Current Exhibitions

A group of four people stand near each other on the subway, one writing in a notebook; postage stamps, an address label and red stickers are pasted on top

Scotiabank Photography Award

Moyra Davey

May 1 - August 4, 2019
Curator: Gaëlle Morel
Main Gallery and Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall, Ryerson Image Centre

A primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

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Overlooking a body of water, a woman with white face makeup wearing a black coat holds a small boat on her shoulder, filled with ravens

Meryl McMaster

As Immense as the Sky

May 1 - August 4, 2019
Curator: Gaëlle Morel
University Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre

A primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

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A man stands on the steps of a porch, but his face is obscured by laundry hanging on a line.

Pearson Ripley

Shut Away

June 19–August 4, 2019
Student Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre

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Upcoming

A young black woman in a yellow shirt, army pants, and heels, poses against a green wall, looking directly into the camera — Fig. 1
Nontsikelelo (Lolo) Veleko, *Nonkululeko*, 2003, pigment print © The artist. Courtesy the artist and Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture

Photographs from The Walther Collection

September 11 – December 8, 2019
Guest Curator: Sandrine Colard
Main Gallery and University Gallery

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A frame holding family photographs hangs on a blank white wall, with a red and gold adornment. — Fig. 2
Lucy Lu, *Above my great aunt’s bed*, 2017, inkjet print. Courtesy the artist

Lucy Lu

Da Pi Yuan

September 11 – October 20, 2019
Student Gallery

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Syrus Marcus Ware

Ancestors, Can You Read Us? (Dispatches From The Future)

September 11–December 8, 2019
Guest Curators: Candice Hopkins and Tairone Bastien
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall

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Layered images of hands turning the pages of a book, holding a paper and making gestures, with black tape afixing the images to one another — Fig. 4
Grayson James, *A Damaged Book/Learning How To Bind* (detail), 2018, architecture prints, found objects, tracing paper, laser prints, inkjet prints. Courtesy the artist

Grayson James

After Alexandria

October 30 – December 8
Student Gallery

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A man cleans a camera lens with his shirt. — Fig. 5
Scott McFarland, *Lens Cleaning Rodenstock Apo-Sironar 5.6/135mm, James Perse Medallion Crewneck T-Shirt*, 2017, chromogenic print. Courtesy of the artist, Monte Clark Gallery and Division Gallery

A Handful of Dust: From the Cosmic to the Domestic

January 22–April 5, 2020
Guest Curator: David Campany
Main Gallery

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Past Exhibitions

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A person in a sweater and a tie looks down at a dining room table while holding a hand of cards, in a vintage-looking image. — Fig.
Adrian Raymer, *Two of A Kind*, 2018, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist.

A hand and some rocks — Fig.
Fehn Foss, *Build Up Break Down*, video still, 2018. Courtesy of the artist

A girl seated, wearing a ball gown, with a purse in her hands — Fig.
Studio of Southworth & Hawes, [Portrait of a young woman wearing a brooch], ca. 1850, daguerreotype with applied colour, in leather case (detail). The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Photography Collection

Exhibition Catalogues

As part of our exhibition program, the RIC publishes photo books in collaboration with a variety of partners and sponsors. The most recent addition is The Faraway Nearby: Photographs of Canada from The New York Times Photo Archive, published in partnership and distributed worldwide by Black Dog Publishing. This catalogue accompanied an exhibition by the same name, and features texts by an international team of authors, who explore how Canada’s visual identity in the twentieth century was constructed—from within and without—through the dissemination of images in this influential media outlet. Learn more about the exhibition and catalogue.

The Faraway Nearby

What It Means To Be Seen

Archival Dialogues

Berenice Abbott

Student Gallery

Apply for a chance to have your own exhibition in our student gallery! Deadline: May 30, 2019, 11:59 pm EST

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The Student Gallery showcases the art and curatorial practices of Ryerson 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 seven 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.