Past
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Corkin Gallery at Art Toronto 2025
Booth C50 23 - 26 Oct 2025 A monumental Leopold Plotek canvas anchors the presentation, placed in dialogue with a Larry Poons painting — one of his earliest influences — photographic nudes exploring gender and sexual identity by celebrated artists Nan Goldin and George Platt Lynes, alongside contemporary emerging and established artists. Featured artists include Barbara Astman,... Read more -
Lori Newdick | Revisiting a Heroine
A Retrospective 6 Aug - 24 Sep 2025 Corkin Gallery presents a retrospective of the work of artist Lori Newdick. Her work explores queer identities in visual culture. The exhibition includes works from the series : Heroine , 1999; Felonious , 2000; Lure , 2001; Lucky , 2004-2005. Heroine explores the struggle of inhabiting an identity not represented... Read more -
Seeing and Being Seen
Group Exhibition 6 Aug - 24 Sep 2025 Seeing and Being Seen considers how human presence is felt without being fully represented. Featuring works of photography, painting, and mixed media by Barbara Astman, Miles Gertler, Frank Mädler, Sondra Meszaros, Max Regenberg, Lisa Rose, Grit Schwerdtfeger, and Sharon Switzer, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on identity while withholding... Read more -
Vincent Barré | a Family of Rooms
Les Tanneries, Centre d'Art Contemporain d'Intérêt National 7 Jun - 19 Oct 2025 Les Tanneries Centre d'art contemporain pays tribute to the long trajectory of Vincent Barré and his relation with Les Tanneries, in the exhibition A Family of Rooms . The exhibition showcases the wide range of expression Barré has as a filmmaker, sculptor, draftsman highlighting the dialogue with his students and... Read more -
Say Okay
12 Apr - 19 Jul 2025 Say Okay brings together early- and mid-career artists from the gallery’s roster, inviting viewers on a journey of introspection. Featuring paintings, works on paper, and tapestries by Virgil Baruchel, Christian Butterfield, Peter Campbell, Jeff Chiu, Hanah Elmasry, Miles Gertler, Rosi Di Meglio, Sondra Meszaros, Nigel Scott, Lisa Rose, David Stewart... Read more -
Christian Butterfield | Apricity
23 Nov 2024 - 29 Mar 2025 Toronto, ON - Corkin Gallery presents new works by Christian Butterfield. Characterized by a tactile and sculptural use of paint, the Apology Flowers began as tokens of apologies to friends, lovers, or acquaintances. The collage element of the paintings include media content relating to the cultural, social and political climate... Read more -
Between Life and Light
45th Anniversary Photography Show 2 Nov 2024 - 19 Jul 2025 The University of Toronto is honouring Jane Corkin with an Honorary Doctorate of Laws in recognition of her excellence in the arts as a visionary gallerist, pioneering interpreter of photography as fine art, and as an influential advocate for Canadian artists. The Department of Art History invited international scholars to... Read more -
Larry Poons
5 Sep - 31 Oct 2024 Corkin Gallery is honoured to present new paintings by Larry Poons, one of the legendary artists of our era. A link to the heroic years of American abstraction, at 86 Poons continues to create paintings of astonishing vitality and mastery. Born in Tokyo to an Anglo-American family, the young Larry... Read more -
Michelle Forsyth: Test Patterns and Grips
31 Jul - 31 Aug 2024 Corkin Gallery presents "Test Patterns" and "Grips", a solo exhibition by Michelle Forsyth. Opening July 31 through August 31, the exhibition will feature 18 works, a collection of paintings and photographs documenting a poignant decade of Forsyth's life from 2013 to 2024. Read more -
Jean Paul Riopelle: Visual Exploration
20 Apr - 27 Jul 2024 Read more -
Paula De Luccia
Paintings and Sculptures 10 Feb - 30 Mar 2024 Corkin Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition in Toronto by New York artist. Paula De Luccia. Her practice has always been innate — a conversation that moves between her and her materials. Working in her studio or on the road, De Luccia’s source material comes from her surroundings... Read more -
