Yayoi Kusamas The Obliteration Room Art Gallery of Ontario 2026-09-25 | Yayoi Kusamas The Obliteration Room
Inner Space with Jem Woolidge Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-08-30 | Inner Space, a monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO Staff, invites artists from across Canada to give personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to youth curators and artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and legitimize a new generation of diverse, Canadian artists, while creating authentic youth-led digital content.The current iteration of the Youth Advisory is project-based and is made up of youth ages 16-25 from across Canada with the goal of co-curating a series of studio tours by and for youth. Meeting bi-weekly online from October 2022-June 2023, this paid opportunity tasked the Inner Space Youth Advisory members with curating artists from their communities who they believe deserved a platform and visibility from an institutional context. The result, launched in March 2023, is a 6 episode monthly web series featuring a new generation of artists and their creative spaces from across Canada. This month we meet artist Jem Woolidge a white-settler, transmasculine, emerging artist and facilitator based in Kjipuktuk (so-called Halifax, Nova Scotia). Jem has an interest in participatory textile work, illustrative storytelling and fashion design. "I am drawn to the colourful playfulness of Jem’s practice in textiles and fashion. I wanted to highlight his work, because it so skillfully and intricately combines a variety of techniques including fabric dyeing, sewing, hand embroidery, pattern drafting, and weaving, to create truly unique pieces. I love how their creation process celebrates slowness through each one of these processes which are accomplished by hand. Jem’s work is imbued with intention, personalization, embellishment and colour! It serves as a reminder to be playful, to have fun, to dress up, adorn yourself, and to take the time to celebrate yourself and the people around you through playful creation." - Renee Brazeau: Youth Advisory MemberFollow the Series at @AGOYOUTHCreated and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesEdited by AGO Video Team: Fraser WrighteCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2023
Inner Space with Sammo Mossa Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-07-25 | Inner Space, a monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO Staff, invites artists from across Canada to give personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to youth curators and artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and legitimize a new generation of diverse, Canadian artists, while creating authentic youth-led digital content.The current iteration of the Youth Advisory is project-based and is made up of youth ages 16-25 from across Canada with the goal of co-curating a series of studio tours by and for youth. Meeting bi-weekly online from October 2022-June 2023, this paid opportunity tasked the Inner Space Youth Advisory members with curating artists from their communities who they believe deserved a platform and visibility from an institutional context. The result, launched in March 2023, is a 6 episode monthly web series featuring a new generation of artists and their creative spaces from across Canada.This month we meet artist Sammo Mossa, born in Rwanda, the land of a thousand hills and now based on Prince Edward Island. Having never taken his art seriously, the pandemic pushed him to take his craft to the next level by moving from paper to canvas. "I wanted to use my position with the AGO’s Youth Advisory to elevate the work of BIPOC artists from Prince Edward Island as I don’t believe there is enough recognition or support for these communities in the art world. I’m drawn to Sammo’s work particularly because I am interested in how artists are blending their traditional and cultural experiences with modern influences and technology, bringing to life new perspectives on art, life, etc.Mossa taps into personal themes such as religion, culture, and identity, and blends them with modern influences and the work of artists such as Al Diaz and Jean-Michelle Basquiat to create his own unique visual language. I am grateful for how he humbly shares his world with us." - Emily Katherine Jean Shaw: Youth Advisory MemberFollow the Series at @AGOYOUTHCreated and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesEdited by AGO Video Team: Fraser WrighteCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2023
In the Studio with Sarindar Dhaliwal Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-07-21 | Watch Sarindar Dhaliwal in her home studio discussing some inspirations behind her artwork, her creative process, and her practice overall.
Reflections on Helen McNicoll as a Deaf Artist Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-06-29 | Artists Peter Owusu-Ansah and Rae RezWell discuss the art of Helen McNicoll who became deaf at age 2.
Inner Space with Tayler Buss Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-06-28 | Inner Space, a monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO Staff, invites artists from across Canada to give personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to youth curators and artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and legitimize a new generation of diverse, Canadian artists, while creating authentic youth-led digital content.The current iteration of the Youth Advisory is project-based and is made up of youth ages 16-25 from across Canada with the goal of co-curating a series of studio tours by and for youth. Meeting bi-weekly online from October 2022-June 2023, this paid opportunity tasked the Inner Space Youth Advisory members with curating artists from their communities who they believe deserved a platform and visibility from an institutional context. The result, launched in March 2023, is a 6 episode monthly web series featuring a new generation of artists and their creative spaces from across Canada.This month we meet artist Tayler Buss (she/her), an artist working on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Through mold-making, casting and sculptural processes, her work explores themes of preservation and immortality. "Though it deals with ideas and themes of mortality, I find that Tayler’s work has an uncanny sense of humour about it. The whimsical nature of her sculptures is amplified by playing with scale, divorcing function from form, and assembling found objects that recontextualize each other. I nominated Tayler because I’m really interested in tactile/tangible work. We’re collectively earlobes-deep in a digital age—I want to see the roles that craft and materiality play in an artistic practice. Tayler’s use of familiar forms and materials in unfamiliar and impractical applications is really fun, and evokes sensorial delight and aversion all at once." -Ren Lam: Youth Advisory MemberFollow the Series at @AGOYOUTHCreated and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesEdited by AGO Video Team: Fraser WrighteCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2023
Close-Looking at Helen McNicoll’s Interior Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-06-26 | In this video we have animated Helen McNicoll’s painting Interior (around 1913, oil on canvas, Art Gallery of Ontario.) The elements that show the movement of light and give evidence of the room’s recent occupation by someone are highlighted: a robe, tossed on the chair, which may tip over at any moment, and a row of footprints on the carpet. The brilliant shaft of sunlight that streaks across the carpet and up the dresser moves with the sun. Through the departed figure, unstable chair and shifting ray of sun, McNicoll has made the passage of time the subject of this painting.
