fado performance

TallBlondLadies Potential Fertility Rite

Today at 11:45am

Monday, October 26, 2009
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM

FADO Performance Art Centre presents
TallBlondLadies
Potential Fertility Rite

Monday October 26, 2009
5PM - 10PM
FREE

Hosted by YYZ Artists Outlet
140-401 Richmond Street West, Toronto

Two nearly identical tall blonde women, wearing white folklore blouses, grey leather short and white moon boots strapped into traditional wooden snowshoes manipulate large red exercise balls, enacting a traditional invocation rite by utilizing non-traditional gesture, action and costume. In this 5-hour performance movement, TallBlondLadies repeat a ritualized synchronized dance using modern day props, in time to the sound of snowshoes. Established in 2003, TallBlondLadies is a collaborative performance project between Anna Berndtson (Sweden) and Irina Runge (Germany).

"TBL inverts female stereotypes through the composition of absurd and unexpected performative gestures, often incorporating a range of accoutrement from high-end fashion to sports gear. Their works present diametrically opposed concepts; beauty and grace are juxtaposed and diminished through brute action and athleticism, tacitly disrupting and challenging gender-based categorizations." Artists Space, New York, 2007

FADO is pleased to present TallBlondLadies in association with Hysteria Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. For more information about Hysteria Festival, go to: www.artsexy.ca

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Established in 2003, TallBlondLadies is a collaborative performance project between Anna Berndtson (Sweden) and Irina Runge (Germany).

"TBL inverts female stereotypes through the composition of absurd and unexpected performative gestures, often incorporating a range of accoutrement from high-end fashion to sports gear. Their works present diametrically opposed concepts; beauty and grace are juxtaposed and diminished through brute action and athleticism, tacitly disrupting and challenging gender-based categorizations.� Artists Space, New York, 2007

About FADO
Established in 1993, FADO Performance Inc. (Performance Art Centre) is a not-for-profit artist-run centre for performance art based in Toronto, Canada. FADO exists to provide a stable, ongoing, supportive forum for creating and presenting performance art. Currently, we are the only artist-run centre in English Canada devoted specifically to this form. We present the work of local, national and international artists who have chosen performance art as a primary medium to create and communicate provocative new images and new perspectives. Thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their on-going support of our endeavors.

For more information about the artists and FADO
www.performanceart.ca

XSPACE: call for submission

To Whom it May Concern:

XPACE Cultural Centre and the Images Festival are co-presenting a new media student group exhibition for the upcoming Images Festival (April 1 – 10, 2009) and we are seeking proposals from local undergraduate new media students.

Now in its second year, this collaboration is hoping to expand on the success of last years Inner and Outer Spaces. This energetic exhibition featured work from students at York University, the Ontario College of Art and Design, and the University of Toronto.

XPACE and Images are seeking challenging and refreshing new media installations. Our goal is to combine work from OCAD, the U of T campuses, Ryerson and York for an exciting counterpart to the annual S is for Student screening, one of the Images Festival favourites. This is an excellent opportunity for students to exhibit their work at a supportive, professional space with internationally renowned festival exposure.

On behalf of XPACE, I would be delighted to answer any questions about this project and encourage you to contact me. Please feel free to forward this call for proposals to interested parties – attached is the application form. All proposals must be received by November 13^th, 2009; note that only hardcopy proposals will be considered. Class talks regarding this project and about XPACE Cultural Centre can also be arranged.

Thank you and warmest regards,
Matthew Williamson
Programmer
XPACE Cultural Centre
58 Ossington Ave.
xpace.info

short film screening

Interested in watching some short amateur student films? What about
free food to compliment your eyes? And maybe a little bit of alcohol
as well?

Then come out to the Hart House Film Board: Student Film Screening on
Wednesday, Nov. 11th at 7pm.

We will be showcasing various short films from your very own amateur
filmmakers at UofT as part of the Hart House Film Board.

If you would like to submit a short film for the screening send an email to
Sve Pavic @ svebor.pavic@utoronto.ca. Deadline for submissions is Nov. 6th.

Hope to see all you cinephiles there and in the meantime enjoy the
posters created by Kate McEdwards!

