Exhibitions and events

School of Art Gallery

The School of Art Gallery exhibits and collects contemporary and historical art, maintaining, researching and developing collections in the School of Art’s Permanent Collection and the FitzGerald Study Centre collection.

Please note that the School of Art Gallery is currently closed due to COVID-19.

School of Art Gallery current exhibitions

One Queer City

Jean Borbridge, Mahlet Cuff, Dayna Danger, Shawna Dempsey & Lorri Millan, Larry Glawson, and Ally Gonzalo

Curated by Blair Fornwald
November 16, 2020 to February 14, 2021

One Queer City revisits and builds upon the premises of One Gay City by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, who created three prints for transit shelters in 1997. These works were never installed in transit shelters, as the ad agency objected to the gay content.

Offsite
Dancing with Tantalus

Ella Dawn McGeough, Katie Lyle, and Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill

Curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis
January 21 to March 13, 2021

Dancing with Tantalus engages qualities of contact—between people, surfaces, and objects—to examine haptic intimacy and explore the causal relationship between artworks and the many structures that make contact with them—physically, intellectually, emotionally, institutionally, and historically.

Main Gallery
Jon Sasaki: A Rest

Curated by Blair Fornwald, Director/Curator
January 21 to March 13, 2021

This split-screen video pairs archival images of Depression-era dance marathon competitors who have fallen asleep, or are resting in the arms of their partners with footage of solo contemporary dancer James Phillips, who attempts to hold the resting partner’s poses without anyone to lean on. Phillips’ body strains to hold these unsupported resting poses and finally collapses.

Lobby Gallery

School of Art Gallery recent events

Student gallery

The student gallery exhibits solo, group, and curated shows from current School of Art students.

Please note that the Student Gallery is currently closed due to COVID-19.

Find out how to submit a proposal

The Student Gallery accepts proposals for solo, group, and curated shows in any medium ranging from painting to performance, audio to animation, and everything in-between, including traditional and expanded practices, and interdisciplinary works.

2020 BFA Graduating Exhibition

A students work displayed at the graduation exhibition. The artwork features string set onto the wall spelling out A set of words spoken or unspoken an incomplete complete with branches standing and hanging in front of it.

The School of Art normally caps its academic year with the annual BFA Graduating Exhibition. The graduating honours class showcases the best of its work, reflecting a broad range of interests from traditional to new media, in an exciting format that takes full advantage of ARTlab’s architecture.

The School of Art was not able to present the annual BFA Graduating Exhibition this year due to the need for social distancing as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19. However, the 2020 BFA Graduating Exhibition Catalogue was produced and is available here to download as a pdf.

2020 BFA Graduating Exhibition Catalogue (PDF)