Jónsi in Conversation Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-06-08 | Join Icelandic artist Jónsi for a conversation about his work with New York-based art critic and curator Gregory Volk. Jónsi rose to international acclaim as a member of the band Sigur Rós, and he has since expanded his genre-breaking musical approach into the visual arts. His experimental installation, Hrafntinna (Obsidian), (2021) is on view at the AGO through summer 2023. Unable to witness the eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland in spring 2021 due to the pandemic, Jónsi has imagined this unique event as a sixteen-channel composition, played across 195 speakers, accompanied by a sweet and smoky scent. Over the past two decades, Jónsi has collaborated with musicians, visual artists and filmmakers to create a robust body of work across disciplines. Working with such leading creative figures as Doug Aitken, Cameron Crowe, Merce Cunningham, Olafur Eliasson and Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Jónsi’s artistic collaborations have resulted in prestigious awards and critical acclaim. Born in Iceland in 1975, Jón Þór "Jónsi” Birgisson lives and works in Los Angeles.
The Sketchbooks of Helen McNicoll Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-05-30 | Take a closer look at a selection of McNicoll’s sketchbooks from the AGO’s permanent collection. Gift of Jane and John McNicoll, 2002(running time: 6 min.)Rowney & Co. Sketchbook1899–1900graphite on wove paper2002/9434Graphic Sketchbook1902graphite, black pencil, and charcoal on wove paper2002/9436Sketchbook Fragmentaround 1902graphite and conté on laid paper2002/9439Gower Sketchbook1903–1904graphite, charcoal, watercolour, and black pencil on wove paper2002/9441Lanham Sketchbookaround 1905graphite and black pencil on wove paper2002/9442Sherriff Sketchbook1907–1908graphite and charcoal on laid paper2002/9443Smith Sketchbookaround 1910graphite on artist’s paper2002/9445This groundbreaking exhibition brings together for the first time the work of two extraordinary women Impressionist painters, Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926) and Helen McNicoll (Canadian, 1879-1915). Renowned for their depictions of modern womanhood, their work had a profound impact on the development and proliferation of Impressionism in North America.This original and eye-opening exhibition draws upon the AGO’s significant collection of McNicoll works and it is the first in Canadian history to centre Cassatt’s paintings and works on paper. Educated in Philadelphia and Montreal, Cassatt and McNicoll both left North America for Europe in their early 20s to study and pursue art professionally. Cassatt was an original member of the Impressionist movement in Paris, and a generation later, McNicoll contributed to the movement’s evolution and spread around the globe. Curated by Caroline Shields, Curator of European Art at the AGO, and showcasing more than 65 artworks including paintings, prints and sketch books, this innovative exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated publication.
Inner Space with Beige Blum Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-05-29 | Inner Space, a monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO Staff, invites artists from across Canada to give personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to youth curators and artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and legitimize a new generation of diverse, Canadian artists, while creating authentic youth-led digital content.The current iteration of the Youth Advisory is project-based and is made up of youth ages 16-25 from across Canada with the goal of co-curating a series of studio tours by and for youth. Meeting bi-weekly online from October 2022-June 2023, this paid opportunity tasked the Inner Space Youth Advisory members with curating artists from their communities who they believe deserved a platform and visibility from an institutional context. The result, launched in March 2023, is a 6 episode monthly web series featuring a new generation of artists and their creative spaces from across Canada.This month we meet artist Beige Blum, a recent OCADU Illustration program graduate. As a biracial queer artist, she has a passion for illustration, comics, zines and character design. Beige's work focuses on both the lighthearted and mundane, and works of social commentary and empowerment!I chose to nominate Beige Blum for Inner Space because marginalized artists and art forms need more representation in the arts community. Her work focuses on social commentary and empowerment with an attentive yet humorous approach grounded in lived experience as a biracial queer artist blending digital and physical illustrations, comics, zines, risograph prints and more. - Arden Cahill: Youth Advisory MemberFollow the Series at @AGOYOUTHCreated and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesEdited by AGO Video Team: Fraser WrighteCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2023
Inner Space with Brandon Hoax Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-04-25 | Inner Space, a monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO Staff, invites artists from across Canada to give personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to youth curators and artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and legitimize a new generation of diverse, Canadian artists, while creating authentic youth-led digital content.The current iteration of the Youth Advisory is project-based and is made up of youth ages 16-25 from across Canada with the goal of co-curating a series of studio tours by and for youth. Meeting bi-weekly online from October 2022-June 2023, this paid opportunity tasked the Inner Space Youth Advisory members with curating artists from their communities who they believe deserved a platform and visibility from an institutional context. The result, launched in March 2023, is a 6 episode monthly web series featuring a new generation of artists and their creative spaces from across Canada.This month we meet artist Brandon Hoax: Haudenosaunee onᐱyoteʔa∙ká 2spirit child of a Stonecoat mother and Dullahan Father. Agender neural network angel extremophile trickster NDN artist from London, Ontario, and Oneida Nation of the Thames, living out of K’jipuktuk.I first encountered Brandon Hoax’s work at Nocturne in Halifax and became an instant fan. The piece there was a huge ribbon installation that completely transformed the harbourfront brewery. I love that Brandon is constantly working in many different facets and continually experimenting with media and subjects, which I feel a lot of youth will relate to. I wanted to program them as a featured artist for the AGO not only because of my interest in their work but also because often, I find that artists in the Maritimes get pigeonholed and don’t often reach audiences in central or western Canada. Programs like the AGO youth Inner Space series provide such great digital opportunities to connect art communities from all over. - Daisy Isabella Graham: Youth AdvisoryFollow the Series at @AGOYOUTHCreated and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesEdited by AGO Video Team: Fraser WrighteCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2023
Rapp Lecture on Contemporary Art: Wolfgang Tillmans Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-04-19 | Join artist Wolfgang Tillmans for a talk exploring his work in advance of his major retrospective, To look without fear. Tillmans’ photography ranges from intimate observations to incisive commentary on the shape of our world today, and features ecstatic images of nightlife, sensitive portraits, architectural studies, documents of social movements, still lifes, astronomical phenomena and cameraless abstractions.