**THE HUB = the Hart House main desk!!!
*** Deadline for submissions has been changed to Nov. 2nd!
***** And as you see the location has changed from the music room to
the East Common Room :)

call for submissions

Call for Submissions - Is Your Love Supernatural?

Do you have an erotic palette for a ghostly encounter?

Dance with the spirits of another world; paint the pain and climax of the unknown on your canvas.

Is your love supernatural?

Be a part of the Gallery 1313’s First Ever Fundraiser, in partnership with IN MY BED Magazine’s seventh issue in exploration of Sex and the Paranormal/Supernatural.

Gallery 1313 and IN MY BED Magazine invite writers and performance artists to submit poems, short prose, and performance art proposals to be a part of our sexy and supernatural evening. Your submission should not exceed 15 minutes for spoken word or performance art. All work should be focused on the theme of sex and the paranormal or supernatural.

Be part of the Live Issue performance of the Magazine.

“Is Your Love Supernatural?” will take place on Friday, November 13, 2009 in the evening at Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen Street West.

The deadline for submissions extended to Wednesday, October 21, 2009.

Please email your digital submissions to mybed@inmybedmagazine.com or drop a CD of your proposed work off at Gallery 1313 attention: Is Your Love Supernatural?

You can find IN MY BED Magazine at http://www.inmybedmagazine.com

Gallery 1313 is an artist run centre and registered charity located at 1313 Queen Street West, Toronto (Between Dufferin and Lansdowne streets) and is open Wednesday to Sunday 1-6 pm.

exhibition: vtape

ALI KAZIMI
JOHN GREYSON
RICHARD FUNG

"REX vs SINGH"
(2009, 30:00)

October 10 - November 14, 2009
Opening Saturday, October 10, 11am - 1pm
* NOTE EARLY START*

Video Vox: a conversation with the artists, Ali Kazimi, John Greyson and Richard Fung
Saturday, October 10, 2009, 11:30
* a light lunch will be served*

video still, Rex vs. Singh, 2009

Vtape is honoured to present this highly innovative docu-witness project to the audiences of Toronto. Rex vs. Singh is the work of three of Toronto's - and Canada's - finest film and videomakers. It is Rashomon-esque in its structure (but funnier and more serious all at once). Each of the three artists uses his own visual vocabulary to open out this (relatively) small but (deeply) revealing record of Canadian intolerance, allowing it to bleed through the veneer of history as it has sedimented into the Canadian canon of self-definition.

The story: In 1915, two Sikh mill workers, Dalip Singh and Naina Singh, were entrapped by undercover police in Vancouver and accused of sodomy. Their trial occurs one year after the infamous Komagata Maru ship, carrying immigrant passengers from British India, was stranded at the Vancouver harbour.

Kazimi, Greyson and Fung each approach the story from a unique perspective: one employs the language of straight-forward documentary, another evokes the court transcripts themselves and (inevitably) Greyson conjures "the musical" opportunity - all in the service of this here-to-fore hidden corner of Canadian history. Rex vs. Singh is a marvel of story-telling, allowing the viewer to continually weigh and evaluate - and then re-evaluate - the information provided by the artists. Delicious in its execution, the legalese becomes the vehicle and then becomes the roadblock through which we must pick our way, seekers of the truth - or at least a version of it.

Rex vs. Singh is presented by Vtape with the participation of the Reel Asian Film Festival. It will also be playing in Reel Asian’s Canadian shorts presentation Sense of Wonder on Friday, November 13, 6:15 pm at Innis Town Hall.

Ali Kazimi is one Canada’s leading documentary filmmakers. winner of the Donald Brittain Award/ the Gemini Award for Best Social/Political documentary for Runaway Grooms ('05). His films have received two Genie Award nominations Narmada; A Valley Rises ( '94), Shooting Indians ('97) and a Gemini nomination for Some Kind of Arrangement ('97). Kazimi's films have received over thirty national and international honours and awards, been screened in dozens of festivals and broadcast on many networks including the CBC, TVOntario, PBS (US) and Channel 4 (UK). His work has been honoured with four retrospectives - Images Festival, ('98), Pacific Film Archives/Berkeley Art Museum ('06), Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary & Short Films ('09) and the VIBGYOR International Film Festival, Kerala, India. Born and raised in India, Kazimi graduated from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University with a B.Sc. in 1982. He graduated in film production from York University, in 1988. He has guest-lectured nationally and internationally; taught at OCAD and joined the full-time faculty at York University in 2006.

