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.

Exhibitions

Pan-American Colours II | July 8 – 19

Pan-American Colours II is an exhibition of artists living in the Greater Toronto Area who came to Canada from Mexico, Central America, and South America. Their work — spanning painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and fibre — grows out of diasporic experience and speaks to the forces reshaping the world they left and the one they inhabit: migration, environmental change, gender, memory, and resistance. Together, they propose that distance from home is not a limitation but a particular kind of clarity.

The exhibition is presented as part of the 14th Pan-American Food & Music Festival, Canada’s largest celebration of the flavours and rhythms of the Americas, July 24-26, 2026, at Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto.

PRINT THIS : An Exhibition of Photography | Curated by Phil Anderson | July 8 – 19

An exhibition in the Process Gallery

Reception: July 9th at 6:30pm

FAMILY REMAINS by Courtney Fairweather | July 8 – 19

An Exhibition in the Cell Gallery

Reception: July 9th at 6:30 pm

We accumulate, amass, hoard, and then our descendants are left to deal with the remains.

I’m saddled with the detritus of the generations before me – long dead and forgotten. But their stuff lingers on. I have photos and Valentine cards, invitations, linen doilies, fans, parasols, and bits of a memoir. Collectively, they represent a pristine lifestyle. Family Remains, however, peals back the layers of gentility to suggest the darker side.

It’s easy to romanticize the Belle Epoch, the period of 1871 to 1914. There were rapid advancements in science and technology. The arts flourished and commercial photography became a powerful tool for establishing social status, limited as it was to the wealthy. Saccharine-sweet valentine cards were valued for their sentimentality and women clutched hand-embroidered linen doilies, ivory fans, and silk parasols. The higher echelons of society entertained one another with teas, dances, and theatricals in their homes and, most coveted of all, in Government House.

But society was brittle and rigid. In Canada, rights were limited to an influential few and beneath the glossy surface, fissures were opening. Social unrest grew as women demanded the right to vote and the Metis, led by Louis Riel, fought for dominion over their land and language rights.

All was not well.

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