Close Looking: The Shadow of the Year Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-04-17 | Close looking is an online monthly series that invites people to spend time with artworks from the AGO Collection - observing their details, discussing their creation, history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives.Join Erin Rutherford, Collection Development Librarian, as she discusses The Shadow of the Year (1976) with poems by Florence Wyle and wood engravings by Rosemary Kilbourn from the Collection of the E. P. Taylor Library and Archives. This short talk will explain why the Library holds multiple copies of the title, compare them, and highlight their differences. Which private press published the book? At which Toronto gallery did the book launch? Does an envelope tucked into one copy reveal a connection to a third Canadian artist? Celebrate the coming of Spring through a study of beautiful books and a reading of Wyle’s calming words.
Seniors Social: Windswept Landscape Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-04-04 | Make new art connections and spark conversations! Join us for our free virtual Seniors Social program, a live monthly series for older adults that combines conversations with art and artmaking. The AGO believes providing opportunities to experience art and artmaking increases well-being.Canadians talk about it all the time: the weather. How should we represent weather, our connection to the sun and sky, the movement of wind and clouds? Two Canadian artists who created distinctive ‘portraits’ of weather in their art are Kazuo Nakamura and Paterson Ewen. In this session, we’ll dive deeply into what it means to live in a place with different weather experiences and create a sky drawing.Drawing Exercise: What’s outside the window right now or a remembered significant weather event you experienced?Materials:watercolour paper a set of watercolour paintsbrushesmasking tape and backing board for taping down the paper paper towelORchalk pastelsdrawing papereraserstissue for smudging
Inner Space with Emerald Repard-Dennistion Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-03-29 | Inner Space, a monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO Staff, invites artists from across Canada to give personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to youth curators and artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and legitimize a new generation of diverse, Canadian artists, while creating authentic youth-led digital content.The current iteration of the Youth Advisory is project-based and is made up of youth ages 16-25 from across Canada with the goal of co-curating a series of studio tours by and for youth. Meeting bi-weekly online from October 2022-June 2023, this paid opportunity tasked the Inner Space Youth Advisory members with curating artists from their communities who they believe deserved a platform and visibility from an institutional context. The result, launched in March 2023, is a 6 episode monthly web series featuring a new generation of artists and their creative spaces from across Canada.This month we meet artist Emerald Repard-Denniston, a visual artist based in Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam/Vancouver, and Tkaronto/Toronto. She is a multidisciplinary artist working mainly in contemporary figurative oil painting. Through her practice she plays around with topics that involve humour, cynicism and detachment. It was incredibly meaningful for me to see an artist unapologetically embodying their Asian identity and rejecting claustrophobic societal pressures to be something you’re not.In her paintings, Emerald disrupts one-dimensional portrayals of Asian women and the Asian monolith in favour of seething, joyous, and raucous figures. While it isn’t necessarily unusual to see someone subverting notions of societal representation, Emerald’s work does so with refreshing humour, aggression, and intellect. - Chloe Gordon-Chow: Youth Advisory MemberFollow the Series at @AGOYOUTHCreated and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesEdited by AGO Video Team: Fraser WrighteCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2023
Close Looking: Archives of African Art at the AGO in the 20th century Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-03-06 | Join us to see the ways art reveals and shapes the world in which we live. Close looking is an online monthly series that invites people to spend time with artworks from the AGO Collection - observing their details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives.Join Al Stanton-Hagan, AGO Archivist, and Mariah Coulibaly, Research Assistant, Frum Collection, Arts of Global Africa & the Diaspora, as they explore changing attitudes about African art at the AGO and in the West through records from the AGO Archives. By taking a closer look at key documents, learn about the exclusion of African art from the AGO’s early programming and how changing trends in the late 20th century increased acknowledgement and appreciation of African artistry at the Western art museums that had previously shunned it.
Seniors Social: Leonard Cohen Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-03-02 | Make new art connections and spark conversations! Join us for our free virtual Seniors Social program, a live monthly series for older adults that combines conversations with art and artmaking. The AGO believes providing opportunities to experience art and artmaking increases well-being.Inspired by Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows., this Seniors Social will explore Cohen’s songs which are narrative-driven and anthem like ballads. What emotions are stirred in us as we listen? What memories are evoked? Cohen created many self-portraits. We will create full-sized self-portraits of ourselves listening to his music, using a loose descriptive approach a la Cohen’s drawing style. Get inspired with a Leonard Cohen playlist on the exhibition webpage.Drawing exercise: “This is me listening to Leonard…”Materials:one full sheet Legion mixed media paper per studentpads of Manila paperchalk pastelsIndia ink and brushes pen and nibseasels and tables set-upacrylic paints and large brushes
Artists Talk: Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-02-14 | Join us as we celebrate artists whose work has recently come under the care of the AGO’s Department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora. This event features artists Sandra Brewster, Jorian Charlton, Moridja Kitenge-Banza, Paul Anthony Smith, Isabel Okoro, Bidemi Oloyede, Emmanuel Osahor, Preston Pavlis, and Jan Wade presenting their work and practice, with an opportunity to connect with the artists after their presentations.