John Greyson is a Toronto film/video artist whose shorts, features and installations include: Fig Trees (2003, Oakville Art Galleries); Proteus (Best Actor, Sithenghi 2003); The Law of Enclosures (2000, Best Actor Genie); Lilies (1996 - Best Film Genie, Best Film at festivals in Montreal, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, San Francisco); Un©ut (1997, Honourable Mention, Berlin Film Festival); Zero Patience (1993 - Best Canadian Film, Sudbury Film Festival); The Making of Monsters (1991 - Best Canadian Short, Toronto Film Festival, Best Short Film Teddy - Berlin Film Festival); and Urinal (1988 - Best Feature Teddy, Berlin Film Festival). He co-edited Queer Looks, a critical anthology on gay/lesbian film & video (Routledge, 1993), is the author of Urinal and Other Stories (Power Plant/Art Metropole, 1993), and has published essays and artists pieces in Alphabet City, Public, FUSE, and twelve critical anthologies. An assistant professor in film production at York University, he was awarded the Toronto Arts Award for Film/Video, 2000, and the Bell Canada Video Art Award in 2007. Greyson currently teaches at York University.

Richard Fung is a Trinidad-born, Toronto-based video artist and cultural critic. His single-channel tapes and installations, which include My Mother’s Place (1990), Sea in the Blood (2000) and Uncomfortable: The Art of Christopher Cozier (2005), have been widely screened and collected internationally, and have been broadcast in Canada and the United States. He is the co-author with Monika Kin Gagnon of 13: Conversations on Art and Cultural Race Politics (Montreal: Artexte, 2002), and his essays have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Fung was a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Media, Culture and History at New York University and has received the Bell Canada Award for Video Art and the Toronto Arts Award for Media Art among other honours. He is an associate professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design. In 2009 he was visiting professor at the James Beveridge Media Resource Centre, Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi.

Please contact Erik Martinson at Vtape to book class visits to view any Vtape Video Gallery program as well as other titles in the Vtape holdings and to have an orientation to Vtape and all the extensive research facilities available to students, curators, writers and the general public.

Vtape
401 Richmond St., #452
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
416 351-1317
Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 12-4pm
For more information, contact info@vtape.org
www.vtape.org

call for submissions: video

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Video Art call for submissions
Gallery Lambton Video Art Screening Series, Sarnia, ON

Call for submissions to TWO specialized screenings.

“The Medium is the Message”
Screening Date - December 4th 2009
Trinity Lounge, Sarnia Ontario

If you are a video or film artist who's exploration of the medium is the main component, content, and context in your work… submit your video by November 13th, 2009, in DVD format, along with a curriculum vitae, an artist bio, a brief synopsis of the work and contact information to:

Video Art
Cameron Starr, Curatorial Assistant
Gallery Lambton
150 N. Christina Street, Sarnia, Ontario, N7T 7W5

All submissions will be considered. Submitted DVD's will not be returned. Do not send originals. Selected work will be screened at the First Friday after hours event held at the Trinity Lounge in Sarnia Ontario. (Note that the format of our screening does not suit work longer than 15 min)

For more information contact
Cameron Starr
cameron.starr@county-lambton.on.ca
519-336-8127


“A New Breed”
November 6th, 2009

Submissions of video work by Young Emerging Canadian Artists, who are currently enrolled in 3rd year studies or later, or have completed post secondary school with in the last 3 years.

Submit your video ASAP in DVD format, along with a curriculum vitae, an artist bio, a brief synopsis of the work and contact information to:

* due to time restraints feel free to contact us about alternate methods of submission.

