GALLERY 44

GALLERY 44 Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography

Salon 44 is open until Saturday, March 21, with over 60 framed artworks and unframed prints available for purchase!Galle...
03/17/2026

Salon 44 is open until Saturday, March 21, with over 60 framed artworks and unframed prints available for purchase!

Gallery 44’s annual fundraising exhibition in support of our education and exhibition programs. Representing the best in Canadian photography, Salon 44 brings together an incredible collection of established and emerging artists with works priced for both new and seasoned collectors alike. Salon 44 is co-chaired by Solana Cain, Sayem Khan and Maegan Broadhurst.

Participating artists include:
Alastair Martin · Albert Hoang · Alex Hall · Amara King · Antony Creary · Anthony Gebrehiwot · Attila Ataner · Ben Dickey · Brianna Roye · Colby Jones · Cruz · Dalia Rahhal · David Brandy · David Scriven · Ehiko Odeh · Eric Garsonnin · Erin McGean · Ernesto Cabral de Luna · Eve Tagny · Fred Lum · Gabrielle Tyrie · Gerald Pisarzowski · Grace Wang · Hannah Doucet · Heather Legere · Holly Chang · Jacynthe Carrier · Jesse King · Joel Rodriguez · John Faragher · Jordan King · Kate Young · Kosar Movahedi · Kyungmin Kate Lee · Leila Fatemi · Luther Konadu · Magida El-Kassis · Marco Buonocore · Matt Nish-Lapidus · Miguel Caba · Muna Muse · Nicole Beno · Oriana Confente · Paras Vijan · Paula McLean · Paulina Bereza · Pedro Barbáchano · Philip Leonard Ocampo · Pixel Heller · Ramolen Laruan · Rebecca Wood · Sabrina Sisco · Shellie Zhang · Solange Adum Abdala · Tanya Gradyuk · Tyler Matheson · W***y Le Maitre · Yuhan Zheng · Zack Pospieszynski

Art Metropole Publication Room
For the first time, G44 is teaming up with our longstanding community partner to present the Art Metropole Publication Room, including a curated selection of artists’ books, multiples, and editions from their storefront.

Make a difference‍
All proceeds from the sale of the artworks directly support our charitable mission to support artists through meaningful production, education and exhibition opportunities.

Link in bio to peruse available artwork. To purchase a piece, visit the gallery, call (416) 979-3941 or email [email protected].

Thank you to our framing sponsor

📸 Salon 44, photo documentation by Darren Rigo at Gallery 44 (Toronto), 2025

Gallery 44 is pleased to announce Salon 44’s award winners! Many thanks to all the artists who generously participated i...
03/13/2026

Gallery 44 is pleased to announce Salon 44’s award winners! Many thanks to all the artists who generously participated in this vital fundraising initiative. We couldn’t do it without you. Artworks remain available for purchase until the end of March. (link in bio)

TIW ‘Best in Show’ Award
Toronto Image Works is generously awarding Anthony Gebrehiwot $500 in production support at TIW.

Anthony Gebrehiwot is a multiple award winning visual artist, photographer and community leader whose creative lens re-visions photography as an ongoing dialogue of social change between subject and society.
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His artistic exploration stems from his work with Black/pan-African diaspora communities in Toronto. As the former resident photographer at R.I.S.E. Edutainment (Reaching Intelligent Souls Everywhere), Gebrehiwot has intimately witnessed and documented the creative and unguarded evolutions of poets, musicians, and artists from across the city. Based in Scarborough, Gebrehiwot has worked to bring photography to youth in communities through organizations like the NIA Centre, The Power Plant, The Doris McCarthy Gallery and the Art Gallery of York University. His connection to youth and community, combined with his sustained self-dissection and constant desire to evolve, helped him to identify black identities as a focal topic for photographic inquiry.

Gallery 44 Emerging Artist Award
Gallery 44 is awarding Cruz a G44 membership and production credit for the continued support of their artistic practices.

