Scream: Ed Pien and Samonie Toonoo
April 20 – May 29, 2010
Curated by Nancy Campbell
The exhibition Scream: Ed Pien and Samonie Toonoo follows last summer's critically acclaimed exhibition Noise Ghost: Shary Boyle and Shuvinai Asoona, continuing curator Nancy Campbell's interests in spinning the expectation of Inuit art by positioning the work alongside contemporary work from the south.
Natural History
April 20 – May 29, 2010
Curated by Jennifer Rudder
Natural History presents works of contemporary art that revisit the history of the development of museums and zoos, and the anthropological display of humans. Inspired by the theatrical scope of the dioramas and monumental animal displays such as those at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, each artwork in Natural History evokes a moment in the complex history of the captivity, collection and display of wild animals and indigenous people.
Adrian Blackwell: Model for a Public Space [knot], 2010
March through August, 2010
Curated by Maiko Tanaka as part of Extra-curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy, Part II
Toronto artist/architect Adrian Blackwell presents a new instance of Model for a public space, a site-specific installation concerned with the inevitably knotted nature of public discourses, how they intertwine, affect, antagonize, fold over themselves, and flee in different directions.
Extra-Curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy
Part 2. Beyond Institutions: March 8 - 13, 2010
Curated by Maiko Tanaka
The second phase of a curatorial project and international conference exploring the relationship between art, education, research and activism. With Annette Krauss, Adrian Blackwell, and representatives from Center for Urban Pedagogy (NYC), colourschool (Vancouver), Dodolab (Waterloo, Canada), La Lleca (Mexico City), Radical Education Research Collective (RERC) (Toronto), The Pinky Show (Honolulu, Hawaii), Toronto School of Creativity and Inquiry, and Ultra-Red (London, UK).
Extra-Curricular: Between Art & Pedagogy
Part I. Between Institutions: February 15 - 20, 2010
Curated by Maiko Tanaka
The first phase of a curatorial project and international conference exploring the relationship between art, education, research and activism. With Xu Tan, Carmen Morsch, Rodrigo Hernandez Gomez, Andrew Hunter, Amos Latteier, Srimoyee Mitra, Carmen Mörsch, Darren O'Donnell, Milena Placentile, The Pinky Show, Christine Shaw, Kim Simon, Stephanie Springgay, and Daisuke Takeya and others.
Will Kwan, Multi-lateral
November 12 - December 20, 2009
Curated by Barbara Fischer
Multi-lateral is the first major solo exhibition of Toronto-based artist Will Kwan. Born in Hong Kong in 1978, Kwan’s work examines diverse cultural practices as impacted or resurrected in the flows of historical and contemporary economic relations. Involving intensive research and collaboration, the works presented in the exhibition map patterns and traces of colonialism as they persist within the global economy.
Mark Lewis: In a City
September 8 - October 26, 2009
Curated by Barbara Fischer
The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery is pleased to announce the first major public exhibition of Mark Lewis in Toronto, In a City. Featuring the North American premiere of the critically acclaimed trilogy Cold Morning, thethree new works were originally commissioned by the JMB Gallery and co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada, for Mark Lewis’s presentation as the official Canadian representative at the Venice Biennale (53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia), the world’s oldest and most prestigious Biennale of contemporary art.
Noise Ghost
May 28 - August 23, 2009
Curated by Nancy Cambell
The Noise Ghost is an Inuit poltergeist, an arctic auditory phenomenon of incorporeal guile. This unseen, unbodied noise ghost may announce his haunting visitation by curling around a northern house on a cold quiet night and emitting a small, high-pitched hissing. With work by Shuvinai Ashoona and Shary Boyle
South-South: Interruptions & Encounters
April 2 - May 19, 2009
Curated by Tejpal S. Ajji and Jon Soske
South-South: Interruptions & Encounters stages an unprecedented intervention by bringing together eight artists whose work is situated at an intersection of African and South Asian history, politics, or culture. Co-organized by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre)With work by Omar Badsha, Allan deSouza, Brendan Fernandes, Marlon Griffith, Jamelie Hassan, Apache Indian, Louise Liliefeldt, and Hew Locke.
Funkaesthetics
Februry 12, 2008 - March 23, 2009
Curated by Luis Jacob & Pan Wendt
Funkaesthetics is premised on the idea that Funk constitutes a uniquely rich system of thought. With its interest in the distant past of ancient Egypt and the allegorical futures of science-fiction, in its freakish costumes and focus on the figure of "the alien", Funk manifests a vision of time and identity as mutable and open to transformation. The exhibition is an occasion to consider Funk in the context of its birth at the time of Black consciousness and the struggles for civil rights in the United States. With work by Pedro Bell, Leigh Bowery, Free Dance Lessons (Paige Gratland & Day Milman), Fergus Greer, David Gwinnutt, Nick Knight, Will Munro, Adrian Piper, P-Funk, Salvatore Salamone, Sun Ra, and Stephen Willats.
