EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

Gardiner Museum

SMASH: Between Worlds
111 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 2C7

THU MAY 30, 2024

8:00 a.m. – 12:00 a.m.

**SOLD OUT**

SMASH is a night when the next generation of artists, arts enthusiasts, and cultural philanthropists come together to celebrate our city’s vibrant arts community. On May 30, SMASH: Between Worlds invites you to explore the boundaries between states, parallel worlds, and altered realities through mind-bending installations, art, fashion, food, drinks, music, and more. Guests will also have access to the Gardiner’s annual International Ceramic Art Fair, presenting some of the most compelling contemporary work in the medium of clay.

Installations by

Briony Douglas
Briony Douglas is a multi-talented artist from Ontario, who has made a name for herself with her captivating sculptures, art installations, and photography. Her unique style blends sustainability and advocacy, shown through surrealism and pop culture inspiration. Briony has photographed the Clintons, Oprah, and Jennifer Lawrence, and uses her lens to tell a story, creating unique pieces of art through every frame. Briony’s work evokes curiosity, sparks conversation, and encourages connections, while challenging our perception of the world and ourselves.

Gunnar Floral
Jaime McCuaig of GUNNAR Floral is an artist whose creative practice engages with the living world of plants and flowers, processes of growth, and the ephemerality of seasons. Inspired by the intersection of manufactured landscapes and true wilderness, GUNNAR confronts its urban audience with an opportunity to see the natural world in new ways.

Arnie Guha
Arnie Guha, Chief Innovation Officer at Phase5, is the multidisciplinary creative behind Acid4Yuppies, which focuses on experiential art works—from illuminated light boxes and electric murals, to psychedelics-inspired scarves and fine art prints. Guha’s ‘trippy’ works are complemented by an extensive body of minimalistic photography and portraiture. From vivid colours to subdued hues, Guha’s practice explores both realms of the visual experience from extreme intensity to soft suggestion.

Peggy
Peggy is the social marketplace for discovering, buying and selling contemporary art. Peggy provides essential technology for fine art, expanding the opportunity for more people to build and grow an art collection. The Peggy-designed Digital Fingerprint uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to create a unique identity for paintings, enabling transaction security, provenance transparency and artist royalties on primary and secondary sales. Peggy is trusted by artists who have shown at the Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou, MOCA Geffen, and Louvre Abu Dhabi. Peggy is the secure way into the world of art.

Entertainment by

DJ Jayemkayem
Jayemkayem is a DJ, music producer and community organizer. Born in England and raised in Hong Kong, Jayem is a well established nightlife staple in Toronto and all around Canada, renowned for genre-hopping sets and crowd-pleasing sensibilities. Her transcontinental upbringing fostered a sense of curiosity that she explores as both a creator and curator of music. She pours her love of connection and creativity into everything she does—from her independent label Bare Selection, which champions underground music from Canada and the UK; ISO Radio, the community radio station she co-founded in 2019; her electrifying mixes as an official Apple Music mix curator; and more recently her original music productions, both as a solo artist and alongside her partner Freeza Chin.

SMASH Committee
Briony Douglas (Chair) / Victoria Alves / Sadhisha Ambagahawita / Cole Fawcett / Garrick Frittelli / Azadeh Houshmand / Kulin Matchhar / Kevonn Morgan / Liam Randhawa / Jennifer Stack / Audrey Zhang / Kathy Zhou

Hosted By
Gardiner Museum Young Patron Circle

Event Partners
Altas
Diana Reitberger

Catering Partner
The Food Dudes

Hospitality Partners
Collective Arts
Corby Spirit and Wine Limited

All Ours Studios

Doors Open
62-66 Geary Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M6H 2B5

SAT MAY 25 - SUN MAY 26, 2024

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Join us for Doors Open Toronto 2024 at All Ours Studios. Explore our creative space and experience firsthand the environment where art comes to life. As part of this city-wide event, we open our doors to the public, inviting you to delve into the creative process and engage with our vibrant community of artists.

ACTIVITIES:

Studio Tours: Guided tours of our studios, meet the artists, and see works in progress.
Interactive Exhibits: Engage with interactive art installations and live demonstrations.
Artist Talks: Attend talks by resident artists about their work and creative journeys.
Family-friendly Activities: Enjoy art-making activities suitable for all ages.

