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Upcoming Exhibitions

  1. Rana Nazzal Hamadeh: 1/1000th of a Dunam
  2. Emmanuelle Léonard: Deployment
  3. Susan Dobson: Slide | Lecture
  4. Scotiabank Photography Award: Dana Claxton
  5. Hal Wilsdon: I would die for Johnny Knoxville and I would shoot Chris Burden
  6. From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective
  7. Mauvais Genre/Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers
  8. Dominique Blain: Dérive/Drift
  9. Louie Palu: Cage Call
  10. Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press
  11. Mary Ellen Mark Ward 81
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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Image of a slide projector reel

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

Fall 2021
Student Gallery

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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

Dates to be announced
University Gallery
Guest Curator: Sébastien Lifshitz

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Dominique Blain: Dérive/Drift

Dates to be announced
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Guest Curator: Catherine Bédard

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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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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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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

A woman in a dark dress stands in the great hall of a church. Photograph by Francis Bedford.
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Francis Bedford, Wells Cathedral, Interior of The Nave, Looking West, 1860 (or later), albumen print. The Francis Bedford Research Collection, Ryerson Image Centre