Join us for the 2019 Visual Studies undergraduate thesis exhibition, which will feature the work of 13 Daniels Faculty students!

Featuring:
Kelcy Timmons
Gwendolyn Zhang
Jeff Hill
Dharsana Indrakumar
Yue Yin
Baichao Chen
Emily Shi
Alex Lui
Nicholas Benyamen
Liam McGivney
Nasya Wong
Tala Alatassi

The opening reception will take place from 6 PM - 9 PM on Friday, April 5th in 1 Spadina Crescent.

The exhibition will remain up until the end of the day Saturday, April 6th and open to the public that day from Noon - 5 PM.

Follow us on Instagram for a sneak peak! @visavisthesis

The Art Museum at the University of Toronto is pleased to exhibit the graduating projects of the 2019 Master of Visual Studies graduate students Dana Prieto, Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh, Miles Rufelds and Sahar Te.

This exhibition is produced as part of the requirements for the MVS degree in Visual Studies at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto.

Dana Prieto is an Argentine artist and educator based in Toronto. Her work explores intimate and socio-political entanglements of mundane objects and rituals, manifesting through sculpture, installation, performance and writing. Prieto’s interdisciplinary practice inquires and invites to unsettle our ways of relating, thinking, making and consuming in the Anthropocene.

Mehrnaz Rohbakhsh is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, who focuses on visual art and sound. She has exhibited her work in Canada, the US, Italy, and Japan.

Miles Rufelds is an artist and writer based in Toronto. Rufelds’ interdisciplinary work weaves historical research with fictional, speculative, or narrative structures. Often working backwards from contemporary political-economic anxieties, his projects probe the technocratic systems connecting industry, science, ecology, and aesthetics.

Sahar Te is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice mobilizes methods that open up alternative realities and confront convention. Exploring the role of past narrativization as it shapes the future, Te’s interventions range from language and semiotics, social dynamics and ethics, to media studies and oral histories. Te’s projects engage in socio-political and techno-political discourses to understand hegemony within different power structures.

Opening Reception
Wednesday, April 17, 2019, 6-8pm
University of Toronto Art Centre

Our Supporters
We gratefully acknowledge operating support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, with additional project support from The Valerie Jean Griffiths Student Exhibitions Fund in Memory of William, Elva and Elizabeth.

Image by:
Dana Prieto

The Daniels Faculty End of Year Show, SPECIMENS & FRAGMENTS will kick off on Friday, May 25 with an opening reception from 6:30pm - 10:00pm with music and a cash bar! The exhibition will be open at the Daniels Building during Doors Open Toronto, Saturday, May 26 and Sunday, May 27 (10 am to 4:30 pm).

Curated and organized by students, SPECIMENS & FRAGMENTS is a collection of student work from 2017-18. Inspired by the notion of cabinet of curiosities and insect collections, this year's show gathers work across all programs and years in an unexpected way. Work is collected by sub-theme and is installed as furniture scattered across the Daniels Building, setting up chance-encounters with student work and the new building.

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/908817962631484/

A collaboration between the First Nations School of Toronto, New College, the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design and the Accidental Parkland project. Exhibition Curated by Dan Berman.

The documentary project Accidental Parkland collaborates with the University of Toronto’s New College and Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape and Design to host a ten-day event. Starting with an exhibition of the documentary’s multi-artist Instagram feed, it also features programming, including visual exhibitions of art and design work, a speaker series, documentary screenings, student installations, and cultural events. It’s a celebration of urban nature with attention to Indigenous histories and protocols for understanding land. The shared value of these green oases amidst all the pavement is only rising and it’s time to embrace the gorgeous nature available within this city. Come open your mind to how these spaces may be improved and how they can provide even greater benefits to Toronto’s many diverse communities.

Featured artists

Dan Berman, Jason Ramsey Brown, Dave Coulson, Ian Crysler, Nicole Czorny, Diane Davis, Jeff Dickie, Sarah Dinnick, Frank Dionisi, Nancy Friedland, Danielle Griscti, Todd Irvine, Vincent Luk, Christine McLean, Shawn Micallef, Deb Perna, Jade Lee Portelli, Sonia Ramundi, Erin Riley, Anna Rosen, Anthony Smith, Samantha Stephens, Sammy Tangir, Andrew Wallace, Stacey Zonneveld, First Nations School of Toronto students, New College students

Exhibition Events

Thursday, May 10, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. 
William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks Street

Opening Reception

Join us for the opening of this unique convergence of perspectives on Toronto’s ravines and rivers and the changing urban environments they are situated in. Ceremony: Elder Whabagoon (Native Canadian Centre of Toronto); Speakers: Amber Smith (Artist, First Nations School of Toronto), Dan Berman (Metal Dog Films), Stacey Zonneveld (Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design), Bonnie McElhinny (Principal of New College, University of Toronto)

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Saturday, May 12, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. 
William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks Street

Take me to the River: Water Songs by Kristin Lindell

Come down to the river, the gathering place where we find flow, nourishment and connection. Kristin Lindell shares originals and some engaging interactive songs about water. Join her for an interactive song Circle in the second set.

