Gallery TPW

07/28/2026

Join us for a family-friendly sunprint and cyanotype workshop led by TPW curator Liz Ikiriko as part of Gallery TPW's Hey Neighbour! Day on Saturday, August 15th!

Using sunlight and everyday objects, participants will get a chance to create their own prints through these alternative photography processes.

$20/person. Materials will be provided.

Register through the link below!

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Hey Neighbour! Day is a community fundraising event at Gallery TPW featuring a one-day-only print sale from our archives, professional headshot sessions, family-friendly workshops, and a Happy Hour to wrap up the day.

All proceeds support Gallery TPW's exhibitions, public programs, operations.

Join us for a family-friendly sunprint and cyanotype workshop led by TPW curator Liz Ikiriko as part of Gallery TPW's Hey Neighbour! Day.

07/10/2026

Coded Image/Coded Text Curator's Tour
🗓️ Saturday, July 18, 2026
📍 Gallery TPW
⏰ 2PM-3PM

Join us Saturday, July 18th from 2pm as curator Liz Ikiriko guides us through "Coded Image / Coded Text" featuring the work of Hoda Afshar and Vernon Ah Kee. The exhibition presents, painting, photography and multichannel videos that contend with the detention of Aboriginal youth in Australia and, with stateless men who are left on Manus Island - a former Australian detention centre closed in 2017. "Coded Image / Coded Text" invites visitors to reflect on the psychological impacts and systemic structures of incarceration, and the ways they shape the lives of those who have experienced detention. Through the work of Hoda Afshar and Vernon Ah Kee, the exhibition affirms the inherent dignity, humanity, and fundamental rights of detained citizens, offering a deeper understanding and recognition of their experiences.

Light refreshments will be provided for the curatorial tour from 2pm-3pm.

Learn more about the exhibition: gallerytpw.ca/codedimage-codedtext

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📸: Installation view of "Coded Image/Coded Text", exhibition at Gallery TPW, 2026. Photo: Gloria Wong

11/03/2025

✨ Gallery TPW is thrilled to present a special selection from PHOTORAMA, our bi-annual print sale fundraiser, at Donna’s from October 26th - December 13th, 2025. ✨

PHOTORAMA: B-SIDES + OUTTAKES draws on ideas of reflection and reinvention. Inspired by the concept of a B-side track—the lesser-known, experimental, or overlooked counterpart to a record’s main A-side — Gallery TPW invited artists to share their own interpretations of a lens-based B-side. The works derive from digital files, scans of test prints, behind-the-scenes images, phone photos, research materials, film stills, or happy accidents—each offering a rare glimpse into the creative process. 📸

Proceeds directly support the artists, curators, writers, and designers who make Gallery TPW’s programming possible, ensuring our ongoing commitment to Canadian artists and the future of independent creative practice.

👉 Explore the full list of available works through the link in our bio and swing by Donna’s before December 13th to see the PHOTORAMA prints in person!

10/29/2025

✨ A huge thank you to C& Founder/Director Yvette Mutumba and Project Manager Chloe Sylvestre for bringing the (C&) Cyclopedia — an active, accessible, and ever-evolving online archive to life in Toronto, with the partnership of Gallery TPW and

We wrapped up an incredible week filled with connection, conversation, and creativity, including:

A -sponsored dinner catered by the brilliant culinary storytellers at
A West-End Arts Walk, featuring a visit with the esteemed artist June Clark at
The public launch of the C& Cyclopedia and an Platform Talk — discussion with (Gallery TPW), Josephine Denis (BAND Gallery), Yvette Mutumba, and .

Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate and meet the C& team!

👉 Explore the C& Cyclopedia anytime at contemporaryand.com through the link in our bio!

10/09/2025

Join this Saturday from 1PM for an afternoon gallery crawl through some of Toronto’s galleries and artist run centres, including a stop at Gallery TPW! 🌇

Guest Curator, , will be giving a guided tour of the exhibition “Between grain, dune, salt, and sky”!

🔗 Click the link in our bio for more information

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📸 Installation view of “Between grain, dune, salt, and sky”, exhibition at Gallery TPW, 2025. Photo: Darren Rigo

09/16/2025

Learn more about the artists in our upcoming exhibition “Between grain, dune, salt, and sky”, curated by Sarah Edo ⚡️

Adji Dieye is a visual artist living and working between Dakar, Milan, and Zurich. Her practice interrogates notions of representation and identity to examine the socio-political structures shaping our globalized world. By exploring the role of culture in advertising, architecture, and national archives, she scrutinizes the forms of aesthetics of self-determination within neoliberal contexts. Photography is central to her work, serving both as a versatile medium and as a means to question representational “knowledge” and processes of othering across Western and Non-Western societies.

Adji holds a BA degree in New Technologies of Art from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts (Milan) and an MFA from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Her work has been exhibited internationally, with recent exhibitions including Our Rivers Share a Mouth at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Torino, 2024), Aphasia at Fotomuseum Winterthur (2023), Cultura Persa e Imparata a Memoria at ar/ge Kunst (Bolzano, 2022), Culture Lost and Learned by Heart at C/O Berlin (2021), ...of bread, wine, cars, security and peace at Kunsthalle Wien (2020), A Matter of Time at the Cultural Summit (Abu Dhabi, 2024), and The Norval Sovereign African Art Prize at Norval Foundation (Cape Town, 2024). Her upcoming projects include a solo exhibition at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in 2026. She has taken part in several international biennales, including the 24th Biennale Arte Paiz (Guatemala, 2025), the 16th Lyon Biennale (2022), the 14th Dak’Art Biennale – Ĩ NDAFFA (2022), the 13th Bamako Biennale – Rencontres de Bamako (2022), and the Mediterranea Biennale – Schools of Water (San Marino, 2021).

