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2024-25 Programming Schedule

The Beginning/End of Love

Ron Siu, opens May 30, 5-7pm

Henry Gepfer and K. MacNeil, The Mirror Blinked, 2025, risograph performance documentation, 11” x 17”.

The Mirror Blinked

Henry Gepfer and K. MacNeil, opens May 30, 5-7pm

Open Studio, Doors Open Toronto 2025

Doors Open 2025

Print Activity, May 24, 12pm-3pm

FUTURE PROOF 2025 Online Auction

Various Artists, Online | May 15-22, 2025

Canadian Art Hop 2025

Canadian Art Hop 2025

Print Activity, May 3, 12pm-3pm

Victoria Day, Embody Me (collage, detail), 2025, screenprint collage, 1/1, 43" x 43.

Other (please specify)

Victoria Day

Rachael Dodgson, trash tape I in radio active green, 2024, screenprint on paper 18” x 24”, and fluorescent green plexi star, 2024, lasercut, screenprinted plexiglass, 10” x 10”.

glitch addiction

Rachael Dodgson

Installation view of Rochelle Rubinstein's Book Room series (2017-present), mixed media including woodblock, ink drawing, painting, and collage; each page 5.5” x 3.5”, 132” x 5.5” when open.

drawing a blank

Rochelle Rubinstein and Jennifer Lindsay

Leila Fatemi, Glitch, 2024, Linocut on Thai Kozo, 11.8” x 12.5”, and Untitled (detail), 2024, Linocut on Thai Kozo, 11.8” x 11.8”.

the stars wish to rest here

Leila Fatemi

Holiday Print Sale & Shop

Various Artists

Main Gallery, Janet Cardiff, Graham Coughtry, Harold Klunder, and Jeannie Thib, 'Intimate Impressions: Figures, Studies and Abstractions', 2024.

Intimate Impressions: Figures, Studies and Abstractions

Janet Cardiff, Graham Coughtry, Harold Klunder and Jeannie Thib

Open Studio and Waddington's Partnership

Open Studio & Waddington’s Editions Auction

Various Artists

General Idea, Mondo Cane, 1985, screenprint, 29" x 40.5".

Art Toronto 2024

Various Artists

Jeannie Thib, Baudelaire’s Mistress, 1998, screenprint on Japanese paper, edition: OS Proof, 90” x 148” (4 panels, each 37” wide).

Nuit Blanche 2024: Jeannie Thib

Jeannie Thib

Arwen Giel screenprinting.

Ontario Culture Days at 401 Richmond St. West

Arwen Giel

Main Gallery and Project Space, June - October 2024, Small. Medium. Large

Small. Medium. Large

Various Artists

2024 TOAF Partnership with Open Studio

Open Studio at 2024 TOAF

Various Artists

Khadijah Morley, Encounter (Vanish) (detail), 2024.

The Dreamer is Still Asleep

Khadijah Morley

Image: John A. Sharkey & Hamdzatsi Collective, carved woodblock details.

Sisiyutł and other Mythological Creatures

Ha̲mdzat̓si Collective

Doors Open 2024

Various Artists

Building a Security Blanket Workshop

Cleopatria Peterson

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

Print Tease Workshop Extravaganza

Various Print Instructors

FUTURE PROOF 2024 Online Auction

Various Artists

Canadian Art Hop and Open Studio

Canadian Art Hop

Various Artists

Open Studio and Waddington's Partnership

Open Studio & Waddington’s Editions Auction

Various Artists

Jill Ho-You, Inversion, 2019, etching, aquatint, spit bite and chine collé, edition size: 5, dimensions: 4’ x 5’.

Obstruction

Jill Ho-You

Spring Again

Jaehyang Lee

Making an Impression

Various Artists

Reyhan Yazdani. Image Left: Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon, 17”x17”. Image Right: Buzurjmihr Masters the Hindu Game of Chess, 11”x17”. Both were created on handmade paper, editions of one, 2022.

Unbound يا يك خوان از هفت خوان اسفنديار

Reyhan Yazdani

Karen Kar Yen Law, detail of Pomelo Rinds 七(Seven), 2023, monotype on paper, 1/1, 19” x 15”.

Have a Pomelo

Karen Kar Yen Law

Marzieh Miri, detail of Buried Echoes, 2021, cyanotype of the river on watercolour paper, one edition, 8" x 8".

Buried Echoes

Marzieh Miri

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

Screen-O-Rama

Various Artists

Chloe Alexander, Catch & Release, 2022, linocut on Kozo paper, edition of 10, 26” x 36”.

CONSTRUCT & ASSEMBLE

Chloe Alexander

Brenda Joy Lem, T-shirt design, 2023, screenprint.

