Current Exhibitions
From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective
April 6–August 6, 2022
Main Gallery
Guest Curator: Mark Sealy
Dominique Blain: Dérive/Drift
April 6–August 6, 2022
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
Guest Curator: Catherine Bédard
Mauvais Genre/Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers
April 6–August 6, 2022
University Gallery
Guest Curator: Sébastien Lifshitz
Heather Rattray: Things That I Know, Things That You Know
June 29–August 6
Student Gallery
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
Dominique Blain, Dérive/Drift (still), 2019, silent video installation. Courtesy of the artist
Unidentified photographer, [Man in make-up wearing a woman’s ring, United States], ca. 1920, gelatin silver (photobooth) print with colour retouching © 2016 Éditions Textuel – Collection Sébastien Lifshitz
Heather Rattray, Everyday Learning (1), 2019, inkjet print. Courtesy of the artist.
Upcoming
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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CANADA NOW: New Photography Acquisitions
Fall 2022
University Gallery
Curator: Denise Birkhofer
The Optics of Science: Early Western Stereographs from The Dr. Martin J. Bass and Gail Silverman Bass Collection
Fall 2022
Student Gallery
Andréanne Michon: états d'esprit – states of mind
Media Wall
Fall 2022
Curator: Gaëlle Morel
Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81
Winter 2023
Main Gallery
Curators: Gaëlle Morel and Kaitlin Booher
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)
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
Past Exhibitions
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.