2022 / core / exhibition Tyler Mitchell Cultural Turns: CONTACT Gallery CONTACT Gallery Apr 28–Jun 30 Deconstructing oppressive barriers, dreaming everyday utopias into being
2022 / core / exhibition / outdoor Tyler Mitchell Cultural Turns: Metro Hall Metro Hall Apr 25–Jul 4 A decolonial praxis guiding the viewer toward freedom, liberation, joy, and celebration
2022 / core / exhibition Tyler Mitchell Cultural Turns: Billboards in Toronto Billboards at Dovercourt and Dupont Apr 29–May 30 Keeping alive the polychromatic nature of Black experiences, holding the vastness of Black subjectivity
2022 / core / exhibition / outdoor Jorian Charlton Georgia 460 King St W May 1–Jun 30 Asserting a powerful Black presence in the city, challenging colonial histories of portraiture
2022 / core / exhibition Mahtab Hussain An Ocean in a Drop: Muslims in Toronto Aga Khan Museum and Park May 20–Oct 1 A new visual narrative of Muslim experience and identity in Toronto
2022 / core / exhibition Anne-Marie Cloutier Teen Spirit Alliance Française Gallery Jul 8–Aug 20 An exploration of “teenagehood,” when childhood collides with adulthood
2022 / core / exhibition John Delante Finding Comfort Under the Sky Alliance Française Gallery Jul 8–Aug 20 Using photography to navigate the experiences of a first-generation immigrant
2022 / core / exhibition Group Exhibition New Generation Photography Award Arsenal Contemporary Apr 29–May 28 Emerging photographers probing the challenges in contemporary representations of identity, culture and the environment
2022 / core / exhibition Jorian Charlton Out of Many Art Gallery of Ontario Dec 18, 2021–Aug 7, 2022 Exploring new ways of thinking about Jamaican-Canadian culture, and reimagining the family album through a contemporary lens
2022 / core / exhibition Raymond Boisjoly From age to age, as its shape slowly unravelled Art Gallery of Ontario May 14–Nov 6 An incisive remediation of archival material, exploding colonial notions of Indigeneity
2022 / core Esery Mondesir We Have Found Each Other Art Gallery of Ontario Dec 18, 2021–Aug 7, 2022 Mining personal archives, institutional collections, music, and oral histories to chart and connect people and places with links to Haiti
2022 / core / exhibition Durga Rajah & Tommy Calderon Fixations: Thoughts on Time Artspace Gallery Apr 6–May 28 Exploring physical, psychological, and cultural conceptions of time in relation to photography
2022 / core / exhibition Kwasi Kyei Honam: An Akan Word for Body Meridian Arts Centre Apr 28–May 28 Engaging with a history of Black male visual representation, reflecting shifting notions of identity and home
2022 / core / exhibition Memory Work Collective Memory Work The Bentway May 1, 2022–Apr 30, 2023 Envisaging a world characterized by collective care
2022 / core / exhibition Mahtab Hussain Tajvin Kazi and Rishada Majeed Billboard at Dupont and Dufferin Apr 29–May 30 A new visual narrative of Muslim experience and identity in Toronto
2022 / core / exhibition Atong Atem Surat Billboards at Lansdowne and College Apr 29–May 30 Restaging personal histories toward expansive new futures
2022 / core / exhibition Alberto Giuliani Surviving Humanity Brookfield Place May 1–31 Documenting global projects that endeavour to ensure ecological and societal longevity
2022 / core / exhibition monica maria moraru An Ant in the Mouth of a Furnace Bunker 2 Projects May 6–30 A mixed-media installation evoking the spaces on either side of the camera's lens
2022 / core / exhibition Adam Swica Daybreak Christie Contemporary May 13–Jun 11 An homage to light's ephemeral apparitions
2022 / core / exhibition Carlos & Jason Sanchez New Work Christopher Cutts Gallery Apr 30–May 28 Compelling staged scenes ignite the imagination
2022 / core / exhibition Brendan George Ko Monarch Butterflies at El Rosario II Critical Distance Billboard Mar 16–Apr 20 Documenting an epic transcontinental journey
