The Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) exists for the research, teaching and exhibition of photography and related media. We are an active partner within the academic fabric of Ryerson University, the cultural network of greater Toronto, and the national and international artistic community.
What's On
Gordon Parks
The Flávio Story
September 12 – December 9, 2018
Main Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre
Co-curators: Paul Roth and Amanda Maddox
Organized by the Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA, and The Gordon Parks Foundation, New York, USA, in partnership with Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with assistance from Instituto Sacatar, Bahia, Brazil.
TERREMOTO
Mexico, 1985
September 12 – December 9, 2018
University Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre
Curator: Denise Birkhofer
Claudia Joskowicz
Every Building on Avenida Alfonso Ugarte – After Ruscha
September 12 – December 9, 2018
Guest Curator: Ilana Shamoon
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall, Ryerson Image Centre
Gordon Parks, Flavio da Silva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation
Pedro Meyer, [Rescue workers at collapsed building, Mexico City], 1985, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, Ryerson Image Centre
Production image, Every Building on Avenida Alfonso Ugarte—After Ruscha, 2011. Two-channel digital HD color video with sound, edition of 3 and 2 APs; running time: 26 minutes. Courtesy of LMAKgallery, NY. © Claudia Joskowicz
Noon Time Collection Talk with Vanessa F. Lakewood
Thursday, October 18, 12:00 pm
Want to learn more about the RIC's collection? Join Vanessa F. Lakewood, Ryerson Image Centre Research Fellow, for a discussion on historical and cultural memory, community love, and freedom acts in New York after 1964.
Special Tour of Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story
Wednesday, October 17, 6:00 pm
Join curator Paul Roth on a behind-the-scenes tour of Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story, along with Julie Crooks, Assistant Curator of Photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Time-lapse tour of the RIC
Take a time-lapse tour of the RIC: from the gallery spaces, to the vault, to the Peter Higdon Research Centre!
The Collection
We maintain a collection of photography spanning the medium’s history, as well as several artist and journalism archives. The RIC's collection offers researchers the remarkable opportunity to study firsthand works by a diverse group of internationally-renowned photographers.
Youth in Focus
By engaging with new, young audiences, we hope to promote greater inclusivity, equity, and accessibility in a gallery environment. This program is generously supported by BMO Financial Group.
A selection of RIC collection materials, 2018 © Riley Snelling, Ryerson Image Centre