Exhibitions

Grey Areas at The Durham Art Gallery - November 28, 2025 - January 18, 2026

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Grey AReas

November 28, 2025 - January 18, 2026

Opening reception: Saturday, NOVEMBER 29, 2 - 4 PM

The DUrham Art Gallery

251 George st. e.

durham, ON     N0g 1r0 (map)

519-369-3692

Gallery Hours: WEDNESDAY - friDAY 10 AM - 4 PM, Saturday - Sunday 12 - 4 PM

Durham Art Gallery Website

DURHAM ART Gallery on Instagram

Grey Areas opens at the Durham Art Gallery on Friday, November 28.

Curated by Paige Bowen, the exhibition features work by me, Kim Atlin, and Christine Fry.

“The quiet calm felt while watching the sun set, the wary awe when a storm makes the sky grow dark, the lonely peace looking out into billowing snowfall - these moments capture the powerful enormity of nature, calling for us to respect its inevitability and consider our scale, tiny in relation to the world.”
— Paige Bowen

There is a public reception on Saturday, November 29 from 2 - 4 PM and the curator, Atlin, and Fry will be present.

Stay tuned for another event happening in conjunction with the exhibition.

Opening October 22, 2025 - We Made This! A Red Head Group Show Celebrating 35 Years Of Empowering Artists

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We Made This!
A Red Head Group Show Celebrating 35 Years Of Empowering Artists

OCTOBER 22 - NOVEMBER 1, 2025

Opening reception: Saturday, October 25, 5 - 8 PM

Red Head reunion: Saturday, November 1, 3 - 5 PM

The Red Head Gallery

401 Richmond St West Suite 115

Toronto, ON     M5V 3A8 (map)

416-504-5654

Gallery Hours: WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY 12 - 5 PM

Red Head Gallery Website

The Red Head Gallery on Instagram

The Red Head Gallery is excited to exhibit We Made This, a group show of Red Head Gallery Members.

We Made This celebrates the vision, commitment, and creative force of the 18 current members of The Red Head Gallery, one of Canada’s most enduring artist-run centres. The gallery, founded in 1990, has marked 35 years of continuous activity. Shaped entirely by artists for artists, Red Head’s self-sufficiency has been nurtured by those who came before and continues to guide the current membership in fostering innovation, diversity, and creative exploration. Over this time, 180 artists have persevered to build and sustain Red Head’s cultural significance as an artist-run centre.

The Red Head Gallery is both a concept and a physical space, sustained by members who inspire, challenge, and support one another with a spirit of equity and generosity. Purposefully independent and not-for-profit, the co-operative is committed to exhibiting work across a wide range of contemporary practices and engaging with critical discourse.

We Made This brings together work that crosses disciplines, sparks dialogue and invites audiences into a conversation that is as open as it is inclusive. Together, the present-day members create a distinctive and welcoming space within Canada’s cultural landscape. The gallery continues to demonstrate how artists themselves can shape and carry forward the possibilities of art.

Building on the vision of those who founded and sustained it, the Red Head Gallery remains a vital contributor to the ongoing story of contemporary art with the same spirit of dedication that has carried it this far.

Exhibiting Artists

Jim Bourke | Geoffrey L. Cheung | Christine Dewancker | James Fowler | Tonia Di Risio | Soheila Esfahani | Grant Heaps | Gillian Iles | Alexander Irving | Sarah Kernohan | Ian Mackay | Laura Millard | David McClyment | Tazeen Qayyum | Amin Rehman | Lois Schklar | Pearl Van Geest | Elaine Whittaker

 

Splitting Distance Opens Wednesday, October 9, 2024 at The Red Head Gallery

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Splitting Distance

OCTOBER 9 - NOVEMBER 2, 2024

CLOSING reception: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 5 - 8 PM

Reading circle with the CARBON Collective: Saturday, November 2, 10:30 am - 12 noon

The Red Head Gallery

401 Richmond St West Suite 115

Toronto, ON     M5V 3A8 (map)

416-504-5654

Gallery Hours: WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY 12 - 5 PM

Red Head Gallery Website

The Red Head Gallery on Instagram

Sarah Kernohan. Splitting Distance 3. Pigment print on Hahnemüle agave paper, 69.2 x 61 cm (27.25 x 24 in), 2024. 

