Opening Reception: Summer 2025 Exhibitions

Wednesday, April 30, 2025
6pm–8pm
University of Toronto Art Centre
15 King’s College Circle

Celebrate the opening of the 2025 MVS Curatorial Studies Program and the MVS Studio Program Graduating Exhibitions! Join us at the reception for welcoming remarks, student presentations, and an awards ceremony.

This event is free and open to the public. No registration required.

Be the first to see the graduating students’ exhibitions:

In the Interstices of Our Palms explores ways to build, hold, and share community in times of disruption. Through melancholic yet hopeful gestures, artists Rihab Essayh, Anouk Verviers, and Tanya Lukin Linklater guide us toward reflective modes of collectivity. Curated by Sophie Dubeau Chicoine.

Four artists explore the complexities of womanhood, motherhood, and autonomy within contemporary China in Whispers of Resistance. Works by Liu Xi, Anny Peng, Zhou Wenjing, and Cai Yaling reveal constraints while also demonstrating courageous resistance through intimate narratives and diverse artistic expressions. Curated by Sibei Du.

Careful Crossings brings together artists whose experiences of travel inspire ethical relations in human geography. Complementary to the artists’ movement, the exhibition invites reflection on the meaning of travel as the three satellite sites take visitors through the city. Featuring works by Annabelle Aventurin, Collectif Faire-Part, Kapwani Kiwanga, Isabel Okoro, Oluseye, Chetna Vora, and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa. Curated by Abisola Oni.

The Art Museum, in partnership with the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, is pleased to exhibit the graduating projects of the 2025 Master of Visual Studies Studio Program graduate students Justyna Janik, Lauren Warrington, and Lina Wu.

The exhibitions are produced as part of the requirements for the MVS degree in Visual Studies at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto.