Goldfarb Summer Institute 2023: BORDER FORMS: (RE)DRAWING LINES

15th Annual Goldfarb Summer Institute 2023 PROFESSORS: Natasha Bissonauth & Tammer El-Sheikh Many key art historians, artists, curators, and others thinking with the visual do so through anti-colonial discourse and critical race theory to disturb the White, colonial, Eurocentric roots that undergird the field and the residues that remain in the discipline. Consider for example, […]

Gender Gimmick

Gender Gimmick is a group exhibition featuring work that explores wrestling through the lens of drag and gender performance. Emily and Amir explore professional wrestling’s tendency to push masculinity and femininity to their extremes and create character’s to guide their journey into identity and performance. Special Projects Gallery March 20 – 25 Gallery Hours: 9:00 […]

Women in the Arts Roundtable

The York University School of the Arts, Media Performance & Design (AMPD) Dean, Dr. Sarah Bay-Cheng, sits down with York alumni Amanda Cordner (Actor, HBO Max’s Sort Of), Laura Friedmann (Producer, Wrapped Productions inc.), Jennifer Holness (Founder, Hungry Eyes Media), Beth Janson (Chief Operating Officer, TIFF) and Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu (Artistic Director, Obsidian Theatre) to talk […]

Deep vs Shallow

Deep vs Shallow is a joint visual art exhibition by AMPD Visual Art students, Anahita Erfani and Aman Gebrekidan. Gales Gallery York University 105 ACW (Accolade West Building) 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Opening Reception: Wed, November 2, 2022 (1:00 – 2:00PM)

Fluid States

In Fluid States, artist Holly Ward deploys a series of creative practices aimed towards developing a deeper understanding of water, and our connection to it. This timely new work was created in response to the ongoing expansion of the TMX pipeline, which intersects numerous waterways and Indigenous territories across British Columbia and Alberta. In a […]

Imagined Cities

Exhibition: Feb.14-25, 2022 Gales Gallery Hours: M-F (9am-4pm) Opening Reception: Feb.16, 2022 (1pm-3pm) Description of Series Artist Statement: Sasha Sutherland is an artist living in Vaughan, Ontario. Having completed her BFA, she is in her final year of the Bachelor of Education program at York University. In 2021 she received the Willowdale Award for the […]

Denatured: Relationship between Humans, Nature and the Built Environment

Denatured is a group show featuring photography, sculpture, printmaking, painting, and projected images, from a collective of fourth-year BFA students. The show is about the relationships between humans, nature, pollution, recycling and the built environment. The participating artists worked together to create a gallery that effectively combines different art mediums into a unique exhibit. Collectively […]