Splitting Distance opens at the Red Head Gallery this week.

The exhibition features a series of photographic collages that transmit icy surfaces, tumultuous waters, rocky shores, and portals. This flint originated from the shores of France or the United Kingdom and is now found in Glace Bay, whose namesake was coined by French settlers, who named the location “Baie de Glace” (Bay of Ice). The chalky surface of the flint gives way to semi-translucent surfaces with reflective flecks and shards, similar to the textures and patterns found in ice and light bouncing off of water. 

I will be at the gallery on Saturdays, October 19 and 26, from 12 to 5 PM, and there will be a closing reception on Friday, November 1, from 5 to 8 PM. 

I’m thrilled to collaborate with the CARBON Collective, who will host an informal reading and conversation about ethical ecological practices on Saturday, November 2, at 10:30 AM. The talk will be held in person and online. Learn more and register here: https://shorturl.at/QvSxf

Click here to preview the works in the exhibition and learn more about the work here.

 

Snow-blind at Gallery Stratford Opens January 11, 2024

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Snow-blind

January 11 - March 31, 2024

Opening reception: Sunday, January 21, 2 - 4 PM

RSVP to attend the opening reception Here

From left to right: Sarah Kernohan, Remnants 2, 3, 4, watercolour and pastel with acrylic ground on Yupo, 26 x 20 inches, 2022. Image credit: Scott Lee

Gallery Stratford

54 Romeo St. S.

Stratford, ON

N5A 4S9 (map)

(519) 271-5271

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 12 - 5 PM

Gallery Stratford Website

Gallery Stratford on Instagram


I'm pleased to share that my exhibition, Snow-blind, which premiered at the Red Head Gallery in February 2023, is travelling to Gallery Stratford. The exhibition runs from Thursday, January 11, through Sunday, March 31, 2024, with a public reception on Sunday, January 21, from 2 - 4 PM. 

The exhibition includes a few new drawings. It opens alongside Robert Buhr: Rural Views and ARTscreen: Farewell by Meg Dunbar. 

For more information about this series, click here.
Please join me in celebrating the opening of this exhibition in person or in spirit. Please feel free to RSVP to attend the opening reception at this link. 

Node at Galerie Plan.d, Düsseldorf - October 21 to November 12, 2023

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Node

October 21 - November 12, 2023

Vernissage: October 21, 20h

Featuring: Jim Bourke, Tonia Di Risio, Soheila Esfahani, James Fowler, Grant Heaps, Gillian Iles, Sarah Kernohan, Ian Mackay, David McClyment, Laura Millard, Sara Mozafari-Lorestani, Tazeen Qayyum, Lois Schklar, Pearl Van Geest, and Elaine Whittaker

Sarah Kernohan, Transatlantic Flint (Glace Bay from points unknown), Pigment print on paper, 2023.

Plan.d Produzentengalerie

Doretheenstr. 59

40235 Düsseldorf

Gallery Hours

Saturday 15 - 18 h

Sunday 15 - 18 h

Finissage: November 12, 15h

The term “node” has many interpretations, ranging from math to botany, computer engineering, social media, and medical applications. At its essence are the concepts of intersection, confluence, and divergence, all eminently applicable in this cultural exchange.

Red Head and Plan.d share many similarities. Both collectives seek to provide a forum for expression outside of established commercial gallery systems. Both are situated in major urban centres rooted in contemporary Western culture- hence, intersection and confluence.

However, cultural history and immediate experience, both personal and creative, are likely to differ widely, hence divergence.

The coming together of these comparables and contrasts makes the potential of Node so exciting.

All aspects of Node, both individual works and collaborative projects, will orbit around these ideas.