Current Exhibitions

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Scott Benesiinaabandan

newlandia: debaabaminaagwad

Opening and CONTACT launch party: April 27, 7–11 pm
April 23 – August 5, 2018
Egerton Ryerson Statue (Gould St and Bond St) and Lake Devo (Gould St and Victoria St)
Curator: Bonnie Rubenstein

A public installation of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

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Upcoming

A woman stands with her hands on her hips wearing a t-shirt that says: My ancestors were annihilated, exterminated, murdered and massacred — Fig. 1
Shelley Niro, *The Shirt* (detail), 2003. Nine duratrans transparencies in lightboxes, Lightbox (each): 12 × 110 × 138 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchase with assistance from the Estate of P.J. Glasser, 2016. © Shelley Niro

Scotiabank Photography Award

Shelley Niro

Opening and CONTACT launch party: April 27, 7–11 pm
April 28 – August 5, 2018
Main Gallery and University Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

A primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

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Hands writing on a piece of paper with a pencil, with jars of beads to the side — Fig. 2
Nadia Myre, film still from *Acts that Fade Away*, 2016. Courtesy of the artist, Art Mûr, and the McCord Museum

Nadia Myre

Acts that Fade Away

April 28 – August 5, 2018
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall, Ryerson Image Centre
Curator: Gaëlle Morel

A primary exhibition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival

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A boy standing holding the bones of an animal — Fig. 3
Ryan Walker, *Basha, 7 years old*, 2017, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist

Ryan Walker

Voices in the Wilderness

April 28 – June 10, 2018
Student Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre

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A little girl sitting in a big chair with her back towards the camera, and her hair hanging down the back of the chair — Fig. 4
Cynthia Johnston, *Ceydie in the CEO chair*, 2017, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist

Cynthia Johnston

Ceydie

June 20 – August 5, 2018
Student Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre

A young, poor boy poses in tattered clothing — Fig. 5
Gordon Parks, *Flavio da Silva*, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1961. Courtesy of and copyright The Gordon Parks Foundation

Gordon Parks

The Flávio Story

September 12 – December 9, 2018
Main Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre
Co-curators: Paul Roth and Amanda Maddox

Gordon Parks: The Flávio Story is organized by the Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA, in partnership with Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and The Gordon Parks Foundation, New York, USA.

A man standing on a pile of rubble — Fig. 6
Pedro Meyer, [Rescue workers at collapsed building, Mexico City], 1985, gelatin silver print. The Black Star Collection, Ryerson Image Centre

TERREMOTO

Mexico City, 1985

September 12 – December 9, 2018
University Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre
Curator: Denise Birkhofer

Past Exhibitions

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Someone standing over a bowl of carrots in a garden — Fig. 1
**Petrija Dos Santos: A Labour of Love**

A grid of photos and text — Fig. 2
**Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography**

Two people posing in a kitchen — Fig. 3
**Jim Goldberg: Rich and Poor**

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 at www.blackdogonline.com. This catalogue accompanies 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

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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.