Upcoming Events
SNAP 2025
Daniels Spectrum: 585 Dundas Street East, Toronto
Friday, March 21, 2025
7:00pm - Late
"Support people living with and at risk of HIV while enjoying an incredible evening of amazing food, drinks, and exclusive opportunities to bid on amazing art pieces.
Explore a curated selection of photographic art spanning various genres and styles in our Live Auction. ACT is thrilled to once again be hosting a dazzling online experience auction featuring one-of-a-kind experiences from the worlds of travel, fashion, cuisine and more!
Don't miss this opportunity to acquire remarkable photographic art that will inspire, provoke, and leave a lasting impression, while supporting people living with and at risk of HIV..." (continue reading)
Salon44 @ Gallery 44
401 Richmond, Toronto
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 6, 7:00-10:00PM.
Gallery 44’s annual fundraising exhibition in support of our education and exhibition programs returns! Representing the best in Canadian photography, Salon 44 brings together an incredible collection of over 60 established and emerging artists with works priced for both new and seasoned collectors alike.
Salon 44 is co-chaired by Solana Cain, Sayem Khan and Maegan Broadhurst.
My Story is You
Feb 6 – Mar 16 2025
Soul pepper Theatre, 50 Tank house Lane
"Inspired by the play Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi, My Story is You is a public exhibition highlighting the stories of 8 immigrant businesses in Toronto.
Featuring analog photography by Mexican lens-based artist Ernesto Cabral de Luna, My Story is You celebrates the preservation and evolution of cultural heritage in diaspora and the social bonds that form the foundation of our city. From the first Hakka restaurant in Toronto to a butcher shop in Little Portugal celebrating its 50th year, the exhibition offers a glimpse into storefronts, stockrooms, kitchens and counters rich with continuing legacies of creativity, resilience and community."
CBC Toronto Metro Morning Interview
TBA | Journal of art, media, & visual culture
The static of friction is palpable; it shocks us daily. Below us, the lithosphere steadily pushes against itself in a process of subduction, and above ground a multiplicity of narratives electrifies the air through various frictions. Classically, friction has been associated with chaos or conflict, as a negative impact of two or more forces making contact with one another. Tba’s mandate since its inception has been to welcome experimentation in the works of emerging scholars and artists, and our past contributors have found space to reimagine what a scholarly journal might look like, creating various frictions as the visual and sensorial qualities of art collide with the boundaries of the academic framework. Our issue this year is no different, featuring artists, writers, and academics reflexively analyzing their work through research-creation, poetry, and material encounters, even pushing back against the structure of the article itself through experimental footnotes and sound. In our 2025 issue, we celebrate creative practices and scholarly writing born from experimentation and risk, reimagining friction as a force that can simultaneously describe conflict, pain, and grief, and also the creative, curious, and joyful...
Snapshot: Foto de Familia
Dec 21 2024–Mar 20 2025
Stantec Window Gallery401 Wellington Street West, #100, Toronto
Snapshot: Foto de Familia’ is a mixed-media art piece by Ernesto Cabral de Luna that explores the delicate interplay between memory, material degradation, and artistic resurrection. This large-scale installation of a family photograph transferred onto corroded copper showcases the visual distortion of memories through the physical wear of materiality. The work invites viewers to reflect on the fragility of personal history, degradation of the image, the beauty of material transformation, and how time alters both physical and emotional landscapes. (Read more...)
I was commissioned by Walmart Canada to design a reusable bag in celebration of Latin Heritage Month! This piece celebrates Mexican culture through the illustration of Dia de Muertos utilizing the visual format of a Loteria card! 100,000 bags will be distributed nationally, find them at a location near you at the checkout areas!
Casey House's 2024 Art With Heart Auction
Tuesday October 8, 2024
The Carlu, 444 Yonge St.
See the artwork in-person at the free public preview October 4 (9 a.m.- 5 p.m.) and October 5 (11 a.m. – 4 p.m.) at Cowley Abbott Fine Art.
"Casey House is proud to feature some of the nation's most talented contemporary visual artists in our 31st charity art auction, Art With Heart, presented by TD Bank Group. All 74 artworks can be viewed online here.
Immerse yourself in lush paintings, breathtaking photography, vivid prints, captivating ceramics, and more, all available for auction at Art With Heart.
While you can bid in the silent auction from anywhere, it's way more fun to join Casey House Tuesday, October 8 at the iconic Carlu and participate in the live auction. Support access to judgement-free health care at Casey House and the Canadian art community on this magical evening."
NEW BLOG POST!
La Sirena, 2024
In this artwork, various archival images are transferred onto a corroded piece of copper, presenting three figures on a beach: a man drinking a beer, another lying on the sand, and a woman walking towards them. Each figure is drawn from separate photographs taken by my mother at different beaches throughout her youth... (click here to read more)
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