Cruz is a first-generation Filipino artist based in Mississauga and Toronto, whose work explores vulnerability, intimacy, loss and self-discovery. While photography is their primary medium, they often merge both analog and digital processes, as well as poetry, to explore the intricate realm of human emotion. Cruz aims to connect with the core of what makes us human, striving to capture and express the essence of the human experience, focusing on reinterpreting imagery by altering its perception, presenting it in unconventional ways that challenge its typical role and purpose.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate the opening reception of Salon 44! Your energy, enthusiasm ...
03/10/2026

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate the opening reception of Salon 44! Your energy, enthusiasm and support made the night truly special.

A special thank you to all the talented artists who generously contributed their work, our assiduous Co-Chairs Solana Cain and Sayem Khan—and our supporters who continue to champion image-based creativity and community connection. We are so grateful, your support makes fundraising events like this possible. Thank you for celebrating with us!

Gallery 44’s annual fundraising exhibition supports our education and exhibition programs. Representing the best in Canadian photography, Salon 44 brings together an incredible collection of established and emerging artists with works priced for both new and seasoned collectors alike.

To purchase an artwork visit the gallery, call (416) 979-3941 or email [email protected]. All proceeds from the sale of the artworks directly support our charitable mission to support artists through meaningful production, education, and exhibition opportunities.

Thank you to our community partners and sponsors Toronto Image Works, Art Metropole, The Butcher Shoppe, Rosewood Wine and Stubbe Chocolates.

📸 Images courtesy of

Link in bio to peruse available work!

Tonight is the night! To celebrate Salon 44 opening, Executive Director Alana Traficante highlights Shellie Zhang’s Cent...
03/06/2026

Tonight is the night! To celebrate Salon 44 opening, Executive Director Alana Traficante highlights Shellie Zhang’s Centrepiece as her top pick! Join us tonight from 7:00-10:00PM to view the works in the collection available for purchase.

There are several aspects to Shellie Zhang’s practice that I find compelling, but one in particular is her deft approach to still life photography. She composes vignettes of highly aesthetic yet seemingly simple everyday objects to evoke decadence and luxury. But the objects serve prompts for deeper exploration. With Centerpiece (2025), she swaps out the expected decorative victorian wallpaper for a patterned cupboard-liner backdrop, a repeating image that evokes memories of my grandmother’s cutlery drawer; punctuates the foreground with little clippings of baran, the green, grass-shaped, dividers used in Japanese cooking to separate foods and flavours; and grounds the arrangement with a bundle of tomato seedlings that stand in the place of an ornate bouquet. Centerpiece (2025) taps into memories of many different kitchens, tabletops, cuisines and curios, and with this work, Shellie makes connections between how we ascribe value to objects, and people, in relation to them.

I first met Shellie in 2017, when her work was included in the group exhibition In Pursuit of The Perfect Pose at Gallery 44, and I have continued to follow the evolution of her practice ever since. Last year, I nominated Shellie for the Hnaytshyn Foundation’s Saunderson Prize at what felt like a really important juncture in her career—she had just made the leap to begin a two-year MFA in the Sculpture program at Yale School of Art—and she was named a Finalist! We were so excited at the news that before it was publicly announced, we secretly popped a little bottle of bubbles behind a flowering vine at a friend’s backyard barbeque—the components of that scene would have made a beautiful still life too

With Salon 44 opening tomorrow night, Katarina Veljovic, Board Member, highlights Rebecca Wood’s “One can only believe e...
03/05/2026

With Salon 44 opening tomorrow night, Katarina Veljovic, Board Member, highlights Rebecca Wood’s “One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.” (Woolf, Orlando,139) as her top pick! Join us at the opening reception to peruse and purchase works on tomorrow March 6 from 7:00 - 10:00PM.

I was immediately lured to Rebecca’s work through its material presence, a quilt-like surface collaged with images, creating an uncanny beauty and magnetism.