2022 / core / exhibition Group Exhibition OF THE SACRED Critical Distance Apr 21–Jun 4 Exploring the role of belief under the conditions of our age
2022 / core / exhibition Brendan George Ko The Forest is Wired for Wisdom Cross-Canada Billboards , Billboards at King and Strachan Apr 29–May 30 A poetic and luminous look at the wonder and complexity of the forest
2022 / core / exhibition Anastasia Samoylova FloodZone Davisville Subway Station Apr 26–May 30 Nature's power in conflict with the menace of human desire
2022 / core / exhibition Fiona Freemark Sunset Watch Dianna Witte Gallery May 5–28 A delicate balance between absence and presence evokes life's ephemeral nature
2022 / core / exhibition Kota Ezawa Mobilizing Conscience: Art + Protest Goethe-Institut Toronto Apr 27–May 26 Appropriating contemporary images to highlight photography's role as an instrument of protest
2022 / core / exhibition Group Exhibition Now You See Me Doris McCarthy Gallery May 5–Jun 25 Questioning the complex cultural and gender-related politics that underlie representation
2022 / core / exhibition / outdoor Sandra Brewster Roots Evergreen Brick Works May 18–Nov 1 Embedding and activating Black diasporic narratives in the urban wilderness
2022 / core / exhibition Suzanne Morrissette with Clayton Morrissette What does good work look like? Gallery 44 Apr 15–May 28 Exploring how familial exchanges produce Indigenous art histories
2022 / core / exhibition Ilene Sova UNKNOWN RELATIVE: Ancestry / Photo / Paper / Image / Visuals John B. Aird Gallery Jun 2–Aug 5 An exploration of family, land, and the power of place in Mixed Race identity and African diasporic histories
2022 / core / exhibition Lawrence Abu Hamdan 45th Parallel Mercer Union Mar 26–Jun 4 An evocative video and installation framing borders not as lines but rather richly layered spaces
2022 / core / exhibition Shirin Neshat Land of Dreams MOCA Toronto Mar 10–Jul 31 An immersive experience focusing on global issues of displacement, migration, and geopolitical conflict
2022 / core / exhibition Shine On: Photographs from The BIPOC Photo Mentorship Program Nathan Phillips Square May 6–31 Exemplifying the creativity and range of perspectives of the emerging generation of photographers
2022 / core / exhibition Angela Grauerholz Instant Resemblances Olga Korper Gallery Apr 30–May 28 An examination of analogue and digital aesthetics and their relationships to time
2022 / core / exhibition Wendy Coburn Fable for Tomorrow Onsite Gallery Feb 16–May 14 Exploring performances of gender, queerness, nations, environmentalism, and public protest
2022 / core / exhibition Ho Tam The Greatest Stories Ever Told Paul Petro Contemporary Art Apr 1–May 7 Examining structures of power through splicing and remixing the iconography of global currencies
2022 / core / exhibition Group Exhibition What is Left Paul Petro Contemporary Art May 13–Jun 11 A group exhibition looking at memory, loss, and the aftermath of change
2022 / core / exhibition Bidemi Oloyede I Am Hu(e)Man PAMA Apr 29–Aug 31 Collaborative yet self-styled portraits generate new space for Black men in the pages of history
2022 / core / exhibition Group Exhibition Only Reliable Narrators the plumb May 12–Jun 9 A group exhibition contemplating the influential power of narrative
2022 / core / exhibition Vid Ingelevics & Ryan Walker How to Build a River Port Lands May 12–Sep 6 A third instalment charting the progression of the massive Port Lands Flood Protection project and its creative ecology
2022 / core / exhibition Sasha Huber YOU NAME IT The Power Plant Feb 5–May 1 Investigating colonial residues left in the environment and conceiving of natural spaces as contested territories
2022 / core / outdoor Sasha Huber Rentyhorn The Power Plant façade Jun 4, 2021–May 1, 2022 Envisioning reparative interventions into the remaining traces of a vast colonial project