THEME: Hidden Histories
This year’s Doors Open Toronto theme, "Hidden Histories," focuses on uncovering untold stories through open house experiences, engaging tours, and insightful talks. Discover the rich history and stories behind the artworks and the artists who create them.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Photography Allowed: Feel free to take photos during your visit.
Accessibility: Our studio is fully accessible.
Refreshments: Light refreshments will be available.

SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE:
Use the hashtag #DOT24 and tag us on Instagram [@yourhandle] to share your experience.

SPONSORS AND PARTNERS:
We are grateful for the support of our event partners and sponsors, including [List any relevant sponsors/partners].

For more details and updates, visit the official Doors Open Toronto website.

Collision Gallery

RENAISSANCE SHOW Sound Bath Meditation
30 Wellington St West, Unit G114, Toronto, Ontario, M5L 1G4

SAT APR 29, 2023

7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

Fee: Pay what you can.
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Take in the evocative artwork of trans-disciplinary artist Kyle Yip, and immerse yourself in a soothing sound bath by The SoundBody Collective with a Sound Bath for Unconscious Awakening, a one-of-a-kind live therapeutic soundscape experience created by The SoundBody Collective, a “sound bath band” comprised of three certified sound healing practitioners, Laura Notton, Nicole Manes and Rufus Glassco.

On Saturday, April 29th, 2023, from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at Collision Gallery in Toronto, join one of the city’s “most diverse soundscape groups” for a wholly unique sound bathing experience that will naturally relax your mind and body.

Taking place at an expansive art gallery space and inspired by the dream-informed work of Kyle Yip and his solo exhibition, RENAISSANCE SHOW, The SoundBody Collective will combine a multitude of instruments and voices, including quartz crystal singing bowls, Tibetan singing bowls, shruti box, didgeridoo, handpan, drum, tanpura, ocean drum and chimes to create a transcendental and healing sonic journey designed to help recipients create a bridge between their conscious and unconscious awareness.

Give yourself the opportunity to receive healing vibrations, release fear and frustration and align with your innermost hopes, dreams and intentions for the year ahead through the power of sound.

Doors will open at 7:00 p.m., and the sound bath will begin at 7:30 p.m. We encourage you to arrive early to enjoy the exhibition before settling in for the soundscape journey.

Please bring a yoga mat if you have one, as a limited supply will be available on-site. We also encourage you to bring anything else to help you be comfortable lying or seated for approximately one hour.

For those new to sound baths, please know there is no right or wrong way to receive one. During a sound bath, some people may experience emotions, physical sensations, visions or fall asleep. This is common, and The SoundBody Collective will be available afterwards to provide support as needed and answer any questions. No meditation experience is required to benefit from a sound bath.

About The Soundbody Collective
Comprised of three certified sound healing practitioners based in Toronto, Canada, The SoundBody Collective offers a truly unique sound bath experience. Together, Laura Notton, Nicole Manes and Rufus Glassco have the ability to play more instruments at one time and take you on an intricate and healing live sonic journey.

www.soundbodycollective.com
thesoundbodycollective@gmail.com
@thesoundbodycollective

Frequently Asked Questions

★ What a Sound Bath is
Sound baths are a simple exercise in deep listening, which can lower stress. During a sound bath, sound therapy practitioners intentionally combine vibrations from instruments and objects that resonate, including voice, crystal quartz singing bowls, Tibetan singing bowls, drums, tuning forks, gongs, shakers, bells and chimes to administer memorable and soothing soundscapes that relax the mind and body.

⬟ What to expect at our Sound Bath
We will be playing for approximately one hour. Simply lie or sit down and immerse yourself in healing sounds and vibrations. During a sound bath, you may experience physical sensations or emotional release. You may journey into a state of deep self-inquiry. You may fall asleep, or you may not. No prior experience with meditation is required to benefit.

This exhibition is generously supported by Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

Collision Gallery

RENAISSANCE SHOW

30 Wellington St West, Unit G114, Toronto, Ontario, M5L 1G4

TUE APR 18 - FRI MAY 12, 2023

Collision Gallery, Toronto

Opening Reception
April 22, 2023, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Sound Bath Meditation
with The SoundBody Collective
April 29, 2023, 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.

