Past
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Ryan Van Der Hout
Mending Shards 14 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 United Contemporary is thrilled to present Mending Shards, a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Ryan Van Der Hout that explores the intricate relationship between brokenness and wholeness, intimacy and transformation. In this body of work, Van Der Hout begins with close-up photographs printed on glass—intimate images of themself or close... Read more -
Group Show: a porous vessel
Aziz + Cucher, Jordan Homstad, Grace Wardaw, Sara Jimenez, Yi Hsuan Lai, Leila Fatemi, Jesse King 14 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 Ryan Van Der Hout presents, a porous vessel, a curated group exhibition featuring the dynamic practices of Canadian and American artists at various stages of their careers who employ the body as a medium for communication and exploration. While the subject matter varies significantly among the artists, what unites their... Read more -
Art Toronto 2024
24 - 27 Oct 2024 United Contemporary is thrilled to be participating in the 2024 edition of Art Toronto, featuring new and notable works by Gordon Shadrach, Jake Kimble, Stefan Berg, Kachelle Knowles, Emma Nishimura, Linda Sormin, Simon Andrew, Sarah Dinnick, Anahita Akhavan and Ryan Van Der Hout. Visit us at Booth B60 to... Read more -
Sarah Dinnick
The Body Terrain 3 Oct - 9 Nov 2024 United Contemporary is delighted to present The Body Terrain, a reflective suite of photographic works by Sarah Dinnick. Created during a profound period of grief and loss, these pieces serve as an unearthing, explored through veiled self-portraits of the body in intimate commune with the natural world. Bare, enmeshed, and... Read more -
Simon Andrew
City of the Surveilled 3 Oct - 9 Nov 2024 Simon Andrew presents City of the Surveilled, a dynamic new series of paintings that explore themes of community surveillance and the commodification of personal data. These lush abstractions are inspired by glitched street views sourced from Google, where the fragmented images serve as a metaphor for reclaiming power for his... Read more -
Emma Nishimura & Linda Sormin
Gestures of Remembering 22 Aug - 28 Sep 2024 Through their distinct artistic practices, Emma Nishimura and Linda Sormin use their chosen mediums as languages to delve into family ancestries, histories of displacement, and personal identities. In Gestures of Remembering, Nishimura and Sormin embark on personal journeys in collaboration with their family members, seeking to recall and unravel the... Read more -
Meghan Price
Through Line 23 May - 13 Jul 2024 Meghan Price’s preceding series highlighted geological forms and materially illustrated how time, pressure, and environment build our world gradually. Throughout her oeuvre, Price has posed questions about our human relationship with the earth, disrupting our material assumptions to their core. A boulder is not a given, not a static thing,... Read more -
Foire Plural 2024
11 - 14 Apr 2024 Plural celebrates the best of contemporary art in Canada. Formerly known as the Papier Art Fair, Plural is organized by the Contemporary Art Galleries Association and welcomes over 49 galleries from 8 Canadian cities. We are thrilled to be representing United Contemporary for our fourth time participating in the art... Read more -
Jake Kimble
Make Yourself At Home 4 Apr - 11 May 2024 In Make Yourself At Home, Jake Kimble processes a familial loss and the 2023 decimation by forest fire of one of his home communities in the Northwest Territories, through a body of work that honours and archives grief, and the personal need to repair and rebuild. In it, he examines... Read more -
Chuck Beamish
The Poetics of Water 23 Feb - 30 Mar 2024 We are thrilled to introduce The Poetics of Water, an enchanting collection of plein air paintings by Chuck Beamish. This suite of artworks unveils the familiar beauty and ever-changing nature of the Canadian landscape, particularly the breathtaking region of Algonquin and its surroundings. Through his brushstrokes, Beamish captures cascading waterfalls,... Read more -
Ready for Hearth
Group Show 11 Jan - 17 Feb 2024 Stefan Berg, Kachelle Knowles, Huy Lam, Rod Mireau, Linda Sormin, Badanna Zack There is a degree of intimacy and immediacy that is inherent in working with paper, and Ready for Hearth brings together the unique practices of six artists to recognise and explore this quality. Through collage, papier-mâché , illustration... Read more -
