Doors Open 2025

Open Studio, Doors Open Toronto 2025

Join Open Studio for Doors Open Toronto 2025!Saturday, May 24Gallery hours: 12pm – 5pmPrint activity: 12pm – 3pm Experience our exhibitions, explore our printmaking facilities, and take part in an exciting print activation! 🔹 On view in the Main Gallery: Other (please specify) by Victoria Day. [Read more]🔹 In the Project Space: glitch addiction by…

FUTURE PROOF 2025 Online Auction

FUTURE PROOF 2025A Virtual Auction in Support of Open Studio VIRTUAL AUCTION DATES / TIMESMay 15 – 12:00 pm ET online auction launchesMay 22 – 7:00 pm ET online auction closes . FUTURE PROOF is back this spring, May 15–22, 2025! The online fundraising auction in support of Open Studio will launch at 12:00 pm…

Canadian Art Hop 2025

Canadian Art Hop 2025

Join Open Studio for The Canadian Art HopSaturday, May 3Gallery hours: 12pm – 5pmPrint activity: 12pm – 3pm The Canadian Art Hop spotlights the diverse and dynamic tapestry of arts through commercial galleries, artist-run centres, and public museums and galleries. 🔹 On view in the Main Gallery: Other (please specify) by Victoria Day. [Read more]🔹…

Holiday Print Sale & Shop

The sale continues until December 21st! Open Studio’s Holiday Print Sale & Shop EventFREE to attend! Opening night: Thursday, November 285:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Live Printmaking Demo at 6:00 pm Can’t make it to opening night? Stop by anytime—the galleries will feature a rotating selection of new artworks through December 21.Mark your calendars! Join…

Ontario Culture Days at 401 Richmond St. West

Arwen Giel screenprinting.

Experience the art of screenprinting at Open Studio! Watch artist Arwen Giel in action during a live screenprinting demonstration in our front-of-house galleries. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn about screenprinting techniques and gain a deeper appreciation for the art of printmaking. While you’re here, explore our galleries showcasing a diverse selection of contemporary…

Doors Open 2024

Open Studio is Suite #104 Open Studio is a part of Doors Open Toronto!Suite #104 Saturday, May 2510:00 am – 5:00 pm Visit Open Studio at 401 Richmond, Suite 104, for Doors Open Toronto! Explore the building and the community of tenants, and observe the Three ‘C’s – community, culture, and commerce – at work. Join…

Building a Security Blanket Workshop

May 25, 10:00 am – 5: 00 pm at Open Studio . Join artist Cleopatria Peterson and collaborate on their Security Blanket. Using linocut and relief printing we will use this workshop to collaborate and create prints that will be stitched into a makeshift quilt. The final product will be showcased in their show Bestie Mart at…

Print Tease Workshop Extravaganza

Print Instructors (Left to Right): Daniel Cardoso, Rachael Dodgson, Heather Thomson, Meggan Winsley, Joy Wong, and Phoebe Todd-Parrish.

May 11, 10:00 am – 6: 00 pm at Open Studio . Open Studio Instructors are launching a grassroots fundraising event Print Tease 🫣 😋 They are donating their time and skills so you can come get inky with them at the studio for a print workshop extravaganza ✨ Make a sliding scale donation between…

FUTURE PROOF 2024 Online Auction

THE AUCTION IS NOW CLOSED. Thank you for your support! We will notify all winners when the artwork is packaged and ready for pick-up or shipping. FUTURE PROOF 2024A Virtual Auction in Support of Open Studio VIRTUAL AUCTION DATES / TIMESMay 2 – 12:00 pm ET online auction launchesMay 9 – 5:00 pm ET online…

Canadian Art Hop

Canadian Art Hop and Open Studio

Open Studio is taking place in the Canadian Art Hop! We will be featuring two onsite exhibitions during this time and offering studio tours. Gallery Hours:April 25, Thursday | 11 am – 5 pmApril 26, Friday | 11 am – 5 pmApril 27, Saturday | 12 pm – 5pmPlease note that we are not open…

Screen-O-Rama

Screen-O-Rama, Opening Night Party, December 7, 6-9pm!

OPENING NIGHT PARTY: Thursday, December 7, 6-9 pm at Open Studio Get ready for Screen-O-Rama, Open Studio’s exciting holiday fundraiser! Join us for the opening night party on Thursday, December 7th, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, featuring immersive printmaking activities, incredible art for sale, and a festive atmosphere. Our front-of-house galleries will transform into an…

Artist Talk: Lili Boshevska

Exhibition poster: Macedonian and Canadian Graphic Artists 7×7

Friday, October 6, 2-4 pm at Open Studio. We are pleased to welcome Lili Boshevska, Director of the Cultural and Information Center (CIC) in Bitola, Macedonia, to give a talk at Open Studio. In her role at the CIC, Dr. Boshevska has organized and supported numerous projects and exhibitions of fine artists from all over the…

The Deceiving Eye

Shop Window: Ron Siu, The Deceiving Eye (detail), 2023.

Saturday, September 23, 7 pm – 7 am, Open Studio shop window installation. The Deceiving Eye is an experimental animation composed of cyanotype prints. The video features a non-narrative series of short, looping vignettes inspired by phenakistoscopes (early, analog animation devices that were circular). These abstract sequences play on motifs related to nature, the body,…

Flickering Matter

Shop Window: Philippe Blanchard, Flickering Matter, 2022.

Nuit Blanche Open Studio shop window installation on display from sunset to sunrise, Saturday, October 1, 2022 (7:00 pm – 7:00 am). Thinking through Soviet filmmaker and theorist Sergei Eisenstein’s reflections on animation as a plasmatic medium, one that is forever unstable and with the “ability to dynamically assume any form“, while also considering the…

Murmuración

Michelle Oullette, 6.5" x 9".

List of participating artists here.View the Murmuración card catalogue here. On behalf of Open Studio, artist members Andrea deBruijn and Heather J. A. Thomson invited national and international printmakers to create an edition of slotted cards. These cards are the foundation of Murmuración: an expansion of Open Studio’s Murmuration exhibition that would have travelled to…