Upcoming Exhibitions - RIC - Exhibitions

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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Ghost Dance: Activism and Resistance in Indigenous Art

Ghost Dance: Activism. Resistance. Art.

September 18 – December 15, 2013
Guest Curated by Steve Loft
Main Gallery, University Gallery, Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall

This multi-media group exhibition will examine activism as a conceptual “culture of resistance” in contemporary Indigenous art. Using a combination of works by contemporary Indigenous artists, as well as the Black Star Collection, Ghost Dance will examine the role of the artist as activist, as chronicler and as provocateur in the ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights, self determination and sovereignty.

Moving Frames, Shifting Boundaries: Artistic Experiments and Innovation in Film and Video

September 18 – October 27, 2013
Guest Curated by Gerda Cammaer and Pierre Tremblay
Student Gallery

Moving Frames, Shifting Boundaries is a selection of experimental film and video works produced by students of the School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, under the mentorship of professors and co-curators Gerda Cammaer and Pierre Tremblay.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Elena Malkova: Camera Obscura

November 6 – December 15, 2013
Student Gallery

Camera Obscura presents two video works by Elena Malkova, which employ this elemental tool in the development of photography, positing it as a device to reconsider the history of the medium itself.

Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness

January 22 – April 13, 2014
Curated by Dr. Gaëlle Morel
Main Gallery

Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness examines both the dramatic and historical demise of film-manufacturing facilities and industrial darkrooms. The photographs taken between 2005 and 2010 speak to sites and events related to the key corporations involved in this transformation, such as Kodak, Agfa and Ilford. As an artist working in photography for the past thirty years, Burley has been both an observer and a participant in this radical transition. This exhibition addresses both the emergence of a new technology, which irrevocably changed photography, as well as the abrupt and rapid breakdown of a century old industry, which embodies the medium’s material culture.

Black Star Subject: Canada

January 22 – April 13, 2014
Guest Curated by Don Snyder and Pierre Tremblay
Animated by Pierre Tremblay
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall

Black Star Subject: Canada displays every one of the 1853 photographs filed under this heading in the Black Star Collection at Ryerson University: images of agriculture, mining, and industry; of every province and all major cities; images of Prime Ministers from Mackenzie King to John Turner; images of a nation undergoing unprecedented growth, defining itself in an era that led inevitably to globalization.

Phil Bergerson: Emblems and Remnants of the American Dream

January 22 – April 13, 2014
Guest Curated by David Harris
University Gallery

Since 1995, Canadian photographer Phil Bergerson has made dozens of extended road-trips, criss-crossing the United States in search of the ‘American Dream’. Drawing upon the social landscape tradition, Bergerson found his material amid the melancholic detritus of the contemporary city: in modest store window displays, hand-painted murals, graffiti, and crudely-made signs.

STAN DOUGLAS
SCOTIBANK PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD

May 1 – June 1, 2014
Guest Curated by Robert Bean
Main Gallery

The stories, sites and events that Douglas explores are populist, literate and timely. Frequently, his photographs describe the overlooked histories of cultural identity, displacement and injustice that reveal an uncanny resemblance to present-day events.
This exhibition will emphasize the significance of the photographic image in the critical and historical reception of Stan Douglas’ approach to art and media.

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