A Statement Regarding the Impact of COVID-19 on CONTACT

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the schedule for the 24th annual Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival is currently being adapted. Typically spanning the month of May, the city-wide Festival’s exhibitions will open on a case-by-case basis in the future, in accordance with public health and safety guidelines.

This website includes profiles for all exhibitions originally planned for CONTACT 2020 in May, although currently without specific dates and venue hours of access. When information is confirmed, calendar details will be provided.

For more information about best practices for yourself and those around you, please visit toronto.ca/coronavirus and canada.ca/public-health.

2020 Festival

Core Exhibitions

Outstanding works by artists from Canada and around the world

Featured Exhibitions

Selected lens-based projects by local and international artists

Open Call Exhibitions

Photo-based initiatives drawn together from a call for participation

2020 Burtynsky Grant

$5,000 towards the publication of a photobook

Deadline: May 20, 2020

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Apr 1

As COVID-19 has rapidly transformed how art is exp

As COVID-19 has rapidly transformed how art is experienced, Toronto’s 24th annual Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival continues to be adapted to reflect the challenges of this reality. While venues are now closed for the foreseeable future, CONTACT acknowledges the enormous efforts of everyone involved in planning the 2020 Festival, and celebrates their great accomplishments.An exceptional range of lens-based works by Canadian and international artists was selected for a diverse array of exhibitions throughout Toronto. We proudly present information about all of these initiatives on our website. Link in bio. 📷: Małgorzata Stankiewicz, Untitled (The Seasonal Timing of Peak Streamflow Has Shifted), 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Feb 27

Call for submissions: 2020 Burtynsky Grant Deadl

Call for submissions: 2020 Burtynsky Grant
Deadline: Wednesday, May 20, 2020Photographer Edward Burtynsky and CONTACT are requesting submissions for the 2020 Burtynsky Grant—a $5,000 annual grant to support a Canadian artist in the creation of a photobook.Established in 2016, this grant is intended for photo-based artists who are in the advanced stages of developing a cohesive, rigorous body of work presented in book form. The jury is looking for submissions from those that have created a book dummy and who have had little to no prior opportunity to self-publish or work with a publisher. You must be a Canadian citizen or resident to be eligible. 📷 Teresa Eng, China Dream, winner of the 2019 Burtynsky Grant. Published by Skinnerboox.

Feb 25

Updated March 17, 2020: This year's Book Dummy Rev

Updated March 17, 2020: This year's Book Dummy Reviews have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you for your understanding.CONTACT is now accepting submissions from photo-based artists to participate in the 2020 Book Dummy Reviews. This program is open to those who are developing a photobook, or for those with well-developed projects considering the book form for their work. This is an excellent opportunity for artists to have their work seen by over 15 local and international publishers, curators, and editors in a casual, one-to-one exchange.Full details at our website! 📷 Book dummy treatments of Luis Mora, Say it with Flowers, 2019. Presented at the 2019 Book Dummy Reviews, and an honourable mention for the 2019 Burtynsky Grant. Courtesy of Luis Mora and Sebastián Rodriguez Besa.

Feb 11

#CONTACT2020 preview: The work of Fatma Bucak and

#CONTACT2020 preview: The work of Fatma Bucak and Krista Belle Stewart will be presented in dialogue at MOCA Toronto. Bucak was born in eastern Turkey and identifies as both Kurdish and Turkish, an identity inherently tied to the social realities of border landscapes and her work expresses a negotiation and interrogation of the ideological and conceptual conditions of these liminal spaces. Stewart is a member of the Upper Nicola Band of the Syilx/Okanagan Nation. Her art practice draws out personal and political narratives inherent in archival materials while questioning their articulation in institutional histories.Photo 1: Fatma Bucak, Undetermined Remains, from the series A Study of Eight Landscapes, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.Photo 2: Krista Belle Stewart, installation view of Truth to Material, Nanaimo Art Gallery, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.

Feb 6

CONTACT 2020 preview! The Swiss-born, Berlin-based

CONTACT 2020 preview! The Swiss-born, Berlin-based duo Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs will have a Public Installation at Metro Hall for this year's Festival.Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (Swiss, both b. 1979) work collaboratively in photography, film and installation. Based in Berlin, they are represented by Sies + H ke, D sseldorf, and have shown in exhibitions and at art fairs internationally, including at Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Cologne, and the Jeju Biennale, South Korea; at the Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, at FOAM, Amsterdam, at MMAM, Moscow, and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, United States, and at galleries in Australia, Spain, France, Switzerland, Denmark, and Italy. They were shortlisted for the prestigious Deutsche Borse Foundation Prize in 2017.
Photos: Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, X11 and X6, 2019, from the series "Future Perfect." Courtesy of the artists and Sies+Hoeke.

Feb 5

CONTACT is excited to announce a solo exhibition b

CONTACT is excited to announce a solo exhibition by Tereza Zelenkova at the Campbell House Museum in May 2020. *Tereza Zelenkova (born 1985 in Czech Republic; lives and works in London, UK) is an artist working mainly with black and white analogue photography. Her practice often deals with mysticism, ranging from abstract ideas about death and the sacred, to documenting concrete locations tied to local mythologies or mysterious historical events. Her inspiration often comes from literature and philosophy, but she also embraces coincidence, intuition and analogy as essential working methods.Images: Oratory, 2017, from the series "The Essential Solitude" © Tereza Zelenkova - courtesy The Ravestijn GalleryDog Cemetery, 2015, from the series "A Snake That Disappeared Through a Hole in the Wall" © Tereza Zelenkova - courtesy The Ravestijn Gallery

Jan 24

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Jan 23

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Jan 23

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