A Medium to Tell Stories

Brenda Joy Lem, Cleopatria Peterson, and Mohammad Tabesh

Image: William Kentridge, in his Johannesburg studio, working with Jillian Ross to develop the print series.

Garden (Working Title)

William Kentridge

Art Toronto 2023, artwork by Rita Letendre.

Art Toronto 2023

Various Artists

Exhibition poster: Macedonian and Canadian Graphic Artists 7×7

Artist Talk: Lili Boshevska

Lili Boshevska

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

The Deceiving Eye

Ron Siu

Rafa Santos, Blue Atabales, 2023, polyester plate lithograph on printer paper, edition 4/5, image size 14” x 8”, paper size 17” x 11”.

Visiting Artists’ Residency Exhibition

Dorian FitzGerald, Rafa Santos, and Kara Springer

Ruth A. Mora Izturriaga, Spring, 2022, detail process shot of mixed media print. Full work includes screenprinting, weaving, embroidery, laser etching and laser cutting, felt, and canvas. Overall size: 6 ft tall by 18” inches wide.

Roots

Ruth A. Mora Izturriaga

Angela Pilgrim, Rememory I (detail), 2023, screenprint, decorative paper collage, fabric applique and mixed media on paper, edition size 1, 27.5” x 39.3”.

Rememory

Angela Pilgrim

Main Gallery: Francisco-Fernando Granados, 'with a difference', 2023.

with a difference

Francisco-Fernando Granados

Project Space: Mohammad Tabesh, 'The Book of Fading Memories ', 2023.

The Book of Fading Memories

Mohammad Tabesh

Feature Wall [detail]: Panya Clark Espinal, 'Material Redistribution – A Collective Endeavour', 2023.

Material Redistribution – A Collective Endeavour

Panya Clark Espinal

Alex Linfield, The Quick Brown Fox, 2019, screenprint on plexiglass, ceramic sculptures, 22” x 30”.

W Y S I W Y G

Alex Linfield

Project Space: Phoebe Todd-Parrish, 'TO STAY', 2023.

TO STAY

Phoebe Todd-Parrish

Christopher Hutsul pulling a linocut print of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Pickering, Ontario, 2023.

Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Pickering, Ontario.

Christopher Hutsul

Alyssa Alikpala, detail: in between, 2022, wheatpaste and foraged grasses.

Cultivating Connection

Alyssa Alikpala, Jenn Law, Noelle Wharton-Ayer

Detail: Phyllis Gordon, Cladonia cristatella, 2022, woodcut, image 7” x 7.5”, paper 11.5” x 16”.

In Praise of Lichens

Phyllis Gordon

Project Space: Cleopatria Peterson, prototypes for Bestie Mart, 2023.

Bestie Mart

Cleopatria Peterson

Main Gallery: Thea Reid, Semipermeable, 2023.

Semipermeable

Thea Reid

Project Space: Anna Gaby-Trotz, Baseline, 2023.

Baseline

Anna Gaby-Trotz

Feature Wall: Samsam Elmi, Perpetual Ruminations, 2023.

Perpetual Ruminations

Samsam Elmi

Main Gallery: Visiting Artists' Residency Exhibition, 2022.

Visiting Artists’ Residency Exhibition

Nour Bishouty, Rachel Crummey, Laura Findlay

Project Space: Tyler Bright Hilton, You really don't remember?, 2022.

You really don’t remember?

Tyler Bright Hilton

Feature Wall: Ron Siu, All that I see, all that I wonder, 2022. Photo: Greg-McCarthy.

All that I see, all that I wonder

Ron Siu

Art Toronto 2022, artwork by Shogo Okada.

Art Toronto 2022

Various Artists

Shop Window: Philippe Blanchard, Flickering Matter, 2022.

Flickering Matter

Philippe Blanchard

Feature Wall: David Trautrimas, Rest On The Gum Hoods, 2022.

Rest On The Gum Hoods

David Trautrimas

Project Space: Gates, Judith Klugerman, 2022.

Gates

Judith Klugerman

Main Gallery: Brian Kelley, Our World in Translation, 2022.

Our World in Translation

Brian Kelley

Main Gallery: Native Art Department International, ‘A Practical Guide to Localization', 2022. Materials and dimensions variable.

A Practical Guide to Localization

Native Art Department International

Project Space: Nix Burox, Victoria Day, Rachael Dodgson, Jessica Palmer, ‘WITH/IN', 2022. Materials and dimensions variable.

WITH/IN

Nix Burox, Victoria Day, Rachael Dodgson, Jessica Palmer

Feature Wall: Jasmin-Nicole Amoako, Megan Feheley, and Sonali Menezes, Digital Now: Imprint, 2022.

