Art Toronto PLatform Talk with Toronto Biannual Art (TBA) Curator Allison Glen October 10th, 1PM Toronto Convention Center. .

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Art Toronto Platform Talk with TBA Curator Allison Glenn  As part of Art Toronto, TBA 2026 Curator Allison Glenn will be in conversation alongside Curator & Head of Exhibitions at Mercer Union,  Aamna Muzaffar, and Curator, Special Projects – National Engagement at the National Gallery of Canada, Ann Marie Peña. The Art Toronto Platform Talk will explore TBA artist Rouzbeh Akhbari’s newly commissioned multi-media installation, Of Wood and Diesel, currently on view at our partner site Mercer Union. The conversation will consider what it means to collaborate on the development of a work within the current arts ecosystem in Canada. When: Friday, October 30 | 1:00 PM Where:  Art Toronto at  Metro Toronto Convention Centre - North Building Tickets are required to attend and can be purchased here. Co-Presented by Art Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada’s National Engagement Initiative. Deaf View/Image Art (De’VIA) Storytelling with Maryam Hafizirad Artist and Educator Maryam Hafizirad invites Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing visitors to a Storytelling tour of Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Maryam’s guided Storytelling sessions use visual storytelling, ASL, gesture, body language, memory, and shared discussion to explore the works.  The sessions will be built around water as a central metaphor for Deaf life, drawing on ideas of flow, depth, current, and resilience to explore Deaf identity, memory, and lived experience. This metaphor offers a visual and embodied throughline that connects to the biennial theme Things Fall Apart, and to guided storytelling prompts around access, identity, rupture, language, resistance, visibility, and community. Throughout the Biennial we also welcome the public to join Drop-In Storytelling Sessions on Saturdays.  When: October 31, November 14, December 5 Where: Art Museum at the University of Toronto  This program is free, but registration is required in order to attend. Register Tetsuya Yamada’s Work at Select TTC Subway Stations The series of interchangeable statements that comprise Tetsuya Yamada’s work provokes dialogue around what we can learn from history and how to move forward to build a better society for the future. As a public text installation, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO (2026) subverts a temporal disconnection between the present moment and future implications, opening the possibilities of what the artist has described as “future thinking.” This simple yet profound question has many interpretations. Yamada’s work will be on view at St. George TTC Station (Westbound Platform) until the week of December 20. You can also view the work at Spadina TTC Station (Yonge Subway Line, Southbound Platform) until early November. To access the work, located on the subway platforms, TTC fare is required to be paid at the platform entrances. Discover Dawoud Bey’s work at the AGO with Free Admission We invite you to discover Dawoud Bey’s powerful installation of film and photographs at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Dawoud Bey: Material Histories, Living Landscapes anchors the tenuous relationships between North American landscapes and Black diasporic experiences. On view until Spring 2027, you can enjoy free admission to the AGO on the first Wednesday night of each month, between 6pm – 9pm. The next upcoming Wednesday Free Night is November 4. Be sure to book your free General Admission tickets online in advance to ensure entry. Check out First Wednesday Night Free  for everything you need to know. Image Captions (in order of appearance): Rouzbeh Akhbari, Of Wool and Diesel, 2026. Installation view: Mercer Union, Toronto, 2026. Co-presented as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2026. Photography: Vuk Dragojevic. Co-commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art, Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art, HANGAR Centro de Investigação Artística (Lisbon), and the National Gallery of Canada’s National Engagement Initiative. Made possible with the generous support of RBC. The artist would like to acknowledge support from Partners in Art, the Ontario Arts Council, the Alserkal Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts. Storytelling Session at Art Museum at the University of Toronto a part of the Convening: An Arrival, A Grounding, A Departure Day 3. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias. This program is supported by the Government of Canada. Tetsuya Yamada, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO, 2026. On view at St. George TTC Station as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art, 2026. Commissioned by the Toronto Biennial of Art. Photography: Rebecca Tisdelle-Macias. Co-presented by the Toronto Biennial of Art and made possible with the generous support of Eleanor and Francis Shen. info@torontobiennial.org www.torontobiennial.org

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The Toronto Biennal of Art opens ~Tineg Fall Apart~today!!! Programs run September 26th-30th.

