Past Exhibitions
Jérôme Havre, Cauleen Smith, and Camille Turner
September 14-November 11, 2017
Gallery TPW is thrilled to announce an exhibition project featuring Jérôme Havre, Cauleen Smith, and Camille Turner, a new commission made possible with the generous support of Partners in Art.
Kelly Jazvac
June 24 – July 29, 2017
Featuring new video and wall works, Proof of Performances expands Kelly Jazvac’s work with the material refuse of capitalism. Thinking broadly about the effects of environmental contamination, the exhibition’s tendrils of inquiry touch on the granular, the bodily and the interplanetary.
Luis Jacob
May 5–June 10, 2017
Habitat is a constellation of new work by artist Luis Jacob, known for his multidisciplinary practice that destabilizes conventions of looking, foregrounding the socio-political dimensions of the visual world. Habitat is co-presented with the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival.
Does the oyster sleep?
March 10 - April 15, 2017
Does the oyster sleep? features film and video works that imagine how love and politics can be linked through a common desire to live differently in the world. The exhibition includes work by Sophie Bissonnette / Martin Duckworth / Joyce Rock, Marguerite Duras, Maja Borg, Sara Eliassen, Silvia Gruner, and Waël Noureddine.
Close Readings
January 14 - February 25, 2017
Close Readings brings together practices that are by turns invested in uncovering the frailty of language, prodding at cultural anxieties and individual pleasures, excavating and refusing legacies, asking for tenderness, applying pressure, attending to the complications and vulnerabilities of being together while we are implicated—politically, socially, personally—by artworks and their demands on us.
Sharon Lockhart
September 8 – October 29, 2016
The Toronto International Film Festival and Gallery TPW are pleased to co-present Rudzienko, a new film installation by American artist Sharon Lockhart. Through her precise films and photographic works, Lockhart explores the relationship between still and moving images and the productive space between the choreographed and natural gesture.
Working Conditions
June 23 - August 6, 2016
Acknowledging that the studio exists at the intersection of many ecologies, the artists in Working Conditions place themselves in relation to factors beyond their place of production, looking at the power dynamics, blind spots and measures of success contained in the economies and ecosystems surrounding them.
Oliver Husain
April 14 - June 4, 2016
The films of Oliver Husain are known for their play with cinematic languages and visual codes. From the theatrical to dance to puppetry and animation, with unique costume and set sensibilities, Husain employs his seductive tactics in ways that both absorb us and shock us into an awareness of our role as spectators within the filmic apparatus.
Alison S.M. Kobayashi
February 13 – March 26, 2016
Alison S.M. Kobayashi is an identity contortionist. In her work, Kobayashi performs a variety of characters that are both studiously and playfully rendered. These personas are inspired by Kobayashi’s extensive collection of lost, discarded and donated objects; ranging from answering machine tapes purchased at a secondhand shop to a love letter left on a sidewalk.
Antonia Hirsch
October 17- November 14, 2015
Berlin-based Canadian artist Antonia Hirsch brings her multi-disciplinary project Negative Space to Gallery TPW. The exhibition investigates the interrelation of inner and outer worlds by mobilizing images and objects whose origin ranges from astronomy and contemporary mobile devices to black mirrors of the 18th and 19th century landscape painters.