📢 “Between grain, dune, salt, and sky” opens on Thursday!

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“Between grain, dune, salt, and sky” is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Spring Grant.

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📸1: Adji Dieye, “Untitled”, 2020, Metal and silk screen on silk twill. Photo courtesy of Cecile Fakhoury Galerie, Dakar.

09/11/2025

Learn more about the artists in our upcoming exhibition "Between grain, dune, salt, and sky", curated by Sarah Edo 🌾

Dawit L. Petros is a visual artist and educator whose work is informed by the intertwined and multiple narratives of African and European colonialism and modernity. He draws from his study of history to examine displaced or forgotten histories. Petros conducts extensive research and travels to inform production across materials and media, including photography, sculpture, screen prints, video, sound, performance, and sound. A sensitivity to political and historical engagement is fused with aesthetic language that pays keen attention to color and abstraction, reflecting Petros’ long-standing preoccupation with traditions of minimalist sculpture and conceptual artmaking.
 
Dawit L. Petros received an MFA in Visual Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, a BFA in Photography from Concordia University, a BFA in History from the University of Saskatchewan and completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Recent exhibition venues include the Liverpool Biennial, Haus der Kunst, Munich; Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort; Wereld Museum, Rotterdam; Tate Modern, London; Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo; Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC; and the Bamako Biennale in Mali. Dawit L. Petros is a co-founder with Heba Y. Amin of Black Athena Collective. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Studio Art at Dartmouth College.

The opening of "Between grain, dune, salt, and sky" is only a week away! Please join us at the gallery on Thursday, September 18 from 6PM-8PM 🎉

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“Between grain, dune, salt, and sky” is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Spring Grant.

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📸1: Detail, “Nearness and distance constitute a position, Nouakchott, Mauritania”, Archival color pigment prints, 30 x 37.50”, 2016. Courtesy of Bradley Ertaskiran and the artist.
📸 2: Artist Portrait, Courtesy of Dawit L.Petros.

09/10/2025

Learn more about the artists in our upcoming exhibition "Between grain, dune, salt, and sky", curated by Sarah Edo ☀️

Jessica Karuhanga is a first-generation Canadian artist of British-Ugandan heritage who addresses politics of identity and Black diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies, sculpture, writing, drawing, and performance. Jessica’s work has been presented at venues including Warehouse9 (Copenhagen, DK), Sarajevski Otvoreni Centar (Sarajevo, BA), Mitchell Art Gallery (Edmonton), Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Oshawa), Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Onsite Gallery (Toronto), Remai Modern (Saskatoon), Pallas Art Projects (Dublin, IE), WNDX Festival (Winnipeg), ROM (Toronto), and Goldsmiths University (London, UK). Her work is also in public collections (Museum London, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery). She holds a BFA (Western University) and an MFA (University of Victoria) and is an Assistant Professor at Western University.

The opening of “Between grain, dune, salt, and sky”, is just over a week away! Join us on Thursday, September 18 from 6PM-8PM to kick off our fall exhibition and stay tuned for upcoming announcements about public programming! 💫

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“Between grain, dune, salt, and sky” is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Spring Grant.

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📸1: Jessica Karuhanga: “Blue as the insides” (installation view), Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist.

09/08/2025

Learn more about the artists in our upcoming exhibition "Between grain, dune, salt, and sky", curated by Sarah Edo 🎛️

Wintana Hagos is a Toronto-based multisensory artist, soundscape composer, and cultural strategist focused on sound as a tool for structural, spatial, and public engagement. Her work involves cymatics, analog experimentation, and the reconstruction of sound systems using salvaged materials. She creates sculptural sound pieces that house archived East African recordings, treating sound as a physical and political material. These works explore how sonic systems can shift access and offer alternative modes of knowledge-sharing. As both an artist and an archivist, her approach is grounded in research, listening, and public-facing experimentation. She lead and co-run multiple artist-led initiatives including It’s Ok* Studios, a volunteer-run creative space supporting Black and racialized artists through access to equipment, mentorship, and production space. 
 
Wintana is also active in Estrelar Sound, a Toronto-based audio collective supporting experimental sound and performance practices. Certified in Sound Healing and Yoga Nidra, she incorporates somatic and wellness practices into her programming with young creatives, prioritizing rest, focus, and recovery as core elements of sustainable art-making.

Please join us on Thursday, September 18 as we kick off our fall programming season with the opening of “Between grain, dune, salt, and sky”, from 6PM-8PM and stay tuned for upcoming announcements about public programming! 🥂

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“Between grain, dune, salt, and sky” is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Spring Grant.

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📸1: Installation view from “Waves cont”, 2025. Photo courtesy of the artist.

09/03/2025

We’re excited to be partnering with Art Skills for Success Work Experience Program to provide two internship opportunities for emerging Indigenous curators and cultural workers!

These paid opportunities are designed to provide Indigenous early-career artists and creatives with entry-level work experience where they will be trained on industry standard skills, obtain knowledge relevant to their career goals, and engage in new networking opportunities to advance their careers.

We are currently seeking internships for a Fall Cohort (September - December 2025) and Winter Cohort (January - March 2026).

Application forms and information in our bio!