Video Art
Cameron Starr, Curatorial Assistant
Gallery Lambton
150 N. Christina Street, Sarnia, Ontario, N7T 7W5

All submissions will be considered. Submitted DVD's will not be returned. Do not send originals. Selected work will be screened at the First Friday after hours event held at the Trinity Lounge in Sarnia Ontario. (Note that the format of our screening does not suit work longer than 15 min)

For more information contact
Cameron Starr
cameron.starr@county-lambton.on.ca

win stuff

Win Stuff from

HYSTERIA

North America’s largest multi-disciplinary festival of work by women

at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto

Festival Director Moynan King

October 22-31

ONE GRAND PRIZE

A pair of tickets to see Shawna Dempsey and TBL [TallBlondeLadies] on October 24

TWO RUNNERS-UP PRIZES

Single tickets to see Shawna Dempsey and TBL [TallBlondeLadies] on October 24

Enter below – contest closes October 16, 2009 at 11:59:59pm

Now in its fifth incarnation, HYSTERIA has become one of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s most eagerly anticipated events. Over a ten-day period Buddies plays host to rapid-fire succession of events ranging from a visual art display and performance installations to eclectic lineups featuring dance, film, music, spoken word and theatre performances. This year’s line-up includes performances by TBL [Tall BlondeLadies] from Sweden and Germany, Canadian performance art and video icon, Shawna Dempsey from Winnipeg, American spoken word superstar Staceyann Chin and Drag legend milDRED just to name a few. Local legends share the stage with artists from across the continent as we offer up two riotous cabaret evenings Mass Hysteria and The Invert Parade. A limited number of festival passes are available for only $50. Call the box office or visit us online for details

PRIZE INFORMATION:
HYSTERIA FESTIVAL - SATURDAY OCTOBER 24
featuring Shawna Dempsey (Winnipeg) and Tall Blonde Ladies (Sweden & Germany)
Evening Pass $15

Shawna Dempsey (Winnipeg)
8pm, The Cabaret
Shawna Dempsey discusses lezzie, feminist performance and video art, drawing upon examples from her 20-year collaboration with Lorri Millan. This Winnipeg-based duo has created uppity artworks such as "We're Talking Vulva", "A Day in The Life of A Bull-Dyke", "Lesbian National Parks and Services" and "Consideration Liberation Army". Shawna will be interspersing her talk and screening with live performance, reflecting Dempsey and Millan's own particular flavour of queer fun and funny Canadiana.

TBL [TallBlondeLadies] (Sweden & Germany)
9pm, The Chamber
Presented in association with FADO Performance Art Centre
A collaborative performance project between Anna Berndtson and Irina Runge. TBL inverts female stereotypes through the composition of absurd and unexpected performative gestures, incorporating a range of accoutrement from high-end fashion to sports gear. Their works present diametrically opposed concepts; beauty and grace are juxtaposed and diminished through brute action and athleticism, tacitly disrupting and challenging gender-based categorizations.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre | 12 Alexander Street, Toronto
Box Office 416-975-8555 | artsexy.ca | follow us: yyzbuddies.blogspot.com

CONTEST PRESENTERS: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Akimbo
Contest runs: from October 6 - 16, 2009
Contest Prizes: One Grand Prize and Two Runners-up Prizes
Contest Close Date: October 16, 2009 at 11:59:59 pm
Contest Draw Date: October 17

Will be Contacted: within two business days of draw date

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activist/protest/performance

Climate activists gather in Central Park to form a human sculpture in the shape of an earth inside an hourglass in New York, September 20, 2009. The event was organized by Oxfam as part of the TckTckTck campaign to raise environmental awareness.REUTERS/Eric Thayer (UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENT)

exhibition: general idea

The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion reopens at

the Art Gallery of York University tomorrow night!

6 – 9 PM

Thirty-two years after a disastrous fire destroyed The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion in 1977, the Art Gallery of York University has set itself the heroic task of reconstructing the Pavillion along the lines of its original plans. The AGYU has combined resources with archaeologists, archivists, and the museums and collections that house its remnants to bring together material for public view as the first stage of restoring the Pavillion to the shell of its past glory.

(the exhibition runs until December 6th, but the opening happens only once)

Out There

The Art Gallery of York University is a university-affiliated public non-profit contemporary art gallery supported by York University, The Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and our membership.

The AGYU is located in the Accolade East Building, 4700 Keele Street Toronto. Gallery hours are: Monday to Friday, 10 am–4 pm; Wednesday, 10am–8 pm; Sunday from noon–5 pm; and closed Saturday. Admission to everything is free.

http://www.yorku.ca/agyu

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Do you have questions or require further information or images? Please contact Emelie Chhangur, Assistant Director/ Curator, AGYU, +1.416.736.5169 or emelie@yorku.ca

exhibition: peter kingstone

Peter Kingstone, Party, 2009, Digital Print, 14" x 19"

PETER KINGSTONE
Them!

