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Upcoming Exhibitions

  1. From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective
  2. Mauvais Genre/Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers
  3. Dominique Blain: Dérive/Drift
  4. Red All Over: World War II Press Photographs From the Sovfoto Agency
  5. Heather Rattray: Things That I Know, Things That You Know
  6. Scotiabank Photography Award: Deanna Bowen. Black Drones in the Hive
  7. Meditations on Resilience: The Canada Now Photography Acquisition
  8. Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press
  9. Louie Palu: Cage Call
  10. Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81
  11. Mind’s Eye: The Psychic Photographs of Ted Serios

From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective

Winter 2022
Main Gallery
Guest Curator: Mark Sealy

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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

Winter 2022
University Gallery
Guest Curator: Sébastien Lifshitz

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Dominique Blain: Dérive/Drift

Winter 2022
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Guest Curator: Catherine Bédard

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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 Agency

Winter 2022
Student Gallery 
Organized by the 2020-2021 second-year students from Ryerson University’s Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management program.

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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

Winter 2022
Student Gallery

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Scotiabank Photography Award: Deanna Bowen. Black Drones in the Hive

Spring/Summer 2022
Main Gallery
Guest curator: Crystal Mowry, Director of Programs, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina

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Meditations on Resilience: The Canada Now Photography Acquisition

Spring/Summer 2022
University Gallery
Curator: Denise Birkhofer

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Young people carrying flags ride on top of a car in Prague.

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

Fall 2022
Main Gallery
Curators: Paul Roth, Gaëlle Morel and Rachel Verbin

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A black and white photo of a backlit minor working underground.

Louie Palu: Cage Call

Fall 2022
University Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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A woman peeks out of a small window in a doorway. Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark.

Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81 

Winter 2023
Main Gallery
Curators: Gaëlle Morel and Kaitlin Booher

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shirtless man, arm outstretched towards lens, strained expression

Mind's Eye: The Psychic Photographs of Ted Serios 

Dates TBA (Winter 2023)
University Gallery 
Guest curator: Emily Hauver, Curator of Exhibitions, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

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Sunil Gupta, Untitled #22, from the series Christopher Street, New York 1976, 1976 (printed 2014), inkjet print © Sunil Gupta. Courtesy of the artist and Hales Gallery, London and New York; Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto; and Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi

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Unknown photographer, [Man in make-up wearing a woman’s ring, United States], ca. 1920, gelatin silver (photobooth) print with colour retouching © 2016 Éditions Textuel – Collection Sébastien Lifshitz

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Dominique Blain, Dérive/Drift (still), 2019, silent video installation. Courtesy of the artist

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Unidentified photographer, [Soviet air might], ca. 1940, gelatin silver print, collection of the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario

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Heather Rattray, Everyday Learning (1), 2019, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist.

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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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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, Ryerson Image Centre.

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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

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Mary Ellen Mark, Tommie Peeking Out of Room Window, Ward 81, Oregon State Hospital, Salem, Oregon, USA, 1976, gelatin silver print © Mary Ellen Mark Studio, New York

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Ted Serios, [Ted Serios], ca. 1964-1967. Diffusion transfer print. The Jule Eisenbud Collection on Ted Serios and Thoughtographic Photography, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Coll23_11.1_1968

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Dana Claxton, Cultural Belongings, 2015, LED firebox with transmounted lightjet duratrans. Courtesy of the artist. Collection of Eira Thomas