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CALL FOR APPLICANTS : Gallery Administration Assistant

Program Stream: Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations Term: 10-week position, 40 hours / week Location: Hybrid work model, Toronto, ON Hourly Wage: $19.50 per hour worked, less applicable withholdings and statutory deductions Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art, is seeking a Gallery Administration Assistant for a 10- week contract beginning 27 June 2023. […]

CURRENT EXHIBITION

SPACE: Lotus Laurie Kang | Mother Always Has a Mother: Brick

6 May 2023 - 7 September 2023
Opening Reception 1 January 1970 12am

Mercer Union’s SPACE billboard commission has invited artist Lotus Laurie Kang for its 2022–23 season for a yearlong series titled, Mother Always Has a Mother. Known for her sprawling installations and distinctive material repertoire, Kang’s practice is a dialogue with entropy. Elegantly disordered and richly layered, her site-sensitive works explore the relational bonds between time, […]

PAST EVENT

a dream, a mountain, a ruin with Gelare Khoshgozaran

Curated by Nasrin Himada Innis Town Hall Theatre 2 Sussex Avenue University of Toronto Gelare Khoshgozaran’s work sets up a deep engagement with moving images that address the geopolitical urgencies afflicting our contemporary context. Viewers are invited to a close study of Khoshgozaran’s films that inform the poetry and dreams of diasporic longings, embedded in […]

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Aziz Hazara: Bow Echo

Curated by Nasrin Himada

6 May 2023 - 22 July 2023
Opening Reception 5 May 2023 7pm

Aziz Hazara works across photography, video, sound, code, text, and installation to reflect on the geopolitical landscapes of his home in Afghanistan and the violent impacts of occupation, invasion and war. His practice looks at the technologies of power that form through surveillance, and those that manifest in the weaponization of representation. In Hazara’s film […]

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Video Walkthrough: Tassili

Lydia Ourahmane gives a virtual tour of her ongoing solo exhibition, Tassili. Speaking to the process of making her commissioned film, the artist reflects on 13 days and nights spent in the desert with her collaborators, and considers the urgency of documenting the ancient riverbed.      Cinematography, Editing & Production by Vuk Dragojevic. […]

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CALL FOR APPLICANTS: Director and Curator

Post Title: Director & Curator Reports to: Board of Directors Salary: $70,000 per annum plus benefits, travel and professional development stipend Hours: 35 hours/week, including occasional evenings and weekends Mercer Union’s Board of Directors is seeking a Director & Curator with the vision, passion, and experience to lead Mercer Union through its next stage of […]

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fORUM: Samia Henni

  Contaminating the Sahara On 13 February 1960, the French colonial authorities detonated their first atomic atmospheric bomb in Reggane in the colonized Algerian Sahara, six years after the outbreak of the Algerian Revolution, or the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962). Codenamed “Gerboise Bleue” (Blue Jerboa), the explosive had a blast capacity of 70 kilotons, about […]

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Winter 2023 ARTbus: Exhibition Tour

Pick-up and drop-off at Mercer Union. $10 minimum donation includes transportation to all galleries and afternoon refreshments. In partnership with Oakville Galleries and the Art Gallery of Burlington, Mercer Union invites you to join us for the Winter ARTbus tour of 4 exhibitions. Beginning with Lydia Ourahmane’s exhibition Tassili at Mercer Union, the ARTbus will […]

PAST EXHIBITION

SPACE: Lotus Laurie Kang | Mother Always Has a Mother: Burnt Orange

26 January 2023 - 5 May 2023
Opening Reception 1 January 1970 12am

Mercer Union’s SPACE billboard commission has invited artist Lotus Laurie Kang for its 2022–23 season for a yearlong series titled, Mother Always Has a Mother. Known for her sprawling installations and distinctive material repertoire, Kang’s practice is a dialogue with entropy. Elegantly disordered and richly layered, her site-sensitive works explore the relational bonds between time, […]

PAST EVENT

fORUM: Lydia Ourahmane

Event begins at 6:30PM EST Main Hall 1 Spadina Crescent John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design University of Toronto  Lydia Ourahmane leads an artist talk around her new film and the subject of her first exhibition in Canada, Tassili (2022). Documenting a two-week journey on foot with a group of artists to […]