Gallery 1313

Gallery 1313 is a not-for-profit, charitable artist-run centre located in the Parkdale neighbourhood of downtown Toronto. Gallery 1313 is equally an artist-run centre exhibiting local, national and international contemporary art. The gallery’s four unique exhibition spaces house over 70 exhibitions and many cultural events each year. Gallery 1313 supports emerging artists with professional development and career-building opportunities, offers members a welcoming space to connect with colleagues, develop their practice, and contribute to the operations of the gallery, and engages the public with contemporary art exhibitions and cultural events through community outreach.

New Exhibitions | September 11 – 22

Main Gallery: SCULPTURE EXPO 
This is a group-curated exhibition that was put together from an open call for submissions exhibition that includes a wide variety of works by sculptors including traditional and contemporary formats. The gallery has a history of exhibiting sculpture and is revisiting that history . The exhibition was curated by Phil Anderson assisted by Madeleine Young . Participating artists include Veronica Santoyo, Carmen Mahave, Xavier Allen, Carole Chaloupka, David Corlett, Lucy Yorath, Samantha Andersen and others. 

Process Gallery: MORE PORTRAITS …
We are again exhibiting some of the many different examples of portraiture by artists . Participants include Daphane  Boxill, Gulay Alpay, Karen Pe re, Haocun Cao, Dave Corett, Asefeh Katoozian and others.

Cell Gallery: WORKS by ALEKSANDRA RODNEVA
“Daydreams and Nightmares” is about exploring the mix of joy and fear we all experience.
Daydreams are those moments when our minds wander to happy, imaginative places, filling us with wonder and joy. They offer a temporary escape from reality, and fuel us to bring a part of our imagination to others in one form or another. Nightmares, on the other hand, bring our fears to life. They can warn us about the potential dangers, but they carve out holes in our souls and burn out our energy. Through my work, I capture these opposing forces and everything in between, weave them into a narrative that resonates with our everyday experiences.

Window Box Gallery: TRANSFORMATIVE ACCESS
September 1st 2024 – April 30th 2025
Over the tall, brick wall across from the Dollarama, you may catch a bright reflection of light. This is the Window Box Gallery, accessible via the entrance courtyard of Gallery 1313. It will be populated with bursts of colour, insight, and transformational visions. Throughout the length of this project, three emerging Toronto artists will present solo exhibitions: Harmeet Rehal (Sept. 1 – Oct. 30, 2024), Sunshine Torme Johnson (Nov. 1 – Dec. 30, 2024), and Hollis McConkey (Jan. 1 – Feb. 28, 2025).

The artists will take on the challenge of investigating how the disabled body-mind informs and constructs the transformation of its surroundings through the knowledge of lived experience. Using both the works themselves and the mediums in which they are displayed, the artists will showcase desire, friction and care through the disability lens, and the intimate places it intersects the whole of the artists. Over that brick wall, you will find Crip Horizons.
This project is produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council