Bridge Space: Stories are Stories are Stories
April 14 - November 2, 2025
Guided by Erika DeFreitas, the intergenerational participants created the artworks in Stories are Stories are Stories during a one-day workshop. Through storytelling and creative expression, they celebrated connections beyond the traditional parent-child bond – honouring elders, extended family,…
Anna Semenoff: First Things First
June 16 - October 19, 2025
For Anna Semenoff, sculpture offers an arena to consider the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our perception and experience thereof; or, how the world we make, makes us in turn.
Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق
January 25 - April 27, 2025
Hangama Amiri creates intricately layered textile compositions that muse on home, kinship, and memory. “PARTING/فراق” builds on an ongoing body of work that focuses on the artist’s personal history and diasporic experience.
Erika DeFreitas: and that break is the one that shows (to shift, a curve, to quiver)
January 25 - April 27, 2025
The exchange of artist and material, body and mineral, sparked a realm of exploration for Erika DeFreitas to extend her ongoing search for absences and omissions within the canon of art history.
Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi: The blue of the sky depends on the darkness of empty space behind it
January 25 - April 27, 2025
Interweaving family lore, mythology, science fiction, and digital abstraction, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi’s 2022 film “Into The Violet Belly” follows the collaboration between the artist and her mother, Thuyen Hoa, who fled Vietnam after the end of the American War via a near-calamitous sea journey.
Esker Elsewhere – Art Museum at the University of Toronto: Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق
February 25 - April 11, 2026
Hangama Amiri creates intricately layered textile compositions that muse on home, kinship, and memory. “PARTING/فراق” builds on an ongoing body of work that focuses on the artist’s personal history and diasporic experience.
Constellations: Racial myths, land, and labour
September 21 - December 15, 2024
Curated by Su-Ying Lee, the group exhibition “Constellations: Racial myths, land, and labour” begins with the flows of people and plants circulated through the routes of early European colonialism.
Taiessa: variegata
October 28, 2024 - February 2, 2025
This ongoing body of work, offers a tangle of plant cuttings that appear to stretch their leaves toward the light in a sun-soaked greenhouse.
Bridge Space: Tap, Tap & Unwrap
February 15 - June 16, 2024
“Tap, Tap & Unwrap” is an exhibition of videos made by youth from a workshop series which was led by Juan Ortiz-Apuy, where they experimented with the viral trends of ASMR and unboxing.
Deanna Bowen: Black Drones in the Hive
May 25 - August 25, 2024
For more than twenty years, Deanna Bowen’s practice has evolved from its roots in experimental documentary video into a complex mapping of power as seen in public and private archives.