Toronto Biennial of Art

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Judy Chicago in collaboration with Pyro Spectaculars by Souza and Maude Furtado of GFA PYRO, A Tribute to Toronto, 2022. Installation view at Sugar Beach, Toronto Biennial of Art 2022. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias.

  • Dates: 21.09.24 - 01.12.24
  • Title: 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art
  • Curators: Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López
  • Admission is free for CIMAM Members during the preview days: 19-20 September 2024. Please register here
  • https://torontobiennial.org/

The Toronto Biennial of Art’s mission is to make contemporary art accessible to everyone. A ten-week event every two years, the Biennial commissions artists to create new works for a city-wide exhibition in dialogue with Toronto’s diverse local contexts. Year-round public and learning programs bridge Biennials and invite intergenerational audiences to explore the ideas that inspire our events. Building upon past editions and offering new ways of seeing and listening, each Biennial connects people to spark meaningful dialogues and imagine new futures.

The 2024 Biennial aims to showcase the ways artists from different localities respond to the impact of the aftermath of colonialism on everyday life. Taking our cues from artists, we have been inspired and guided by their practices when thinking about the Biennial’s structure. This includes the development of a preliminary list of key directives drawn from the artists’ creative labour, such as ‘Joy,’ ‘Home,’ and ‘Solace.’ The exhibition aims to create a collective dialogue around urgent issues of our times: environmental destruction, sovereignty, self-representation, belonging, collective memory, ancestral knowledge, migrant diasporas, queer futurity, and how art can participate in the process of restoring disrupted social bonds.