Exhibitions

Ed Pien

18 December - 23 January 2017 Chinoiseries The monochrome blue drawings are in the spirit of a suite of ink works entitled Re-Imaginings. The work references the iconic delft blue colour of Chinoiserie that has originated from the 18th century. The images and style from Re-Imaginings references in part, the Rococo design of the French artist,... Read More

Meryl McMaster

Threads of Self 18 November - 23 December 2017 Meryl McMaster is an Ottawa based artist whose photographic work explores the tensions complicating our understanding of personal identity. Specifically, her recent bodies of work have explored the liminality of being betwixt her Indigenous (Plains Cree) and European (British/Dutch) cultures and the conflict found at the intersection of self-exploration and... Read More

Adad Hannah @ Centre Space (Toronto)

The Raft of the Medusa (St-Louis) 27 October - 11 November 2017 The Raft of the Medusa: Saint-Louis: In 2015 I was invited to a residency at Keur Laminaire in Saint-Louis, Senegal, which is four hours north of Dakar by car on the western edge of the African continent. In early 2016 I arrived in Saint-Louis to produce a new community-engaged work... Read More

Kent Monkman

The Human Zoo 7 October - 4 November 2017 Kent Monkman explore les thèmes et les précédents historiques de peuples des Premières Nations en Europe. Depuis l’arrivée des Européens dans les Amériques, les Autochtones ont voyagé en Europe en tant qu’ambassadeurs de leurs propres peuples, en tant que captifs, en tant qu’« artistes » de la scène et comme... Read More

Chih-Chien Wang

Winter connects us, then spring arrives 31 August - 30 September 2017 Winter connects us, then spring arrives The process of documentation gradually stirs and alters the happening of events. Far from being passive, it offers structure to its subjects; it ritualizes their daily existence, both private and professional. It participates in events and further generates energy or regulates progress. The act... Read More

John Player @ Centre Space (Toronto)

19 August - 9 September 2017 What does it mean for an artist who has been preoccupied with landscape for the past five years to paint interiors? This body of work marks a shift in John Player’s methodology for a few reasons: he has come inside, to the realm of home and private life, and he... Read More

The Domain Beyond the Territory

Martha Apsaq, Shuvinai Ashoona, Shary Boyle, Jim Holyoak, Benjamin Klein, Maskull Lasserre, Kent Monkman, Dana Velan ,Ripley Whiteside, Vanessa Yanow 10 June - 12 August 2017 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is proud to present The Domain Beyond the Territory. This exhibition brings together a group of artists who explore, interpret and challenge the meaning of territories and boundaries. ... In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province... Read More

Dana Velan & Jérôme Fortin @ Centre Space (Toronto)

3 - 30 June 2017 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain Toronto is proud to present concurrently two bodies of work by Dana Velan and Jérôme Fortin. Dana Velan, an artist living and working in Montreal, Canada, left her native Czecho-Slovakia during the political turmoil of 1968. She earned a degree in Art History at McGill University... Read More

Maskull Lasserre @ Centre Space (Toronto)

29 April - 27 May 2017 Omen The stillness of inanimate matter and the silence of motionless surfaces are not the true condition of objects. Stasis, in fact, is not an attribute of the things we hurry past in our daily lives but rather an inherent artifact of the human timeframe. The objects in Omen are... Read More

Dil Hildebrand

E Unibus Pluram 13 April - 27 May 2017 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is proud to present new paintings by Dil Hildebrand. This new body of work brings a more physical presence to the layers and depth of Hildebrand’s work. His continued advancement and research of media and formats in painting has solidified his place as one of Canada’s... Read More

Cimes et Cieux

Glenda Leon, Marc Audette, Glenda Leon & Edward Maloney 4 March - 3 April 2017 Cimes et cieux Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is pleased to present Cimes et cieux, an exhibition featuring three long-time collaborators of the gallery Glenda Leon, Marc Audette and Edward Maloney; and welcoming Lise Beaudry for the first time. Through photography and video, the invited artists represent fleeting experiences in nature... Read More

Kent Monkman @ Centre Space (Toronto)

A Story of Canada 28 January - 25 February 2017 Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain in Toronto is pleased to present Kent Monkman: A Story of Canada. This exhibition focuses on residential schools and the removal of children from their families and communities on reservations in Canada. From early colonial days to the 1960s and beyond, missionaries and mounties facilitated the... Read More

Ripley Whiteside

Les aquariums de Toronto 12 January - 18 February 2017 At first glance, Ripley Whiteside’s suite of drawings appear as menageries of colourful and exotic aquatic species. However, Whiteside’s juxtaposition of rare, beautiful and foreign underwater species now found in the Greater Toronto Area is informed by a deeper investigation of the ecological consequences of both aquacultural development and our... Read More

John Player

12 January - 17 February 2017 On the walls of the gallery is a selection of new paintings by John Player. Player’s choice of images are diverse and far reaching, each one a piece in a puzzle of relational aesthetics and free-association. The stories and contexts of each painting are individually significant, while the ensemble evokes... Read More