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 / 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 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 Memory Work Collective Memory Work The Bentway May 1, 2022–Apr 30, 2023 Envisaging a world characterized by collective care
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 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 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 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 From Here to Eternity. Sunil Gupta, A Retrospective Ryerson 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 Ryerson Image Centre Apr 6–Aug 6 A delicate, composite seascape commemorating the countless migrants who sail in search of freedom
2022 / core / exhibition Mauvais Genre/Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross-Dressers Ryerson 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 Jimmy Manning Floe / Flow Devonian Square May 15–Sep 30 An installation of delicate, monumental beauty warning of things to come
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 / 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