Nobody Asked Me

Mar. 6 – Apr. 6, 2024
Young people carrying flags ride on top of a car in Prague.

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

Jan. 16 – Apr. 6, 2024

Otherworldly: Deborah Turbeville Photographs

Jan. 16 – Apr. 6, 2024
Portrait of a woman with a nosebleed

Brittany Newlove: What Should I Say?

Jan. 16 – Feb. 24, 2024
A film photograph showing two people standing on a beach as the sun sets.

Alexis Cordesse: Talashi

Jan. 16 – Apr. 6, 2024

From the Collection: NASA in Colour in the Black Star Collection (1969–1984)

Jan. 16 – Apr. 6, 2024

Hannah Somers: The Music Sang 'Lean on Me'

Nov. 1 – Dec. 9, 2023
A black and white photo of a backlit miner working underground.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

Louie Palu: Cage Call

Sep. 13 – Dec. 9, 2023
Su Rynard, As Soon As Weather Will Permit (still), 2014, two-channel video. Courtesy of V/Tape and Paul Petro Contemporary Art

Su Rynard: As Soon As Weather Will Permit

Sep. 13 – Dec. 9, 2023

Bahar Kamali: Banovan

Sep. 13 – Oct. 21, 2023

From the Collection: Credit—Owen in Black Star

Sep. 13 – Dec. 9, 2023
A view of the pools in a vast water treatment plant

Katrin Faridani—Interconnected: From the Tap to the Lake and Back

Jun. 21 – Aug. 5, 2023
Blank page reading "ESTO ES UNA FOTO A COLOR"

From the Collection: Luz María Bedoya

Jun. 14 – Aug. 5, 2023
Photo grid of 67 portraits of east asian people with a painted mountain landscape behind them

Scotiabank Photography Award: Jin-me Yoon

Apr. 29 – Aug. 5, 2023
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)

Apr. 29 – Jun. 10, 2023
Four East Asian woman braid each other’s hair in a circle, each braiding the next closing the loop

Jane Jin Kaisen: Braiding and Mending

Apr. 29 – Aug. 5, 2023

From the Collection: Laura Aguilar

Apr. 29 – Jun. 10, 2023
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

Mar. 8 – Apr. 1, 2023
Front and side mug shot of Joseph T.

From the Collection: Mug Shots, Massachusetts Correctional System

Mar. 7 – Apr. 1, 2023
A woman peeks out of a small window in a doorway. Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark.

Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81

Jan. 25 – Apr. 1, 2023
shirtless man, arm outstretched towards lens, strained expression

Mind's Eye: The Psychic Photographs of Ted Serios

Jan. 25 – Apr. 1, 2023

Xie Rong: Cut Piece

Jan. 25 – Apr. 1, 2023
Red identification folded card with faded text and small photograph of Chinese man

Xin He: Better City, Better Life

Jan. 25 – Feb. 25, 2023

From the Collection: Duchenne de Boulogne

Jan. 25 – Mar. 4, 2023
Person in white button up crop top pulls shirt collar down to reveal chest tattoo

Caeden Wigston: Dissension

Nov. 2 – Dec. 3, 2022

Scotiabank Photography Award: Deanna Bowen

Sep. 14 – Dec. 3, 2022

CANADA NOW: New Photography Acquisitions

Sep. 14 – Dec. 3, 2022

Andréanne Michon: états d’esprit – states of mind

Sep. 14 – Dec. 3, 2022

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

Sep. 14 – Oct. 22, 2022
Person squats to touch the sand on the shore of a beach. Black and white.

Heather Rattray: Things That I Know, Things That You Know

Jun. 29 – Aug. 6, 2022
Black and white image of a boy holding a rifle stands in the foreground with his family behind him in front of a run down home. A man, woman and child make up his family.