Anahita Akhavan
Weaving a Garden 16 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Anahita Akhavan's artistic practice is informed by her ongoing research project 'Bagh-e Irani' (Iranian Garden). The inspiration for this project came from her experiences of visiting historical buildings and viewing traditional tapestry in Iran, to research and explore the role of traditional Persian geometry in shaping the designs of gardens.... Read more -
Art Toronto 2023
Metro Convention Centre – Booth C71 26 - 29 Oct 2023 United Contemporary is thrilled to be participating in Art Toronto 2023, which takes place at the Metro Convention Centre from October 26 – 29, 2023. Visit us at Booth C71 as part of the Verge Category, where we will be presenting new works by Anahita Akhavan, Stefan Berg, Ryan Van... Read more -
Stefan Berg
Twin Tunnels 28 Sep - 11 Nov 2023 For Raymond Moriyama 1929 - 2023 United Contemporary is pleased to present Twin Tunnels , a new series of paintings by Stefan Berg. Approached through an autobiographical lens, Berg's process combines direct observation with recollections from memory, producing paintings over extended durations of time. For Berg, the works transcend mere... Read more -
Suzanne Nacha
Planets of the Universe 17 Aug - 24 Sep 2023 With a comic sense of wonder, Planets of the Universe builds on the idiosyncratic geo-narrative works of Suzanne Nacha. The show features painting, sculpture and photos that propose a type of rock-origin story. Large and small-scale paintings feature stratified rock bodies in colourful terrains. Taking on anthropomorphic form, rocks... Read more -
Self Musings
22 Jun - 29 Jul 2023 We are thrilled to present Self Musings, a group show that features the dynamic work of Canadian artists who explore the human figure and in return, their sense of self. Although mostly depicting portraits of others, their distinctive mediums act as portals that welcome us into a world of ideals,... Read more -
CONTACT Festival
Works in Practice - Cassils, Suzanne Nacha, Roula Partheniou, Gordon Shadrach 11 May - 17 Jun 2023 Featuring works derived from the unique creative practices of Cassils, Suzanne Nacha, Roula Partheniou, and Gordon Shadrach, Works in Practice explores the use of photography and image-making by artists whose practices are centred in the mediums of performance, painting, and sculpture. Using a range of methods, the artists capture photographs... Read more -
Foire Plural
Grand Quai du Port de Montréal 20 - 23 Apr 2023 Plural celebrates the best of contemporary art in Canada. Formerly known as the Papier Art Fair, Plural is organized by the Contemporary Art Galleries Association and welcomes over 49 galleries from 8 Canadian cities. We are thrilled to be representing United Contemporary for our third time participating in the art... Read more -
Emma Nishimura
Rememory: Echoes and Archives 30 Mar - 6 May 2023 Through a collection of printed and installation-based works, Rememory: Echoes & Archives by Emma Nishimura addresses ideas of memory and loss that are rooted within family stories and inherited narratives. Nishimura's art practice is an ongoing process of researching, uncovering and honouring the experiences her family and thousands of other... Read more -
Kachelle Knowles & Gordon Shadrach
When the Bread They Have Cast on the Waters Comes Floating Back 16 Feb - 25 Mar 2023 The D'Aguilar Art Foundation, Nassau, The Bahamas, will join forces with United Contemporary to exhibit Bahamian artist Kachelle Knowles alongside Canadian artist Gordon Shadrach. This unique collaborative exhibition will travel to The Bahamas in March, 2023. Both working figuratively, Knowles and Shadrach seek to disrupt colonial constrictions of portraiture. This... Read more -
DesignTO
Forecast 11 Jan - 4 Feb 2023 United Contemporary is thrilled to be the gallery partner for Forecast, a group exhibition curated by DesignTO. Through the work of nine local and international artists and designers, Forecast explores themes related to the climate crisis specifically as it relates to the weather and how environmental changes impact communities on... Read more -
Chuck Beamish
