Category: Past Exhibitions

  • Leave No Tape Behind * OCAD U * 15-26 Apr 2026

    Leave No Tape Behind * OCAD U * 15-26 Apr 2026

    The OCADU Printmaking and Publications program is excited to present an exhibition of students in their senior year! Come celebrate with us! Participating artists include: Monica Anjos, Fletcher Barrett, Lewis Bunce, Carter Carscadden, Emily Gardner, Marketa Holtebrinck, Kai Lumbang, Rose Morin, Lea Ovcina, Jake Pakstas, Nima Parniani, Gwyn Rochon, Ashwini Sathananthan, Liv Sydney, Atena Vaezian,…

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  • More Abstractions – Apr 15-26, 2026

    More Abstractions – Apr 15-26, 2026

    This is an exhibition of contemporary works in a variety of media by artists who make abstract art. Curated by Director, Phil Anderson

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  • Bush Garden to Ocean – Eric Garsonin – 15-26 April 2026

    Bush Garden to Ocean – Eric Garsonin – 15-26 April 2026

    Who? Eric Garsonnin, shooting for the joy of it for 70 years, is still learning new ways. What? Trees, brush, seas, skies, what you see when you leave the paved world and look about you. When? Mostly the last 2 years, a few from 5 years ago. What’s new is the wide-angled look. Where? Gaspésie/Gulf…

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  • Where To Next? York U Grad – 01-12 April 2026

    Where To Next? York U Grad – 01-12 April 2026

    This exhibition celebrates the culmination of years of work for the Visual Art & Art History’s class of 2026. Showcasing media from sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and print, we embrace the end of a chapter and stumble our way onto the next. We now come together one last time as a collective. Through our vast…

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  • Stations of the Cross – Sandra Nicole Franke – 18-29 March 2026

    Stations of the Cross – Sandra Nicole Franke – 18-29 March 2026

    Cell Gallery Reception: March 19, 6:30 pm The radical message of Jesus and his subsequent execution is brought into the here and now with my new book of fifteen mixed media paintings of the Stations of the Cross. Each station is contemplated and represented in some form with the corresponding biblical quote. There is no…

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  • ABSTRACTIONS II – 18-29 March, 2026

    ABSTRACTIONS II – 18-29 March, 2026

    A curated open call for submissions  –   18-29 March 2025 . This is an exhibition of contemporary works by artists whose art works are abstract using a variety of media. Curated by Phil Anderson. Artists are required to pay an admin fee per selected art work .  Interested artists please send, a current CV /artist statement…

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  • VISITING THE LANDSCAPE – 18-29 March, 2026

    VISITING THE LANDSCAPE – 18-29 March, 2026

    VISITING THE LANDSCAPE Gallery 1313 presents an opportunity for artists to explore the the landscape with a variety of media including sculpture, photography, painting, and mixed media .It was curated by Phil Anderson from an open call for submissions .  Participating artists include: Grace Dam, Kate Greenway, Leah Oates, David Holt, Paul Brandejs , Max…

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  • HEROES AND VILLAINS – A PORTRAIT EXHIBIT – 4 – 15 March  2026

    HEROES AND VILLAINS – A PORTRAIT EXHIBIT – 4 – 15 March 2026

    Artists explore the portrait imaging of the best and worst of ourselves. Participants include Eva Lewarne, Joseph Pratt, Michelle Winters, Samantha Stott, Kimberley Simons, Michele Cross and others . Gallery Hours Wed- Sat 1-5pm  Sun. 1-4pm

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  • ECO ART – 4 – 15 March 2026

    ECO ART – 4 – 15 March 2026

    A group exhibition of artists exploring concerns about environmental issues such as climate change, wildfires, water quality, endangered species , urban sprawl and more . Curated from an open call for submissions by Phil Anderson. Participating artists include Lesley Harries Jones, Courtney Fairweather, Grace Vali, Emily Pleasance, Matt Nickerson , Ebru Winegard, Shannon Wallace, Parissa…

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  • Academia – Kenneth Vincent – 18 Feb – 01 Mar 2026

    Academia – Kenneth Vincent – 18 Feb – 01 Mar 2026

    For the past five years I have been studying drawing and painting at the Academy of Realist Art, in Toronto. The curriculum is designed to teach skills & improve artistic visual perception and is largely based on the pedagogy of the 19th century Académie des Beaux Arts in Paris: copying from Bargue plates, drawing and…

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  • Celebrating Black History – Feb 4-15, 2026

    Celebrating Black History – Feb 4-15, 2026

    A curated open call for submissions – Feb. 4-15 . This is an exhibition of contemporary works by black artists who explore and celebrate their culture .Participants are encouraged to incorporate a variety of textile media . Curated by Director, Phil Anderson. Interested artists please send a, a current CV /artist statement, image list and…

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  • HOLDING SPACE – 21 Jan – 1 Feb, 2026 

    HOLDING SPACE – 21 Jan – 1 Feb, 2026 

    * Visual Arts Student Association – York University * Reception 22 Jan. at 6:30 p.m. * The Visual Arts Student Association (VASA) at York University proudly presents HOLDING SPACE , Place, Relation and Belonging an annual exhibition at Gallery 1313 showcasing the diverse and vibrant works of emerging student artists. This dynamic show celebrates creative expression…

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  • Drawn Together – Feb 18 – Mar 1, 2026

    Drawn Together – Feb 18 – Mar 1, 2026

    The 36 artists submitting works, share a common love of figurative art, though their personal artistic creations go far beyond works on paper. The show has reserved  a space for paper works. Drawn Together presents the artists’ success with oils, acrylics, watercolours, and inks in a variety of styles, including portraits, landscape, still life, and figurative works. The…

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  • PROVISIONAL TRAJECTORIES – Dimitrije Martinovic – Jan 21 – Feb 1, 2026

    PROVISIONAL TRAJECTORIES – Dimitrije Martinovic – Jan 21 – Feb 1, 2026

    Provisional Trajectories: Recent Digital Paintings stands at the intersection of abstraction and digitization. Abstraction replaces depiction with inner experience, while digitization carries that logic into a mutable, virtual space. By synthesizing elements of historical movements, from early modernist abstraction to contemporary digital practices, each work carries the legacy of familiar visual languages. Using colour, form,…

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  • INTO THE FOREST DIM – Hugh  Alcock – Jan 7 – 18, 2026

    INTO THE FOREST DIM – Hugh  Alcock – Jan 7 – 18, 2026

    In his poem Ode to a Nightingale John Keats understands the bird, or its song, as immortal. The nightingale’s song is, crucially, a shining example of beauty in nature, and contrasts with the poet’s mortal attempt to realise beauty in his verse. It is this falling short of natural beauty that I too feel when…

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