TBA Limited Editions
TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART LIMITED EDITIONS FOR SALE
In collaboration with Art + Culture Projects, the Toronto Biennial of Art offers limited edition works from Biennial artists for sale. Proceeds from these sales support free arts exhibitions, public programs and learning experiences. For all inquiries related to Artist Editions please contact giving@torontobiennial.org.
Ken Lum
Edition Size: 50
For Toronto-based supporters, we recommend Superframe, a premier, arts-focused frame shop. To take advantage of a special Toronto Biennial of Art discount visit www.superframe.ca, call: (416) 913-7590, or email: sales@superframe.ca.
In partnership with Art + Culture Projects, TBA is releasing a limited edition print with 2023 Scotiabank Photography Award winner and former TBA board member Ken Lum.
Ken Lum’s works often explore cultural identity through the juxtaposition of coded images and language. “The Midway Plaza” mimics the type of monument sign one might encounter outside a suburban shopping centre. The names of each of the Vietnamese-owned shops advertised in the brightly coloured jumble of words and graphics reflect either place names, events, or individuals associated with the Vietnam War.
Lum was inspired by the signage of a Vietnamese-American shopping center near his residence in South Philadelphia. He has said “I kept thinking of this sign representing a kind of community of displaced peoples who have started anew and built a community here in South Philly.”
Thanks to the generosity of the artist, proceeds from the sale of this work will go directly to supporting TBA’s free, accessible, city-wide programming and exhibitions.
About Art + Culture Projects
Art+Culture was founded upon the premise that artists are situated at the foundation of creative culture. They and the organizations that showcase their practice are building what will become our cultural legacy.
Judy Chicago
Edition Size: 75
Edition Size: 75
Edition Size: 75
For the 2022 Toronto Biennial, Judy Chicago created A Tribute to Toronto, a site-specific piece that took place on the shores of Lake Ontario at Sugar Beach in Toronto. This newly commissioned piece had the artist working directly on a body of water for the first time.
Judy and her collaborators—her husband, photographer Donald Woodman, and Chris Souza of Pyro Spectaculars—created a sculpture on a barge from which white, yellow, green, blue, and purple pigments were released into the air, mixing with the wind and sunset light to create a myriad of colour effects. In line with the artist’s long history of being a passionate advocate for the environment, the team uses only environmentally friendly, non-toxic materials to temporarily transform sites.
This limited edition, signed series captures this historic work in two stunning photographs. Thanks to the generosity of the artist, 50% of proceeds will go directly to supporting TBA’s free, accessible, city-wide programming and exhibitions
About the Artist
Judy Chicago’s Atmospheres series began in the 1906s in an effort to feminize the atmosphere at a time when the California art scene was male-dominated. The title for the body of work evokes both meanings of the word atmosphere, understanding it as both the envelope of gasses encircling the planet and the pervading mood or tone of a place at a given moment in time. Judy continues to produce what she now calls Smoke Sculpture™, which involves mixing colour in the air.
About Art + Culture Projects
Art+Culture was founded upon the premise that artists are situated at the foundation of creative culture. They and the organizations that showcase their practice are building what will become our cultural legacy.
For Toronto-based supporters, we recommend Superframe, a premier, arts-focused frame shop. To take advantage of a special Toronto Biennial of Art discount visit www.superframe.ca, call: (416) 913-7590, or email: sales@superframe.ca.
Dana Claxton
Sizes and Pricing:
Large
Size: 48” x 32”
Price: $5,000USD
Edition size: 25
Medium
Size: 36” x 24”
Price: $1,800USD
Edition size: 50
Small
Size: 24” x 16”
Price: $350USD
Edition size: 100
Print type: Archival pigment print on Premium Semimatte 258 gsm photo paper.
