Gambletron’s Technical Submission
With equal parts chance and skill, a career experimenter orchestrates the perfect conditions for chaotic harmony
Expanding Access: An Interview with Michelle Jacques
As Jacques embarks on a new position as Remai Modern’s New Head of Exhibitions and Collections/Chief Curator, she looks back at her achievements at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Unrequited Love
In June Clark’s reconfigurations, the US flag and all it represents is broken into pieces
Mutual Aid during a Pandemic: Why Artists Helped Form Toronto’s Encampment Support Network
Jeff Bierk, with friends and colleagues, helped mobilize support for underhoused people living outside early in the pandemic. With winter coming, they’re speaking out anew
Brendan Fernandes’s Zoom Choreography
The acclaimed Canadian artist talks about making dance works with Snapchat, SMS and yes, Zoom
Chroma Launch: Kelsey Adams and David Woods in Conversation
In this video, Kelsey Adams and David Woods discuss the overlooked histories and current work being done by Black artists, curators and thinkers in the Maritimes
Excesses and Refusals
In this introductory essay for the Fall 2020 issue of Canadian Art, Chroma, co-editors Yaniya Lee and Denise Ryner write about some of the origins of, and hopes for, this project
How Award-Winning Alberta Artist Rita McKeough Critiques—and Connects to—Oil and Extraction
In an interview about “darkness is as deep as the darkness is,” her latest project at at the Banff Centre, McKeough talks hope, activism and social change
Always Being Moved
When we widen what we understand to be the scope of influence, a different kind of recognition becomes possible
In the Studio with Jamiyla Lowe
"A lot of my work can be really silly," says Lowe, "even though it's a little bit dark sometimes, it's never heavy. If I'm spending so much time with something, I want it to make me feel good."
In the Studio with Aaron Jones
“There was a point when I just thought that taking photos didn’t make sense: there were enough images existing,” says the collage artist
In the Studio with Gloria Swain
“I try to create creative healing spaces. It’s like me saying to young black women: it’s ok not to be ok.”
This is the future
Renowned artist Hito Steyerl talks gardening, manure, free ports and the joys of working with community
Group Theory
For Black queer organizers in the 1980s and ’90s, creative labour was as important as activist practice, and vice versa
The Life of Things
This year's Momenta Biennale in Montreal takes “the life of things” as a theme
In the Studio with Curtis Talwst Santiago
The Edmonton-born artist talks about the relationship between music and art, the themes that inform his practice and his new project for the Toronto Biennial of Art
“The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture”
Sandrine Colard, artistic director of the upcoming Lubumbashi Biennale and guest curator of a new exhibition of African photography at the Ryerson Image Centre, discusses the shifting dynamics between female sitters and their photographers
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
Anne Boyer, Ugly Duckling Presse, 240 pp., $20
Sandra Brewster
A Space, Toronto, January 25 to March 9, 2019
Conditions for Immersion
London-based artist Beatrice Gibson talks about motherhood, collectivity and process in her recent project I hope I'm Loud When I'm dead
The Freedom of Existing on the Edge
The influential American artist Carrie Mae Weems talks about museum collections, the art market, art criticism and Black creative practice
The Art of Living
On the occasion of a new exhibition at MOCA Toronto, Chantal Akerman's long time collaborator Claire Atherton talks about the technique and processes of editing, and the importance of the late artist's work
In the Studio with Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko
In this video they discuss working together and the challenges of collective authorship
Alexander Calder
With a few weeks left, the rare opportunity to see a survey of Calder’s work in Canada is an occasion for three reflections on science, systems and abstraction
Dancing on the Border
With upcoming performances in Vancouver and Toronto, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa talks about the multiple locations of his work
A Year in Black Art
Concerns about intimacy, world making, security and survival are necessary to considerations of Black life and how we think about work by Black artists
Femmes Noires
Black American artist Mickalene Thomas talks about her solo show at the AGO and the challenges of getting Black artists and audiences into major institutions
Like No One’s Looking
Kandis Williams talks about the realities, challenges and excitements of being a Black person in the art world
Roadside Attractions
A conversation with curator Jennifer Matotek about Saskatchewan’s summer of public art
Beautiful World, Where Are You?
The 2018 Liverpool Biennial avoids the spectacular and instead grounds itself in its location’s conversations
Adrian Piper
Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 31–July 22, 2018
In the Studio with Syrus Marcus Ware
The Toronto-based activist-artist describes his recent drawing project
Language Matters
A Conversation with award-winning author and critic Ben Lerner about his craft, his observations on art, and the peculiarities of the art world
A Conversation with Tau Lewis
An installation by the prolific Toronto artist was awarded the Frame Prize at Frieze New York this past week.
Ellise Barbara’s Black Space
The Montreal musician talks about her move into the art world and her stance on Afrofuturism.
In the Studio with Hazel Meyer
In her installation, performance and text-based works Meyer queers our assumptions about gender and bodies—especially those usually tied to sports
In the Studio with Rita McKeough
In Banff, the Governor General’s Award winner discusses her installations on violence against women, human-animal relations and environmental degradation
In the Eye of the Storm
Caroline Monnet’s solo exhibition “Like Ships in the Night” offers new perspectives on communication
Kapwani Kiwanga Gets Personal
To create a new installation, the Frieze Award–winning artist returned to the small Ontario gallery where she learned about art as a child.
In the Studio with Madelyne Beckles
Beckles takes the solemnity of second-wave feminist theory and redeploys it to poke fun at art history and popular culture
Nick Cave Makes Armour for the World’s Violence
The American artist, who is included in a current group exhibition in Toronto, discusses his famed soundsuits, which he began making after the 1991 police beating of Rodney King
Picturing Black Masculinity
A compelling photo-based exhibition in Toronto gathers works that tackle representation and Black masculinity.
Ceramic Superstitions: An Interview with Dagmar Atladóttir
The Icelandic ceramicist discusses superstition, invented traditions and rejected knowledge.
Art’s Hidden Costs
Rarely when looking at art do we consider the cost of materials. Sara Cwynar's work broadens our understanding of artistic production.
The Women Running the Show
Black women curators have shaped a distinct conversation—responsive to settler-colonial histories and the unique experiences of the Black diaspora.