2022 / core / exhibition Scotiabank Photography Award: Deanna Bowen. Black Drones in the Hive The Image Centre Sep 14–Dec 3 Drawing on collections and archival materials, Bowen weaves together narrative threads of migration, racist dispossession, entrenched power networks, and hierarchies of remembrance
2022 / core / exhibition From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective The Image Centre Apr 6–Aug 6 A comprehensive selection of works exemplifying a unique, transcontinental, queer photographic vision
2022 / core / exhibition Dominique Blain Dérive/Drift The Image Centre Apr 6–Aug 6 A delicate, composite seascape commemorating the countless migrants who sail in search of freedom
2022 / core / exhibition Red All Over: World War II Press Photographs From the Sovfoto Agency The Image Centre Apr 6–May 7 Interrogating practices of photojournalism in photographs made in the USSR and Eastern Europe during World War II
2022 / core / exhibition Mauvais Genre/Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers The Image Centre Apr 6–Aug 6 A photographic collection offering a candid look into the hidden worlds of people defying gender conventions
2022 / core / exhibition Meditations on Resilience: The Canada Now Photography Acquisition The Image Centre Sep 14–Dec 3 Ten Canadian artists employing photographic media to engage with issues of identity and belonging
2022 / core / exhibition Andréanne Michon états d’esprit – states of mind The Image Centre Sep 14–Dec 3 A mixed-media installation addressing the dramatic forces of the Anthropocene and its irremediable consequences
2022 / core / exhibition The Optics of Science: Early Western Stereographs from The Dr. Martin Bass and Gail Silverman Bass Collection The Image Centre Sep 14–Oct 22 Focusing in on stereographic representations of Western science at a time of unprecedented change
2022 / core / exhibition Lara Almarcegui Guide to the Wastelands of Toronto Examining the construction, development, uses, and implications of the unique Leslie Street Spit
2022 / core / exhibition Jimmy Manning Floe / Flow Devonian Square May 15–Sep 30 An installation of delicate, monumental beauty warning of things to come
2022 / core / exhibition Jeff Thomas Where Are You From? Stephen Bulger Gallery Apr 30–Jun 11 A retrospective look at the trajectory of Thomas's powerful photographic vision
2022 / core / exhibition Aïda Muluneh Water Life Textile Museum of Canada Apr 27–Sep 25 Vivid images addressing the impact on local women and girls of living without access to clean water
2022 / core / exhibition Claudia Andujar, Gisela Motta & Leandro Lima The Falling Sky Trinity Square Video Apr 1–May 28 An installation bringing a photograph, a cultural tradition, and the power of resistance to life
2022 / core / exhibition Ryan Van Der Hout Collecting Dust United Contemporary May 5–28 Reflecting on the rebirth borne of crisis and its collateral effects
2022 / core / exhibition Andreas Rutkauskas The Prefix Prize Urbanspace Gallery May 5–Jun 25 Images reflecting the destructive and regenerative power of wildfires
2022 / core / exhibition / virtual Jorian Charlton, Kadine Lindsay fi di gyal dem Virtual May 5–Dec 10 An intimate celebration of the interior lives of Black women
2022 / core / exhibition / outdoor Esmaa Mohamoud The Brotherhood FUBU (For Us, By Us) Westin Harbour Castle Jun 10, 2021–Apr 1, 2023 A large-scale installation empowers representations of intimacy and vulnerability in Black male relationships
2022 / core / exhibition Ayla Dmyterko Vyshyvani Kazky, Embroidered Stories Zalucky Contemporary Apr 30–May 28 Re-engaging the archival vestiges of cultural memory to embody their lasting traces
2022 / open call / exhibition Paolo Rubini Hands On: A handcrafted human mosaic 918 Bathurst May 14–27
2022 / open call / exhibition Group Exhibition View Find(H)er: Finding Women Working in Photography 2022 Art Gallery of Mississauga Apr 26–Jun 10
2022 / open call / exhibition Marzieh Mohammadmiri Walking with the Invisible Artscape Wychwood Barns May 23–27