Artwork available to purchase exclusively at artandculture.com
For framing options, we recommend Superframe, a premier, arts-focused frame shop founded by Mitch Robertson in 2004. For more information, please visit www.superframe.ca, call: (416) 913-7590, or email: sales@superframe.ca
The Biennial’s third Limited Edition features the first work created by TBA alumni and critically acclaimed artist Dana Claxton for her Headdress series. Pictured is Samaya Jardey (Snuneymuxw)—a frequent figure of Claxton’s photographs and films. Jardey worked with former students of Indian Residential Schools for more than two decades and now focuses on Indigenous language learning as a means to support the health and wellness of her people. For Claxton, Jardey “is a deeply spiritual woman and cultural practitioner. We trust each other deeply… and respect each other profoundly.” This familiarity and respect is not by chance. This photograph, like the others in the series, is an image of kinship. “Everything in this Headdress has been hand made from different tribal makers,” Claxton relays. “The embellishments show care and aesthetics and I believe we need these—our communities need our own aesthetics, our own adornments.” Headdress, then, is a testament to the beauty and resilience of Indigenous women.
This print was made possible in partnership with Art+Culture Projects—a New York-based publisher of print editions and multiples produced in partnership with world-renowned artists.
Dana Claxton (Hunkpapa Lakota (Sioux), born in Yorkton, SK, Canada; lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada) works in film, video, photography, single- and multi-channel video installation, and performance art. Her practice investigates beauty, the body, the socio-political, and the spiritual. Claxton’s work has been shown internationally at venues including: Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Sundance Film Festival; Eiteljorg Museum; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Claxton’s first major survey show opened at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2018. She is Department Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Art+Culture was founded upon the premise that artists are situated at the foundation of creative culture. They and the organizations that showcase their practice are building what will become our cultural legacy.
Curtis Talwst Santiago
For its second Limited Edition, the Toronto Biennial has commissioned Curtis Talwst Santiago to create a new multiple based on his trademark miniature jewelry box dioramas. During Summer 2019, artist and amateur entomologist Curtis Talwst Santiago travelled to the gold mines of Northern Québec to document the regional varietals of no-see-ums as part of a decade-long passion project on the biting insects of North America. While searching for the near-invisible mites Santiago caught sight of the rarely-seen Moose Goddess, the mythical creature who guards the forests and rivers near Val d’Or. Made of solid gold, the Moose Goddess is believed to have risen 2.5 billion years ago from the magma of Archean-age Abitibi volcanic belt, bringing with her the shimmering veins of silver, gold, copper and zinc which now adorn the earthen layers of the Cadillac Fault.
In his first-ever editioned miniature diorama, Santiago captures the elusive Moose Goddess amongst the brilliant bedrock and pastel skies of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region.
The practice of Curtis Talwst Santiago (b. Edmonton, AB) is decentralized. Santiago studied as an apprentice of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. Santiago has exhibited internationally at venues such as: The New Museum, New York; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Pérez Art Museum Miami; and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah. The artist’s work was featured in the Biennale de Dakar and SITE Santa Fe, both 2018, and the 2019 Toronto Biennial of Art. Santiago’s work is acquired internationally by private collectors and is part of the permanent collection of the RBC Art Collection and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In January 2020, Santiago will present his first major solo exhibition Can’t I Alter at the Drawing Centre (NYC).
Luis Jacob
A limited number of the first Toronto Biennial Limited Edition are still available for sale. Commissioned in Fall 2018, the Limited Edition 001 is a sculpture by Luis Jacob which is part of his installation for the Toronto Biennial at Union Station and has become one of the beacons of the Toronto Biennial of Art; one of the signature works used extensively in the biennial’s marketing campaign, including the banners currently hanging on the facade of Toronto’s Union Station.
As Jacob explains: “The Toronto Biennial is an opportunity to look at the world of contemporary art from the vantage-point of this particular city. At every moment of our daily lives, we adopt frames to help us see the world. We frame others and are, in turn, framed by those around us. These frames of reference enable us to understand — but also to misunderstand —our place in this world. The power of the hand is real.”
Luis Jacob (born in Lima, Peru; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada) is an artist whose work destabilizes viewing conventions and invites collisions of meaning. He studied semiotics and philosophy at the University of Toronto. Since his participation in documenta 12, Kassel, 2007, he has achieved an international reputation with exhibitions at venues such as: La Biennale de Montréal, 2016; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York City, 2015; Taipei Biennial, 2012; Generali Foundation, Vienna, 2011; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, 2010; Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2008; and Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, 2008.