Northern Networks 19 Nov - 22 Dec 2022 United Contemporary is thrilled to present a new suite of plein-air and studio paintings by Chuck Beamish. The artist's professional practice has been informed by his work as an architect and designer. Having worked in Algonquin Park during his youth, Beamish has an ongoing passion of traveling and camping throughout... Read more -
Art Toronto 2022
Metro Convention Centre - Booth B25 27 - 30 Oct 2022 United Contemporary is excited to be participating in the upcoming Art Toronto art fair, taking place at the Metro Convention Centre from October 27-30. Find us at Booth B25 as part of the Verge Category, where we will be presenting new works by Anahita Akhavan, Gordon Shadrach, Linda Sormin, Stefan... Read more -
Linda Sormin
In & out of order 15 Oct - 12 Nov 2022 We are thrilled to present In & out of order, the inaugural solo exhibition by New-York based artist Linda Sormin at United Contemporary. The interplay of forms in states of transition, unscripted and uncontained, are central to the artist's ongoing ceramic practice and results in explosive, fragmented contours that embody... Read more -
Huy Lam
Conduit 15 Sep - 8 Oct 2022 Born in Vietnam, Huy Lam’s practice is rooted in an ongoing fascination with non-verbal communication, with an emphasis on process based construction that is informed by his inherent curiosity and urge for exploration . Having established a distinctive aesthetic from his precision of hand, this new body of work employs... Read more -
Foire Papier 2022
Grand Quay, Montreal 25 - 28 Aug 2022 We are thrilled to be again particiating with a United Contemporary booth at the 2022 edition of Foire Papier. Hosted by AGAC, the fair takes place at the Grand Quay in Montreal from August 26-28. We will be presenting new works by Huy Lam, Linda Sormin, Chuck Beamish, Sarah Dinnick,... Read more -
Meghan Price
Best Estimate 11 Aug - 10 Sep 2022 Meghan Price works with material literacy throughout an expansive practice that investigates notions of time and human relationships with the physical earth. In this exhibition titled Best Estimate, Price presents a body of work using fragmentation, aggregation and found materials to evoke past, present and future. Central to the exhibition... Read more -
Gordon Shadrach
Dis/Mantle at the Spadina House Museum 5 Aug 2022 - 28 May 2023 Welcome to Mrs. Pipkin’s Manor, is inspired by the real Mrs. Pipkin who was the laundress at the Spadina House in Toronto for the Austin family, founders of the Dominion Bank of Canada. Dis/Mantle is an immersive reimagining of the manor, utilizing an Afro-futuristic narrative wherein Mrs. Pipkin is the... Read more -
Ryan Van Der Hout
Drag (Online Feature) 23 Jun - 31 Jul 2022 In celebration of Pride 2022, we are delighted to present an online exhibition by Ryan Van Der Hout. Drag, is a black and white series of photographs that engages with the art of drag performance and its ambiguous relationship to masquerade, public and private identity, and the project of self-making.... Read more -
Badanna Zack
Black & White 2 - 25 Jun 2022 Opening reception: Saturday, June 4, 2-4pm Artist in attendance Badanna Zack is a sculptor and conceptual artist born in Montreal, QC, and now lives and works in Toronto. Zack emerged as a sculpture artist during the Minimalist movement, from which she rebelled against to emerge as a unique sculptor with... Read more -
Ryan Van Der Hout
Collecting Dust 5 - 28 May 2022 Opening reception: Saturday, May 7, 1-5pm Artist in attendance In Collecting Dust, multi-disciplinary artist Ryan Van Der Hout reimagines traditional still-life Vanitas in a photographic and installation-based solo exhibition that considers our human fascination with our own mortality. Tablescapes arranged with canonical symbols such as skulls or butterflies, are placed... Read more -
Stefan Berg
Turning Of Day 7 - 30 Apr 2022 United Contemporary is proud to present Turning of Day, a contemplative body of work by Toronto-based painter Stefan Berg. In this new suite of plein air paintings and studio interpretations, Berg draws out and emphasises a compelling geometry found in nature. Grasping the weight and mass of the subject, both... Read more -
Meghan Price
Sham 1 Apr - 3 Jul 2022 The grid is commonly employed as a stable matrix and fixed standard, but a malleable woven grid is made when its axes are drawn in thread. In the series titled Sham, woven cloth is stretched flat to optically express its pliable nature. Here, plane and fold appear one and the same.... Read more -
