Exhibitions

Our spring/summer exhibition season launches with an opening reception on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 6–8 pm.

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The Image Centre, 2022 © James Morley, The Image Centre

Upcoming

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Ken Lum, *Lau Hoi Ting Recalls a Poem of Her Youth*. Courtesy of the artist, Magenta Plains, New York and Royale Projects, Los Angeles

Scotiabank Photography Award: Ken Lum

May 9–August 3, 2024
Main Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Clarissa Tossin: Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan

May 9–August 3, 2024
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Guest curator: Noa Bronstein

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City of New York, [Broadside for the capture of William C. Murray and Ada Shreve], 1873, ink on paper with two albumen prints (wanted poster). Courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives

Hypervisibility: Early Photography and Privacy in North America, 1839–1900

May 9–August 3, 2024
University Gallery
Guest Curators: Sarah Parsons and Frances Dorenbaum

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Werner Wolff, Untitled [Foundry worker], ca. 1955, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, The Image Centre © The Family of Werner Wolff

Working Machines: Postwar America Through Werner Wolff’s Commercial Photography

May 9–June 15, 2024
Student Gallery

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Alishah Ahmad, *Puzzle of Sentiments* (detail), 2023, collage. Courtesy of the artist

In Dimension: Personal and Collective Narratives

May 9–August 3, 2024
The Great Hall
Guest Curator: Bryce Julien

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A. Sheikh: The Test

June 26 –August 3, 2024
Student Gallery

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Lee Miller, *Hats*, London, England, 1939, chromogenic print (printed 2023) © Lee Miller Archives

Lee Miller: A Photographer at Work (1932–1945)

September 11–December 7, 2024
Main Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Past Exhibitions

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A carpeted room with photographs covering the entire floor. — Fig.
Peyton Keeler-Cox, *His Story Now*, 2022, vinyl. Courtesy of the artist

Young people carrying flags ride on top of a car in Prague. — Fig.
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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Deborah Turbeville, *Asser Levy Public Bathhouse, New York*, for Vogue (New York), 1975, black and white chromogenic print. The Image Centre, Gift of Eric Berthold, 2017 © Deborah Turbeville/MUUS Collection

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

Berenice Abbott

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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