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Patel Brown is a contemporary art gallery that has locations in Toronto and Montreal.

09/02/2026

Late Summer, a solo exhibition by Tuan Vu, opens at Patel Brown on Saturday, September 12.

The afternoon will begin with an artist-led tour, followed by the opening reception, and light refreshments will be served.

Artist-Led Tour | 2 PM to 3 PM
Opening Reception | 3 PM to 5 PM

21 Wade Ave, Unit 2.

We look forward to celebrating with you!

09/01/2026

It’s the last week to see Slip, Stitch

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Slip, Stitch gathers artists whose practices embrace acts of joining, layering, and grafting.

Rooted in reflections on growth and propagation, cultural heritage, and belonging, the exhibition traces the threads that bind us to one another and to the worlds we inhabit.

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Patel Brown is open every Tuesday to Saturday, from 10 - 6.

21 Wade Ave, Unit 2.

Documentation by Darren Rigo, Darren Rigo

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08/28/2026

Holly Chang Arching the Sun, 2026 cyanotype on fabric toned with golden rod and pomegranate

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Currently on view in our summer showcase: Slip, Stitch

In Holly Chang’s works, the garden is treated less as a subject than as a system of return. Using gardening as a way to move through grief, Chang observes both cultivated and self-seeded plants, questioning hierarchies that privilege certain forms of life over others.

The garden becomes a site for witnessing how life sustains life, as plants support emotional survival while continuing to nourish surrounding ecologies through cycles of growth, decay, and return to soil. Cyanotype preserves plants in their brief seasonal presence, while quilting merges these impressions into layered compositions where different moments of growth coexist, transforming grief into a soft, domestic object of care and comfort.

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Slip, Stitch is on view until September 5 | 21 Wade Ave, 10 am to 6 pm, Tuesday through Saturday.

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Documentation by Darren Rigo, Darren Rigo

08/26/2026

It’s the last two weeks to see Slip, Stitch, our summer showcase with works by:

Jess Riva Cooper
Holly Chang
Justin Ming Yong
Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich
Swapnaa Tamahne
Malik McKoy
Laïla Mestari

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Slip stitch: A versatile technique used in sewing, knitting, and crocheting.

Slip: A clay slurry used to produce pottery and other ceramic wares.

Stitch: A single loop, link, or pass of thread through material

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Slip, Stitch is on view until September 5 | 21 Wade Ave, 10 am to 6 pm, Tuesday through Saturday.

Documentation by Darren Rigo, Darren Rigo

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08/25/2026

Patel Brown is thrilled to welcome Tuan Vu as gallery artist with his first solo exhibition, opening this fall.

Late Summer | Tuan Vu | 12 September to 17 October

Tuan Vu is an artist born in Saigon, Vietnam, and currently based in Quebec. A self-taught artist, his work encompasses drawing, painting, and photography, with a particular focus on the exploration of color as a vehicle for emotional expression and narrative. His oeuvre frequently features female figures set within vibrant tropical environments, drawing inspiration from the Parisian group Les Nabis, the work of Odilon Redon, as well as the flat planes and compositional approaches characteristic of traditional Japanese woodblock prints.

Join us on Saturday, September 12 to celebrate the opening of Tuan’s first solo-exhibition at Patel Brown.

We look forward to continuing to support your work and follow all that comes next!

Work highlighted: Tuan Vu, The Red Bridge, 2026, oil, oil stick on linen

08/22/2026

Justin Ming Yong
Summer Green 01, 2025
cotton, ink, bleach, wood stretcher

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Currently on view in our summer showcase: Slip, Stitch

Justin Ming Yong is a visual artist who currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Yong explores modern abstractions of quiltmaking and improvised textile compositions that destabilize the fictional boundaries between traditional craft and contemporary art.

Approaching quilting as a process of repetition, intuition, and material response, Justin Ming Yong’s enables the textiles to register labour, chance, and the shifting logic of the hand. Summer Viridian and Summer Green document quilt ties on fabric, using ink and bleach to preserve traces of touch, pressure, and construction.

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Slip, Stitch | 25 June to 5 September  21 Wade Ave, Unit 2  Tuesday - Saturday | 10 - 6

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08/21/2026

Swapnaa Tamhane in Textiles as Monument | The Fowler Museum at UCLA

“Rather than monumentalizing political power or conquest, Textiles as Monument asks what it means to honor communities whose contributions have often gone unseen, foregrounding stories often absent from public memory.

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Working in close collaboration with textile-makers in India’s Kutch region, Swapnaa Tamhane foregrounds the expertise and artistry of makers whose knowledge has long shaped global textile traditions.”

–Curated by Syona Puliady

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If you happen to be in LA, check out Textiles as Monument - admission is free!

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08/19/2026

Malik McKoy
sugar rush via bluetooth, 2026
oil, acrylic on cotton-polyester

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Currently on view in our summer showcase: Slip, Stitch

Malik McKoy is a multidisciplinary artist based in Montréal, Canada, working across painting and digital media. Using airbrush and brushwork on stretched textiles, he constructs compositions that oscillate between representation and abstraction.

sugar rush via bluetooth emerged from an overheard conversation in the park: a man on a nearby bench, cigarette in hand, broadcasting through his AirPods. McKoy recasts his exaggerated masculine posturing as a comical, queer-coded character. A green acrylic wash grounds layers of airbrush and yellow oil that bleed into the smoke cloud.

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Slip, Stitch | 25 June to 5 September  21 Wade Ave, Unit 2  Tuesday - Saturday | 10 - 6

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08/18/2026

Patel Brown is proud to announce the acquisition of works by Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich, Shary Boyle and Marigold Santos into the Dorris McCarthy Collection.

These works are on view in the Doris McCarthy Gallery vitrines as part of the group exhibition New Neighbours: Collection in Focus curated by Julia Abraham.

“This ever-growing network of artists invites us to consider the importance of kinship, optimism, and sense of place through relational accountability within our local suburban context.”

Congratulations to the DMG and the artists on these important acquisitions, which will “preserve and ensure access to works by significant Canadian and international artists while stimulating conversations around the formal and perceptual boundaries of contemporary art practice.”

For more information on the collection visit embark.utsc.utoronto.ca

New Neighbours: Collection in Focus is on view through August 30th - check it out!

Documentation by Darren Rigo

08/15/2026

We are proud to announce Howie Tsui as the prize winner of The 2026 Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Visual Arts!

For each award, a selection committee of arts professionals from across Canada develops a list of candidates before narrowing it through a series of votes and deliberations. This year, the committee recognized Howie Tsui for forging a unique path in his career through his creative use of technology and historical materials in his art-making.

“To be recognized in this way affirms that the quiet, diligent work I dedicate to my
practice can be found, understood — and considered belonging within the Canadian
contemporary art community. The award anchors my convictions, silences the bouts of debilitating doubt that seep in through the crevasses, and emboldens the pursuit of
works that might otherwise remain unrealized.”

- Howie Tsui

“Howie Tsui has been ahead of the curve for a long time, with both uses of technology
and cross-cultural juxtapositions in art.”

- Elliott Ramsey (Curator, The Polygon Gallery)

For more information on Howie and the Hnatyshyn Foundation, visit www.rjhf.com

Congratulations on this much deserved recognition Howie - we look forward to what’s to come!

Portrait of Howie Tsui. Photo: Rémi Thériault. Courtesy of Howie Tsui.

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