Patel Brown, Toronto, ON (2026)

05/28/2026

Shellie Zhang
Top Coat, 2024
wire, resin, acrylic nail gems, metal nails

Shellie Zhang | Surface Tension

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In this work, Zhang examines decorative surfaces and practices of adornment as strategies for navigating the boundaries between visibility and invisibility—how surfaces can both conceal and reveal, protect and expose, repulse and attract. The web offers a meditation on how practices of adornment, shine and artifice operate as a strategy to elude fixity.

Be sure to look up when viewing Shellie’s exhibition Surface Tension, on view until June 13.

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21 Wade Ave, Tuesday to Saturday, 10 - 6.

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05/27/2026

Patel Brown would like to extend a special congratulations to Patrick Frantz Henry for being selected as a Quebec artist longlisted for the 2026 Sobey Art Award!

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Patrick Henry is an artist of Haitian origin living in Montreal since 2011 and moved to New Haven for his MFA at Yale. He received a Scholarship of Excellence in Sculpture from the McAbbie Foundation for his installation I am new here (2020). A multidisciplinary artist, he explores the theme of “becoming” through sculpture, painting, installation, photography and animation. Through the appropriation of everyday objects deviated from their function, his works are most often deployed in the form of a site, inviting the viewer to experience the work in the mode of a social geography.

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05/26/2026

Olga Abeleva | Milk can escape | Centre Clark

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We enter the shopping mall through large glass doors, which open onto the experience of North American modernity: immensity, abundance, desire. Our journey’s just begun, and we’re already lost in this showcase of hyper-availability. The primary goal is to play the consumer: anything can be ours, everything has potential. We throw ourselves into our role: the stores become our set, the signs transform into a script, the indoor promenade is now our stage. Power shifts quickly as we make transactions; we gradually become merchandise, available for all to see…

– Excerpt from exhibition text by Joséphine Rivard, curator (trans. Käthe Roth).

If you’re in and around the mile end, stop by (tag centre clark) to see Olga’s show in room 2.

Congratulations Olga!

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05/23/2026

Spot Vanessa Brown’s charms in Vancouver!

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Installed over five years ago, Vanessa Brown’s charms are a permanent fixture on view outside of The Windsor, 2395 Kingsway, Vancouver.

Charms is a series of 5 leaning posts placed throughout the breezeway and the front of The Windsor.

“I chose charm bracelets as a starting point for this project for their very old history and their ability to integrate universal symbols with deeply personal ones. The first charm bracelets were worn by Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and Hittites beginning from 600 BCE. Charm bracelets have seen resurgences over time in various cultures. Now often received as heirlooms, charm bracelets, unlike other forms of property, tend to be passed matrilineally over generations. As they are passed from an older set of hands to a younger one, with it are the rare personal histories embedded in each item. They are tokens of important moments and memories. Whether it is celebration, heartache, or a point of discovery, we carry these histories close on our bodies. Charms, as a proposal, repeats the gesture, holding close to the body of the building.”

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Charms was commissioned by Imani Development as part of their participation in the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program for Private Development.

For more information visit (vancouver.ca/PublicArtRegistry)

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05/22/2026

Marigold Santos in Vogue Philippines

“What I found in my journey is that diasporic individuals feel a sense of fragmentation because they don’t have the luxury of being immersed in their culture 24/7,” she says. “So what ends up happening is the culture comes to you in pieces. You learn about your heritage. You learn about your ancestry in very small ways. Then you take those small ways and you gather them up and you hold them very close to you because that’s sort of what you have.”

She adds, “so you’re almost like making constellations. You’re weaving a project of identity as you are experiencing your life outside of your homeland.”

– Excerpt from Marigold Santos Reconstructs Identity Through Filipino Myths and Memories by Tricki Lopa, in Vogue Philippines.

🌟⭐️Congratulations Marigold!⭐️🌟

Portrait of Marigold Santos by Jared Sych, Marigold is wearing the mosquito net top from Glorious Dias by Jodinand Aguillon.

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Work Highlighted : Marigold Santos, shroud (mananaggal as self-portrait), 2020.

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05/21/2026

Celia Perrin Sidarous
A Leaf (with bronze), 2026
bronze, inkjet print on cotton paper

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Celia Perrin Sidarous | Into the house of the heart,

And so we dance, and dance as the images whirl around and radiate like magic lanterns, the smell of gasoline magnificent in the night as we remember how memory ignites the passion and the heart.