Anahita Akhavan
Re-entrant 10 Mar - 2 Apr 2022 United Contemporary is thrilled to present Re-entrant, the inaugural exhibition by Iranian-born painter, Anahita Akhavan. Based in Toronto, Akhavan’s use of geometry is derived from personal nostalgia, interpreting Islamic tapestry and architecture through her bold canvases and a rich intuitive colour palette. With a focus on traditional abstract points used... Read more -
Andrew McLuhan & Noelle Hamlyn
Written Matter | Remembered & Retold 10 Feb - 5 Mar 2022 United Contemporary, in partnership with 2gallery (Picton, ON), is pleased to present a unique duo exhibition, which examines modes of communication, and what prompts communication about ourselves, to others. Through their respective practices, Andrew McLuhan and Noelle Hamlyn offer a collaborative enquiry into how observing the “every-day” with new perspectives... Read more -
Danielle Cole
Online Exhibition: Pile On 10 Feb - 10 Mar 2022 United Contemporary is excited to present an online exclusive exhibition by Danielle Cole, entitled Pile On. Danielle Cole is a Toronto based artist who creates playful collages through an assembly of original vintage graphics. Her work often explores the absurdity of domestic roles and the need for material goods. In... Read more -
From the Inside (Looking Out)
Group Show 20 Jan - 5 Feb 2022 Featuring the work by seven artists, From the Inside (Looking Out) honours the concept of home and its ability to shield, nurture, and nourish our identities, while remaining as a hearth for our private insecurities. Each artist in their innovative approaches to their respective mediums, conjure familiar perspectives on the... Read more -
Marlene MacCallum
Library of Shadows 9 Dec 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 United Contemporary is delighted to host a solo exhibition by multi-disciplinary artist, Marlene MacCallum, entitled Library of Shadows. This interactive body of work consists of a suite of book works, that are presented in conjunction with works on paper and web-based artwork. The artist’s book pieces take on a multi-dimensional... Read more -
Huy Lam
Autumn Series (Online Feature) 2 Dec 2021 - 29 Jan 2022 Multi-disciplinary artist Huy Lam, presents Autumn Series, a new exploration in the medium of collage. Applying his distinctive precision of hand previously devoted to his sculptural practice, using wood, brass and stainless steel, Lam’s calculative designs forge compositions that allude to form and dimension through printed colour and text. This... Read more -
FOIRE PAPIER 2021
Montreal 26 - 28 Nov 2021 United Contemporary is thrilled to be participating at the upcoming Papier Art Fair this November. The 14th edition of the Papier Fair will happen in a hybrid format, with the physical part of the fair will take place at the Grand Quay of the Port of Montreal. Our booth will... Read more -
Art Toronto
29 Oct - 7 Nov 2021 United Contemporary is pleased to be participating in Art Toronto for the third year, with a virtual booth as part of this years hybrid event. The online fair will be live from October 29 to November 7, and will include new works from gallery artists such as Ryan Van Der... Read more -
Sarah Dinnick
Praise the Mutilated World 28 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 The title of Sarah Dinnick’s latest exhibition is taken from a poem written by the prizewinning Polish poet and dissident Adam Zagajewski entitled Try to Praise the Mutilated World. It was written as a salve for those searching for hope after a devastating loss. Dinnick’s latest works which take their... Read more -
Gordon Shadrach
Trade 2 - 23 Oct 2021 United Contemporary is thrilled to present Trade, a solo exhibition by portrait-artist, Gordon Shadrach. Trade extends the artist’s exploration of Black masculinity and strength, through a new body of work that examines how African Diasporic people were exploited to benefit their oppressors in the American Revolution. This solo exhibition confronts... Read more -
Tracy McMenemy
Folded Earth 2 - 18 Sep 2021 Folded Earth engages and questions our relationships with nature and technology. McMenemy bridges her studio practice with field work. She responds artistically to photographs she documents of her natural surroundings, without leaving them. The photographic source is morphed through spontaneous gesture. Is a tree still a tree after details are... Read more -
