32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St
Toronto ON
M6J 0C7

Tuesday–Thursday: 10am–6pm
Friday: 10am–8pm
Saturday–Sunday: 10am–6pm
Monday: Closed

  • Accessibility

    Accessible entrance

    Washrooms

    Elevator

    AODA compliant building

    Parking: Limited Street, Underground Parking (Paid)

    There is ample paid parking nearby, including a Green P lot in the building, a lot accessible from the alley between Dovercourt and Lisgar off Sudbury, and street parking on both Lisgar Street and Abell Street.

  • Getting There

    By subway: Line 1 – From St. Andrew Station, take the 504 King streetcar west to Abell Street, walk 2 minutes. Line 2 – From Dufferin Station: take the 29 Bus south to Queen Street West, walk 7 minutes

    By streetcar: Take the 501 Queen streetcar and get off at Abell Street, just east of Gladstone. Or, take the 504 King streetcar. Get off at Sudbury Street, and walk north/west along Sudbury to Lisgar Street.

     

About 32 Lisgar St and Park

32 Lisgar St and Park is a property owned by the City of Toronto that was formerly used as Toronto Media Arts Centre. It is located just south of Queen Street West, which was once home to many independent galleries in Toronto before the high real estate cost pushed them to migrate further northwest.

One of three Biennial-run sites, this exhibition hub hosts sixteen artists who present works that bring together video installations, sculptures, paintings, drawings, and a VR film, including eight new commissions.

This site is also home to partner Art Metropole’s pop-up shop, open for the duration of the Biennial during opening hours. TBA totebags and catalogues, including the Precarious Joys book, as well as various related publications, artist books, and projects from Art Metropole’s collection will be available for purchase.

Artworks at 32 Lisgar St and Park

Esoteric Dance

Esoteric Dance (2024) is a series of three paintings created in the Kamasan style, a centuries-old type of painting. The paintings depict female bodies in various positions, resembling mythological goddesses…

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Filiación abono (Dung kinship)

Filiación abono (Dung kinship) (2024) is a two-channel video installation that takes viewers on a surreal musical journey. The video depicts motorcycling flies travelling through different dry wastelands and encountering…

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Ofrenda (Offering)

Ofrenda (Offering) (2021) is a video that documents the artist removing a sieve mask pinned to their face, causing blood to fall on their naked, mud-covered body. The mask is…

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Justine A. Chambers, a mixed-race Black woman, and Laurie Young, an Asian woman, stand against a white curtain backdrop. Justine is wearing a white dress shirt and dark slacks. Laurie is wearing a sleeveless white dress shirt, suspenders, and blue slacks. Both of them have their arms raised, one arm reaching up over the other. Their gazes are wayward.

One hundred more

One hundred more (2024) is a video-based installation that explores gestures linked to resistance. The installation is a re-imagining of the live performance created in 2019. In this choreographic work,…

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Our Flowers

“A Prayer: I want trans people to expand, to experience beyond the ‘getting through this right now’. I want trans people to know lives beyond survival mode. I want trans…

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Passing

Passing (2022) is an installation of recovered and deconstructed shoes inviting viewers to navigate a space filled with bird silhouettes. Maria juxtaposes these comforting flying figures with deconstructed shoes to…

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Pourquoi devrais-je m’arrêter ?(Why should I stop?)

Pourquoi devrais-je m’arrêter ?(Why should I stop?) (2020-21) is a video installation shown across two screens. The work pays tribute to the resilience of Iranian women who defy the ban…

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Quipu Girok

Quipu Girok (2021) is a large-scale textile installation. The title combines ancient Andean language and Korean, loosely translating to Knot (quipu) Record (girok). Since the 1960s and 1970s, Cecilia has…

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Scent of Thunderbolts

Scent of Thunderbolts (2024) is a newly commissioned multimedia installation addressing Chinese diasporic sonic memory in the form of a Cantonese opera. Drawing inspiration from archival materials held in the…

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