Deaf Culture Moments: Yayoi Kusama Art Gallery of Ontario 2023-01-17 | Deaf communities and cultures can be overlooked in a noisy world that privileges hearing. As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting our communities and collaborating with them, the Gallery offers unique Deaf Culture Moments. Explore the AGO Collection with an Art Educator from the Deaf community who encourages discovery by creating customized experiences with art. For more information, visit www.deafspectrum.comINFINITY MIRRORED ROOM - LET’S SURVIVE FOREVER is an iconic installation by Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama. It serves as a well-known destination for Gallery-goers to take epic selfies, and take a closer look at what infinity means to them. Thanks to more than four thousand donors, the installation is now an infinite part of AGO Collection.
Inner Space with Blake McLeod Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-12-28 | Inner Space, a new monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO staff, welcomes artists from across Canada as they present personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to young curators aged 16-25 to work with artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and celebrate a new generation of Canadian artists. A new video will be released each month. This month we meet artist Blake McLeod, a Cree nonbinary, queer artist living and working in Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7 Territory. They were curated by Emily Donville of the AGO Youth Advisory. “Blake is an essential fixture of the Calgary arts & culture scene, using their art practice to communicate to folks who have ever felt “othered” that they are not alone. Through various mediums– illustration, graphic design, photo, video, broadcasting, music and paint – Blake attempts to communicate the core concept of humanity and community, specifically to queer audiences. “I have had the incredible opportunity to witness first-hand their dedication to the community through their work as a radio DJ at CJSW 90.9 FM, and I am delighted to be showcasing their studio space through this project,” says curator Emily Donville.Artist Bio:Blake McLeod (they/them) is a Cree nonbinary queer artist living and working in Mohkinstsis, Treaty 7 Territory. Through the means of illustration, graphic design, photo, video and radio, they strive to build an intimate community for folks to feel free and safe to be who they are. With a diverse background involving a BFA in Drawing from AuArts, technical training from SAIT’s New Media Production & Design program, and a multitude of DIY queer events and workshops in Calgary, McLeod is determined to have folks know – they are not alone.Curator Bio:Emily Donville is a 4th-year student pursuing a BA in Communication & Media studies at the University of Calgary. Born and raised in Calgary, Emily is a fervent supporter of the arts and hopes to one day pursue a career in the arts & culture sector. She is currently the chair of CJSW Radio's Board of Directors and has been hosting 7-10 Split, a weekly alternative music radio program since May 2020. As a communications student, Emily is fascinated by the intersection of digital media with race and gender. She largely draws on her studies for inspiration in her art practice, alongside her interest in punk and DIY. Never one to remain idle, her latest endeavours have involved printmaking, beading and chain maille.Follow the Series at @AGOYOUTHbit.ly/3u4FQe5Created and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2022
Seniors Social: Norval Morrisseau and Cornelius Krieghoff Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-12-28 | Make new art connections and spark conversations! Join us for our free virtual Seniors Social program, a live monthly series for older adults that combines conversations with art and artmaking. The AGO believes providing opportunities to experience art and artmaking increases well-being.For some of us, winter brings the desire to hibernate, slow down and take stock; for others, it’s a season of extreme sport and adventure, or represents holiday celebrations with special foods and an opportunity to connect with loved ones. What stories do you reflect on at this time of year? What aspects of winter do you find most compelling? Finding inspiration from works by Norval Morrisseau and Cornelius Krieghoff, let’s meet up, discuss winter and create collage-based seasonal cards!Using coloured paper, either construction or hand-painted paper, we’ll create a cut-out image that goes onto a paper substrate. It can show the complexity of a snowflake or the silhouette of a wintery beast − moose, reindeer, polar bear or owl.Materials List:Pencil, scissors, glue stick A variety of coloured paper (could be construction paper, Canson papers, origami, wrapping paper, wallpaper or painted paper)And possibly envelopes if creation is intended as a greeting card. This is an Accessible Event with Closed Captioning.
Deaf Culture Moments: Alphonse Maria Mucha Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-12-21 | Deaf communities and cultures can be overlooked in a noisy world that privileges hearing. As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting our communities and collaborating with them, the Gallery offers unique Deaf Culture Moments. Explore the AGO Collection with an Art Educator from the Deaf community who encourages discovery by creating customized experiences with art. For more information, visit www.deafspectrum.comThe art nouveau style expressed in L’Automne by Alphonse Maria Mucha has a clear influence on many of the designs used on present-day tarot and oracle cards. His signature style includes the long narrow shape, pastel colours and the halo around the subjects. This type of illustration has inspired many artists since the late 1800s.
Close Looking: The Jack Pollock Fonds Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-12-07 | Join us to see the ways art reveals and shapes the world in which we live. Close looking is an online monthly series that invites people to spend time with artworks from the AGO Collection - observing their details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives.Join Amy Furness, Rosamond Ivey Special Collections Archivist and Head, Library & Archives, as she explores the archival legacy of Jack Pollock, a pioneering art dealer and artist who left an indelible mark on the Toronto art world of the 1960s through the 1980s. Perhaps best known for championing the artist Norval Morrisseau, Pollock was also an artist in his own right, and a memorable writer. Hear more about his life and work as revealed through his personal archive, which joined the collections of the Edward P. Taylor Library & Archives in 2021.