Chuck Beamish & Stefan Berg
The Value of Weather 8 - 31 Jul 2021 The Value of Weather is a two-person exhibition of plein air paintings by gallery artists Chuck Beamish and Stefan Berg, who have spent the winter working outdoors: Chuck in the country, Stefan in the city. Their work recalls John Szarkowski’s description of Ansel Adam’s images: 'He photographed not so much... Read more -
Amanda Arcuri & Ryan Van Der Hout
Fire & Dust 11 Jun - 3 Jul 2021 What happens to the artifacts of the civilized world when they no longer serve a purpose? Are they burned to the ground or left to collect dust? The year 2020 was simultaneously a period of great upheaval and of unprecedented stagnation for the billions of people who call earth home.... Read more -
Inter/Ruptures
Group Show 18 Mar - 17 Apr 2021 Inter/Ruptures brings together a group of artists selected by United Contemporary’s own. We asked each of our represented artists to put forward the name of an artist whose practice inspires and excites them. The result is an eclectic group exhibition featuring a myriad of artists working in disparate mediums and... Read more -
Curbside Pick-up
Group Show 5 Dec 2020 - 13 Mar 2021 After 3 months+ of being locked down, the door finally opens for Curbside Pickup, a group show featuring artwork by all your favourite UC artists. We are so excited to be open for in-person viewing! Hung salon style, the work on the walls are in conversation with each other (we... Read more -
Stefan Berg
Counterpoint 28 Oct - 28 Nov 2020 United Contemporary presents Counterpoint, an exhibition of paintings and linocut prints by Stefan Berg. Counterpoint corresponds with Art Toronto 2020, where United Contemporary will present Architecture of Music. Stefan is interested in the many facets of a landscape, assembled of personal, civic, art-historical, and geological pasts. The paintings in this... Read more -
Art Toronto 2020
28 Oct - 8 Nov 2020 United Contemporary is pleased to participate in Art Toronto 2020, this year taking place online from October 28 - November 8. United Contemporary will present a selection of virtually, and in person at the gallery and neighbouring locations: Main gallery space, Unit 22 - Counterpoint: Stefan Berg Unit 21: New... Read more -
Amanda Clyne
your body haunts mine 24 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 In her exhibition your body haunts mine, Amanda Clyne presents paintings and photographs of delicate and diverse surfaces forged through experimental processes. Each work echoes in the other works exhibited, moving between abstraction and representation, the material and the immaterial. Together, they form a nuanced portrait of the feminine, as... Read more -
Gordon Shadrach
Net Worth + 2 Jul - 1 Aug 2020 United Contemporary is excited to be reopening the gallery with Net Worth+, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by gallery artist Gordon Shadrach. Net Worth+ explores how stereotypes impact the value North American society places on Black men. Questioning what constitutes Black masculinity, Shadrach takes inspiration from such ongoing... Read more -
Gordon Shadrach + Gio Swaby
Net Worth 5 - 28 Mar 2020 United Contemporary invites you to Net Worth, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by gallery artist Gordon Shadrach, and introducing the work of Gio Swaby. Net Worth is an exhibition by Gordon Shadrach that explores how stereotypes impact the value North American society places on Black men. Questioning what... Read more -
The Auto Show
Group Show 6 - 29 Feb 2020 The Auto Show is a group exhibition of works that reference the automobile conceptually or materially, featuring artists Stefan Berg, Matthew Carver, Danielle Cole, Sarah Dinnick, David Holden, Nancy Friedland, Rolande Souliere and Adam Swica. Whereas gallery director and exhibition curator Burke Paterson is a lifelong motorhead, the artists presented... Read more -
Chuck Beamish
Tracking North 16 Jan - 1 Feb 2020 United Contemporary is excited to present Tracking North, an exhibition of plein air and studio landscape paintings by Chuck Beamish, co-curated by Stefan Berg and Burke Paterson. Chuck Beamish’s professional practice as an artist has been strongly influenced by his work as an architect and designer. Currently Beamish’s work has... Read more -
