Go East: Canadian Create in China

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2012

Go East featured work by nine artists from across Canada that were made in China or inspired by their experience of living there: Susan Collett, Jackson Li, Sin-ying Ho, Rory MacDonald, Sally Michener, Ann Mortimer, Paul Mathieu, Walter Ostrom, and Diane Sullivan.

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Greg Payce: Illusions

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2012

Greg Payce: Illusions traces the development of the artist’s work from his early decorative platters and Minoan-inspired vessels to his most recent explorations of ceramic form as mediated through video and large-scale lenticular photographs.

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Connections: Canadian and British Studio Ceramics

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2012

This exhibition of thirty works from the 1960s to the present highlights Canadian ceramicists’ strong ties with the British studio pottery movement and draws largely from the Gardiner’s Raphael Yu Collection.

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Camp Fires: The Queer Baroque of Léopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu and Richard Milette

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2014

Camp Fires: The Queer Baroque of Léopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu and Richard Milette explores the concept of “Camp” as manifested in the works of three important francophone Canadian ceramic artists: Léopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu and Richard Milette.

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Kent Monkman: The Rise and Fall of Civilization

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2015

Kent Monkman’s site specific installation entitled The Rise and Fall of Civilization references the near extinction of the American bison in the 1800s when humans killed approximately 50 million, reducing their numbers to the hundreds.

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True Nordic: How Scandinavia Influenced Design in Canada

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2016

Examining the ways in which modern Scandinavian design was introduced to Canada and how its aesthetic principles and material forms were adopted and adapted by Canadians artisans and designers, True Nordic presents a comprehensive, critical survey of Canadian furniture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork, and glassware.

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Janet Macpherson: A Canadian Bestiary

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2017

Janet Macpherson: A Canadian Bestiary is an unprecedented group of installations where the artist uses her unique visual language to convey a very personal view of Canada.

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Steven Heinemann: Culture and Nature

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2017

This first major retrospective examines Canadian artist Steven Heinemann’s fascinating and evolving process to reveal how he uses form, texture, pigment, and imagery to achieve his wondrously tactile bowls, pods, and other universal shapes that embody the polarities between life and nature.

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Shary Boyle: Outside the Palace of Me

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2022

Outside the Palace of Me is a major exhibition of new work by Canadian visual artist and performer Shary Boyle. The book reflects on global and individual struggles of identity to wonder at the possibilities of a just, joyous, and collective future.

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Karine Giboulo: Housewarming

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2022

A response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the waves of confinement and isolation that followed, Housewarming is a sculpted documentary of individual and collective experiences grounded in current events.

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Uncertain Ground
Linda Rotua Sormin

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2025

Uncertain Ground is the culmination of over 20 years of exploration, bringing together clay, sculpture, video, sound, hand-cut watercolour painting, and digital fabrication in a multi-sensory environment. The exhibition is accompanied by a book of the artist’s poetry.

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