Past Exhibitions

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Your Timing is Perfect and other wall works

A new performance by Jenn Goodwin
January 10 - 12, 2014

Continuing our interest in the relation between liveness and images, Gallery TPW presents Your Timing is Perfect and other wall works, a new work by Toronto choreographer Jenn Goodwin.

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Wu Tsang

Show's Over
October 4 – November 16, 2013

Gallery TPW presents an exhibition by Wu Tsang whose work draws on legacies of vocal performance, re-enactment, trans/queer representation, and anti-oppression activism to stage relationships between individual and collective subjects and the charged dynamics of the body, identity, voice and politics.

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Back to School Curatorial Residency with Vesna Krstich

September 12 - 28, 2013

Gallery TPW presents a three week residency with Vesna Krstich. Back to School re-envisions the gallery as an alternative classroom space for curriculum planning and experimentation, playing host to a series of school workshops, after-school programs and public events.

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Jason Lazarus

T.H.T.K. (Toronto)
July 5 – August 10, 2013

Gallery TPW presents “Too Hard to Keep,” a site-specific installation drawn from a growing archive of photographs donated by owners who find them too painful to live with any longer.

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recent future: Residency with Zoja Smutny and Guntar Kravis

Research residency with Zoja Smutny and Guntar Kravis
June 15 – 29, 2013

TPW R&D hosts a two week residency with choreographer Zoja Smutny and photographer Guntar Kravis. Their recent collaborative research takes form in a developing body of durational performance video portraits.

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Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin

To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light
National Billboard Campaign: April 29 - June 2, 2013. Exhibition: May 11 - June 8, 2013

Gallery TPW and Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival present a national billboard campaign and exhibition of Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin's work.

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Laure Prouvost

The Wanderer
April 13 - May 4, 2013

Gallery TPW and the Images Festival co-present The Wanderer a video installation by Laure Prouvost. Working from a mistranslation of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, Prouvost creates a chaotic mise-en-scène, repeatedly subverting cinema’s narrative troupes, playing the archetypal against the absurd in a series of uncomfortable scenarios.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About History

A series of discursive screenings organized by Pablo de Ocampo
March 13, 20 & 27, 2013, 7:00 pm
Curator Pablo de Ocampo has invited six curators and artists to each offer one programming suggestion in response to a video document of civil rights activist Queen Mother Moore. The responses will be shown over three screenings with discussions lead by de Ocampo and Kim Simon.

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Oliver Husain

Pandy Ramada’s BENDABLE DISPLEX
January 19 - February 23, 2013

For our first installation of 2013 in the TPW R&D space, curator Kim Simon asked artist Oliver Husain to consider the collective spaces of looking.

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Zhou Tao

Collector(s)
November 8 - 17, 2012

Gallery TPW and the Reel Asian Film Festival co-present the Canadian premiere of video work by Chinese artist Zhou Tao. Zhou’s open narrative works mix cinematic document with performance gestures creating a unique perspective on the social and economic dimensions of living in China.

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