Badanna Zack & Eija Lopenen-Stephenson
Once Very Familiar, 9 - 11 Jan 2020 United Contemporary is pleased to present Once Very Familiar, a duo exhibition featuring works by Badanna Zack and Eija Lopenen-Stephenson. Between these two artists, there is a preoccupation with undressing. In Zack’s work, this happens in the unveiling of an interior body, and in Loponen-Stephenson, it is found in the... Read more -
Lisa Sanders
Persistence of Doubt, Particles of Light 14 Dec 2019 - 4 Jan 2020 “This series of recent paintings represent some of my dominant memories about parenting and how with the onset of love comes an equally powerful presence of uncertainty, worry and guilt. These memories are malleable stories that we tell ourselves. They morph and change over time. We attach different emotions to... Read more -
Meghan Price & Suzanne Nacha
Chromacore 7 Nov - 7 Dec 2019 Meghan Price and Suzanne Nacha consider the structural and formal properties of rock materials, the concept of deep geological time and the aesthetics of geologic patterning. Each mine the Earth Sciences for ‘signs’ that hold the potential to connect human experience to the physical earth – Price through works in... Read more -
Art Toronto 2019
25 - 27 Oct 2019 United Contemporary is exhibiting at Booth C49 during the Art Toronto art fair at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. United Contemporary’s concept for their Art Toronto presentation is The Space Between. Gallery artists Stefan Berg, Amanda Clyne, Sarah Dinnick, Huy Lam, and Gordon Shadrach will show a selection of work... Read more -
The Space Between
Group Show 19 Oct - 2 Nov 2019 The Space Between, a group show of gallery artists Stefan Berg, Amanda Clyne, Sarah Dinnick, Huy Lam, Meghan Price, Suzanne Nacha and Gordon Shadrach. Curated to complement the work on display at the Art Toronto art fair at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, October 24-27th; and, to preview upcoming exhibitions... Read more -
Sarah Dinnick
Intimate Distance 26 Sep - 17 Oct 2019 The intimacies caught in Sarah Dinnick’s camera are created through a particular sensibility. Her formal design training produces exquisite images that satisfy our longing for order and a kind of quiet – a peace, even. And yet, there’s something else – pushing against that order – an also-silent eruption of... Read more -
Ashwini Gupte & Huy Lam
Greenland is Blue 17 - 26 May 2019 Greenland is Blue is an exploration of Nature’s curiosities, specifically those found in the Arctic. These northern landscapes are remote, with minimal human context to help us comprehend the enormity of the terrain. Rather than try to capture the vastness through a distant panoramic approach, Ashwini Gupte illuminates the details... Read more -
Stefan Berg
Still Lives of Architecture 2 Mar - 6 Apr 2019 Berg's work focuses on the shifting Toronto landscape where nature and architecture meet; the Gardiner, Don Valley, and the 1970s apartment complexes the Main Square and the Crescent Town Towers. Each painting takes months to complete and is painted from life, therefore the subject shifts multiple times in the course... Read more -
Rod Mireau
Signs of Life 13 Oct - 1 Dec 2018 In this new body of work, Mireau draws inspiration from roots to rebar, blurring the edges between the industrial and the natural. Constructed of wood and metal, Mireau’s sculptures form a balance between the organic and the geometric while playing with gravity and scale. Growing up in Saskatchewan, Mireau developed... Read more -
Burke Paterson
Objects + Ritual 12 May - 3 Jun 2018 Objects + Ritual is an exhibition of predominantly darkroom produced photograms with some digitally altered darkroom-based images. It expands on some of the ideas explored in the 2006 Contact exhibition Still Film, where different types of photographic film acted as still life objects. This exhibition contemplates the purpose of objects.... Read more -
Lisa Sanders
Volume of Traffic 17 Nov - 9 Dec 2017 We are thrilled to be presenting volume of traffic by Lisa Sanders as our inaugural painting exhibition. This exhibition of all new work opens on November 17, 6 - 9 pm. Ethereal and sublime, Lisa's paintings possess the allure and binge worthiness of Stranger Things, and the romance and resonance... Read more