Inner Space with Amnna Attia Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-11-30 | Inner Space, a new monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO staff, welcomes artists from across Canada as they present personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to young curators aged 16-25 to work with artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and celebrate a new generation of Canadian artists. A new video will be released each month. This month we meet artist Amnna Attia, a Toronto-based artist. They were curated by Saif-Ullah Khan of the AGO Youth Advisory. “Amnna is young, proudly Palestinian and holds clear intent with her work. Her embroidery pieces explore themes of reconnection with land, culture and heritage. As a fellow child of the diaspora, this deeply resonates with me. Amnna’s art is a radical reclamation of her identity. It draws back to the Palestinian tradition of tarteez in an attempt to hold onto an identity subjected to decades of violence and displacement − violence that our institutions often refuse to acknowledge.”Artist Bio:Born in the United States, Amnna Attia is a Toronto-based artist studying in the Contemporary Arts Department at Etobicoke School of the Arts. Attia explores her Arab-Palestinian heritage through digital art and embroidery. Her interest in her personal heritage sparked a passion for learning about other cultures, exploring their customs, and what makes them unique including styles of artistic expression. Attia was a curator at the Albright–Knox Art Gallery and is now a curator with Student Art Spaces Canada. Attia is also curating a space in Art Miami at the Fearless Artist Pop-Up Gallery, exhibiting her own work along with art pieces created by Palestinian workshop members. For the past three months, Attia has facilitated 10 workshops in two community parks, online, and at the TIFF Bell Lightbox to teach the history, practise and significance of Palestinian embroidery within Palestinian culture. Attia’s artwork has been exhibited in fifteen group shows and published on ten platforms.Curator Bio:Saif-Ullah Khan is a student, community arts worker and multidisciplinary creative currently based in Milton, Ontario. Saif’s practice centres around the exploration of systems that racialized youth in so-called Canada navigate and aims to challenge and reimagine structures of policing and carceral violence. Taking inspiration from practices of transformative justice and abolition, he hopes his work can serve as blueprints for building systems that truly care for everyone. He currently works as the project coordinator for Student Art Spaces Canada and is the project lead for TOP Zine’s “Abolition is Creation” arts project. He also works as a video host for #RisingYouth’s video capsule project and the social media coordinator for MY Voice Magazine.Follow the Series at @AGOYOUTHbit.ly/3IBwA4TCreated and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2022
Film Premiere: Threading Echoes by Shion Skye Carter with Mayumi Lashbrook and Hitoko Okada Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-11-16 | Join us on Zoom for the debut of Threading Echoes, a genre-defying dance performance that tells the story of shifu, a time-honoured, textile practice from sixth-century Japan. Created and performed by 2022 AGO X RBC Artist-in-Residence Shion Skye Carter and her artist collaborators Mayumi Lashbrook and Hitoko Okada, the performance will be followed by a discussion.
Deaf Culture Moments: Andy Warhol Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-11-15 | Deaf communities and cultures can be overlooked in a noisy world that privileges hearing. As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting our communities and collaborating with them, the Gallery offers unique Deaf Culture Moments. Explore the AGO Collection with an Art Educator from the Deaf community who encourages discovery by creating customized experiences with art. For more information, visit www.deafspectrum.comTomato from Campbell Soup I is the first of a series of thirty-two paintings of soup cans by the Pop artist Andy Warhol. In real life, the soup cans cost mere cents but the paintings are worth millions − how is this possible? Learn how this particular brand of soup became a symbol of commercialism and consumer culture.
Close Looking: Tim Whitens After Phaeton Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-11-08 | Join us to see the ways art reveals and shapes the world in which we live. Close looking is an online monthly series that invites people to spend time with artworks from the AGO Collection - observing their details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives.Join Renata Azevedo Moreira, Assistant Curator, Canadian Art, for a closer look at the sculpture After Phaeton (2013), by American-Canadian artist Tim Whiten. The handcrafted glass chariot is now on view at the McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art, on Level 2 of the AGO. Its title comes from the tale of Phaeton, a Greek myth about power, legacy, and the place of humanity in the world, which has fascinated a great number of artists throughout history.
Inner Space with Annie Beach Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-10-26 | Inner Space, a new monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO staff, welcomes artists from across Canada as they present personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to young curators aged 16-25 to work with artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and celebrate a new generation of Canadian artists. A new video will be released each month. This month we meet artist Annie Beach, a Cree/Saulteaux/Ukrainianvisual artist born, based and rooted in Winnipeg, Manitoba. They were curated by Kiana Compton of the AGO Youth Advisory. “Annie is a visual artist that truly walks in this life carrying the teachings from her culture and represents them in her art. Something that is super-admirable about Annie is that she stands up for what is right and always speaks up. Annie is a proud Cree person and her culture is directly honoured in her work. Many Indigenous people can look at it and also see themselves.”Artist Bio:Annie Beach is a visual artist, born, based and rooted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty One Territory. Beach is Cree/Saulteaux/Ukrainian, with relations from Peguis First Nation. Annie is a recent graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Honours) from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art. Beach has curated, designed and executed over a dozen mural projects throughout the city and works as an art instructor with a variety of youth, community arts and cultural-based organizations, to engage and uplift others, to imagine a more vibrant, radiant and tender world for the next seven generations. She is also one of three recipients of the 2019 Hnatyshyn Foundation Emerging Artist prize, and is currently exhibiting a new commission for the exhibition, Atautchikun | wȃhkôtamowin at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon, SK.Curator Bio:Kiana Compton is an emerging visual artist born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Compton is Indigenous, specifically Saulteaux and Cree. Compton’s has roots from Keeseekoose, Saskatchewan and Beren’s River, Manitoba. Compton was raised in a family of artists and she also attended Art City Inc. programming almost daily as a kid. Compton’s family and Art City definitely shaped her into the artist she is today. Now as an adult, she has come full circle and now works at Art City Inc. Now it’s her turn to provide meaningful art programming to the community. She mostly does paintings but also does beadwork and sewing. Her paintings are inspired by her culture, family, nature, graffiti and her community. She participated in the Lavender Menace exhibit (September 2020) at the Plaza Skatepark at the Forks. She also painted her first mural which was for Indigenous Peoples Day in the West End neighbourhood of Winnipeg (June 2021).Follow the Series at @AGOYOUTHbit.ly/3rPCt7RCreated and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2022
Seniors Social: Ed Pien Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-10-25 | Make new art connections and spark conversations! Join us for our free virtual Seniors Social program, a live monthly series for older adults that combines conversations with art and artmaking. The AGO believes providing opportunities to experience art and artmaking increases well-being.Ed Pien’s new exhibition Ed Pien: Preset: Past/Future, is about memory, ageing, domestic space and so much more. In today’s session, we will draw a few faces in a few different ways, working from photos, from memory and “blind contours” of each other. All you will need are; coloured pencils or coloured markers, some paper, a mirror for self reflection and willingness to draw yourself and others. Materials : Coloured pencils or markersPaper to draw on Photos of loved ones or a mirror for self reflectionEd Pien. Marcelino Povea Vives, 2019. Diptych: two colour digital prints. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Claudio Pelaez Sordo and Ed Pien
Faith and Fortune: Florina Capistrano-Baker Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-10-18 | Join AGO Assistant Curator of European Art Adam Harris Levine in conversation with Florina Capistrano-Baker, a curator and renowned expert on the art history of the Philippines. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire
Black and Indigenous Art Histories in Colonial Mexico Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-10-14 | Join Assistant Curator of European Art Adam Harris Levine in conversation with Professor Charlene Villaseñor Black about the lives, identities and traditions of Black and Indigenous artists in colonial Mexico. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire.
