Group Exhibition

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

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

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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

 

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

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.

The Artist As Curator at 2gallery

Sarah Kernohan. Remnants. Graphite and acrylic ground on mylar, 30 x 22 inches, 2021.

Sarah Kernohan. Remnants. Graphite and acrylic ground on mylar, 30 x 22 inches, 2021.

August 7 - August 30, 2021

2gallery

256 Main St. W.

Picton, ON K0K 2T0

613-920-2000

2gallery.ca

 
Niloufar Salimi. Treed. Ink and graphite on Mulberry paper. 30 x 22. inches, 2021.

Niloufar Salimi. Treed. Ink and graphite on Mulberry paper. 30 x 22. inches, 2021.

 

2gallery has invited nine 2gallery artists whose work they would choose to hang beside their own.

I reached out to Niloufar Salimi to collaborate. I am grateful that she generously agreed to participate and for the opportunity to exhibit alongside her.

We met and studied at OCAD, memorably, in an advanced drawing class with Ed Pien in 2007. We reconnected again after completing our graduate work. We each value gentle perception and delicate rendering as we build our work. While drawing, we are working sensitively, letting our materials and our subject matter guide the way we work. This exhibition was an opportunity for us to build work alongside one another again in another context.

 

The exhibition also features work by:

Edd Baptista & Andrew F. Ross

Hugo Cantin & Sebastien Cliche

Lindsay Chambers & Huy Lam

Beth James & Samuel Choisy

Erik Mohr & Jürgen Mohr

Moira Ness & Kale Vandenbroek

Paul Roorda & Melissa Doherty

Kate Taylor & Claire Desjardins

The County Collects at 2Gallery

2gallery is pleased to present THE COUNTY COLLECTS, a special group exhibition of our gallery artists. Each of the 22 works in the exhibition have been carefully selected by 22 Guest Curators from across The County (and beyond). The exhibition is open for in-person visitors and online at 2gallery.ca and runs until August 02, 2021.

Guest Curators: Amy Bodman Writer; Filmmaker; Community Activist, Andrew Csafordi Artist; Co-owner, Andara Gallery, Bobbi Dahlman Collector; Advanced Meditation Teacher, Krista Dalby Artist; Artistic Director, Department of Illumination, Miguel De Lemos Collector; Proprietor, Mirazule Boutique Inn, Nancy Evans Collector; Smith School of Business; Chair, Quinte Health Care, Andrew & Christine Gillingham, Co-owners, Gillingham Brewery, Tom Howlett, Collector; Creative Director, The Farm, James Killoch Collector; Bosley Real Estate, Trish Krause Collector; Founder, Bite Out of Life Nutrition and Wellness, Terri Lipman Collector; Art Dealer, David Mott Collector; Musician; Music Scholar, Sylvie Martel Collector; President, Mot-clé Martel Inc., Ian Nelmes Collector; Proprietor, Mirazule Boutique Inn, Pam Patterson Artist; Assistant Professor, OCADU, Chrissy Poitras & Kyle Topping Artists; Co-owners, Sparkbox Studios, Elizabeth Sanders Art Consultant; Art Scholar,Alexandra Seay, General Manager, Regent Theatre, Amy Shubert Artist; Chair, Art in The County, and Larry Tayler Collector; Photographer; Writer.

July 10 - August 2, 2021

2gallery

256 Main St. W.

Picton, ON K0K 2T0

613-920-2000

2gallery.ca

 

FAUX ÉVEIL / FALSE AWAKENING

Opening reception: Thursday December 7, 6 - 9 PM

Thursday, December 7, 2017 to Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Thursday 11 AM - 6 PM

Galerie AVE

901 Rue Lenoir, Espace B-105

Montréal, QC

H4C 2Z6

Canada (map)

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A group exhibition with:

A false awakening is a vivid dream in which the dreamers think they have awakened from sleep even though they continue to dream. Elements of the dream may seem normal at first, but gradually become more surreal. In this exhibition, we will use the concept of false awakenings to showcase works that play with the viewer’s sense of reality. The works will explore the tension between the familiar and the unexpected. Both abstract and representational works will be included, addressing the theme from a variety of approaches, including form and texture, landscape and portraiture. The works may draw on dreams or dream-like experiences of the artists, depicting eerie or bizarre renditions of the ordinary.

An idea by Ella Morton