Vivek Shraya: Legends of the Trans
October 18, 2021 - February 6, 2022
Project Space
This new photographic work, inspired by the 1994 film Legends of the Fall, continues Vivek Shraya’s queering of performance, photography, and storytelling to reflect an open-ended and ever-evolving notion of herself and the immense value of non-conforming role models.
RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting
July 24 - November 27, 2021
This group exhibition of 27 artists, curated by Cheryl Sim, explores the multiple and complex meanings of the idea of the diaspora, its condition, and its experiences as expressed in painting.
Molly JF Caldwell: With One Hand Tied Behind My Back
June 14 - October 10, 2021
Project Space
In the Project Space Ruffled, red velvet curtains part to reveal a lush, textural interior. A 30-foot tapestry, cherry red and bubble-gum pink, snakes languidly across suspended bars and chains. The hand-dyed, hand-woven tapestry is adorned with jewel-encrusted charms. Enveloped
Bridge Space: Thinking of You
June 10 - September 20, 2021
We are pleased to announce a new space on the 4th floor at Esker Foundation: Bridge: A space dedicated to young people. Thinking of You along with the exhibition Unmasking Imagination are the inaugural exhibitions in Bridge. Thinking of You explores writing,
Bridge Space: Unmasking Imagination
June 10 - September 20, 2021
We are pleased to announce a new space on the 4th floor at Esker Foundation: Bridge: A space dedicated to young people. Unmasking Imagination along with the exhibition Thinking of You are the inaugural exhibitions in Bridge. In March and
Chris Curreri: Thick Skull, Thin Skin
January 23 - June 27, 2021
Private Viewings Available – Chris Curreri’s works complicate and dissolve seemingly dichotomous states of tenderness and violence; abjection and beauty; seduction and revulsion; self and other. They suggest an unravelling of the hermetic borders that have been constructed between us, others, and…
Fin Simonetti: An Appeal to Heaven
January 23 - June 27, 2021
Fin Simonetti works with sculpture, installation, and drawing to investigate the uneasy terrain among our desire for security, states of fragility and vulnerability, and the sensorial, emotional, and psychological relationships we have to objects, bodies, and spaces. Her work adopts forms and…
Louise Bourgeois: What is the Shape of This Problem, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
January 23 - June 27, 2021
Although best known for her profound sculptures of monumental spiders, evocative human figures, and fleshly anthropomorphic forms, Louise Bourgeois maintained a prolific drawing and writing practice and an ongoing interest in illustrated books and printmaking throughout the course of her long…
Yvonne Kustec: The Garden
February 8 - June 6, 2021
Project Space
Within The Garden a human figure transforms into a dense landscape, overrun by flora and fauna. Drawing on the long history of floral work in clay, Kustec works to honour both the tradition of the craft and the delicacy and resiliency of nature through recreating its intricacies. Her…
Liz Magor: One Bedroom Apartment
September 26 - December 5, 2020
As one of Canada’s most important artists, Liz Magor has been producing a broad spectrum of sculptural objects, installations, and photography since the mid-1970s. She is best known for sculptures made from both found and cast objects that quietly, yet intensely pull our focus to the things that…