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.
Esker Elsewhere | Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts: Like everything alive that we try to hold forever
January 29 - June 27, 2026
Like everything alive that we try to hold forever is curated by Elizabeth Diggon, Naomi Potter, and Shauna Thompson. The exhibition is organized by Esker Foundation and produced as a traveling exhibition by Independent Curators International (ICI).
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.
Levin Ifko: Tender To The Flame
June 17 - October 20, 2024
At a time of heightened rhetoric against healthcare access for trans youth, Levin Ifko’s installation highlights expanded notions of what queer & trans healthcare can be, & how our connections with one another can pose a radical shift in how we choose to care for ourselves & those around us.
Bridge Space: Discovering More Choices
June 19, 2024 - February 16, 2025
“Discovering More Choices” is the second exhibition featuring work created by students from Discovering Choices alternative high schools. Youth participated in a year-long workshop series led by local artists to connect them to contemporary art through experiential making & dialogue.
Juan Ortiz-Apuy: Tropicana
January 20 - April 28, 2024
This youth exhibition, specially designed for kids and teenagers aged 6 to 14, casts a critical eye on modern consumer society and advertising aimed at children, which often features animals, colours, sounds, and shapes designed to appeal to them.