Due to COVID-19, the RIC remains closed until further notice.

Upcoming Exhibitions

A grid of square photographs depicting different coloured sands and soils

Rana Nazzal Hamadeh: 1/1000th of a Dunam

Fall 2021
Student Gallery

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A portrait of a person in a white balaclava and a camo jacket.

Emmanuelle Léonard: Deployment

Fall 2021
Media Wall
Guest Curator: Louise Déry

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Susan Dobson: Slide | Lecture

Fall 2021
University Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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A person throwing a lasso with a tall hat and a fringed jacket stands next to a low-rider bicycle in front of a turquoise background.

Scotiabank Photography Award: Dana Claxton

Fall 2021
Main Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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A woman in a jumpsuit with short hair stands on a skateboard wearing rollerskates. Haley Wilsdon, Extreme 2 at the Ryerson Image Centre

Hal Wilsdon: I would die for Johnny Knoxville and I would shoot Chris Burden

Fall 2021
Student Gallery

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Dominique Blain: Dérive/Drift

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

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

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Emmanuelle Léonard, *Soldat la nuit, Resolute*, 2019, inkjet print © Emmanuelle Léonard

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Susan Dobson, *Robert Frank: The Americans*, 2020, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist and Michael Gibson Gallery

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Dana Claxton, *Lasso*, 2018, LED firebox with transmounted chromogenic transparency. Courtesy of the artist. Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Audain BC Art Acquisition Fund

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Hal Wilsdon, *Extreme 2*, 2019, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist

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

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

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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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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 a woman holding a large vessel with flowers on her head with her right hand and a large basket of flowers in her left hand by her waist. She is looking into the camera. Black and white photograph by Minna Keene. — Fig.
Minna Keene, *South African Flower Seller*, 1903–1913, salt paper print. The Minna Keene and Violet Keene Perinchief Collection, Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of the Sturrup Family, 2020

News

Ryerson Image Centre acquires major collection of 20th-century photographs by pioneering Canadian women Minna Keene and Violet Keene Perinchief

The Ryerson Image Centre announces today that it has acquired the Minna Keene and Violet Keene Perinchief Collection, an exceptional archive of more than 5,500 photographs and ephemera created by the two Canadian women from the 1890s through the 1970s. While both photographers operated commercial studios and achieved international acclaim, they have been largely overlooked in the history of Canadian photography.

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