The artist weaves together strands of familial history, biological phenomena, and world events into a single collapsed image - layered both physically through a digital collage and metaphorically through references and source images. Past and present, fiction and non-fiction unfold into one another, creating a surface that feels at once archival and speculative.

“One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see” borrows the title from a passage in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando 1928, the story of a 300-year-old poet who transforms from male to female. Threading the personal narrative, Woolf lived near the artist’s late maternal grandmother in England’s Sussex region during World War II. While the butterfly and moth in the composition are documented gynandromorph specimens, a biological occurrence in which a single organism displays both male and female characteristics. Together, these references explore ideas of duality, transformation, and the fluidity of identity.

This speculative documentary approach, part archive, part invention, became a central idea to the artist’s recent body of work, which culminated in her thesis exhibition for her MFA at TMU.

- Katarina Veljovic, Board Member, Gallery 44

Visit the link in our bio to see a full list of participating artists!

With Salon 44 opening Friday night, Solana Cain, Salon 44 Co-Chair, highlights Pixel Heller’s The Gorilla as her top pic...
03/04/2026

With Salon 44 opening Friday night, Solana Cain, Salon 44 Co-Chair, highlights Pixel Heller’s The Gorilla as her top pick! Join us at the opening reception to peruse and purchase works on Friday, March 6, from 7:00 - 10:00PM.

First shown in her solo exhibition Beyond the Body, this piece by Pixel Heller titled “The Gorilla” is rooted in traditional Trinidadian Carnival. “Mas”, short for masquerade, is the main event of Carnival. Once costumes are donned and makeup applied, the wearer fully embodies their character through dance and other movement. Parading with community in the street, Carnival is a vibrant celebration of freedom, history, and cultural pride.

Inspired by traditional gorilla masqueraders who wear full-body fur suits and masks, Pixel constructed her own sculptural garment, concealing everything but her eyes. For her, the costume is not a disguise but an extension of herself. The all-encompassing form, which is hung and becomes a sculpture when not worn, consumes her body, revealing presence and depth through gaze. In turn, the photograph captures this charged moment of embodiment, where character, artist and cultural memory move together, weaving as one.

Pixel’s evolving practice freely works across disciplines with a commanding point of view, proudly reconnecting to her culture and bringing it full circle for community to behold, or lower any thought and if there are pieces (like Jordan’s publication) that would have a smaller percentage.

- Solana Cain, Salon 44 Co-Chair

Visit the link in our bio to see a full list of participating artists!

With Salon 44 opening next week, G44’s Board Member Lisa Muzzin selects Holly Chang’s Carrying / Holding / Transporting ...
02/27/2026

With Salon 44 opening next week, G44’s Board Member Lisa Muzzin selects Holly Chang’s Carrying / Holding / Transporting as her highlight! Join us on Friday, March 6, 7:00-10:00PM—in celebrating an incredible collection of established and emerging artists—representing the best in Canadian photography!

I was drawn to Holly Chang’s piece, Carrying / Holding / Transporting, for its thoughtful attention to material and memory.

Holly works across photography, ceramics, textiles, and found materials, repurposing fragments and archives to form new stories, often connecting to identity. That sensitivity to what materials carry—their histories, their textures, their weight—is something that feels deeply considered in this piece.

Carrying / Holding / Transporting is made up of three irregular ceramic forms hanging against a wall. Each surface is layered with colours, shapes, and small photographs of earthy growths resembling moss or algae. Small metal fasteners hold the photo fragments in place, while thin metal chains suspend smaller ceramic pieces below, allowing them to dangle gently beneath each form.

For anyone who is drawn to materials, archives, or the slow labour of making, there is a familiarity here, an understanding that materials hold memory and that forming something new does not erase what came before. The fragments are visible and assembled with patience and attention. Holly relates this hybridity to identity, and her work embraces the significant way that making can be a way of understanding ourselves.