Chris Donovan: The Cloud Factory

May. 18 – Jun. 18, 2022

From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective

Apr. 6 – Aug. 6, 2022

Dominique Blain: Derive Drift

Apr. 6 – Aug. 6, 2022
Man in make-up wearing a woman’s ring, United States - photobooth print with colour retouching

Mauvais Genre/Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers

Apr. 6 – Aug. 6, 2022
Soviet airplanes fly in a star formation, soldiers look up at them from the ground below

Red All Over: World War II Press Photographs From the Sovfoto

Apr. 6 – May. 7, 2022
A woman in a jumpsuit with short hair stands on a skateboard wearing rollerskates. Haley Wilsdon, Extreme 2 at the Ryerson Image Centre

Hal Wilsdon: I would die for Johnny Knoxville and I would shoot Chris Burden

Nov. 3 – Dec. 4, 2021
A grid of square photographs depicting different coloured sands and soils

Rana Hamadeh: 1/1000th of a Dunam

Sep. 15 – Oct. 23, 2021
A person throwing a lasso with a tall hat and a fringed jacket stands next to a low-rider bicycle in front of a turquoise background.

Scotiabank Photography Award: Dana Claxton

Sep. 15 – Dec. 4, 2021
Image of a slide projector reel

Susan Dobson: Slide | Lecture

Sep. 15 – Dec. 4, 2021
A portrait of a person in a white balaclava and a camo jacket.

Emmanuelle Léonard: Deployment

Sep. 15 – Dec. 4, 2021
A staged scene of people in a park by the ocean.

Scotiabank Photography Award: Stephen Waddell

Sep. 16 – Nov. 12, 2020

Ethan Murphy: Front & Back

Sep. 16 – Nov. 12, 2020
A Black man rides away from the camera on a horse decorated in silver and red streamers.

Mohamed Bourouissa: Horse Day

Sep. 16 – Nov. 12, 2020
A person stands inside a wooden structure, partially visibile from the open doorway.

Shaun Fernandes: Getting The Most From Your Hammer

Mar. 4 – Mar. 13, 2020
A man cleans a camera lens with his shirt.

A Handful of Dust: From the Cosmic to the Domestic

Jan. 22 – Mar. 13, 2020
A black and white landscape overlooking a town.

Nir Evron: A Free Moment

Jan. 22 – Mar. 13, 2020
Military-style shirts with black ties hang in a shop window in Moscow.

Extending the Frame: 40 Years of Gallery TPW

Jan. 22 – Mar. 13, 2020
A person in a striped shirt lies on the grass; they hold a printed image of a hand covering one eye, while the other looks directly at the camera.

Clea Christakos-Gee: A piece A seed A spread

Jan. 22 – Feb. 23, 2020
Layered images of hands turning the pages of a book, holding a paper and making gestures, with black tape afixing the images to one another

Grayson James: After Alexandria

Oct. 30 – Dec. 8, 2019
A young black woman in a yellow shirt, army pants, and heels, poses against a green wall, looking directly into the camera

The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture

Sep. 11 – Dec. 8, 2019
A frame holding family photographs hangs on a blank white wall, with a red and gold adornment.

Lucy Lu: Da Pi Yuan

Sep. 11 – Oct. 20, 2019

Syrus Marcus Ware: Ancestors, Can You Read Us? (Dispatches From The Future)

Sep. 11 – Dec. 8, 2019
A man stands on the steps of a porch, but his face is obscured by laundry hanging on a line.

Pearson Ripley: Shut Away

Jun. 19 – Aug. 4, 2019
A group of four people stand near each other on the subway, one writing in a notebook; postage stamps, an address label and red stickers are pasted on top

Scotiabank Photography Award: Moyra Davey

May. 1 – Aug. 4, 2019
Overlooking a body of water, a woman with white face makeup wearing a black coat holds a small boat on her shoulder, filled with ravens

Meryl McMaster: As Immense as the Sky

May. 1 – Aug. 4, 2019
A person in a sweater and a tie looks down at a dining room table while holding a hand of cards, in a vintage-looking image.