 The Art Looks Great on display for the Toronto Biennial of Art. See program details below.

Today is Opening Day! It’s finally here! The Toronto Biennial of Art is proud to be celebrating the official Opening Day of our fourth edition, Things Fall Apart. We invite you to discover the incredible works of 30+  artists at sites across Toronto and beyond.  Join us for our Opening Weekend Programming Programs on Today: Saturday, September 26 Flood (2025) Photograph; 1.4 × 3.86 m. Rebecca Belmore.  Opening Weekend Performance: Gichigami by Rebecca Belmore Saturday, September 26 at 12PM  |  Meeting Point at the Queen Victoria Statue, Queens Park This event is at capacity. Please join our waitlist using this link. Rebecca Belmore’s new work, Gichigami, opens as a procession that moves from Queen’s Park to the University of Toronto, where it will remain on view as an installation at the Art Museum for the duration of the Biennial. Agwé & La Sirène, 2026 © Raphaël Barontini / ADAGP Paris / CARCC Ottawa 2026 Courtesy Raphaël Barontini and Mariane Ibrahim (Chicago, Paris, Mexico City) Opening Weekend Performance: Konvwa libèté by Raphaël Barontini Saturday, September 26 at 2PM | Meeting point in front of Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle This event is at capacity. Please join our waitlist using this link In collaboration with Bongo & B Entertainment and Ballet Creole, co-presented with the Toronto Caribbean Carnival, Hart House, and the Art Museum, Barontini brings a celebratory, carnival-style street parade to the U of T campus. Blending percussion, indigo costumes, banners, and flags, this parade honors historical figures of anti-enslavement resistance while celebrating contemporary Caribbean traditions of emancipation. Programs on Tomorrow: Sunday, September 27 Soul Hex (2026) Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde.  Interdisciplinary digital performance incorporating 3D modelling and motion-capture 3D. Co-presented with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and made possible with the generous support of the Women Leading Initiative Opening Weekend Dialogue: Speculative Futures Sunday, September 27 at 10:30 AM | Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre Free,  register using this link Join Curator Allison Glenn for a moderated discussion with Biennial artists Andrés Ramírez Gaviria, Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, and Regina de Miguel, as they dive into notions of time, science fiction, Indigenous epistemologies, and speculative futures. Co-presented with Harbourfront Centre.  Brendan Fernandes, The Calls (2023) Live and recorded performance, sonic composition, and choreography. Co-presented with TO Live Opening Weekend Performance: The Calls (Toronto) by Brendan Fernandes Sunday, September 27, Sailings at 12PM & 2:15PM The Tall Ship Kajama, docked directly behind the Harbourfront Centre and the Power Plant buildings  This event is at capacity. Please join our waitlist using this link Co-presented with TO Live, this immersive sonic and movement performance takes place aboard the Kajama, a tall ship sailing Lake Ontario. Two contemporary dancers, alongside an 18-voice Modern Sound Collective choir vocalizing abstract sounds and sirens, reimagine collective gathering, grief, and solidarity on an embodied journey across the water. In addition to these programs, special viewings, openings and remarks will be presented during our Opening Weekend. Beyond September, there will be more exciting opportunities to engage with TBA through public programs. Be sure to explore our growing Programs Calendar for updated information about what’s on. See More Programs Discover TBA through our Free Digital Guide We are thrilled to announce that this year we have launched an expansive Digital Guide of the entire Biennial on the Bloomberg Connects App. Our Digital Guide includes resources to enhance your in-person visit with us at all exhibition sites. Listen to audio guides by the artists as you view the works, use the interactive map to plan your route, and easily navigate artworks. The Digital Guide is completely free and can be accessed by scanning on-site QR codes, or by downloading the Bloomberg Connects App. Once you download the app you can search Toronto Biennial of Art to start using the guide. Scan the QR code to explore our Digital Guide. info@torontobiennial.org www.torontobiennial.org

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