Digital Now: Imprint

Jasmin-Nicole Amoako, Megan Feheley, Sonali Menezes

florescence

Joy Wong

Pudy Tong, ‘a roll (BoJack Horseman 2016)’, 2022, printed newsprint, red rubber bands, approximate dimensions: 23" x 3" x 3".

roll! stack! fold! break! (old man yells at cloud)

Pudy Tong

A TROPICAL GLOW BABY PRODUCTION: Remember the sun baby girl

Isabel Diana

New Prints

Tom Lecuyer

Documenting Border Barriers

Pamela Dodds

Feature Wall: Sean Weisgerber, 'Wall Drawing #1', 2022.

Wall Drawing #1

Sean Weisgerber

Main Gallery: Kelsey Stephenson, ‘Flux’, 2022. ‘Flux’ created in 2020, screenprint, acrylic inks on silk, wooden dowels), each panel 3.75ft x 9ft, installation dimensions variable.

Flux

Kelsey Stephenson

Project Space: Samar Hejazi, ‘Geometries of Difference’, 2022. Print details: Samar Hejazi, ‘Blue Monotype 4/7’, 2021, monotype, edition 1/1, paper size: 19.5” x 28.75”.

Geometries of Difference

Samar Hejazi

Double Take

Khadijah Morley

6/edition Toronto International Art Book Fair

Group of Artists

Michelle Forsyth, 'Herringbone Jacket 1' detail (from the series: Improvisations), 2021, archival pigment print, edition 1/3, 24" x 24".

In this moment, there is no sound

Michelle Forsyth

Dark Age Ahead

Rocky Dobey

Lavinia Lindsay, 'Grasshopper Legs' (detail), 2021, mezzotint, 4'' x 2.5".

Blind Spots

Lavinia Lindsay

Open Studio x Lake Effect Projects: DAY TRIPPER

Nix Burox, Philippe Blanchard, Lorna Livey, Shogo Okada

Main Gallery Exhibition: Libby Hague, 'Simple Gifts' (detail), woodblock prints, ‘Over the Horizon’, 2021.

Over the Horizon

Sadko Hadzihasanovic, Libby Hague

Interference Patterns

Philippe Blanchard

Feature Wall: carlina Chen, 'Overlook', 2021. Booklet titled: '43°39'11.2', 2021, drypoint, 5.375" x 4.125" (folded) and extends to 24".

Overlook

carlina Chen

Detail of traffic signal control cabinets by (left to right): Pudy Tong, Meggan Winsley and Brenda Joy Lem.

Open Studio x StreetARToronto Partnership

Group Exhibition

Installation shot of 'Murmuration', an Open Studio group exhibition celebrating 50 years. Please see image list for artwork details.

Murmuration

Group Exhibition

SHELTER in PLACE

Rochelle Rubinstein

Natural Patterns, Woven Series

Sally Ayre

Michelle Oullette, 6.5" x 9".

Murmuración

Group Exhibiton

Visiting Artists’ Residency Exhibition

Kotama Bouabane, Meaghan Hyckie, Luke Painter, Annie Wong

Project Space: Yael Brotman and Libby Hague, 'Pink city, Green branches revisited', 2020.

Pink city, Green branches revisited

Yael Brotman, Libby Hague

Films for Garments

Michelle Forsyth

Main Gallery Exhibition: Richard Sewell, 'Memoir' from 'wHerOccurence', 2020.

wHerOccurence

Richard Sewell

Project Space: Andrea deBruijn, SHADE, 2020.

SHADE

Andrea deBruijn

Micah Lexier, The Oscilloscope Drawings (1a,b), photopolymer print on Japanese Kozuke paper, edition of 25, 11" x 17".

The Oscilloscope Drawings

Micah Lexier

Partners in Art, TBD TAKEOVER

Ciara Phillips

Partners in Art, TBD TAKEOVER

Michelle Forsyth

Image courtesy of the artist, Ciara Phillips. Photo credit: Erik Sæter Jørgensen.

Ciara Phillips Residency

Ciara Phillips

Ningiukulu Teevee, 'Where She Lives', 2017, lithograph, edition of 50, 19.7" x 27.6".

Where She Lives

Ningiukulu Teevee, Saimaiyu Akesuk, Ooloosie Saila

Agata Derda, 'Afterdark', digital print on backlit film, 12” x 8”

Afterdark

Agata Derda

Room for Absence

Nix Burox

Joy Wong, Untitled, 2018, installation detail: copper tubing, rubber latex, acrylic medium monoprint, etching on xuan paper, dimensions variable.

Skimming, skirmishing

Joy Wong

PRESS RECORD: prints from the Open Studio Archive

Liz Little, 'Moon Song with Fuji', 2019, mokuhanga, unique artist proof, not editioned.