James Carl: do you know what
November 22, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Curated by Barbara Fischer
The first major survey of works by Toronto-based artist James Carl, is presented jointly by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (University of Toronto, November 22, 2008 - January 24, 2009), the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre (Guelph, January 17 - March 22, 2009) and the Cambridge Galleries (Cambridge, January 17 - March 1, 2009). Each of the three venues will focus on particular aspects of Carl's sculptural and graphic production from 1990 to the present, highlighting the artist's preoccupation with the normal, the moral, and the all-too-common.
Empty Orchestra
October 16 -
November 13, 2008
Curated
by Maiko Tanaka & Heather Keung
Empty Orchestra explores karaoke (the word from which the exhibition title is translated) and its relationship to contemporary art and cultural diasporas. With works by Candice Breitz, Wong Gongxin, Christian Jankowski, Karen Tam, Iichiro Tanaka.
Wildflowers of Manitoba (2007) & Light-On in Babyland (1970-1974)
September 8 -
October 5, 2008
The Justina M. Barnicke presents two distinct exhibitions on the subject of alternative communities and collective lifestyle. Both set in a pastoral environment, Wildflowers of Manitoba finds its counterpart in the collaborative experimentations at Babyland (Sunshine Coast, British Columbia) originally started by Michael Morris, Vincent Trasov and others in the early 1970s.
Stories,
In Pieces
July 10 -
August 24, 2008
Curated
by Alieen Burns
Stories
are told in many ways and for infinitely diverse reasons. They pass
history and culture between generations, serve as cautionary tales,
inspire innovation and adventure, convey news items, communicate personal
experience, or provide a much-needed escape from reality.
Stutter and Twitch
May 8 -
June 29, 2008
Curated
by Chen Tamir
Stutter and Twitch brings together a group of seven artists based in Canada, the US and Europe, whose work explores the qualities of stillness and suspense in filmic motion. Their works break down linear time by "stopping" action. Like stutters, the works in this exhibition perpetuate disruption across time. They make "ongoing" pauses, introducing breaks that also sustain activity.
Golden
Years: University of Toronto Tri-Campus Student Exhibition
March 18 -
April 20, 2008
Curated
by Leah Sandals, and coordinated by Assistant Curator Aileen
Burns
Golden Years presents
new work by students from the University of Toronto’s
art departments at its St. George, Mississauga and Scarborough
campuses.
Signals
in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War
January 17
- March 2, 2008
Curated
by Séamus Kealy
Signals
in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War is an interdisciplinary project exploring contemporary art’s
relationship to war and its representations. As a collaboration
between two University of Toronto galleries, this project includes
an exhibition of international artists at the Blackwood Gallery
and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery.
Rightfully
Yours,
November 16
- December 30, 2007
Curated
by Tejpal Singh Ajji, Curator-in-Residence
Rightfully
Yours,
considers performative insertions into daily activities implicated
in the politics and ethics of institutions, professions, sexuality,
and nationalism. Artists include: Wendy
Coburn, Steven Cohen, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, Alicia
Framis, Alison S.M. Kobayashi, Mingering Mike, Mattias Olofsson,
The Yes Men, Camille Turner, Sislej Xhafa, Your personal viewing
of Borat, Ali G, and Bruno.
Kelly
Mark: Stupid Heaven
September 13
- October 28, 2007
Curated
by Barbara Fischer
The
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House, University of Toronto),
in collaboration with the Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto
at Mississauga), presents the first major survey of works by
Kelly Mark in Toronto. Bringing together key works from the
last ten years, the exhibition includes drawing, sculpture,
video, performance, audio work, as well as multiples and recent,
television-based projects.
WORDS
AND PICTURES: Recent Acquisitions in Context
August 10 -
September 2, 2007
Curated
by Aileen Burns & Barbara Fischer
Recent
Acquisitions in Context. Artists include: Joyce
Wieland, Greg Curnoe, Ian Carr Harris, General Idea, Lynne Cohen,
Doug Walker, Micah Lexier, Scott Macfarland, Janieta Eyre, Nathalie
Melikian.
PROJECTIONS
April 8 - June
17, 2007
Curated
by Barbara Fischer
A
survey of projection-based works in the history of contemporary
art in Canada, 1964-2007. Artists include: David
Askevold, Rebecca Belmore, Genivieve Cadieux, Janet Cardiff
& George Bures Miller, Ian Carr-Harris, Christine Davis,
Stan Douglas, Murray Favro, Wyn Geleynse, Rodney Graham, David
Hoffos, Nestor Krüger, Mark Lewis, Kelly Mark, John Massey,
Nathalie Melikian, Judy Radul, Gar Smith, Michael Snow, Jana
Sterbak, Robert Wiens, Krzysztof Wodiczko.
Forecast: Stephen Andrews
September 6 - October
9, 2006
Curated
by Sarah Stanners
Salah J. Bachir has been an ardent supporter of Stephen Andrew’s work for over ten years now. Selected from what is the largest private collection of art by Andrews, this exhibition at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery brings works in a variety of media (oil, latex, crayon, silkscreen print, and animation) into conversation with each other and the viewer. Themes of war and weather emerge into the works, intersecting each other in their physical appearance and in their subtle suggestion of subjects that forecast mortality and questions the storm of images that we negotiate daily.