September 17 – November 7, 2009
Opening reception Thursday, September 17, 5-8 pm

Pari Nadimi Gallery is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition by Toronto-based installation artist Peter Kingstone.

For his first solo exhibition at Pari Nadimi Gallery, Peter Kingstone will present a new installation work entitled Them!. Kingstone's Them! works with the idea that the horror film Them (1954) is a documentary. Them! (1954) is a horror film about the meeting of giant ants and humans in the New Mexican desert. Kingstone’s installation does not talk about an inter-species war, but instead investigates ideas of community. The exhibition is comprised of three different pieces working together in the gallery. Suburb is a living sculpture, a 3 foot by 3 foot ant farm, where the ants live amongst a miniature suburban landscape, the twelve 19” x 14” photographs supposes that giant ants have been able to live within human communities and Them!: Dr Medford’s Story is a 20 minute video that discusses the ant world and the human community. The exhibition proposes a radical rethinking of the way life is lived. The concept of community is questioned with a new proposal in its place.

Kingstone’s work has been exhibited across Canada and throughout the United States. He won the Untitled Artist Award in 2005 for his installation The Strange Case of Peter K. (1974-2004). His most recent installation, 100 Stories About My Grandmother has been exhibited in Toronto at TPW (2008), Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland (2009), Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick (2009), Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta (2009), Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba (upcoming, 2009). Kingstone holds a Philosophy/Cultural Studies Degree from Trent University in Peterborough (1997), and a Masters of Fine Arts from York University, Toronto (2004).

For more information about Peter Kingstone or the gallery, please visit our website www.parinadimigallery.com or contact the gallery at info@parinadimigallery.com 254 Niagara St. (Toronto, Canada) or 416-591-6464.

video screening

Pleasure Dome Fall 2009 20th Anniversary Season

$8/ 5 members www.pdome.org
Friday, September 18, 8pm @ CineCycle, 129 Spadina Ave.

Self-Proclaimed Amateur
John Kilduff in Person. Guest-curated by Iris Fraser-Gudrunas

This guest-curated programme is comprised of four works that employ an amateur aesthetic, either accidentally or strategically, by artists that could not be considered amateurs themselves. Making use of our ingrained belief that an outsider’s perspective is more honest than a conspicuously mediated effort, these four insiders use the semblance of clumsiness to relay a tangible candidness. Live performance by Los Angeles artist John Kilduff of Let’s Paint TV with videos by Carlos Gonzales, Mat Laporte and Don Miller.

Programme:

Crystal Ball, Carlos Gonzales, video 2008, 47:00 min (Providence RI)


Dance With Me Vendetta, Mat Laporte video 2002, 3:00 min (Toronto) 


History in Action, Don Miller, video 2007, 11:30 min (Redickville, ON) ***

Intermission

Let’s Paint TV, John Kilduff, Live Performance (Los Angeles, CA)


The Crystal Ball is a home made psycho-drama about a public access TV show host and his dedicated fan, turned enemy. With lo-fidelity aesthetic as direct reflection of the video’s content, Crystal Ball pulls you into madness with a style that acts as a visceral metaphor for the unpolished and intuitive psyche. Made in Providence, RI by Carlos Gonzalez, Robert Pickle, and Sasha Wiseman.

Dance with Me Vendetta is the introductory letter to a teen-jocks-discover-fine-art story, with the prospective plot lost by the wayside of an unruly night in an unfinished north-Ontarian cabin. Vendetta was edited in camera on VHS and shows a group of young men’s virginal thrust into the thrills of video-art.

History in Action is Don’s attempt to bridge a chasm between what he does to generate income and his artistic practice. The machines are ancient, but active. Like art these machines are not to be polished and put on pedestals, but have to be experienced and put to use. Don is not a 'video artist', but an artist who uses video to get an experience across to the viewer. He says of the idea of amateurism: “We are inundated by specialization and expertise. We have to allow room for the amateur/generalist. The more specialized we become the less we see of the space between and between is where the humour resides. Let's all take five and blow some bubbles.”

