28th Edition, CONTACT Photography Festival features over 130 exhibitions and outdoor installations by Canadian and International artists throughout the Greater Toronto Area. So, it isn’t easy to pick exhibits to see. We all look forward to seeing much more than the ones listed but these caught our interest and everyone is sure to have their own list as well.
EMESE KRUNAK-HAJAGOS, publisher/writer:
Stephanie Avery, Evangeline Y Brooks, Laura Komadina: Missed Details
May 1 – 12, 2024
All Ours Gallery
Stephanie Avery, Wedding at the Phoenix, 2018
Nika Belianina: Enchanted Journeys of Desire
May 10 – Jun 1, 2024
Abozzo Gallery
Nika Belianina, Smiley, 2023
PHIL ANDERSON, publisher/writer/photographer
Ruth Kaplan & Claudia Fahrenkemper: Body Armour
April 28 – July 1, 2014
Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
Ruth Kaplan, Steam Room, Calistoga, California, U.S.A., 1991 (gelatin silver print; 14.25×14.25in (image), from the series Bathers. Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Bulger
Amanda Large: We Are All Water
May 2 – July 31, 2024
Bulthaup, Toronto
Amanda Large, untitled, 2021
STEVE ROCKWELL, publisher/writer
Strange Love / Organized by the National Gallery of Canada, presented in partnership with Library and Archives Canada and CONTACT
May 1 – July 27, 2024
Urbanspace Gallery
C. R. Yool (1923–2006), Scientists Pat Holden and Norman Harrison look into the test chamber of the ISIS A Satellite, 1965. CMCP Archive, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives (NFB 65-2587)
Sara Angelucci: Undergrowth
April 20 – July 7, 2024
Art Gallery of Mississauga
Sara Angelucci, October 14, Milkweed #3, 2020 (pigment print on archival paper flush-mounted to Dibond, 47x34in.), from the series Nocturnal Botanical Ontario. Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Bulger Gallery, © Sara Angelucci
CASSANDRA JOHNSON, writer/photographer
June Clark: Witness
May 3 – August 11, 2024
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
June Clark, Harlem Quilt, (detail), 1997 (fabric, photo transfers, light). Courtesy of the artist and Daniel Faria Gallery
In Dimension: Personal and Collective Narratives
May 9 – August 3, 2024
The Image Centre
Work by Alishah Ahmad
ELIN MACRAE, writer
Jake Kimble: Make Yourself at Home
April 4 – May 11, 2024
United Contemporary
Jake Kimble, Bath Time, 2023 (archival pigment print, 40x40in). Courtesy of the artist
HUGH ALCOCK, writer/photographer
Alan Bulley, John Healey, Jon Stuart: Landscaping(s)
May 1 – 15, 2024
Gallery 183
Jon Stuart, Downstream, 2022
Farah Al-Amin: Decay
May 10 – 31, 2024
Arterial Toronto
Farah Al-Amin, Decay, 2023
LEX BARRIE, writer/photographer
Julya Hajnoczky: The Prefix Prize
May 3 – July 27, 2024
Urbanspace Gallery
Julya Hajnoczky, Boletinellus meruliodes, 2021, from the series At the Last Judgement, We Will All Be Trees. Courtesy the artist and Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto
Jah Grey: Putting Ourselves Together
March 28 – May 25, 2024
BAND Gallery
Jah Grey, Oge Anthony Classic, (Stylist: Uche Uba Creative Directors: Jah Grey, Uche Uba, and Pris Zim), 2024. Courtesy of the artist
POLYNA ALEXSEEV, writer/photographer
Almagul Menlibayeva: My Silk Road to You & Nomadized Suprematism
May 1 – June 9, 2024
Aga Khan Museum
Almagul Menlibayeva, Aisha Bibi, 2010, from the series My Silk Road to You. Courtesy of the artist
Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart: Home: Between Worlds
May 4 – 31, 2024
Rukaj Gallery
Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart, Monarch, 2023
RASHANA YOUTZY, writer/photographer
John Macfie: People of the Watershed
May 11 – November 17, 2024
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
John Macfie, Henry Kechebra calling a moose, Mattigami Reserve, 1959, photograph, John Macfie fonds, C330-14-0-0-22, Archives of Ontario.
Finn O’Hara: Band on the Run
May 1 – 31, 2024
Donna’s
Finn O’Hara, CEWA + LULI, 2023
TIFFANY DOUNG, writer/media
Ruth Less Tyler Nykilchyk, Jessica O’Lear: Liminal
April 27 – May 31, 2024
Alternity
Ruth Less, reclaim 2, reclaim 3, 2023
Julie Vetro: Campfire Songs
May 22 – Jun 2, 2024
Gallery 1313
Julie Vetro, Ukulele Girl, 2024
Images are courtesy of CONTACT Photography Festival.
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