Toronto Biennial of Art 2024 starting September 21

Contemporary art is coming back to Toronto as part of the 2024 Biennial of Art event spread out over 12 locations from September 21 to December 1. This ten-week art event is a city-wide exhibition with art and storytelling from 36 artists. The event was last seen in 2022 and prior to that in 2019. During the closure of 2022 the Smoke Sculpture at Sugar Beach brought a lot of colour to the waterfront (see photo at top). Some of the 2019 installations can be found on my posts here: Shoreline Dilemma, Cherry Beach sculptures and art at the Small Arms Building. 

One of the locations for the biennial is the Auto Building at 158 Sterling Road - home of MOCA, or the Museum of Contemporary Arts, with the biennial taking over the 9th floor (entrance to the left of the main MOCA entrance). There will be ten artists at the Auto Building and the art will include paintings, sculptures, textiles and visual installations.

Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López are curators of the 2024 Biennial of Art, titled Precarious Joys programming art and artists from Canada and around the world. From the biennial's webpage, "Some of the presented artworks address the various layers of history that define life in Toronto, while others reflect broader social and political structures of inequality and power under global neoliberal governance. Key issues that resonate across the exhibition include environmental justice, sovereignty, self-representation, belonging and migration, land dispossession, collective memory, feminist genealogies, diasporic sonic cultures, sacred plant wisdom, weaving as spiritual listening, resistance and resilience, ancestorship, and queer worldmaking. Rather than presenting a single theoretical assertion, however, Precarious Joys is organized around open dialogues and poetic connections. Together, these many works will conjure sparks that light a fire amidst the fragility of existence."

Exhibition Venues for 2024

32 Lisgar St and Park (central exhibition and programs hub)
The Auto BLDG at 158 Sterling Road, 9th Floor (another hub)
Billboard at Abell St and Queen St W
Collision Gallery, 30 Wellington Street W (another hub)
Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street W
Gallery TPW, 170 St Helens Ave
Toronto Pearson Airport
Toronto Sculpture Garden, 115 King Street E
Toronto Union Station, 55 Front St
The Image Centre (TMU), 33 Gould St, Toronto, University Gallery
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, 231 Queens Quay W

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