2022 / open call / exhibition Yafang Shi Women’s Voices, Censorship, and Resistance Virtual May 1–Sep 30
2022 / open call / exhibition Ramolen Laruan A low and slow stroll Banners on Rusholme Rd May 1–Jun 3
2022 / open call / exhibition Tenzin Dorjé Everyone Rides a Bicycle in Heaven Billboard #1932 May 1–31
2022 / open call / exhibition Wayne Salmon Kensington Market: Meditations on Home Bob Carnie Gallery Apr 27–May 30
2022 / open call / exhibition Cheryl Hoffmann, Mark Morris The Liquid Land Chinese Cultural Centre May 7–Jun 5
2022 / open call / exhibition Hélène Grégoire Contemplations on One Tree Church of the Holy Trinity May 1–31
2022 / open call / exhibition Thomas Brasch how to be human – #wewillnotlethatewin Clark Centre for the Arts May 1–31
2022 / open call / exhibition Thomas Brasch how to be human – we are more the same than different Clark Centre for the Arts May 1–31
2022 / open call / exhibition Thomas Brasch how to be human – we are all connected Clark Centre for the Arts May 1–31
2022 / open call / exhibition Cylla von Tiedemann Toller Cranston: A Metamorphosis Donna Child Fine Art Gallery May 3–Jun 4
2022 / open call / exhibition Erin Gerofsky The Subatomic Subterranean Woman in: A Feast for the Eyes Ethel 20th Century Living May 1–28
2022 / open call / exhibition Margaret Gdyczynski Coffee Confession Continued Extra Butter Coffee May 1–Jun 30
2022 / open call / exhibition Raluca Bejan, Ioan Cocan TRACE: Tracing the Space of the Refugee Crisis Factor-Inwentash Faculty, U of T May 2–Jul 1
2022 / open call / exhibition Daphne Faye Boxill, Tenzin Dorjé, Selena Phillips-Boyle In Between Spaces Gallery 44 Apr 15–Jul 2
2022 / open call / exhibition Steven Laurie, Virginia Mak Ghosts of Home Gladstone House May 1–Aug 31
2022 / open call / exhibition Group Exhibition How to Remember for the Future Humber Galleries May 18–Aug 17
2022 / open call / exhibition Caley Taylor Misunderstanding Memory Leslie Grove Gallery Apr 27–May 15
2022 / open call / exhibition / outdoor Group Exhibition On the Fence 2022 stackt , Artscape Weston Commons May 14–Jun 24
2022 / open call / exhibition Group Exhibition Forms, Faces and Spaces: Figuratively Speaking! Parish Hall May 5–Jun 26
2022 / open call / exhibition Jack Jackson, Deb Klein The Don’t You Want Me Project Pet Valu Leslieville May 1–31
2022 / open call / exhibition Peter Friedrichsen Perceptible Imperceptible: Landscapes in Solargraphy Propeller Gallery May 11–29
2022 / open call / exhibition Saman Genshin Seen Worlds: Beauty and Wisdom Everywhere Queen Gallery Apr 30–Jun 4
2022 / open call / exhibition Atia Pokorny, Janne Reuss WHO WILL COME KNOCKING Remote Gallery May 1–15
2022 / open call / exhibition Heather Rattray Things That I Know, Things That You Know The Image Centre Jun 29–Aug 6
2022 / open call / exhibition Selected students from TMU Image Arts Maximum Exposure 27 TMU Image Arts Apr 29–May 7
2022 / open call / exhibition Lisa Milosavljevic Nunavut’s Young Hunters Sanagan's Meat Locker May 5–Jun 5
2022 / open call / exhibition Yuriko Kubota Fragments – The Shōwa Era in Japan Studio Little Red May 1–Jun 5
2022 / open call / exhibition Lisa Fox, Jessica Kalmar Quarantine Book Club The Great Escape Book Store May 1–31
2022 / open call / exhibition Group Exhibition Exposed: Self-Portraits in Blue The inPrint Collective May 2–Jun 30
2022 / open call / exhibition Alkarim Jadavji Breakout The Riverdale Hub Community Art Gallery May 1–31
2022 / open call / exhibition Nicole Helena Perpetually Me The Riverdale Hub Community Art Gallery May 1–31
2022 / open call / exhibition Students from the Centennial College Photography Program 16 Bit TD Centre May 6–15
2022 / open call / exhibition / outdoor Sheridan Honours Bachelor of Photography Graduates GRADWORK 2022 West End Billboards May 2–22
2022 / open call / exhibition Group Exhibition The Urban Forest of Ontario Place Urbanspace Gallery May 14–Jun 25