Adrian Raymer: Rejects

May. 1 – Jun. 9, 2019
A hand and some rocks

Fehn Foss: A Broader Sense of Belonging

Mar. 7 – Apr. 7, 2019
A girl seated, wearing a ball gown, with a purse in her hands

True to the Eyes: The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Photography Collection

Jan. 23 – Apr. 7, 2019
A boy on a boat on the water wearing a bright pink jacket

Laura Henno: M’Tsamboro

Jan. 23 – Apr. 7, 2019
Old kodak ad

Kodak Canada: The Early Years 1899-1939

Jan. 23 – Feb. 24, 2019
A boy posing wearing an elaborate hat

Jason Perreault: Bien dans sa peau

Oct. 24 – Dec. 9, 2018
A young, poor boy poses in tattered clothing

Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story

Sep. 12 – Dec. 9, 2018
A man standing on a pile of rubble

Terremoto: Mexico City, 1985

Sep. 12 – Dec. 9, 2018
A group of soldiers with shields on a street with colourful signs

Claudia Joskowicz: Every Building on Avenida Alfonso Ugarte – After Ruscha

Sep. 12 – Dec. 9, 2018
A portrait of a girl with tattoos and a head scarf

Alia Youssef: The Sisters Project

Sep. 12 – Oct. 14, 2018
A little girl sitting in a big chair with her back towards the camera, and her hair hanging down the back of the chair

Cynthia Johnston: Ceydie

Jun. 20 – Aug. 5, 2018
A woman stands with her hands on her hips wearing a t-shirt that says: My ancestors were annihilated, exterminated, murdered and massacred

Scotiabank Photography Award: Shelley Niro

Apr. 27 – Aug. 5, 2018
Hands writing on a piece of paper with a pencil, with jars of beads to the side

Nadia Myre: Acts that Fade Away

Apr. 27 – Aug. 5, 2018
A boy standing holding the bones of an animal

Ryan Walker: Voices in the Wilderness

Apr. 27 – Jun. 10, 2018
A collage of abstracted imagery

Scott Benesiinaabandan: newlandia: debaabaminaagwad

Apr. 23 – Aug. 5, 2018
Someone standing over a bowl of carrots in a garden

Petrija Dos Santos: A Labour of Love

Mar. 7 – Apr. 8, 2018

From the Collection: Marcia Resnick

Mar. 6 – Apr. 8, 2018
A grid of photos and text

Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography

Jan. 24 – Apr. 8, 2018
Two people posing in a kitchen

Jim Goldberg: Rich and Poor

Jan. 24 – Apr. 8, 2018
A bridge with a lot of garbage under its overpass

Ivan Sigal: Karachi Circular Railway

Jan. 24 – Apr. 8, 2018
A page from an old photo album with photos pasted on black construction paper

"Soon we were en route again"

Jan. 24 – Apr. 8, 2018

Jorge Ayala: A Su Propio Ritmo (At Its Own Rhythm)

Jan. 24 – Feb. 25, 2018
Three people standing in front of a brick wall with their hands positioned in an intricate design

Camilla Rojas

System of a Gesture

Oct. 25 – Dec. 10, 2017
A yellow spray can sitting on a pink background

Flash Forward / Flash Back

A celebration of emerging photographers from The Magenta Foundation

Sep. 30 – Sep. 30, 2017
Members of the Toronto Maple Leaf hockey team wearing their hockey jerseys while training for the war in a trench

The Faraway Nearby

Photographs of Canada from The New York Times Photo Archive

Sep. 13 – Dec. 10, 2017
A photograph of a canyon and railroad tracks, taken in 1887

The Notman Studio

1858–1915

Sep. 13 – Dec. 10, 2017
Two small framed photographs on an empty green wall

Paul Swanson

Air of Uncertainty

Sep. 13 – Oct. 15, 2017
A video still of snow-covered tundra with small figures in the distance of a dogsled team

