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What's On

From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective

April 6–August 6, 2022
Main Gallery
Guest Curator: Mark Sealy

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Dominique Blain: Dérive/Drift

April 6–August 6, 2022
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Guest Curator: Catherine Bédard

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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

April 6–August 6, 2022
University Gallery
Guest Curator: Sébastien Lifshitz

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

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Unidentified 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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Klaus Kindermann, [East Berlin riots against SED government], June 1953, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, Ryerson Image Centre (BS.2005.018313)

Browse our collection

View highlights from our collection of nearly 375,000 objects spanning the history of the medium of photography, including the iconic Black Star Collection and several major artist archives.

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Time-lapse video the Ryerson Image Centre. Created by Anthony Saleh

Explore our video archive

Watch over 60 videos of past artist talks and panel discussions featuring seminal curators and photographers.

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Logo for the RIC's podcast, Sightlines.

Listen to Sightlines

Hear from artists, curators, and collectors about the representation of African women in photography on season 1 of our podcast, produced with The Walrus Lab for our fall 2019 exhibition, The Way She Looks.

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A man and woman looking at a black and white photograph on a wall. — Fig. 4
*Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection* (Nuit Blanche), Ryerson Image Centre, 2012 © Ryerson Image Centre

Visit past exhibitions

Explore the wide range of exhibitions on view at the RIC since our opening in 2012.

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Portrait of donor holding camera — Fig. 1
Portrait of George Fleischmann

News

Toronto Metropolitan University students receive newly established Student Gallery Production Awards

Donor gift in memoriam supports student exhibitions at the RIC

TORONTO, May 10, 2022– The Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) is pleased to announce the establishment of an endowment fund, known as the Student Gallery Production Award - in memory of George Fleischmann at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). The fund was initiated with a generous gift to institute an annual Award that supports the production of high quality student exhibitions in the RIC Student Gallery.