This piece does feel quiet and invites closeness. The more you look, the more you notice. I can’t wait to see this piece in person!

-Lisa Muzzin, Board Member, Gallery 44

With Salon 44 opening next week, G44’s Curator of Exhibitions, Sameen Mahboubi, selects Tyler Matheson’s Urge as his hig...
02/24/2026

With Salon 44 opening next week, G44’s Curator of Exhibitions, Sameen Mahboubi, selects Tyler Matheson’s Urge as his highlight! Join us on Friday, March 6, 7:00-10:00PM, to celebrate an incredible collection of established and emerging artists representing the best in Canadian photography!

Years before working at Gallery 44, I worked at Glad Day Bookshop, the world’s longest surviving LGBTQ+ bookstore, founded in 1970. Glad Day carried a lot of history within its walls on 499 Church Street, and even more wondrous than the shop upstairs was the basement, which was vast, dusty, and absolutely chock full of pulp erotica and vintage gay p**n magazines from the 70s and 80s. Although the basement acted as storage, it felt more like an archive of desire—containing old magazines and decades of private longing from every person who owned them before. I likely spent nearly 30 minutes of each shift I worked at Glad Day organizing boxes downstairs, quietly poring over any magazine I could find. I would read every article, study every ad, and linger on each photograph, imagining the photographer’s lens as they documented the scenes published on those glossy pages.

Although these publications would eventually make their way upstairs to be re-sold, seeing them felt illicit—as if being let into a secret history that was not for my eyes. It made each detail of every image I saw vibrate, like they were charged with an indescribable energy.

It is clear to me that in this new work, Tyler Matheson experiences these images in a similar way to how I did then. His reprocessed scans of vintage gay p**n magazines invoke similar naughty and tender feelings in me—one of seeking an away, like discovering something you should not be seeing. In Matheson’s work, these images, and the wear on them invoke not only a specific place or time in culture, but also the remnant traces of every hand that ever turned those pages, every illicit feeling felt while scanning their details, and each surge of desire they once inspired.

-Sameen Mahboubi, Curator of Exhibitions, Gallery 44

Visit the link in our bio to see a full list of participating artists!

WhatNext New Gen Artist Series: Grant Writing, a free online workshop instructed by Camille RojasWednesday, March 18, 6:...
02/20/2026

WhatNext New Gen Artist Series: Grant Writing, a free online workshop instructed by Camille Rojas

Wednesday, March 18, 6:00 – 7:30PM

In this practical and empowering workshop, we will demystify the grant writing process for artists in Canada. We’ll break down what makes a strong application, from crafting compelling project descriptions to clearly articulating artistic intent and impact. Together, we’ll explore what peer juries look for, how assessment criteria are applied and how to align your proposal with the priorities of different funding bodies.

Designed for early-career artists, this session also emphasizes sustainable workflows that support busy creative lives. Participants will learn strategies for organizing materials, building reusable grant assets, and approaching deadlines with clarity rather than stress.

By the end, you’ll feel more confident navigating Canada’s granting landscape and better equipped to advocate for your work with practical tools and insider insight.

Open to emerging artists aged 16–35, link in bio to register!

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Camille Rojas is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans film, photography, drawing and performance. Her work uses her body as a site to metabolize contemporary cultural hyperfixations, including art auction house hysteria, conformation shows, hand-clapping games and algorithmic image culture. She received her BFA in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University in 2017 and brings over a decade of teaching and arts administration experience, working with artist-run centres and individual artists.

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WhatNext: New Gen Artist Series is a year-round free program from Gallery 44 that supports emerging artists aged 16–35 as they begin to shape their careers. Through seasonal virtual workshops, the series offers practical guidance on topics like freelancing, finding opportunities, writing for your practice, contemporary photography, and building sustainable professional habits.