Zacharias Kunuk

Dog Team

Sep. 13 – Dec. 10, 2017
Shirtless man lying down, facing away

Jordan Browne

Sweet Dreams, Francis

Jul. 12 – Aug. 13, 2017
A woman wearing a striped shirt looks out over a landscape, her hands behind her back

Sean Stiller

Cyéwmen

Jun. 8 – Jul. 2, 2017
Multiple miniature colourful figurines of men sitting are arranged in a zig zag pattern

Alexa Phillips

Cyborg Clones

Apr. 29 – May. 28, 2017
A woman standing in the forest, one hand in her pocket

Scotiabank Photography Award

Suzy Lake

Apr. 29 – Aug. 13, 2017
A woman with short hair wearing a green sweater

Souvenir

Kent Monkman, Caroline Monnet, Jeff Barnaby, Michelle Latimer

Apr. 29 – Aug. 13, 2017
A large rock with a bronze historical plaque embedded into it is surrounded by grass.

Shelley Niro

Battlefields of my Ancestors

Apr. 29 – Aug. 13, 2017
A woman dressed in a long red dress stands atop a large rock

Lori Blondeau

Asiniy Iskwew

Apr. 29 – Aug. 13, 2017
An assortment of equipment sits messily in a barren room

Max Dean

As Yet Untitled

Mar. 29 – Aug. 13, 2017
A folding chair sitting in an empty industrial room, an image of the moon sitting in the chair

Benjamin Freedman

Observations of Foreign Objects in a Remote Town

Mar. 8 – Apr. 9, 2017
A male protestor yelling in front of a crowd of other protestors, one of his hands raised in a fist and the other holding an American flag

No Justice No Peace

From Ferguson to Toronto
Gladstone Hotel, 2nd floor

Feb. 2 – Feb. 26, 2017
Two men raising their fists in the air, hundreds of other men in the background are doing the same

Attica USA 1971

Images and Sounds of a Rebellion

Jan. 18 – Apr. 9, 2017
Martin Luther King Jr. walks between two other men, all three are wearing suits

Birmingham, Alabama, 1963

Dawoud Bey / Black Star

Jan. 18 – Apr. 9, 2017
3 large screens in an empty room show the same image repeated, a close up of an open mouth

Adam Pendleton

My Education, A Portrait of David Hilliard

Jan. 18 – Apr. 9, 2017
Woman smoking, smoke covering her face

From the Collection: Sister(s) in the Struggle

Angela Davis and Kathleen Cleaver

Jan. 18 – Apr. 9, 2017
A women wearing a patterned apron and a headband

The Darkroom Project

Taloyoak, 1972–1973

Jan. 18 – Feb. 26, 2017
Aerial photograph of greenspace

Simone Estrin

A Shift in the Landscape

Nov. 2 – Dec. 4, 2016
A big cloud of blue smoke filling a green field of grass

The Edge of the Earth

Climate Change in Photography and Video

Sep. 14 – Dec. 4, 2016
Close up of the back of a woman's legs, with a thin string tied around them

Julia Hendrickson

As She, Rehearses Disappearance

Jul. 20 – Aug. 21, 2016
Two images, a woman with long hair wearing blue and a man with grey hair wearing a polo shirt

Sophie Sabet

Since We Last Spoke

Jun. 8 – Jul. 10, 2016
A dried bouquet of three flowers

Locrin Stewart

Timed Decay

May. 4 – May. 29, 2016
A large photograph displayed in a wood-panelled room, with people's arms and legs poking out underneath