Inner Space with Oreka James Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-09-28 | Inner Space, a new monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO staff, welcomes artists from across Canada as they present personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to young curators aged 16-25 to work with artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and celebrate a new generation of Canadian artists. A new video will be released each month. This month we meet artist Oreka James, a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Toronto. They were curated by Savannah Lavallee of the AGO Youth Advisory. “When I joined this project, I wanted to make sure that the artist I selected was someone whose art connected with my experiences as a young black woman in Canada. Whether working with 2-D or 3-D images Oreka captures movement and texture while at the same time exploring the Black Experience in a sensitive and expressive manner.” Artist Bio:Oreka James (b. 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Toronto, Canada. They have showcased their work in Canada, Los Angeles and Chicago. Curator Bio:I’m Savannah Lavallee and I was born and raised in Toronto but now I live in Tiny Township, Ontario. I was lucky to live downtown, exposed to arts and culture but also getting to experience a more laid-back lifestyle. My professional art journey began in Central Technical High School art program and I graduated from Oasis Skateboard Factory (yes, I got my high school credits making skateboards). Since then, I’ve worked on community art projects with various organizations, travelled to Europe and moved to where I am now! (and started a crazy plant collection). Currently I’m looking and applying for funding so I can achieve my first solo exhibition.Follow the Series at @AGOYOUTHbit.ly/3nZZsfwCreated and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2022
Artists Talk: Ken Lum Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-09-27 | Join artist Ken Lum, Director, Kunstinstituut Melly, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, and Xiaoyu Weng, AGO's Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, for a conversation about Lum's work and the Rotterdam museum, Kunstinstituut Melly which is named after Lum's much loved 1989 work Melly Shum Hates Her Job.Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Ken Lum: Death and Furniture.
Seniors Social Betty Goodwin and Armand Guillaumin Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-09-27 | Make new art connections and spark conversations! Join us for our free virtual Seniors Social program, a live monthly series for older adults that combines conversations with art and artmaking. The AGO believes providing opportunities to experience art and artmaking increases well-being.We’re going to dive deep and explore what water means to us. We all began our lives in water, are accustomed by now to the “waves of life”, the way water sometimes laps softly at the shore, but also represents the unknown sparkling darkness. Let’s consider the bodies of water near and dear to our hearts–a cottage lake, perhaps, that provides relief from summer heat, vacations to the seaside. In our session today, we will explore different art techniques (using acrylic, oil, or gouache/tempera paint) to help us create different waters from calm to frothy to turbulent. Materials:White, green, blue, purple, black paintPaint brushes that are several sizes, flat hard bristle, and rounds that are softerA tooth brushPaletteWater containerPaper towelAnd a few paint surfaces, paper to experiment onIf you have a seaside view you want to work from even better.This is an Accessible Event, supported with Closed Captioning.
Andrea Chung In Conversation Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-09-27 | Join contemporary artist Andrea Chung with Tyler Park and Schwanda Rountree for a conversation about her work moderated by AGO Curator, Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora, Julie Crooks.
Black and Indigenous Artists in Colonial Peru Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-09-27 | Join AGO Assistant Curator of European Art Adam Harris Levine in conversation with Professor Ximena Gómez about the lives and identities of Black and Indigenous artists in colonial Peru.
Close Looking: Daguerreotypes of the Philippines from Faith and Fortune Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-09-26 | Close looking is an online discussion series that invites people to spend time with a single work from the AGO Collection - observing its details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives. Connecting art, access and learning, it’s a series that clears a space for us to appreciate the role that artists play in revealing and even shaping the world in which we live.Join AGO Conservator of Photographs Katharine Whitman and Adam Harris Levine, assistant curator, European Art and Dr. Noemí Espinosa Fernandez, assistant curator of the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, as they discuss daguerreotypes from the Philippines and specifically, Plazuela de San Gabriel, Manila, Philippines, a daguerreotype attributed to Jules Alphonse Eugene Itier (1802 -1877) that is currently on view as part of Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire, courtesy the Hispanic Society Museum & Library. This discussion focuses on the daguerreotype process and its creation in the Philippines in the early 1840s, right after their introduction in France in 1839, and the conservation concerns behind displaying this artwork.
Close Looking: Faith and Fortune Creative Audio Description Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-09-06 | Close looking is an online discussion series that invites people to spend time with a single work from the AGO Collection - observing its details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives. Connecting art, access and learning, it’s a series that clears a space for us to appreciate the role that artists play in revealing and even shaping the world in which we live. Join Curatorial Assistant, Natalie Lam, as she shares an audio description of an artwork, one of the techniques used during our Multisensory Program to help remove barriers to our collections. You will hear and learn about creative audio description, a type of spoken language describing visual images or objects, which enables audiences to engage and pursue their own journey in relation to visual art. We will explore the Head of St Paul by Luisa Roldán, an artwork that will be on view in the Faith and Fortune: Art Across the Global Spanish Empire exhibition.