Kyle Yip’s trans-disciplinary practice integrates eastern and western recovery-based approaches derived from gnosis and neuroscience. It plays with the new fixities of identity politics drawn from the colour-field of pop physics, combining euclidean and sacred geometry with vexillology. Some of these practices include art therapy, dreamwork, as well as meditation, reiki, and esoteric cosmological rituals that unsettle mainstream norms in contemporary art. His work addresses an urgent need in the art industry to merge explorations between personal development and avant-gardist aesthetics.

Yip achieved a significant breakthrough in 2017 when he discovered the unique ability to conceive and examine artworks that emerge during his dreams in vivid detail. He coterminously reverse-engineered these successive images that once appeared immaterial into tactile, obdurate objects.

The bands of simple Gestalt forms incorporate an aspect of both the ancient and modern world, and the overall vexillological format of the works also involves how visual attention is augmented through the practice of serial repetition. These works reveal how the unconscious has been branded by advertising formulas redolent of monotonous imagery of the commodity form. The subversive hybrid of these methods metaphorically maps a similarly disruptive kind of complex new identity.

Exhibition Hours
Tuesday to Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

This exhibition is generously supported by Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.

Arte Laguna Prize Final Exhibition Edition 16

Bacini dell'Arsenale Nord
30122 Castello, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy

SAT MAR 11 - SUN APR 16

Awards Reception Ceremony: Saturday, March 11th, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Since 2006, Arte Laguna Prize is the international art competition open to multiple disciplines – visual, performing, multimedia, landscape and digital arts – for the enhancement of contemporary art and the mapping of its current state. It was created to give the opportunity to art talents, more or less young, to emerge, to be noticed by the general public and by the jury composed of important names in the contemporary art scene, as well as to allow a democratic comparison between international artists.

The virtuous circle of Foundations, Museums, Galleries, Residences and Spaces for Art, Made in Italy Companies and International Brands, allows the realization of special projects and concrete opportunities for growth and momentum for the professional career of artists.

Artsin Square

#2 Online Exhibition

Kunstmatrix

SAT DEC 10 - TUE JAN 10

#2 online Exhibition is the third virtual exhibition of Artsin Square which is dedicated to showing 23 various artists with several medium from painting, drawing, sculpture and video. They aim to display more unexposed talents, fresh ideas, and new approaches in the art world.

Selected Artist: Amber Larks, Anja Rausch, Anna Sobkowiak, Dariya Kanti, Emilie Raud, Karolina Zglobicka, Kyle Yip, Maeve van Klaveren, Michaela Brunner, Michael Macdonald, Monika Malewska, Niccolo Debole, Nicole Gagnum, Norton Pease, Rosina Rosinski, Susanne Wurlitzer, Taru Tiiliharju, Tianyi Shi, Tina Shan, Tomas MorellKaren , Virginia Broersma, Wenqing Zhai, Yueyang Luo

Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
41st Juried Art Exhibition

143 Simpson Avenue, Bowmanville, Ontario, L1C 2H9

SAT OCT 1 - WED DEC 14

Awards Reception Ceremony: Saturday, October 15th, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) is pleased to announce its 41st Juried Art Exhibition in Bowmanville, ON. For over 45 years, the VAC has produced a variety of locally-engaged exhibitions and public programmes that offer members of the Durham Region an opportunity to learn and create through contemporary art.

We are excited to welcome our community’s artists back with an opportunity to exhibit their work within our main gallery spaces for the first time in two years, as well as the chance to win cash prizes. The exhibition will support the VAC in continuing to serve the larger Clarington community while supporting local creators over the upcoming year.

For the first time, the VAC is proud to introduce a Youth category to the Juried Art Exhibition. Eight prizes will be awarded across the two categories—Youth and Adults—including two People’s Choice Awards voted on by the local public and announced towards the end of the exhibition.

CICA Museum
International Symposium for Visual Culture Exhibition 2022
196-30 Samdo-ro, Yangchon-eup, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
SAT MAR 26

We invite artists, scholars, and researchers worldwide to participate in the International Symposium for Visual Culture 2022. The community of artists, researchers and academics meets in the international symposium and participates in the exhibition at the CICA Museum. The symposium will be held both onsite and virtually due to global uncertainty.