Moon Song

Liz Little

Pascaline Knight, 'Untitled—5 Sketchbooks (detail)', 2018, 17” x 12”. NFS.

Le e dans l’o de mon cœur / When (i) draw my own lines—performing the substrate.

Pascaline Knight

Rachael Dodgson, 'New Rules–27 Series I, II', 2019 screenprint and stone lithograph, each 11” x 8.5”.

Thank U, Next—27 Series

Rachael Dodgson

Emma Nishimura, 'Generations of an Archive I and II', photo etchings, 2019.

Generational Echoes

Emma Nishimura

Visiting Artists’ Residency Exhibition

Maura Doyle, Sidney Masuga

Where I’m at Now

Yael Brotman, Karen Curry, Liz Parkinson, Snaige Sileika, M.J. Steenberg

Shape Garden 2019

Tom Lecuyer

Otis Tamasauskas, Red Flower with Echo, 2018, lithograph, varied edition 1/5, 30” x 44”, $1,200 unframed, $1,400 framed.

Amalgam

Otis Tamasauskas

L: Ann Unger, Library Book Pocket Series 600 V, 2019, drypoint, pochoir, AP, 4.75” x 3.7”, $75. R: Ann Unger, Library Book Pocket Series 600 II, 2019, drypoint, pochoir, india ink, 5/9 VE, 4.75” x 3.7”, $75.

Celebrating Otis Tamasauskas

Tara Cooper, Rachael Dodgson, Dana Tosic, Ann Unger, Amy Uyeda

Frisk Flugt, Floatonomy (Sea of the free) & Floatonomy (Healfleet), 2018, lithography, each 18" x 24". Printed with the assistance of Jess Palmer under the auspices of the Open Studio Visiting Artist Residency Program, 2018-19.

Visiting Artists’ Residency Exhibition

Erika DeFreitas, Frisk Flugt

Victoria Day, Heavy, 2018, screenprint, edition of 20, 10" x 7.5”. Image courtesy of the artist.

Open Up

Victoria Day

Do you want to take the short-cut or the long-cut?

PA System

Laura Bydlowska, Under, 2019, screenprint, ink, gouache, wood carving and pyrography on wood panel, 4" x 4". Photo courtesy of the artist.

Passage

Laura Bydlowska

A Twist of Lime

Lorna Livey

Convergence North / South

Qumaq Iyaituk, Mary Paningajak, Passa Mangiuk

Feature Wall: Luke Parnell, 'The Laxgiik Convocation Robe' (detail), 2019.

The Laxgiik Convocation Robe

Luke Parnell

Morgan Wedderspoon, Continuum, 2013-present, found objects, size variable. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Superstratum

Morgan Wedderspoon

Monarchs, Mexico and Milkweed

Liz Menard

Borderless

Fatima Garzan

Even the continents have no place but earth

Alison Judd

Botanique

Penelope Stewart

Beyond Statistics: The Artifacts of Inflation

Heather Thomson

Visiting Artists’ Residency Exhibition

Colin Miner, Susy Oliveira

Get it together

Meggan Winsley

Bricks used by Panya Clark Espinal to create the pigment for her prints. Printed by Laine Groeneweg under the auspices of the Open Studio Visiting Artist Residency Program.

Visiting Artists’ Residency Exhibition

Jaime Angelopoulos, Panya Clark Espinal

Alex R.M. Thompson, From Memory (detail). 2018, intaglio, ink and pen monoprint, 10.5” x 14”.

Variations on Urban Planning

Alex R.M. Thompson

Michelle Forsyth, Black & White Stack (detail), 2018, Inkjet print on Hahnemüehle paper, paper size: 30 x 30 inches, edition 5/5, image size: 24 x 24".

Footnotes

Michelle Forsyth

Nancy Hanada, Glimpse of the Infinite, 2016, monotype, 11” x 11”.

The Figure: Trials and Tribulations

Nancy Hanada

Dan O’Neill, Sunboy.01.copy.jpg, 2016, lithograph on paper, edition of 8, 27.5” x 60”, $1750.

About and Beside

Barbara Balfour, Nadine Bariteau, Dan O'Neill, Nick Shick

Tania Willard, from the Sovereign Sunshine series, 2015, collaboration from BUSH Gallery. Photogram on paper, 22” x 30”.

The Shape of The Middle

Shannon Garden-Smith, Jenine Marsh, Tania Willard, Fan Wu

Susan Cunningham, Token - Egyptian Bracelet, 2013, screenprint and acrylic paint on wood veneer, 24” x 24”.

Tokens

Susan Cunningham

Sally Ayre, Shift #1, #2 and # 3, detail, screenprint on Japanese hand-made paper, work in progress.

Shift

Sally Ayre

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