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Upcoming Exhibitions

A staged scene of people in a park by the ocean.

Scotiabank Photography Award: Stephen Waddell

Fall 2020
Curator: Gaëlle Morel
Main Gallery and Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall

A primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

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Ethan Murphy: Front & Back

Fall 2020
Student Gallery

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A Black man rides away from the camera on a horse decorated in silver and red streamers.

Mohamed Bourouissa: Horse Day

Fall 2020
Curator: Gaëlle Morel
University Gallery

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A grid of square photographs depicting different coloured sands and soils

Rana Nazzal Hamadeh: 1/1000th of a Dunam

Fall 2020
Student Gallery

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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

Winter 2021
Main Gallery
Curators: Paul Roth, Gaëlle Morel and Rachel Verbin

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Fig. 1
Stephen Waddell, *Hive Burner*, 2017, archival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist and Monte Clark Gallery

Fig. 2
Ethan Murphy, *Dad Smiling on Dad's House,* 2019, chromogenic print. Courtesy of the artist

Fig. 3
Mohamed Bourouissa, *Horse Day* (still), 2015, two-channel video. Courtesy of the artist and kamel mennour, Paris/London

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Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, *Instants* (detail), 2020, vinyl. Courtesy of the artist

Fig. 5
Hilmar Pabel, [Prague], 1968, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, Ryerson Image Centre

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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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A photograph of the RIC's exterior façade, featuring portraits of well-known Canadians. — Fig.
Ryerson Image Centre, 2018 © Riley Snelling, Ryerson Image Centre

News

A commitment to equity at the RIC

What role can museums play at this urgent moment, and in the years to come, to bring real change to society?

More to the point: what should the Ryerson Image Centre be doing to meet the challenge raised by activists and concerned citizens over the past few weeks to change our culture for the better, and to address systemic racism, brutality, and discrimination experienced every day by Black people?