Miles Gertler
Typical Oasis 15 Nov 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 'Typical Oasis' develops an interest in familiar artifacts and cultural aesthetics born of a dual concern for hazard and pleasure. The body of work presents images and cardboard relics that challenge the distance between those two evidently contradictory poles of animation. The exhibition takes its name from a caption in... Read more -
Nigel Scott
Conversations in Blue 15 Nov 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 'Conversations in Blue' continues my love affair with the colour blue that started with making photographic blueprints or cyanotypes, later surfing and ocean life brought me even closer. After painting a large wall in blue and dark blue for one of my shows. I started using blue directly on some... Read more -
Barbara Astman
Woven Stories 7 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Corkin Gallery is delighted to present 'Woven Stories,' an exhibition by Barbara Astman. Building on Astman's keen interest in translating and comprehending our consumption of images, the artist introduces a new body of work that blends various mediums. In the main gallery, visitors will encounter a series of tapestries that... Read more -
Peter Campbell
Echo 7 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Peter Campbell unveils a series of paintings inspired by the observation of natural phenomena, the changing seasons, and the repetition of minimalist geometric forms. One distinctive addition to this suite of paintings is the explicit incorporation of mosaic references. In compositions such as 'Tide Pool' and 'Dissolution,' Campbell intricately layers... Read more -
To Will One Thing
14 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Corkin Gallery presents 'To Will One Thing' an exhibition delving into the intricate connections between human longing, built environments, and the pursuit of idealized societies. Through the works of Constantin Brancusi, Christian Butterfield, Miles Gertler, George Platt Lynes, Sondra Meszaros, and Leopold Plotek the exhibition offers an exploration of changes... Read more -
Traces of Abstraction: 1958-2020
29 Apr - 30 Sep 2023 Traces of Abstraction: 1958-2020, a ground-breaking exhibition that pulls together important artists from across boundaries and generations. This exhibition showcases some of the most important artists who shaped the development of the abstract art movement. Read more -
George Platt Lynes
The Intimate Circle 29 Apr - 9 Sep 2023 Celebrating the legacy of American photographer George Platt Lynes, the male nudes, portraits, and ballet scenes featured in this exhibition highlight his memorable vision. Platt Lynes illuminated the faces of a community of queer intellectuals and artists in Paris and New York who defined culture in the first half of... Read more -
Artists Across Generations
17 Dec 2022 - 20 Apr 2023 This exhibition brings the breadth of our international roster - ranging from local artists including Christian Butterfield and Gina Rorai to international artists Frank Mädler and Andrés Marroquín. Read more -
Virgil Baruchel + Grit Schwerdtfeger
15 Oct - 10 Dec 2022 Together Atlas opens a dialogue between the work of Grit Schwerdtfeger and Virgil Baruchel, as they integrate historic art forms and craft-making into their multimedia practices. Exploring themes of leisure, memory, and self perception, the exhibition proposes a fun and contemporary approach to materiality. Grit Schwerdtfeger presents a selection of... Read more -
Peter Campbell
17 Sep - 8 Oct 2022 Peter Campbell opening solo exhibition Myriad. Read more -
What happens in silence
29 Jun - 3 Sep 2022 Ann Agee | Young-Il Ahn | Barbara Astman | Vincent Barré | Virgil Baruchel | Lynda Benglis I Brassaï | Christian Butterfield | Sarah Charlesworth | Michelle Forsyth | Lily Cox-Richard | Kyungah Ham | André Kertész | Brendon McNaughton | Frank Mädler | Larry Poons | Gina Rorai | Dana Schutz | Grit Schwerdtfeger | David Urban | Zulu Culture