Annie MacDonell

Holding Still // Holding Together

May. 4 – Aug. 21, 2016
A photograph in a gold frame

Scotiabank Photography Award

Angela Grauerholz

May. 4 – Aug. 21, 2016
The top of a tipi peaks out above a wooden fence

Christopher Manson

Living with Diabetes in Moose Factory

Mar. 9 – Apr. 10, 2016
Bea Nettles St. Croix photo

From the Collection: Bea Nettles

Mar. 9 – Apr. 10, 2016
Six images of different smoke patterns, a woman wearing a mask

Spring Hurlbut

Airborne

Jan. 20 – Apr. 10, 2016
The side of a boy's face, he is wearing a jacket

The Light Inside

Wendy Snyder MacNeil, Photographs and Films

Jan. 20 – Apr. 10, 2016
A half moon in the sky

Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof

Relics of Lumen

Jan. 20 – Apr. 10, 2016

From the Collection

Elaine Ling

Jan. 20 – Feb. 28, 2016
A young women who is topless and covering the lower part of her face with her arms

Ways of Seeing

Building The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre) Collection

Jan. 20 – Feb. 28, 2016
A tessellation of geometric shapes outlined in a green hexagon

Jackson Klie & Michelle O'Byrne

Model

Nov. 18 – Dec. 13, 2015
A topographic map with white lines on black

William Davis & Michael Markieta

Geographies of Urban Form

Oct. 14 – Nov. 8, 2015
A still from a film. A plant blowing in the wind in front of an old building. Closed captioning reads: "I got involved with a paramilitary group."

Jorge Lozano

Moving Still_still life

Oct. 14 – Dec. 13, 2015
Three police officers watch a group of men in handcuffs

Weegee

Murder Is My Business

Oct. 14 – Dec. 13, 2015
A man wearing green pants sits in a red chair in a living room.

Michéle Pearson Clarke

Parade of Champions

Jun. 5 – Jun. 28, 2015
A black square in the middle of the desert

A Telling Portrait

The Work and Collection of Michael Mitchell

Apr. 29 – May. 31, 2015
A nighttime skyline around the Empire State Building with the moon showing through the clouds

Phil Solomon

Empire x 8

Apr. 29 – Jun. 28, 2015
A cluster of white houses beside a body of water, the air is foggy

Scott Conarroe

Canada By Rail and By Sea

Apr. 29 – Jun. 28, 2015
A geometric metal structure sits atop wood beams in the middle of a field

Scotiabank Photography Award

Mark Ruwedel

Apr. 29 – Jun. 28, 2015
A flag waves between two trees

Manuela Morales

Una Memoria Desconectada (A Disconnected Memory)

Mar. 4 – Apr. 5, 2015
A man leads a camel along the beach

Zinnia Naqvi

Seaview

Jan. 21 – Feb. 22, 2015
A woman with dark hair

Anti-Glamour

Portraits of Women

Jan. 21 – Apr. 5, 2015
A woman in a pink dress stands in a dark room smoking a cigarette

Burn With Desire

Photography and Glamour

Jan. 21 – Apr. 5, 2015
A group of soldiers pose for a photo

Remembering the Real Winnie

The World’s Most Famous Bear Turns 100

Nov. 5 – Dec. 7, 2014
Four drone photos of an outdoor wedding

Public Studio

Drone Wedding

Sep. 17 – Dec. 19, 2014
An animated desert with a tank and a soldier

Harun Farocki

Serious Games I - IV

Sep. 17 – Dec. 7, 2014
A man wearing a fur hat reaching out to his horse

Dispatch

War Photographs in Print, 1854-2008

Sep. 17 – Dec. 7, 2014
3 black and white images on a film strip

Sam Cotter

Spit and Image

Sep. 17 – Oct. 26, 2014
9 images of different people with their backs to the camera

Judy Ruzylo

The Order of Things

Jul. 23 – Aug. 24, 2014
A shirtless man in front of a white wall staring at the camera. The handwritten text reads "100 mg. January 24th 2014. 24th shot."