*** Please wear the earplugs provided for this video.

Let’s Paint TV started as a straight forward cable access how-to paint show but over time, turned into a chaotic attempt to add more creativity to the painting process for your average new painter. Host John Kilduff found, in the cable access audience and the show’s expanded format, a way to sincerely convey the importance of effort in creative pursuits. Let’s Paint TV’s youtube channel is now a cult favourite.

Carlos Gonzalez lives and works in Providence as a musician, comic artist, no-budget moviemaker, and terror group showman. He is a member of the band Russian Tsarlag and his comics have appeared in “Kramer's Ergot 6,” and “Nazi Knife.”

Mat Laporte is a screenwriter, poet and filmmaker now living in Toronto via Montreal, Edmonton and Sault-Ste. Marie. 



Don Miller works with stone, steel and wood in an income generating capacity, including timber frame construction, stone fireplaces and foundations and steel manufacture. He graduated from NSCAD in 2002. His artistic practice is idea based, wherein the necessary materials are gathered and worked together to enhance or inform that which is being materialized. His search is for a creative strategy for living.



John Kilduff got a BFA in Painting at Otis Art Institute and a MFA in Painting at UCLA. He started Let's Paint TV in 2001 on local Public Access TV in Los Angles. The show became popular on the internet via youtube in 2005. The show is now being seen daily on the internet and the show is performed live at various venues around the world.




still: Let’s Paint TV

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Artist Run Centres/Art Collectives

Description: These spaces are established by artists for artists. Many of these galleries have mandates that encourage submissions for specific media and support socially and culturally motivated work. Within Canada there are over one-hundred of these centres (the majority within Quebec). The focus of an artist run centre is to present the work of emerging or early-career artists. The gallery programs both solo and group shows that deal with a wide range of materials, subject matter, and conceptual themes. Works tend to be both formally and conceptually experimental in nature.

A-Space

401 Richmond Street, suite 110, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 979-9633

http://www.aspacegallery.org

Art Metropole

788 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 703-4400

http://www.artmetropole.org

Gallery 1313

1313 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 536-6778

http://www.g1313.org

Gallery 401

401 Richmond Street West, suite 240, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 506-9595

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography

401 Richmond Street, suite 120, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 979-3941

http://www.gallery44.org

Gallery TPW

56 Ossington Avenue Toronto ON, 416.645.1066

http://www.gallerytpw.ca

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre

9 Ossington Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 599-7206

http://www.interaccess.org

LOOP Gallery

1174 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 516-2581

http://www.loopgallery.ca

Mercer Union

1286 Bloor Street West
Toronto, ON M6H 1N9
(416) 536-1519

http://www.mercerunion.org/

Open Studio

401 Richmond Street West, Suite 104, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 504-8238

http://www.openstudio.on.ca

Red Head Gallery

401 Richmond Street West, suite 115, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 504-5654

http://www.redheadgallery.org

Toronto Free Gallery

660 Queen Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 913-0461

http://www.torontofreegallery.org

Trinity Square Video

401 Richmond Street West, Suite 376, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 593-1332

http://www.trinitysquarevideo.com

V Tape

401 Richmond Street West, suite 452, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 351-1317

http://www.vtape.org

Women's Art Resource Centre (WARC)

401 Richmond Street West, suite 122, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 977-0097

http://www.warc.net

YYZ Artists' Outlet

401 Richmond Street West, suite 140, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 598-4546

http://www.yyzartistsoutlet.org

Commercial Galleries

Description: A commercial or private gallery is managed by an individual or a small group of partners. Often the name of the gallery bears the name of the owner and operator (I.e. Jessica Bradley Projects).

This type of gallery is often referred to as a dealer since they represent and sell the work of artists they have selected. First and foremost, these galleries are businesses and their sole purpose is to profit from their sales. Throughout the year, these galleries present both solo and group exhibitions. If the artist sells work at any time, the gallery takes fifty percent of the sale price. These spaces are able to function based on profits acquired through the sale of work to private, corporate and public buyers (i.e. large institutional museums). Generally, commercial galleries are primarily concerned with representing only work that will generate revenue. It is rare for a viewer to experience large sculptural installations or more provocative and challenging work in this type of venue.

