Art Museum at the University of Toronto - University of Toronto Art Centre

Accessibility

Accessible entrance and washrooms
Accessible ramps / elevators
AODA compliant building
Accessible parking

University of Toronto Art Centre (15 King’s College Circle) Accessible Entrance: There is a ramped entrance at the northwest corner of University College (near the Croft Chapter House).
Getting There

TTC: Museum Station; Queen’s Park Station; 506 Carlton streetcar; and the Route 5 bus
Bike Share: Willcocks St / St. George St and Wellesley St W / Queen’s Park Crescent

About Art Museum at the University of Toronto - University of Toronto Art Centre

The Art Museum at the University of Toronto is comprised of two distinct gallery spaces: University of Toronto Art Centre at University College and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House. Just a few steps apart, the two galleries were federated in 2014, working as one entity to produce a year-round schedule of exhibitions and programming focused on contemporary art.

The University of Toronto Art Centre was opened in 1996 and is housed in the Laidlaw Wing, a 1964 addition to the mid-nineteenth-century buildings of University College, which opened as a non-denominational institution of higher learning to men in 1859 and to women in 1884. In the nineteenth century, cows grazed in pastures behind the College. The building is designated as a national historic site; it was also home to the oldest LGBTQ student organization in Canada, the University of Toronto Homophile Association, which was founded in 1969.

The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery was opened in 1983; it manages the Hart House Permanent Art Collection, initiated in 1922, which focuses on acquiring works by living artists in Canada. Hart House occupies a heritage building that sits at the former site of McCaul’s Pond, which was created in the early 1860s by damming Taddle Creek, once a breeding ground for salmon. Hart House and University College are part of University of Toronto, which was originally founded in 1827 as King’s College, one of the first institutions of its kind in Canada. The University is built on lands that, for thousands of years, have been the traditional lands of the Huron-Wendat, the Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, and continue to be home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island.

Artworks at Art Museum at the University of Toronto - University of Toronto Art Centre

Carolina Fusilier

Corrientes Mercuriales [mercurial currents]

Introducing rupture as a formal device, Carolina Fusilier’s Corrientes Mercuriales [mercurial currents] (2023) pieces together fragments of a familial narrative. The Río de la Plata, an estuary in Buenos Aires…

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Rebecca Belmore

Gichigami

Over the past year, Rebecca Belmore spent extended time with family in Thunder Bay, where her daily view was of Lake Superior and a park sheltering a substantial un-housed population.…

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Wen Liu

In Light, Where Edges Yield

In Light, Where Edges Yield, 2025, is a human-scale, freestanding, stainless steel and tinted-resin sculpture with a central spinal column. Chinese herbs and medicine are suspended within the resin, developing…

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Charisse Pearlina Weston

mé-prendre (i saw it ooze in stiffly, saw it lurk along my sharp upper edges where hard and abrasive surfaces collapse the inside)

Charisse Pearlina Weston’s most recent work explores the Lacanian concept of méconnaissance (misrecognition). Driven by a desire and need to reconcile how we see and understand ourselves in the world,…

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Céline Semaan and Jean-Marc Bullet

Notebook of Return / Carnet de Retour

Céline Semaan and Jean-Marc Bullet have each created artist gardens (in Nyack, New York, and Saint-Joseph, Martinique, respectively) that focus on the care and stewardship of seeds and native plants.…

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Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde

Soul-Hex

Soul-Hex is a land-centred digital performance project that combines Indigenous cosmologies and contemporary Indigenous performance, shaped through research that considers the relationships between current agricultural practices and food sovereignty. Soul-Hex…

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Andrés Ramírez Gaviria

Sources (Toronto)

Andrés Ramírez Gaviria’s Sources (Toronto) (2026) is a site-specific light installation that transforms astronomical radio signals—some originating within our galaxy and others emitted by pulsars and quasars billions of years…

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Antonio Obá

Works by Antonio Obá

Jardim Accessing a complex spectrum of overtones, the sounds of these bells signal a transmutation of histories into higher states. The sonic resonance of Antonio Obá’s Jardim, or garden, activates…

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Bonnie Devine

Works by Bonnie Devine

Bonnie Devine’s new commission responds to the theme of rupture and waterways by mapping the geographical relationship between the Great Lakes of North America and international bodies of water with…

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