Inner Space with Jemini Baptiste Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-08-31 | Inner Space, a new monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO staff, welcomes artists from across Canada as they present personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to young curators aged 16-25 to work with artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and celebrate a new generation of Canadian artists. A new video will be released each month.This month we meet artist, Jemini Baptiste, a Black multi disciplinary artist.They were curated by Omi Rodney of the AGO Youth Advisory. “Jemini Baptiste’s work implicates themselves in an intricately spun web that represents the chaos of telling one’s own story where the melodrama of family, lineage and memorabilia are put together in service of self-making. Through their artistic media they transport and are transported to another world, somewhere better than here where the art and souls of black people roam the expanse of the planet safely, freely. Through their process, their visions of the world are settled and they arrive at a point of interminable creation – the summation of decades, even centuries, of generational knowledge. Where they are, there is no separation between past, present and future.Their work inspires emotions in me that bring me closer to my own ancestry and the truth of my own self.Artist Bio:Jemini Baptiste is a Black multidisciplinary artist. Through their work, they offer a complex understanding about time, spirituality, the sublime, Black (*Caribbean) history and conceptualizing the making of a rebellious ancestor in present tense. Curator Bio:Omi is a Jamaican writer weaving stories on the stolen land currently known as Canada. Their artistic focus lies in documenting and reimagining the Black Atlantic, with an emphasis on the Caribbean. They are surrendering to history as their ancestors tell it. Follow the Series at @AGOYOUTHbit.ly/3IBKGU1Created and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2022
Close Looking: Microscopic Monday Joyce Weiland Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-08-02 | Close looking is an online discussion series that invites people to spend time with a single work from the AGO Collection - observing its details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives. Connecting art, access and learning, it’s a series that clears a space for us to appreciate the role that artists play in revealing and even shaping the world in which we live.Join Rachel Stark (Intern, Conservation) and Sjoukje van der Laan (Conservator, Contemporary Art) in their conversation about The Space of the Lama (1966) by Canadian artist Joyce Wieland. This talk focuses on Wieland’s unique creation process and choice of materials (plastics, photographs), and the interesting conservation and installation challenges that comes with it. Despite it’s relatively young age, The Space of the Lama shows material degradation and visual losses, which is typical for the degradation of plastics. Hear more about the conservation of this artwork and contemporary art conservation at the AGO!
Brazil: Show Your Face Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-07-28 | Join AGO assistant curator of Indigenous and Canadian Art, Renata Azevedo Moreira for a conversation with artists Paulo Nazareth, Lyz Parayzo, and muSa Michelle Mattiuzzi, about the role of political art and resistance in contemporary Brazil.
Inner Space with Vanessa Mercedes Figueroa Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-07-27 | Inner Space, a new monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO staff, welcomes artists from across Canada as they present personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to young curators aged 16-25 to work with artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and celebrate a new generation of Canadian artists. A new video will be released each month. This month we meet artist, Vanessa Figuero, an emerging artist, activist and woman of colour living and working out of Vancouver, Canada.They were curated by Maya Rodrigo-Abdi of the AGO Youth Advisory. “Vanessa Mercedes Figueroa knows what it is like to grow up and live in Vancouver as a woman of colour. Her art expresses the sticky, hairy feelings we hold in our hearts after we spend our entire lives in this city and still remain unsure about how to look back at the cool harsh gazes we are met with here. Engaging with butterfly clips, broken nails, and other balancing acts; Vanessa works in various mediums that are sourced from both fine art supply stores and our everyday lives. Her studio space is not just limited to the white walls and concrete floors that she creates art in, but is an expanded field of Instagram stories and other social media posts.Artist Bio:Living and working out of Vancouver, BC, I am an emerging artist, activist, and woman of colour exploring politically driven protest art through multidisciplinary pursuits to allow for re-evaluation and critical reflection. My work primarily functions through a diaristic lens exploring the notion of homemaking within the third space inhabited by children of immigrants of colour. Through performative, photographic, and sculptural gestures, intervention of the longing and yearning for home while existing within the third space and making home your own. While living within the third space, existing is inherently uncomfortable and when living within those in-betweens, comfort and home are self-made. Creating home comes to me through multidisciplinary pursuits, exploring materials and media such as hair, textile, collage, plaster, photography, dance, performance, and many more. Home within the third space comes from using what you can to build home around you, and I want to use everything.Curator Bio:Maya Rodrigo-Abdi is an emerging art historian, curator, and artist based in Vancouver, BC. She will complete her undergraduate degree in art history from the University of British Columbia in the spring of 2022. Her research interests primarily revolve around the objectification and commodification of femininity in modern and contemporary art. Some of her favourite artworks at the moment are Kira Wu’s Fortune Teller, Jin-me Yoon’s Group of Sixty-Seven, and Camille Turner’s Miss Canadiana: Red, White, and Beautiful Tour. In her work, Maya explores themes surrounding her lived experiences as a mixed woman of colour. She also finds inspiration from shopping mall aesthetics, the music of Mitski, and reality television from the 2000s and early 2010s.Follow the Series at @AGOYOUTHbit.ly/3tYx7d3Created and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2022
AGO X RBC ARTIST IN RESIDENCE IN CONVERSATION: Ivetta Sunyoung Kang Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-07-27 | AGO X RBC Artist in Residence: Ivetta Sunyoung KangJoin Ivetta Sunyoung Kang for a performative conversation about her project, Proposition 3: String Figure, in which she brings together six friends who have lived in different countries − most of the time other than their home countries. Their anecdotes, related to severe lockdowns, in/voluntary distance and personal struggles, agoraphobia-inducing days and sleepless nights, will grow into conversations within the project. Process-based multichannel videos and performative texts will unfold through the presentation. For more details, visit AGO.ca/ago-x-rbc-artist-residence-ivetta-sunyoung-kang
Mindfulness Series: The Simplicity of Awareness Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-07-26 | Slow Down…The more you look the more you see…Join us and experience art differently, and discover the joy of looking at and loving art. This session will introduce the principles of mindfulness; engage in body awareness exercises and mindfulness practice followed by examining one work of art for an extended period.
