Current Exhibitions

A young black woman in a yellow shirt, army pants, and heels, poses against a green wall, looking directly into the camera

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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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

Grayson James

After Alexandria

October 30 – December 8
Student Gallery

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Syrus Marcus Ware, *Dispatches From The Future* (still), 2019, multi-channel video. Courtesy of the artist

Upcoming

A man cleans a camera lens with his shirt. — Fig. 1
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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A black and white landscape overlooking a town. — Fig. 2
Nir Evron, *A Free Moment* (still), 2011, 35mm film converted to HDCam SR video. Courtesy of the artist

Nir Evron

A Free Moment

January 22–April 5, 2020
Guest Curator: Brian Sholis
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall

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Military-style shirts with black ties hang in a shop window in Moscow. — Fig. 3
David Hlynsky, *Military Shirts, Moscow*, 1990 (printed 1994), chromogenic print. Ryerson Image Centre, Gift of Paul Bain, Edward Burtynsky and Paul & Joyce Chapnick, 2013

Extending the Frame: 40 Years of Gallery TPW

January 22 – April 5, 2020
University Gallery

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Past Exhibitions

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A frame holding family photographs hangs on a blank white wall, with a red and gold adornment. — Fig.
Lucy Lu, *Above My Great Aunt’s Bed*, 2017, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist

A man stands on the steps of a porch, but his face is obscured by laundry hanging on a line. — Fig.
Pearson Ripley, *Veiled*, 2018, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist

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 — Fig.
Moyra Davey, *Subway Writers* (detail), 2011/2014, 75 chromogenic prints, tape, postage, ink. Courtesy the artist; Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York; and greengrassi, London

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 True to the Eyes: The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Photography Collection, published in 2018 by Hirmer Virlag, in partnership with the Ryerson Image Centre. This catalogue accompanied an exhibition by the same name, and features an interview with the collectors and essays exploring their deeply personal and socially aware approach to collecting. Shop our exhibition catalogues.

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, 2020, 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 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.