Angell Gallery

890 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 530-0444

http://www.angellgallery.com

Artcore Gallery

The Distillery District, 55 Mill Street, Bldg. 62, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 920-3820

http://www.artcoregallery.com

birch libralato

129 Tecumseth Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 365-3003

http://www.birchlibralato.com

Christopher Cutts Gallery

21 Morrow Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 532-5566

http://www.cuttsgallery.com

Clint Roenisch Gallery

944 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 516-8593

http://www.clintroenisch.com

Corkin/Shopland

The Distillery District, 55 Mill Street, Bldg. 61, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 304-1050

http://www.corkinshopland.com

DeLeon White Gallery

1096 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 597-9466

http://www.eco-art.com

Diaz Contemporary

100 Niagara Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 361-2972

http://www.diazcontemporary.ca

Edward Day Gallery

952 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 921-6540

http://www.edwarddaygallery.com

Engine Gallery

1112 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 531-9905

http://www.enginegallery.ca

Fran Hill Gallery

230 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 363-1333

Jessica Bradley Art & Projects

1450 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 537-3125

http://www.jessicabradleyartprojects.com

Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects (KMART)

1080/1086 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 537-8827

http://www.kmartprojects.com and

http://boardofdirectorstoronto.blogspot.com/

Le Gallery

1183 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 532-8467

http://www.le-gallery.ca

50 Gladstone Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 840-5549

http://www.leekasing.ca

Lehmann + Leskiw Fine Art

626 Richmond Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 922-1914

http://www.l-l-s.com

Lennox Contemporary

12 Ossingtion Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 924-7964

http://www.lennoxcontemporary.com

Leo Kamen Gallery

80 Spadina Avenue, suite 406, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 504-9515

http://www.leokamengallery.com

Magic Pony Gallery

694 Queen St West Toronto ON Canada M6J 1E7
Tel: 416.861.1684

http://www.magic-pony.com/

Monte Clark Gallery Toronto

The Distillery District, 55 Mill Street, Bldg. 2, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 703-1700

http://www.monteclarkgallery.com

Olga Korper Gallery

17 Morrow Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 538-8220

http://www.olgakorpergallery.com

254 Niagara Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 591-6464

http://www.parinadimigallery.com

Paul Petro Contemporary Art

980 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 979-7874

http://www.paulpetro.com

Paul Petro Contemporary Art

962 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

http://www.paulpetro.com

Peak Gallery

23 Morrow Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 537-8108

http://www.peakgallery.com

Prime Gallery

52 McCaul Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 593-5750

http://www.primegallery.ca

Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts

984 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 504-7142

http://www.propellerctr.com

Sixty Four Steps Contemporary Art

1164 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 535-7837

Solo Exhibition

787 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 504-0534

SPIN Gallery

1100 Queen Street West, 2nd Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 530-7656

http://www.spingallery.ca

Stephen Bulger Gallery

1026 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 504-0575 http://www.bulgergallery.com

Susan Hobbs Gallery

137 Tecumseth Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 504-3699

http://www.susanhobbs.com

Wynick/Tuck Gallery

401 Richmond Street West, suite 128, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 504-8716

http://www.wynicktuckgallery.ca

Hunter and Cook Gallery

15 Ossington Ave Toronto, Ontario 416 588 3500

http://www.hunterandcook.com

Institutional Galleries and Museums

Description: This type of gallery is probably one with which you are most familiar. These facilities present more than one exhibit at a time and are often managed by a large staff that may include a director, a team of curators, educational directors, volunteers, docents, etc.

Visitng the AGO, you would most likely see a large variety of exhibitions. The work housed in the museum has been acquired through a variety of means. Much of the work on display is part of a larger permanent collection, and often what you see is just a selection of work stored in the vaults of a museum. These large institutions house work that has either been donated or purchased through allocated funds. In addition, many museums become temporary venues for traveling exhibitions that the gallery supports along with its permanent work.

Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)

317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 979-6648

http://www.ago.net

Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art

111 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 586-8080

http://www.gardinermuseum.on.ca

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA)

952 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 395-7430

http://www.mocca.toronto.on.ca

PREFIX Institute of Contemporary Art

401 Richmond Street West, Suite 124, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 591-0357

Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 586-8000

http://www.rom.on.ca

The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery

231 Queen's Quay West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 973-4949

http://www.thepowerplant.org

Toronto Sculpture Garden

115 King Street East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

(416) 515-9658

http://www.torontosculpturegarden.com/