{"id":42703,"date":"2019-05-02T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T00:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=42703"},"modified":"2019-06-01T16:36:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T20:36:50","slug":"contact-2019-artoronto-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.artoronto.ca\/?p=42703","title":{"rendered":"CONTACT 2019 \/ Artoronto picks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is the 23rd Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, the largest photography festival in the world. With so much choices of Canadian and international artists exhibiting throughout the Greater Toronto Area, it isn\u2019t easy picking exhibits to see. We all look forward to seeing much more than the ones listed but these caught our interest and everyone is sure to have their own list as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PHIL ANDERSON, publisher\/writer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meryl McMaster: As Immense as the Sky<\/strong>
May 1\u2013 August 4, 2019
Ryerson Image Centre <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meryl McMaster, On The Edge of This Immensit, 2019. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Shari Kasman: Memories of the Galleria Mall<\/strong>
May 3\u20135, 2019
Geary Lane <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Anne Johnson: THIS LAND<\/strong>
May 4 \u2013 June 15, 2019
Stephen Bulger Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah Anne Johnson, Sunset #2 (Bedazzled), 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

EMESE KRUN\u00c1K-HAJAGOS, publisher\/writer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Tsegaye: Future Memories<\/strong>
April 25 \u2013 June 2, 2019
BAND Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael Tsegaye, Chasms of the Soul: XXVIII, 2010. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Moira Ness, Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart: Revelation<\/strong>
May 1 \u2013 June 9, 2019
Gladstone Hotel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart, Urban Stream, 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Caroline Monnet: A Whole Made of Many Parts<\/strong>
April 11 \u2013 June 8, 2019
Arsenal Contemporary Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

STEVE ROCKWELL, publisher\/writer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carrie Mae Weems: Blending the Blues<\/strong>
May 1 \u2013 July 27, 2019
CONTACT Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carrie Mae Weems, Color Real and Imagined, 2014 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Scotiabank Photography Award: Moyra Davey<\/strong>
May 1 \u2013 August 4, 2019
Ryerson Image Centre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Moyra Davey, Subway Writers (detail), 2011\/2014<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

HUGH ALCOCK, writer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sputnik Photos LTA10: Palimpsest<\/strong>
April 29 \u2013 May 31, 2019
Brookfield Place, Allen Lambert Galleria<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sputnik Photos, Kazakhstan, Semipalatynsk Nuclear Test Site, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Thalmann, An endless, formless ruin<\/strong>
May 4 \u2013 June 1, 2019
Angell Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jessica Thalmann, Such Places as Memory (Seattle I), 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

XIAOTONG CAO, writer\/photographer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zinnia Naqvi: Yours to Discover<\/strong>
May 2 \u2013 October 20, 2019
Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zinnia Naqvi, A Whole New World \u2013 CN Tower, 1988, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Developing Historical Negatives \/ Group Exhibition<\/strong>
May 3 \u2013 June 1, 2019
Gallery 44<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jacqueline Ho\u00e0ng Nguy\u1ec5n, Untitled, from the series Presence in Absentia, 2018-2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

NATHAN FLINT writer\/photographer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naomi Harris: Hollywood Furever<\/strong>
May 11 – 26, 2019
Stackt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Naomi Harris, Weston Fira, 2018  <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Beatrice Gibson: Plural Dreams of Social Life<\/strong>
April 13 \u2013 June 1, 2019
Mercer Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beatrice Gibson, I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead, 2018. Film still. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

ELENA IOURTAEVA, writer \/photographer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography Collection: Women in Focus 1920s to 1940s<\/strong>
April 27 – November 10, 2019
AGO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lotte Jacobi, Portrait of Claire Bauroff, Berlin, around 1928.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

MARIA MENDOZA CAMBA writer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sondra Meszaros: two blazing glares, for her pierce<\/strong>
April 27 \u2013 June 30, 2019
Corkin Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sondra Meszaros, it\u2019s damned if you don\u2019t and it\u2019s damned if you do, 2018 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Roger LeMoyne: The Republic of Port-au-Prince<\/strong>
May 1 \u2013 31, 2019
Nikola Rukaj Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roger LeMoyne, La R\u00e9publique de Port-au-Prince: March\u00e9 en Fer, January 2010, 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

MIKAEL SANDBLOM writer\/photographer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadia Belerique: above and below and so on forever <\/strong>
April 15 – June 8, 2019
Public Installation at Castle Frank Bus Station<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nadia Belerique, from the series, above and below and so on forever, 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Alina Holodov: I am Cuba<\/strong>
May 1 – 25, 2019
Elaine Fleck Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alina Holodov, Model Prison (interior), Isle of Youth, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

KEREN SEDMINA, writer\/photogrher:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ayana V. Jackson: Fissure<\/strong>
May 1 – June 2, 2019
Campbell House Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ayana V. Jackson, Moments of Sweet Reprieve, from the series Intimate Justice in the Stolen Moment, 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

G\u00fcnes-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Isitan: Idea Projects<\/strong>
May 1 – 31, 2019
Ontario Science Centre <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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G\u00fcnes-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Isitan, New World, 2018. Image grown on photographic film from skin bacteria <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

SIMON TERMINE, writer\/photographer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Hoolboom & Jorge Lozano: Configurations<\/strong>
May 3 – June 29, 2019
A Space Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jorge Lozano, Black Box, 2016. Film still.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Carrie Mae Weems: Heave<\/strong>
May 4 – June 24, 2019
Art Museum of University of Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carrie Mae Weems, A Class Ponders the Future, 2008.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Images are courtesy of Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May \u2013 July, 2019<\/p>\n

Various locations in Toronto<\/strong>
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With so much choices of Canadian and international artists exhibiting, it isn\u2019t easy picking exhibits to see.<\/p>\n

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