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Tuesday, May 15, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. 
Room 1016, Wilson Hall, 40 Willcocks Street

Accidental Parkland: Screening and Dialogue on Toronto’s Urban Landscapes

Filmmaker Dan Berman will screen his documentary on Toronto’s parklands and discuss their futures with local activists: Arlene Slocombe (Wellington Water Watchers), Doug Anderson (Invert Media, School for the Environment/York University, Naadmaagit Ki Group), Ambika Tenneti  (Forestry / U of T, Rivers Rising).

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Thursday, May 17, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. 
Room 200, Daniels Faculty, 1 Spadina Crescent

Toronto’s Under City: A Conversation with photographer Robert Burley

Photographer Robert Burley discusses his new book An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto’s Natural Parklands in dialogue with Arlen Leeming (TRCA) and Jane Weninger (City of Toronto). Book Sales by Another Story.

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Sunday, May 20, 1:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Room 1016, Wilson Hall, 40 Willcocks Street

Accidental Parkland, Q & A with director Dan Berman

Supported by

Great Lakes Water Works, DTAH, Toronto Region Conservation Authority, New College, Metal Dog Films, First Nation School, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

https://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/2018/open-exhibition/university-of-toronto-new-college-accidental-parkland

This exhibition highlights Frank Lloyd Wright’s contributions to the open concept kitchen and workspaces of North American homes. Gender analysis is central to this project which evaluates the intellectual contributions of women in Wright’s life and interprets his impact on contemporary workspaces, both personal and professional. This research is coordinated by Lauren Marshall (MArch 2018) with the generous support of the Howarth Wright Graduate Fellowship 2017.

The trees of Temagami comprise some of eastern North America’s last truly old growth forests. Intact Forest Landscapes play significant roles in the global biosphere, including carbon sequestration, supporting biodiversity and biomass, and the provision of renewable resources. Indeed, these forests enable our continued existence.

Forests of Temagami: An Atlas of Old and New Growth is an exhibition of research by University of Toronto’s Master of Landscape Architecture students who produced a cohesive set of detailed maps relaying various layers of the cultural and environmental relationships that have occurred over-time. The students visited old growth forest stands to not only conduct field research, but to experience and bear witness to the awe-inspiring nature of this ecologically important area of Ontario.

The forests of Temagami are primarily fragmented from the logging industry, and despite current protections remain vulnerable to anthropogenic activities. In the context of climate change, forests must be expansive and connected to adapt to swiftly changing conditions. The extent of variously protected forests, classifications, and histories can be difficult to comprehend as text, or through often disparate and institutionally dependent maps. Presented visually, this work aims to bring coherence and cognizance to a broad public in hopes of continuing to incite the importance of Canada’s remaining forests.

Student participants:

Negar Aghebati
Kathleen Alexander
Cornel Campbell
Camila Campos Herrera
Cynthia Chiu Chen
Waiyee Chou
Hadi El-Shayeb
Zahra Eslami
Harmandeep Gill
Kaleigh Gillis
Aaron Hernandez
Hakima Hoseini
Adeline Yingqian Hu
Pablo Gustavo Jimenez
Passano
Thevishka Kanishkan
Sima Khosravi Fard
Andrea Lam
Huikang Li
Ruoyu Li
Yuxin Liu
Reesha Morar
Angela Moreno
Neda Nassiri Toosi
Neil Phillips
Peter (Jamie) Reford
Devin Tepleski
Irene Wong
Peggy Wong
Siteng Xu
Nancy Mengyi Zhang
Gloria Shujie Zhang
Dan Zhao

This event is open to the public and registration is not required.

All are welcome to attend the exhibition opening for Hereafter — the Daniels Faculty's undergraduate Visual Studies thesis exhibition — on Friday, April 6 from 6pm to 9pm. The exhibition will also be open on Saturday, April 7 from 12 pm to 5 pm.

View the exhibition's Instagram page, Facebook page and event.