Fireside Family Chat with Story Planet Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-07-17 | Join AGO Family Facilitators and special guests, Story Planet. In this 40 minutes virtual experience, Zoom in for exploration and creativity, inspired by artworks from the AGO’s collection. It’s an afternoon of creative fun for the family.Materials to have with you:A few sheets of paperPencils, coloured pencils or crayons
Fireside Family Chat with Story Planet Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-07-10 | Join AGO Family Facilitators and special guests, Story Planet. In this 40 minutes virtual experience, Zoom in for exploration and creativity, inspired by artworks from the AGO’s collection. It’s an afternoon of creative fun for the family.Materials to have with you:A few sheets of paperPencils, coloured pencils or crayons
Mindfulness Series: The Human Connection and Curiosity Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-07-04 | Slow Down…The more you look the more you see…Join us and experience art differently, and discover the joy of looking at and loving art. This session will introduce the principles of mindfulness; engage in body awareness exercises and mindfulness practice followed by examining one work of art for an extended period.
Close Looking: Book Design Alice C. Morse Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-07-04 | Close looking is an online discussion series that invites people to spend time with a single work from the AGO Collection - observing its details, discussing its creation, its history and the artist’s intention through multiple senses and perspectives. Connecting art, access and learning, it’s a series that clears a space for us to appreciate the role that artists play in revealing and even shaping the world in which we live.Join Erin Rutherford, Collection Development Librarian, as she discusses an artist-designed publishers’ binding from the Collection of the E. P. Taylor Library and Archives. This short talk will focus on the book’s cover design in the Art Nouveau style and offer a glimpse into the life and work of its creator, Alice Cordelia Morse. How was Morse’s work rediscovered? How was the artist connected to the book’s illustrator? Might an inscription on the book’s endpapers reveal its previous owner? Tune in and “crank” up the volume to find out.
Fireside Family Chat Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-07-03 | Join AGO Family Facilitators and special guests, Story Planet. In this 40 minutes virtual experience, Zoom in for exploration and creativity, inspired by artworks from the AGO’s collection. It’s an afternoon of creative fun for the family.Materials to have with you:A few sheets of paperPencils, coloured pencils or crayons
Inner Space with Luisé Cisneros Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-06-29 | Inner Space, a new monthly web series co-curated by the Inner Space Youth Advisory and AGO staff, welcomes artists from across Canada as they present personal tours of their studios. Giving a platform to young curators aged 16-25 to work with artists from their communities, Inner Space aims to make visible and celebrate a new generation of Canadian artists. A new video will be released each month. This month we meet artist Luisé Cisneros, a non-binary Mexican-Canadian artist born in Mexico City who resides in Belleville and Toronto.They were curated by Carla Sierra Suarez of the AGO Youth Advisory. “I was drawn to Luisé Cisnero’s work as ze tells a story in every single work ze makes. The story of an immigrant, the story of a non-binary person, the story of Mexican culture, the story of grief, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Raw storytelling that teaches us the importance of learning about each other, sharing our stories.Artist Bio:Luisé Cisneros is a non-binary Mexican-Canadian artist born in Mexico City who resides in Belleville and Toronto, Ontario. Being part of these two cultures, ze explores the ideas of land, race, immigration, identity, family dynamics and queerness. Hir diaspora experiences are reflected in hir work by using figurative symbolism and self-portraits, creating narratives of multiculturalism. Luisé predominantly works in sculpture and painting, but ze also works with film where ze renders themes of Mexican and Canadian culture highlighting hir identity. Luisé has shown hir art locally and internationally while studying in the Sculpture/Installation program at OCAD University, furthering hir knowledge in art and advancing hir professional career.Curator Bio:Carla Sierra Suarez is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist based in T’karonto. In her practice, she explores themes of identity through mental health as well as the duality of being part of the Latinx diaspora and a Muslim convert. She aims to bring to light issues that have been often stigmatized, creating a safe space for self-expression. She further explores other aspects of her identity as an immigrant, as a woman, as bipolar, as disabled, and as someone who has PTSD and ADHD. Carla refers to herself as a visual storyteller as her work is all autobiographical in nature. Follow the Series at @AGOYOUTHbit.ly/3IBBtehCreated and Facilitated by AGO Youth Programs: Sarah Febbraro & Madelyne BecklesCurated in Collaboration with the Inner Space Youth Advisory.Generously supported by The Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundation.Music Via Soundstripe© The Art Gallery of Ontario 2022
Seniors Social: I AM HERE Art Gallery of Ontario 2022-06-24 | Make new art connections and spark conversations! Join us for our free virtual Seniors Social program, a live monthly series for older adults that combines conversations with art and artmaking. The AGO believes providing opportunities to experience art and artmaking increases well-being.The AGO’s new exhibition “I am Here” explores our desire to capture, share and cherish the everyday. In today’s session, we’ll take a look at how two very different artists, from two very different eras and geographical locations, using very different mediums, represented food. Together we’ll discuss what’s sizzling on the stove in our own kitchens, how food is depicted in popular culture, and why cooking is so often referred to as an “art”. For the art component, we’ll invite you to recall a perfectly picturesque meal that was made with care and attention by you or someone else and we’ll draw our favourite meal from memory, photos, google or even right out of the fridge. Materials: paper and drawing or painting materialswatercolour pencils are great for this, with a side of water and a paint brush to blendThis is an Accessible Event with Closed Captioning.