- Excerpt from exhibition text by Stephanie E. Creaghan (on patelbrown.com)

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⋆˚꩜｡On view at Patel Brown until June 13, 2026. ⋆˚꩜｡

21 Wade Ave, Tuesday to Saturday, 10 - 6.

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05/19/2026

Shellie Zhang
Bamboo Canopy, 2024
steel, aluminum, aerosol and airbrush paint, red light therapy lamp, LED light, bamboo ash container

Shellie Zhang | Surface Tension

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“Bamboo Canopy engages with Zhang’s exploration of the visual and physical spread of the bamboo plant. Bamboo was first introduced to North America in 1882 as an ornamental plant; as it spread, it came to be classified as invasive. Zhang engages with bamboo as a metaphor for how othered bodies are perceived as both ornamental and threatening—simultaneously aestheticized and feared.”

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A special congratulations to Shellie and the Yale MFA Sculpture class of 2026!

Check out some of Shellie’s recent work in Surface Tension, on view at Patel Brown until June 13, 2026.

21 Wade Ave, Tuesday to Saturday, 10 - 6.

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05/15/2026

We’re all set up for Independent New York, 2026!

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Stop by Booth 204 to see a solo-presentation of a new works by Laïla Mestari.

This body of work explores questions around cultural identity, how it is transmitted, translated and transformed, particularly through the iconography of wearable or domestic objects and through the body. Anchored in my personal experience and family history, I hope my work creates a space to think about immigration, family, diasporic identity, uprooting and belonging in a way that leaves room for complexity and unresolved questions. I look where identity is moving, mutating, resisting, rebranching and rearticulating.

– Laïla Mestari

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𓅯Fair Hours𓅯

Friday, May 15, 2026 | 11 AM – 7 PM
Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 11 AM – 7 PM
Sunday, May 17, 2026 | 11 AM – 6 PM

At Pier 36 on the Lower East Side.

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05/14/2026

Patel Brown at Independent 2026, New York!

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Booth 204

We’re excited to be participating in the Independent Art Fair, for the first time, with a solo-presentation of new body works by Laïla Mestari.

Ton histoire (2026), her recent sculptural work, embodies transmission, storytelling, and cultural identity as informed by living history. Constructed in metal, the material undergoes both chemical and physical transformations. Medium (bronze) and title (in French, “histoire”, means both “story” and “history”, “ton” means you) work together to produce an ambiguity between the personal and the collective, situating everyday experience within a broader historical context.
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The artist would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des letttres du Québec that made creation of this body of work possible.

🪐Fair Hours🪐

Friday, May 15, 2026 | 11 AM – 7 PM
Saturday, May 16, 2026 | 11 AM – 7 PM
Sunday, May 17, 2026 | 11 AM – 6 PM

At Pier 36 on the Lower East Side

We look forward to seeing you in NYC!

For more information on this work and the presentation please inquire [email protected]

Work Highlighted:

Laïla Mestari, Ton histoire, 2026, bronze

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05/13/2026

Patel Brown will be closed today, Wednesday, May 13, 2026 to host UnMasked 2026.

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UnMasked brings together leaders from business, philanthropy, health, entertainment and the arts for an evening of inspiration and connection. Guests will gather for intimate dinners in some of Toronto’s most upscale art galleries to enjoy unique culinary experiences paired with exclusive insights from CAMH’s leading professionals.

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital and one of the world’s leading research centres in its field. CAMH is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto and is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre.

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In its 12th year, UnMasked has raised a total of 11 million dollars. Patel Brown is delighted to support this cause in helping to build better mental healthcare in the city of Toronto.

For more information visit giving.camh.ca

Patel Brown will resume regular operations tomorrow, May 14th 2026.

Our regular hours are Tuesday - Saturday, 10 - 6pm at 21 Wade Ave.

Work Pictured :

(Detail), Celia Perrin Sidarous, Coquillage (with bronze), 2026, bronze, inkjet print on cotton paper

05/09/2026

Marigold Santos
shroud arthropod (mother mantis), 2025
acrylic, pigment, gesso on canvas

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Calgary-based interdisciplinary artist Marigold Santos’s two most recent shows at Patel Brown Gallery in Toronto have featured spellbinding frames fabricated by Santos’s partner, Yarko Yopyk.

“Her paintings are compelling, concentrated, and confident, and so are her framing selections,” says Patel Brown’s gallery director, Jennifer Simaitis. “The stain and grain of the frames often mimic the colours and mark-making found within the works themselves.”

-Excerpt from How contemporary artists are turning the frame into a medium of its own by Odessa Paloma Parker in the Globe and Mail.

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