Toronto: College West, Dundas West, Bloor West, Roncesvalles
College West, Dundas West, Bloor West, and Roncesvalles are home to a rich variety of galleries, cultural festivals and events that showcase the diversity and creativity of Toronto’s artists. You might want to start each day at a café in Toronto’s Little Italy, an historic community where Italian flavors and culture, intermingle with multi-cultural neighbours—engaging with one another and enriching this vibrant neighbourhood. This route could be explored in a 3-day rush but make more time to explore these exceptional art venues. Use the toggle in the upper right-hand corner of the map for a ‘fullscreen view’, or tap here to open the map in a new window: College West, Dundas West, Bloor West, and Roncesvalles.
1. Mark Christopher Gallery —Artists: Curtis Amisich, Estate of Andrij Babytsch, Timothy Bair, Peter Chan, Andy DeCola, Dmitri Fedosseev, Luke Van H, Atleigh Homma, Mitsuo Kimura, Yi-Shuan Lee, Won Lee, Jean-Luc Lindsay, Scott McDermid, Luke Siemens, Bart Synowiec, David Trautrimas, Michael Toke, Jarrod Wilson.
2. Local Gallery is a contemporary gallery in the heart of Little Italy. All for local, local for all. We’re here for it. The Local Gallery proudly represents and supports local artists — the creative and cultural heartbeat of our communities.
3. Art Metropole is a non-profit visual arts centre with a focus on contemporary art in formats predisposed to circulation and dissemination: artists’ books and art publications, video, audio, electronic media, and multiples. Art Metropole produces exhibitions, talks, screenings, performances and other programming that feature and/or intersect with distributed art practices; and manages a public art collection and archive pertaining to these practices.
4. Stephen Bulger Gallery has become synonymous with great photographs of all types, making it Canada’s destination for enjoying original photographs. In addition to an active exhibition schedule, we maintain an inventory of over 30,000 photographs comprised of historical Canadian works, as well as international Modern and Contemporary works that are either documentary in nature or that celebrate the medium.
5. MKG127 has presented more than 120 exhibitions that engage in conceptual risk-taking, intellectual investigation, a fascination with materials and processes, including contributions from Canadian and international artists, and guest curators. We have also participated in more than two dozen art fairs in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Miami Beach, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and London.
6. Xpace Cultural Centre is a not-for-profit artist-run centre dedicated to providing emerging and student artists, designers, curators and writers with opportunities to showcase their work.
7. Northern Contemporary Inc. is a creative hub consisting of an art gallery, creative workspaces, and digital print production studio. We aim to showcase work from both local and international artists, and increase creative capacity by facilitating collaborations between artists, stakeholders, and clients.
8. Olga Korper Gallery is committed to the promotion and exhibition of Canadian and international contemporary art, both locally and internationally. Having long demonstrated a strong commitment to painting and sculpture, the gallery’s scope has developed to include installation and photo-based work.
9. Christopher Cutts Gallery is a Toronto-based commercial art gallery representing works by both modernist and contemporary artists. The Gallery’s program includes estates of historically significant post WW II Canadian artists, most notably 5 members of the Painters 11 group which exhibited collectively from 1953-60; established senior Canadian artists, such as Eldon Garnet, Ron Martin and Michael Snow; mid-career and emerging artists from Canada and overseas.
10. The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (MOCA) presents rotating exhibitions that prioritize twenty-first-century artistic production, primarily through commissioning of new work. Artists, partnerships, experimentation, and reciprocal initiatives are at the centre of MOCA’s mission as a locally rooted and internationally connected organization. MOCA fosters active participation and engagement to serve as a welcoming cultural hub in the hyper-diverse city of Toronto.
11. Daniel Faria Gallery — Artists: Steven Beckly, Nadia Belerique, Shannon Bool, June Clark, Douglas Coupland, Chris Curreri, Andrew Dadson, Iris Häussler, Mark Lewis, Derek Liddington, Kristine Moran, Jennifer Rose Sciarrino, Allyson Vieira, Elizabeth Zvonar.
12. Clint Roenisch Gallery works with artists across several generations who interrogate photography, sculpture, drawing, painting, film and installation. Several international artists including Roger Ballen (Johannesburg), Marcel van Eeden (Zurich) and Studio Morison / Heather and Ivan Morison (Wales) have had their first solo exhibitions in Canada at Clint Roenisch.
13. Mercer Union is a non-profit, artist-centred space in Toronto. We have a unique track record of presenting innovative exhibitions by diverse Canadian and international artists in formative and established stages of their careers. We are dedicated to supporting the production of new and experimental work, assisting artists in realizing pivotal projects.
14. Robert Kananaj Gallery was established in 2011 to promote and exhibit Canadian and international contemporary art. The gallery’s scope includes installation and photo-based work, as well as a strong commitment to painting and sculpture. A space where the work-in-progress may be displayed, and new ideas may be collected. The artist’s work intimately within their own worlds, they explore territory unique to them. Here is where many worlds meet: explorers of the secular and spiritual world.
15. Gallery TPW (originally Toronto Photographers Workshop) has evolved alongside changes in the production, distribution and perception of photography, film and video. Our diverse roster of exhibitions, screenings, performances, commissioned writing, and public programs expands awareness of the vital role that images play in contemporary culture.
16. Patel Brown highlights alternative perspectives and encourages experimentation and innovation in both its programming and operations. Identifying gaps in representation and opportunities guided by collaboration and community; the gallery’s program will look to traditions in culture and identity, and how they are increasingly challenged by the globalized world.
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