"What happens in silence' brings together artists who reference notions of the sacred. These artists re-envision cultural icons by pushing the limits of media Read more -
I am my own muse
A century of women in photography 30 Apr - 18 Jun 2022 Sophie Taeuber-Arp | Diane Arbus | Barbara Astman | Claude Cahun | Michelle Forsyth | Dorothea Lange | Sondra Meszaros | Lisette Model | Sarah Moon
I am my own muse brings together the work of women artists who look to themselves and other women as a means of social commentary. Issues of gender, identity, beauty, and fashion are explored over the span of the last century, as contemporary artists are presented alongside pioneers of the photographic art form. Read more -
Vincent Barré
Maisons/Ateliers 2 Apr - 18 Jun 2022 Corkin Gallery is pleased to present Maisons/Ateliers , an exhibition of bronze sculpture and works on paper by French artist Vincent Barré, on view April 2 - June 4, 2022. Sculptor, architect and filmmaker Vincent Barré has maintained a central presence in the French cultural scene for over 50 years.... Read more -
Irving Penn
Small Trades, 1960s San Francisco, Fashion 24 Nov 2021 - 26 Mar 2022 Corkin Gallery is honoured to present an exhibition of work by one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century: Irving Penn (1917–2009). On view November 24, 2021 – March 26, 2022, at 7 Tank House Lane, the show brings together photographs spanning six decades of the artist’s career,... Read more -
Leopold Plotek
What Does the Song Hope For? 14 Oct - 20 Nov 2021 Corkin Gallery is pleased to present “What does the song hope for?,” an exhibition of work by Québec painter Leopold Plotek. Anchored by large-scale works produced over the last decade, the exhibition surveys the evolution of the artist’s distinct approach to painting, which mobilizes reflection, improvisation, and, above all, hope. Read more -
Christian Butterfield
11 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 Corkin Gallery is pleased to announce "Green Light", the debut solo exhibition of work by Christian Butterfield. The canvases in this presentation exemplify Butterfield’s preoccupation with painting as a medium for spatial and psychological investigation. Read more -
Rosi Maria Di Meglio
11 Sep - 20 Nov 2021 For Montréal-based artist Rosi Maria Di Meglio, abstraction is a means of revisiting the past and hypothesizing the future. Di Meglio’s colourful compositions reflect the artist’s experiences as an educator, mother, and first-generation Italian in Canada. The cloudy, organic forms that possess the her work are steeped in memories that... Read more -
Diane Arbus
23 Jun - 3 Sep 2021 Thirty years after showing revolutionary photographer Diane Arbus (1923 – 1971) for the first time, Corkin Gallery is very pleased to present Pursuing Difference, an exhibition of work by the artist who transformed the world’s cultural perception and critical reception of photography. Read more -
Peter Campbell
23 Jun - 3 Sep 2021 Peter Campbell paints with patterns to represent places and psychological states. The kinetic compositions appear as luminous, organic and geometric surfaces. Working intuitively, he deploys a wide lexicon of pattern motifs to explore the intersection of built and natural forms. His work often evokes imagery inspired by daily observations, aerial... Read more -
David Urban
29 Mar - 19 Jun 2021 Corkin Gallery is pleased to present Revisiting Motifs , an exhibition of work by Toronto-based artist David Urban, on view in the Distillery District and in the gallery’s online viewing room . The exhibition brings together a selection of paintings from 1995–2015 that chart the interplay between gestural, figurative, and... Read more -
Frank Mädler
27 Jan - 31 Mar 2021 Three disinct bodies of work arose from Frank Mädler's time in Lima, Peru at the De Al Lado residency. Inspired by the tropical colours, minimal forms and local materials. Mädler returned to Germany and began creating an array of photographs laden with distinct Latin iconography. Refrences to cultural symbols and... Read more -
Michelle Forsyth