Wynne Neilly

Female to “Male”

Jul. 23 – Aug. 24, 2014
A woman with her eyes closed standing in front of a desert scene

Julie Gemuend

Imprint

Jun. 18 – Jul. 13, 2014
A close up of a man with his palm open, holding a gold substance

Aleesa Cohene and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay

The Same Problem 5

Jun. 18 – Aug. 24, 2014
3 gay couples kissing in the street

What It Means to Be Seen

Photography and Queer Visibility

Jun. 18 – Aug. 24, 2014
A woman with a shaved head wearing large earrings

Zanele Muholi

Faces and Phases

May. 1 – Aug. 24, 2014
A photograph of a man with goggles sits on a table

Curious Anarchy

The Photographic Collection of Maia-Mari Sutnik

May. 1 – Jun. 1, 2014
A man wearing red pants dancing in a large room, another man sits at a table and watches

Scotiabank Photography Award

Stan Douglas

May. 1 – Jun. 1, 2014
Waves rolling up to the shore

Mary Anderson

Wav(e)s

Mar. 12 – Apr. 13, 2014
An angular white building with no windows

Robert Burley

The Disappearance of Darkness

Jan. 22 – Apr. 13, 2014
Six identical faces on a black background

Elisa Julia Gilmour

Something in Someone’s Eye

Jan. 22 – Mar. 2, 2014
A shop window filled with deer

Phil Bergerson

Emblems and Remnants of the American Dream

Jan. 22 – Apr. 13, 2014
A group of sentries sit smiling atop a cannon

Pierre Tremblay

Black Star Subject – Canada

Jan. 22 – Apr. 13, 2014
A man's mouth and chin. Text reads "ode to a."

Moving Frames, Shifting Boundaries

Artistic Experiments and Innovation in Film and Video

Sep. 18 – Oct. 27, 2013
A sketch of the side of a man's face

Ghost Dance

Activism. Resistance. Art.

Sep. 18 – Dec. 15, 2013
A white cloudy shape on a black background

Kieran Dick

Bleigießen [lead casting]

Jul. 24 – Aug. 25, 2013
A nun in a black habit looking out at the airport tarmac

Gabor Szilasi

The Eloquence of the Everyday

Jun. 19 – Aug. 25, 2013
A girl looking out a window

Ken Woroner

Hardscrabble

Jun. 19 – Jul. 14, 2013
A line of women wearing dresses sitting and typing. Two women standing and monitoring

Images of Women and War

Jun. 4 – Jun. 14, 2013
An old man wearing grey argues with a younger man wearing blue

Here and There

Photography and Video Works on Immigration

May. 1 – Aug. 25, 2013
A selection of plates used to make a book

Lead and Light

The Evolution of Lumiere Press

May. 1 – Jun. 2, 2013
A man dressed in a clown costume with full makeup

Scotiabank Photography Award

Arnaud Maggs

May. 1 – Jun. 2, 2013
A man walking along an aqueduct

Arthur S. Goss

Works and Days

May. 1 – Aug. 25, 2013
A photograph of an electrical pole on a dirt road

Gemma Warren

Year Zero. A Prison With No Walls.

Mar. 20 – Apr. 14, 2013
A man in a car surrounded by a crowd of people

Human Rights Human Wrongs

Jan. 23 – Apr. 14, 2013
Photographs of portraits hanging from a clothes line

Alfredo Jaar

The Politics of Images

Jan. 23 – Apr. 14, 2013
A diptych, with a photo of a young girl on the left and a pink figure 8 on the right

Clive Holden

UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS

Jan. 23 – Apr. 14, 2013
A soldier pulling a red curtain over a map on the wall

Dominic Nahr

Captive State

Jan. 23 – Mar. 10, 2013
Three piles of archival material photographed with a black background

The Art of the Archive

Ryerson Students and Alumni

Sep. 29 – Dec. 16, 2012
The back of a photograph

Archival Dialogues

Reading the Black Star Collection

Sep. 29 – Dec. 16, 2012