Current Exhibitions
Scott Benesiinaabandan
newlandia: debaabaminaagwad
Opening and CONTACT launch party: April 27, 7–11 pm
April 28 – June 1, 2018: Egerton Ryerson Statue (Gould St and Bond St)
April 28 – August 5, 2018: Lake Devo (Gould St and Victoria St)
Curator: Bonnie Rubenstein
A public installation of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
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
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
Scott Benesiinaabandan, newlandia: debaabaminaagwad, Rock no. 1, 2018. Courtesy of the artist
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
Nadia Myre, film still from Acts that Fade Away, 2016. Courtesy of the artist, Art Mûr, and the McCord Museum
Upcoming
Cynthia Johnston
Ceydie
June 20 – August 5, 2018
Student Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre
Co-presented with the DOCNOW Festival
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.
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
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: June 30, 2018, 12:00 am 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.