‘Forecast’ is a group exhibition featuring the work of nine local and international artists and designers exploring themes related to the climate crisis specifically as it relates to the weather and how environmental changes impact communities on a global scale. Featuring Christina Battle, Gordon Brent Brochu-Ingram, Vardit Goldner, Grace Grothaus (Digital Media PhD student) , […]
Sculpture Talks Lecture series invites contemporary sculptors to York University to share and discuss recent projects. These talks are free of charge and open to all. Presented by the Department of Visual Arts and Art History, and generously sponsored by the LL Odette Foundation. NOVEMBER 23, 2022 CFA 312 5:00 PM FREE
Gardens in a Dangerous Time is a vibrant selection of new works by artists Taline Kavoukian and Dianne Twombly, inviting engagement and reflection with our fractured relationship with the natural world. October 17-21, 2022 Reception: October 19 (1-3PM) Gales Gallery (105 Accolade West, York University) 9am – 4pm FREE
In collaboration with the Archives of Ontario, Archive/Counter-Archive is organizing six media art installations across York University’s Keele campus as part of this year’s Nuit Blanche festival. Five of these will be united under the exhibition title, Biophilia: Artist and Archive, with the sixth being tied to the launch of CineMobilia, a new mobile infrastructure […]
Celebrating the return of in-person gatherings for Nuit Blanche Toronto and the RUTAS Festival 2022, Nuit Blanche + RUTAS Symposium: A Home for Our Migrations will bring together scholars, artists, and community activists for lively dialogues/conversatorios, workshops, keynote speakers, and performances. Over 60 invited presenters will engage with a range of timely topics in response […]
The Project The Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) and York University presents Streams ~ Nuit Blanche 2022 at York University, an evening of campus-wide exhibitions, art installations, and events featuring 34 artists and showcasing 18 projects located around the central core of York’s Keele Campus and surrounding the Harry Arthur Commons. Each artwork and […]
NUIT BLANCHE The Project On, Around, and With Water is an installation that presents viewers with two experiences of Lake Ontario. One where the microbial life always present in the mud has been encouraged to grow to the point it can be seen. The second, where water has been completely purified of microbial life. The […]
NUIT BLANCHE The Project Variations on Broken Lines is a site-specific performative installation that explores notions of the liminal in our current digital culture. The installation is located at the North York Civic Center. A constellation of video performances, moving-image, and documentation archives are projected simultaneously onto different surfaces throughout space. This installation takes the […]
Curated by Dr. Marissa Largo, scholar of Asian diasporic contemporary art, X Marks the Spot takes the X in “Filipinx” as a theoretical and methodological intervention in curation. The X signals an intergenerational relationality – a sort of “call and response” – between recognized and rising practitioners working on Turtle Island that speaks to the […]
Neither Here nor There addresses the intangible, transitional spaces both within and around us. It invites the viewer to explore the mysterious terrain of history, memories, and loss, and to seek the obscure connections, emotions and energy concealed in the spaces we occupy. Ashlei Stewart’s work in acrylic painting is inspired by mythology, history, and […]