Featuring:
Shadel Chavez
Ezgi Dinçer
Bo Fan
Najia Fatima
Yuan Fang
Qiao'er Jin
Jia Wen Li
Laraib Qasim
Robert Raynor
Vithunan Sivakumar 
Olivia Tjiawi
Sky Ece Ulusoy
Lisa Veregin
Joyce Wong

"and I am the curator of this show” is the title of this exhibition. It is also a quote from Kate Fowle’s opening remarks at a roundtable (NSK Embassy Moscow Revisited, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, August 1, 2014). Her statement simply referred to the exhibition in which the roundtable took place. But, what is this statement? What does it mean to claim authorship, or rather curatorship, over an exhibition? What does it mean to take, to enact or to be given this position? What does it mean to invite artists, artworks or objects into an institution, into an exhibition? What does it mean to “be” the “curator” of that show? With this exhibition, I am not trying to answer those questions but rather to ask them again. To ask them again, with Sophie Bélair Clément, Walter Benjamin, and an exhibition structure. 

Opening Reception
Friday March 23, 2018, 7-9pm
University of Toronto Art Centre

Curated by Christophe Barbeau.

This exhibition is produced as part of the requirements for the MVS degree in Curatorial Studies at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto.

The Art Museum gratefully acknowledges operating support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council with additional project support from TD Insurance. For more information, visit the Art Museum's website.

Attention Future Students: On Friday, March 23, 2018 students interested in Visual Studies at the University of Toronto are welcome to attend the Opening Reception of this exhibit from 7:00-9:00 pm. This is a great opportunity to explore our campus, view some of the work of our talented students and connect with members of the Daniels community. More information about this exhibit can be found online here. Registration is not required. No formal programming will be provided. 

The Art Museum at the University of Toronto is pleased to exhibit the graduating projects of the 2018 Master of Visual Studies graduate students Rouzbeh Akhbari, Sam Cotter, Andrea Creamer, and Noah Scheinman.

Opening Reception
Friday March 23, 2018, 7-9pm
University of Toronto Art Centre

Produced in the shadow of Canada’s controversial 150th anniversary, this year’s graduate students directed their attention to historically based research that critiques our ideas of nationalism. Rouzbeh Akhbari’s hallucinogenic narrative investigates the serpentine history of the petrochemical industry within ancient chimeric forces. Sam Cotter considers the parallax views of mechanized transport / mechanized time via the Canadian railway engineer who was also the inventor of international time zones. Andrea Creamer paired her karaoke bar of 1980s Toronto punk music videos and video art alongside a community reading room. Noah Scheinman investigated Canada’s historic national park Algonquin by complicating the myth of the natural and resource extraction. The exhibition is accompanied with a catalogue with essays by Swapnaa Tamhane and a foreword by Visual Studies program director Charles Stankievech.

Rouzbeh Akhbari is a Tehran-born artist whose practice is research-driven, often interventionist in approach and situated at the intersections of postcolonial theory, cultural economies and critical architecture. Akhbari has co-authored a book chapter for Unsettling Colonial Modernity, as well as contributions to Prefix Photo, LEAP Magazine, Society+Space, and MIT’s upcoming Projections 13.

Sam Cotter is a Toronto-based artist and writer whose practice exists at the intersection of research, text, and image. Cotter regularly employs photography, film, and installation to examine issues of visual representation and artifice. Central to the construction of all of his projects is an embedded documentary element mediated through a self-reflexive filter. Sam is represented by Zalucky Contemporary.

Andrea Creamer is an interdisciplinary artist and community organizer currently residing in Toronto. Her works investigate spaces of contestation, counterpublics, and notions of site-specificity. Often articulated in the form of text, painting, sculpture or video, her material practice reflects on forms of protest, the mechanisms that produce social spaces, and the ephemeral and always shifting character of socially-based practices.

Noah Scheinman is a visual artist, designer, and writer. His work combines a background in architecture and urban design with an emergent language of sculpture, installation, collage, photography, and video. Current research is focused on the relationship between form, site, and the political economies that drive material and geographic transformations.

This exhibition is produced as part of the requirements for the MVS degree in Visual Studies at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, University of Toronto.

The Art Museum gratefully acknowledges operating support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, with additional project support from The Valerie Jean Griffiths Student Exhibitions Fund in Memory of William, Elva and Elizabeth. Visit the Art Museum's website for more details.

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Attention Future Students: On Friday, March 23, 2018 students interested in Visual Studies at the University of Toronto are welcome to attend the Opening Reception from 7:00-9:00 pm for these two exhibits. You can read more about these exhibits online here. This is a great opportunity to explore our campus, view some of the work of our talented students and connect with members of the Daniels community. Registration is not required. No formal programming will be provided. 

Photo, top: Noah Scheinman, Timber Limits, (production still), 2018. HD video, sound.