Current Exhibitions

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

Upcoming

Black and white image of a boy holding a rifle stands in the foreground with his family behind him in front of a run down home. A man, woman and child make up his family. — Fig.
Chris Donovan, *Boy with Gun*, 2017, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist.

Chris Donovan: The Cloud Factory

Student Gallery
May 18–June 18

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Person squats to touch the sand on the shore of a beach. Black and white. — Fig.
Heather Rattray, *Everyday Learning* (1), 2019, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist.

Heather Rattray: Things That I Know, Things That You Know

June 29–August 6
Student Gallery

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Deanna Bowen, installation view of *Abolition* in Black Drones in the Hive, 2020. Inkjet prints on archival paper. Courtesy of the artist and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Photo: Toni Hafkensheid.

Scotiabank Photography Award: Deanna Bowen. Black Drones in the Hive

Fall 2022
Main Gallery
Guest curator: Crystal Mowry, Director of Programs, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina

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Séamus Gallagher (Canadian, b. 1995), *A Slippery Place* #5, 2021, inkjet print. Purchase, Canada Now Photography Acquisition Initiative, with funds from Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas Metivier, 2021.

CANADA NOW: New Photography Acquisitions

Fall 2022
University Gallery
Curator: Denise Birkhofer

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Henry Draper (American, 1837–1882), published by C. Bierstadt Publishing, Niagara Falls, NY, *Full Moon*, ca. 1870, albumen prints mounted on card (stereocard). Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass, 2014

The Optics of Science: Early Western Stereographs from The Dr. Martin Bass and Gail Silverman Bass Collection

Fall 2022
Student Gallery

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Andréanne Michon, *puissance énergie / energy power* (diptych), 2021, gelatin silver prints. Courtesy of the artist

Andréanne Michon: états d'esprit – states of mind

Media Wall
Fall 2022
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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A woman peeks out of a small window in a doorway. Photograph by Mary Ellen Mark. — Fig.
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

Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81

Winter 2023
Main Gallery
Curators: Gaëlle Morel and Kaitlin Booher

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shirtless man, arm outstretched towards lens, strained expression — Fig.
Ted Serios, [Ted Serios], ca. 1964-1967. Diffusion transfer print. The Jule Eisenbud Collection on Ted Serios and Thoughtographic Photography, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Coll23_11.1_1968

Mind's Eye: The Psychic Photographs of Ted Serios

Dates TBA (Winter 2023)
University Gallery
Guest curator: Emily Hauver, Curator of Exhibitions, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

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Young people carrying flags ride on top of a car in Prague. — Fig.
Hilmar Pabel, Untitled [Youngsters protesting after the invasion of Czechoslovakia by five countries of
the Warsaw Pact (the USSR, Hungary, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Poland), Prague, Czechoslovakia], 1968, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, Ryerson Image Centre.

Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press

Dates to be announced
Main Gallery
Curators: Paul Roth, Gaëlle Morel and Rachel Verbin

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A black and white photo of a backlit minor working underground. — Fig.
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

Louie Palu: Cage Call

Dates to be announced
University Gallery
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

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Past Exhibitions

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Soviet airplanes fly in a star formation, soldiers look up at them from the ground below — Fig.
Unidentified photographer, [Soviet air might], ca. 1940, gelatin silver print, collection of the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario

A woman in a jumpsuit with short hair stands on a skateboard wearing rollerskates. Haley Wilsdon, Extreme 2 at the Ryerson Image Centre — Fig.
Hal Wilsdon: I would die for Johnny Knoxville and I would shoot Chris Burden

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

A grid of square photographs depicting different coloured sands and soils — Fig.
Rana Nazzal Hamadeh: 1/1000th of a Dunam

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

Exhibition Catalogues

As part of our exhibition program, the RIC publishes photo books in collaboration with a variety of partners and sponsors. Shop our exhibition catalogues.

The Faraway Nearby

What It Means To Be Seen

Archival Dialogues

Berenice Abbott

Student Gallery

Due to the COVID pandemic, there will be no call for submissions for the Student Gallery in 2022. We are preparing to open our call for submissions again in spring 2023. If you have any questions please contact RIC Curatorial Coordinator, Sara Angelucci (s3angelu@ryerson.ca).

The Student Gallery showcases the art and curatorial practices of Toronto Metropolitan University’s current undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni from all disciplines. Rigorous yet inclusive, the program engages audiences with important issues through group or solo exhibitions of contemporary art and historical lens-based media. Presenting six exhibitions per year, the Student Gallery provides valuable, professional experience in the curation and display of artwork.

The exhibitions are selected annually, following a call for submissions, by a committee comprised of staff members from the RIC, along with students and faculty members from the School of Image Arts.

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Current Exhibitions

From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective

Dominique Blain: Dérive/Drift

Mauvais Genre/Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers

Upcoming

Chris Donovan: The Cloud Factory

Heather Rattray: Things That I Know, Things That You Know

Scotiabank Photography Award: Deanna Bowen. Black Drones in the Hive

CANADA NOW: New Photography Acquisitions

The Optics of Science: Early Western Stereographs from The Dr. Martin Bass and Gail Silverman Bass Collection

Andréanne Michon: états d'esprit – states of mind

Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81

Mind's Eye: The Psychic Photographs of Ted Serios

Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press

Louie Palu: Cage Call

Past Exhibitions

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

Rana Nazzal Hamadeh: 1/1000th of a Dunam

Exhibition Catalogues

Student Gallery