ISVC is an international platform for diverse and critical perspectives on visual culture. Through ISVC, we aim to create a global network of researchers/artists and consumers/makers of visual culture, and foster critical thoughts and in-depth understanding of visual culture on a global scale.

We look forward to the participation of creative artists/researchers. If you have any questions, please visit our “Contact Us” page (http://cicamuseum.com/contact) and leave a message, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

CICA Museum
Visual Culture Exhibition 2022
196-30 Samdo-ro, Yangchon-eup, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
WED MAR 16

OCAD University
Lose Your Illusion
Ignite Gallery Opening Launch

100 McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1W1

WED FEB 9 - MON MAR 7

Ignite Gallery is so proud to announce our inaugural show in our newly built gallery space as part of the Ada Slaight Exhibition Centre.

Malik Mckoy

Kyle Yip

Sid Sharp

Philip Ocampo

Nicole Zaridze

Open to the Campus

Smythe - Mckee
12 x 12

Philadelphia, PA

WED FEB 2

"As a collector I am often drawn to the seduction of size. Large works can have a powerful effect on the viewer in ways that more intimately scaled pieces may lack. In addition to creating accessibly priced and sized works for new and established collectors, this project was intended to push artists creatively by removing one variable from their craft: scale.

It has been truly remarkable to see how various artists have responded to this challenge, both in visual formats and in their descriptions of the creative process of scaling down their work.

I know you will enjoy this selection of works in media as diverse as the artists themselves."

- Sam Duplessis

STILL LIFE 2021-2022
John B. Aird Gallery

906 Queen St W Unit B05, Toronto, Ontario, M6J 1G6

THU JAN 6 -

John B. Aird Gallery is delighted to launch their first ‘still life’ themed online project, inclusive of a slideshow with playlist and a downloadable PDF publication in January 2022.

For this group exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery enlisted contemporary artists’ vibrant interpretations of the STILL LIFE genre. All pieces, whether they were created using paint, mixed media, collage, photography, sculpture, and/or new media that reflect on this art-historical reference and how it appears as a stand-in for nature, or an analysis of culture were considered by Montreal Yoon Contemporary, principal, Juno Yoon, and Aird Gallery curatorial assistant and publication designer, Marli Davis.

The intent of this online project is to bring together a large array of works that encourage both a rethinking of the traditionally narrow definition of ‘still life’ and celebration of the genre.

The Gallery's ensuing STILL LIFE project presents the jurors beautifully written and very meaningful written responses to the 40 artworks enclosed/created by Alexandrea Nicholas-Jennings, Joe Atikian, Sonia Beygi, Kim Brett, Mike Callaghan, Cao Chen, Jan Crawford-Winton, Dorota Dziong, John Ens, Deborah Farquharson, Anne-Marie Giroux, Itzik Giuli, Jennifer Globush, Avery Hannig, Heather Hess, Vladimir Kabelik, Clara Kim, Jina Kim, Jenn Law, Dawn Loree, Frank Mulvey, Allan O'Marra, Jangmee Park, Maureen Paxton, ORT Project, Marina Raike, Jackie Rancourt, Leena Raudvee Dale M Reid, Lori Ryerson, Lois Schklar, Anne Smythe, Asma Sultana, Bob Tunnoch, Hyun Young Yang and Kyle Yip, respectively.

Between Spaces
Mue Gallery

Virtual Exhibition

SAT NOV 20 - THU JAN 20

Curated by team C, Mue Gallery is happy to share the final presentation for their 2021 'Between Spaces' international group exhibition. Ten artists have been selected to display their works in the 3D gallery space as well as one winner for the opportunity to have a permanent artist page on the official website.

Mue Gallery is an ultra-contemporary online gallery representing an emerging movement of interdisciplinary artists who blur the lines between commercial, decorative, and fine art. They seek artists who possess the courage to step beyond the confines of their traditional medium and are yet restrained as they do so, tastefully capturing the transcendent qualities that arise when disciplines collide.

Mue Gallery is well connected with local galleries, art consultants, and interior designers in California. Their goal is to build a catalogue of potential artists that they would like to carry offline, bringing their works to art fairs, local galleries, or directly to clients. Through a series of online exhibitions, they hope to find artists they want to work with.