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
    – Note: If you have access needs and are being dropped off at the venue, use ’36 Lisgar’ as the drop-off address instead of 32 Lisgar. This will bring you closer to our 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

She Who Sees the Unknown: Kabous, the Right Witness and the Left Witness

Kabous, the Right Witness and the Left Witness is a multi-media installation which addresses passing down the narratives of sisterhood and kinship, motherhood and lineage. It engages with intergenerational trauma…

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tere naal _ with you

tere naal _ with you (2024) is a newly commissioned multi-media installation that pays tribute to the enduring influence of artist Winsom Winsom. In the summer of 1994, Pamila was…

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The Place of the Spirits

The Place of the Spirits (2019-2024) is a multi-media installation consisting of various sculptures and masks. The installation gathers multiple mythological beings from the Amazonian world—inhabitants of the rainforest, Uitoto…

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The Supernatural Powers of Fabulous Panther (Biimskojiwan)

The Supernatural Powers of Fabulous Panther (Biimskojiwan) (2024) is a newly commissioned sculptural installation based on three spirals. Made of industrial felt and adorned with silver jingle bells and tin…

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Threatened (Birds in Canada)

Threatened (Birds in Canada) (2024) is a series of drawings made on recycled materials that presents birds that are currently at risk of extinction in Canada, many of them migratory.…

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Three Songs

Three Songs (2021) is a three-channel video installation that explores a history of Native resistance and questions the myth of an uninhabited American West. In the video, Indigenous women appear…

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to be nowhere

to be nowhere (2022)  is part of Léann’s larger transdisciplinary project the middle of nowhere, an ongoing series of (non)site-specific public interventions and actions in Dublin in 2022. This vinyl…

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Un chant peut traverser l’océan (A chant can cross the ocean)

Un chant peut traverser l’océan (A chant can cross the ocean) (2023-ongoing) is an in-situ stamp work on the wall which features protesting Iranian women. The artist created this work…

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Works by Winsom Winsom

The Biennial presents a special focus on Winsom, honoring her influence on Toronto’s art scene. The exhibition brings together an array of her paintings and whittlings, including 8 paintings and…

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