PAST EXHIBITION
SPACE: Shellie Zhang | A day passes like a year: Ode to Winter
21 December 2021 - 13 March 2022
Opening Reception 1 January 1970 12am
Mercer Union’s SPACE billboard commission has invited artist Shellie Zhang for its 2021–22 season for a yearlong series titled, A day passes like a year. Known for her highly composed still life works that assemble objects of pop iconography, cultural construction, and diasporic memory, Zhang’s photographs offer vibrant gestures of reclamation, humor, and dissidence. In […]
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fORUM: let it matter what we call a thing
13 January 2022 - 9 February 2022
Opening Reception 1 January 1970 12am
Nasrin Himada leads a response under Mercer Union’s fORUM program, that extends on the themes of Onyeka Igwe’s exhibition, THE REAL STORY IS WHAT’S IN THAT ROOM. In a series of events, Himada invites artists and cultural practitioners to consider Igwe’s propositions, with particular attention to a so-called archive (2020)—the artist’s new film exploring the […]
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Onyeka Igwe: THE REAL STORY IS WHAT’S IN THAT ROOM
6 November 2021 - 26 February 2022
Opening Reception 6 November 2021 11am
With a forensic lens, Onyeka Igwe’s commissioned film a so-called archive (2020), interrogates the decomposing repositories of Empire, and offers the central feature in her first solo exhibition in North America, THE REAL STORY IS WHAT’S IN THAT ROOM. Blending footage shot in two colonial archive buildings—one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Bristol, United Kingdom—the film is a double […]
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SPACE: Shellie Zhang | A day passes like a year: Ode to Autumn
22 September 2021 - 14 December 2021
Opening Reception 1 January 1970 12am
Mercer Union’s SPACE billboard commission has invited artist Shellie Zhang for its 2021–22 season for a yearlong series titled, A day passes like a year. Known for her highly composed still life works that assemble objects of pop iconography, cultural construction, and diasporic memory, Zhang’s photographs offer vibrant gestures of reclamation, humor, and dissidence. In […]
PAST EXHIBITION
SPACE: The BAU | Functioning Circuits: GreenPort
5 April 2021 - 21 August 2021
Opening Reception 1 January 1970 12am
Black Artists Union (BAU) in collaboration with Kanna Anigbogu illustrate the ethos of GreenPort Cannabis: Healing, Community, Growth and Unity. Mercer Union’s SPACE billboard commission has invited The Black Artists Union (BAU) for its 2020-21 season. Their project, Functioning Circuits, gathers functionality in art through a series of advertisements made collaboratively with The BAU commissioned artists and businesses […]
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ma ma | in residence
12 April 2021 - 28 June 2021
Opening Reception 1 January 1970 12am
Fast Forward: Speculative Institutions Mercer Union has invited Toronto-based collective ma ma for an extended term of curatorial research through public events and engagements. ma ma | in residence begins with Fast Forward: Speculative Institutions, a three-part program on speculation and imagination that will consider how institutional critique can be a catalyst for institutional change. […]
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SPACE: The BAU | Functioning Circuits: BAU Buys Bitcoin
15 February 2021 - 3 April 2021
Opening Reception 1 January 1970 12am
Bitcoin, coined as internet money, is a programmable network that works as a store of value through its distributed public ledger. Operating independently of a central bank, Bitcoin exists outside of government issued currencies and offers an alternative to legacy financial tools. The Black Artists Union’s (BAU) desire to seek tools for self-sustenance has led […]