15 Oct - 19 Dec 2020 Improvisations is a suite of process-rich photographic artworks that document my performative engagement with mimesis, pattern, repetition, and reproduction. This new work is the subject of my first solo exhibition with Corkin Gallery, Our relationship is beautiful due to the distance . Ten years ago I was diagnosed with early... Read more -
Accidental Geometries
9 Oct - 19 Dec 2020 From mediums as diverse as photography, painting, drawing and sculpture, Corkin Gallery presents the exhibition Accidental Geometries with work by artists: Barbara Astman, Virgil Baruchel, Christian Butterfield, Jota Castro, Jeff Chiu, Burt Covit, Hana Elmasry, Michelle Forsyth, Miles Gertler, Thaddeus Holownia, Frank Mädler, Neil Maguire, Carol Marino, Andrés Marroquín, Brendon... Read more -
Gina Rorai
Where One Finishes the Other Begins 1 Apr - 5 Sep 2020 Read more -
Rafael Yaluff
Prayers 27 Nov 2019 - 2 Feb 2020 Corkin Gallery is pleased to present Prayers , an exhibition of paintings by Chilean artist Rafael Yaluff. Tracking Yaluff’s journey through psychological and physical spaces, Prayers explores the artist’s state of mind as he confronts the crisis of his country in the midst of globalization. Yaluff made expeditions to Patagonia... Read more -
When the sun departs for a new horizon
14 Sep - 21 Nov 2019 Barbara Astman, Constantin Brancusi, Brassaï, Jota Castro, Jeff Chiu, Michelle Forsyth, Yakov Gakkel, Miles Gertler, Elisa Julia Gilmour, Thaddeus Holownia, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, André Kertész, Frank Mädler, Carol Marino, Andrés Marroquín, Scott Massey, Brendon McNaughton, Sondra Meszaros, Lick Observatory, Lori Newdick, Leopold Plotek, Gerhard Richter, Gina Rorai, Giancarlo Scaglia, Grit... Read more -
Sorry to bother you
11 Jul - 1 Sep 2019 Artists: Virgil Baruchel, Christian Butterfield, Hana Elmasry, Neil Maguire, Rafael Yaluff Sorry to bother you explores the disquiet and apprehension of contemporary life. Troubled and inspired by the looming global crises of environment, identity and economic viability, these brave works respond as signs of empathy in an age of anxiety.... Read more -
Sondra Meszaros
Two Blazing Glares, For Her Pierce 27 Apr - 1 Sep 2019 In Two Blazing Glares, For Her Pierce Sondra Meszaros continues her exploration of counter narratives of female sexuality by deconstructing and reconstructing identities. In this new body of work, the artist references feminist performance practices, exploring radical reorientations and offering new agency to women. Meszaros passionately collects erotica from the... Read more -
David Urban
Lonely Boy 9 Mar - 21 Apr 2019 David Urban continues to explore space and figuration through colour. Always present is his affinity for his Canadian mentors, the Group of Seven and Painters Eleven. In these new works, his palette embraces vibrant hues inspired by Italian design and architecture. New landscapes appear where the human body takes centre... Read more -
Leopold Plotek
Throw Away The Lights, The Definitions 20 Oct 2018 - 3 Mar 2019 Leopold Plotek is a leading abstract painter in Canada. His large-scale canvases engage with history through architecture, literature, art, and philosophy. Throw Away the Lights, the Definitions , his first show with Corkin Gallery, will highlight recent paintings in conversation with pivotal works that span his career. Born in 1948... Read more -
Erwin Blumenfeld
From Dada to Vogue 26 Apr - 14 Oct 2018 Read more -
Desire
30 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 Group exhibition exploring themes of intimacy, fetish, gender and sexuality. Read more -
Miles Gertler
Solo Booth, Art Toronto 2017 1 Nov 2017 Read more -
Jeff Chiu
The Ancestral Home 28 Oct 2017 - 4 Mar 2018 'I left Boston with my grandfather’s string bound memoir and a suitcase of his personal photo albums. Like many, our interactions were stifled by a lack of knowledge of a common language and culture. To me, his memoir, written in a foreign language, was an illegible block of information, whereas... Read more -
Sharon Switzer
