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The AGO’s Community Gallery has reopened with a new interactive art project that invites everyone to look at their #innerselfie!

In the summer of 1969 in Toronto, Jorge Zontal, Felix Partz and AA Bronson came together to form the beginnings of General Idea.

Presented in partnership with Small World Music, all summer long the AGO is making Friday nights a musical affair with live performances in Walker Court from local artists. Recently, multidisciplinary performance group Tocani took the stage with their eclectic blend of music, dance, movement and visual elements. Their musical genre explores pre-Hispanic elements and contemporary Latin America, using percussion and wind elements from traditional instruments.

The work of Guadeloupian contemporary artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary is informed by the diasporic journey of her ancestors. She is the descendant of indentured labourers sent from India to Guadeloupe by the French Government in the 19th century to replace the free labour of the Trans Atlantic slave trade after it was abolished. In her 2017 series Notebook of No Return, Sinnapah Mary boldly explores her Indo-Caribbean identity by unpacking the details of her ancestors’ middle passage to Guadeloupe – using a surreal, sci-fi flair. 

Canadian contemporary artist Zachari Logan often draws self-portraits. In them, his body blends with intricately detailed botanical elements, creating a hybrid form best described as a queer embodiment of nature. Remembrance, his new solo exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, invites visitors to reflect on the power of loss and the healing potential of grief.

In Sur Gallery’s newest exhibition, Colour of Women, four women artists come together to showcase through their work the ways colour can be used to resist hierarchal systems of power, class and racial division.

The Art Gallery of Ontario’s free virtual Seniors Social program is a live-streaming monthly series for older adults that combines conversations with art and artmaking. The AGO believes providing opportunities to experience art and artmaking increases well-being.

On Level 4 of the AGO, two works on view offer up a poignant interpretation of this sentiment. I Have Been Thinking of my Father’s Garden (2021) and I Have Been Thinking of my Mother’s Garden (2021) by Nigerian-born Emmanuel Osahor are large-scale oil paintings cut from the same unstretched, unprimed canvas, hung delicately on the wall like tapestries. Look closely and you’ll see that Osahor applies lush greens, bright yellows, dusted roses and subdued blues in layers – thinning, dripping and splattering paint across each canvas.

The AGO is pleased to present Ken Lum: Death and Furniture, a survey of works from the artist’s 40-year career