WhatNext: New Gen Artist Series is made possible through the support of

With Salon 44 right around the corner, Kate Wivell, G44 Board Member, selects Paula McLean’s ‘Elgin Theatre’ as the firs...
02/19/2026

With Salon 44 right around the corner, Kate Wivell, G44 Board Member, selects Paula McLean’s ‘Elgin Theatre’ as the first Salon 44 highlight. Join us for Salon 44’s opening party on Friday, March 6, 7:00-10:00PM!

In previewing this year’s offerings for Salon 44, I was drawn to this small sculptural collage piece by Paul McLean. The work, entitled Elgin Theatre, was included in her recent exhibition at Iowa Projects in Brooklyn, New York. An investigation of performance surfaces, as described in the exhibition text, this body of work unpacks the spatial structures and peripheral systems necessary for meaning to be made between the performer and audience, and artwork and the viewer. Where we may take for granted the framing infrastructure of a theatre, concert hall, or gallery, McLean has chosen to bring these elements into focus, reconfiguring them in ways that unsettle and complicate the presumed dialectic of spectatorship. The tension between a faded, pixelated image of the theatre’s architecture and the hand-painted, hand-carved elements of the work pushes the subversion of our assumptions even further, underscoring the inherently subjective nature of meaning as it is inscribed, in the making, framing and reception of art.

Gallery 44 was fortunate to have Paula on staff last year, supporting the day-to-day operations of the gallery and production facilities. It’s always inspiring to see an emerging artist working through complex ideas and processes like this—but there is an added layer of significance when that artist also contributes in other ways to strengthen the artistic communities around them. Artist-run culture has always uniquely depended on the energy, insights, and dedicated labour of artists beyond their creative practices. The inclusion of this work alongside many others who have helped sustain Gallery 44 over the years feels like an important celebration of that tradition. When you purchase work from Salon 44 this March, you are directly supporting and championing that shared legacy.

-Kate Wivell, Board Member, Gallery 44

Visit the link in our bio to see a full list of participating artists!

Salon 44, Gallery 44’s annual fundraising exhibition in support of our education and exhibition programs, returns March ...
02/17/2026

Salon 44, Gallery 44’s annual fundraising exhibition in support of our education and exhibition programs, returns March 6 — 21, 2026.

Opening Reception: Friday, March 6, 7:00—10:00PM

Representing the best in Canadian photography, Salon 44 brings together an incredible collection of over 60 established and emerging artists with works priced for both new and seasoned collectors alike.

Salon 44 is co-chaired by Solana Cain, Sayem Khan and Maegan Broadhurst.

Participating artists include:‍

Alastair Martin · Albert Hoang · Alex Hall · Amara King · Antony Creary · Anthony Gebrehiwot · Attila Ataner · Ben Dickey · Brianna Roye · Colby Jones · Cruz · Dalia Rahhal · David Brandy · David Scriven · Ehiko Odeh · Eric Garsonnin · Erin McGean · Ernesto Cabral de Luna · Eve Tagny · Fred Lum · Gabreille Tyrie · Gerald Pisarzowski · Hannah Doucet · Heather Legere · Holly Chang · Jacynthe Carrier · Jesse King · Joel Rodriguez · John Faragher · Jordan King · Kate Young · Kosar Movahedi · Kyungmin Kate Lee · Leila Fatemi · Luther Konadu · Magida El-Kassis · Marco Buonocore · Matt Nish-Lapidus · Miguel Caba · Muna Muse · Nicole Beno · Oriana Confente · Paras Vijan · Paula McLean · Paulina Bereza · Pedro Barbáchano · Philip Leonard Ocampo · Pixel Heller · Ramolen Laruan · Rebecca Wood · Sabrina Sisco · Shaza Tarig · Shellie Zhang · Solange Adum Abdala · Tanya Gradyuk · Tyler Matheson · W***y Le Maitre · Yuhan Zheng · Zack Pospieszynski · Zoe Teng

Thank you to our program partners and sponsors

📸 Solange Adum Abdala, Monocular, 2020-2021

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