Edge of Chaos 28 Oct 2017 - 21 Apr 2018 Corkin Gallery is pleased to present Edge of Chaos , a solo exhibition by Sharon Switzer. Switzer's artistic practice has long explored digital media. She is not invested in these technologies for their own sake, but instead finds ways to personalize commercial applications, ‘misusing’ them for her own purposes. Edge... Read more -
Winged Victory
14 Sep 2017 - 31 Mar 2018 Read more -
Miles Gertler
Rare Item 17 May - 30 Jul 2017 Read more -
Thaddeus Holownia
The Natural Order 30 Apr - 31 Aug 2017 Read more -
David + Goliath
2 Feb - 29 Apr 2017 Read more -
Latin America: Modernity
29 Nov 2016 - 28 Feb 2017 Read more -
Sondra Meszaros
Bound 10 Nov 2016 - 28 Feb 2017 Read more -
Frank Mädler
Seerosen 10 Nov 2016 - 28 Feb 2017 A poetic…sentiment [can be] associated with the series Seerosen (Water Lillies), a motif of Frank Mädler has come across in various places over many years. And yet it is about something other than the nature motif, which in a way is merely the motive for a reflection on what constitutes... Read more -
Barbara Astman
Then and Now II 1 - 31 Oct 2016 Read more -
Brendon McNaughton
Nest Egg 5 Apr - 2 May 2016 Brendon McNaughton is an emerging Toronto artist who works in the realm of gold, steel, and bronze sculpture. McNaughton works with 3D scanning and printing technology, employing advanced machinery. The relationship between plutocrats and proletariats is central to his art practice. Through explorations of the relationship between plutocrats and proletariats,... Read more -
Miles Gertler
Superlith and Seven 28 Jan - 5 Aug 2016 Read more -
Giancarlo Scaglia
Stellar 23 Oct 2015 - 24 Jan 2016 Read more -
Barbara Astman
I As Artifact 2 Sep - 22 Oct 2015 Read more -
André Kertész
Buenos Aires, Mexico, New York, Toronto 7 Jul - 30 Aug 2015 Read more -
Grit Schwerdtfeger
Zehn 7 May - 5 Jul 2015 I took photos of my ten-year-old son over one year. A new portrait was shot every day: At home, on the road, in the daytime or at night. In December 2009, my son Lorenz wished to get photographed every day the following year. “In this way, I can see how... Read more -
Thaddeus Holownia
Paris After Atget 14 Feb - 5 May 2015 Thaddeus Holownia confronts past and present cultures in this rapidly changing city. The work explores themes of architecture, evolution of urban space and our impact on the environment. Reflecting on Eugène Atget's landmark photographs of Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, Holownia visited the city over several years,... Read more -
Williamson Chong
Living Wood 20 Nov 2014 - 11 Feb 2015 Read more -
On Architecture And Structure
20 Nov 2014 - 11 Feb 2015 On Architecture and Structure includes artists whose work either relates to wood and the architectural element, or uses structure as grounds for exploration and discourse. This exhibition will include works by Barbara Astman , Frank Mädler, Ramón Serrano , Thaddeus Holownia, David Urban, Sharon Switzer, Grit Schwerdtfeger, Chad Gerth, Gina... Read more -
David Urban
Love of the Real 15 Oct - 18 Nov 2014 Read more -
Gina Rorai
Path of Appearance 3 Sep 2014 - 1 Oct 2015 Read more -
Better With Age
35th Anniversary Exhibition 4 Jun - 30 Oct 2014 Read more -
Andrés Marroquín
Colectivo & Paisajes Diversos 29 Apr - 1 Jun 2014 Read more -
Barbara Astman
It's All About Style 25 Jan - 31 Mar 2014 Read more -
David Urban
How To Be Broken 2 Nov - 14 Dec 2013 Read more -
Ramón Serrano
It's Hot, It's Cold 11 Sep - 31 Oct 2013 Read more -
Barbara Astman
Dancing with Che 19 Jun - 17 Aug 2013 Read more -
Max Regenberg
Along the Way: The Useful Landscape 3 - 31 May 2013 Read more -
Eugène Atget
Photographs from MoMA 1 - 22 Dec 2012 Read more -
David Urban
The Eye as Dove 13 Sep - 26 Nov 2012 Read more -
Nigel Scott
Conversations with Blue 21 Jun - 31 Aug 2012 Read more -
Sharon Switzer
Nearly Present 24 Mar - 26 Apr 2012 Read more -
Frank Mädler
Shine, Wiesen, Gold, Basic Motion, 126 Polaroids 28 Jan - 22 Mar 2012 Read more -
Ramón Serrano
Words, Textures, And Other Silly Things 16 Nov 2011 - 22 Jan 2012 Read more
