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Artists are invited to exhibit work in a juried international art awards exhibition featuring paintings, video installations, and mixed-media works around themes of politics, identity, technology, and the human condition.
A group exhibition bringing together artists from Vancouver and New York to reconsider what Chinatown has meant historically and what it might become.
The exhibition features the artist's research-based practice that reconstructs the past in the present, reframing Renaissance and medieval artworks while paying close attention to bodily gestures, architecture, jewelry, and garments to challenge historical representations of women.
Apply for a two-week artist residency at an eco-friendly organic farm in Ontario offering accommodation, meals, studio space, and opportunities to connect with local artists and community.
Organizations apply for funding to develop, enhance, or acquire spaces and equipment that support arts and culture practitioners in British Columbia.
Organizations and collectives in B.C. can apply for funding to support circulation, touring, and travel activities that enhance exposure of B.C. artists and artworks or provide access to arts and culture experiences within the province.
Organizations and arts collectives may apply for funding to develop, expand, enhance, or create new or unique independent media arts works, programming, and community engagement initiatives.
Organizations apply for grants to support artistic and cultural programming fees for community-based arts festivals featuring B.C. or Canadian professional artists and technicians.
Submit up to 4 artworks (or series/bodies of work) engaging with the theme of plasticity—how systems, materials, bodies, and realities are shaped through formation, instability, and transformation—for consideration for exhibition in September 2026.
Submit a CV, artist bio (max 400 words), artist statement (max 400 words), portfolio PDF (up to 5 images on 3 pages max), and 3 titled artworks for consideration in an international emerging to mid-career art awards exhibition and competition.
An exhibition presenting emerging artists at the early stages of their practice, featuring diverse approaches across painting, photography, ceramics, printmaking, and mixed media.
Artists, designers, and collectives are invited to propose a site-responsive installation artwork to be suspended in the gallery's atrium lobby for two years (February 2027 to February 2029).
Artists are invited to apply for residency positions at Wild Rose Farm for the 2026/2027 season.
Submit moving-image artworks with small digital file sizes for screening at the Sixth Annual Small File Media Festival in Vancouver and online.
Apply for funding to pursue one-time or time-limited arts projects that enable public participation and engagement in arts and culture, with a maximum grant of $15,000.
Grants for professional Toronto-based visual/media arts organizations, collectives, curators or programmers to fund one-time or time-limited projects involving exhibition, distribution, residencies, workshops, screening series or lecture series of contemporary visual or media arts.
Black artists and Black-led organizations can apply for funding to create, develop, or present arts projects across any discipline.
Artists are invited to apply to an 8-month Foundation Year Program in visual arts at Yukon School of Visual Arts beginning Fall 2026.
Apply to participate in a three-cycle workshop series offering skill-building in professional development, portfolio creation, grant writing, financial management, and artistic practice.
Land-based artistic practices grounded in mindfulness and environmental responsibility, exploring ancestral Indigenous knowledge, ecological care, and the critique of colonial and industrial systems of harm.
Submit visual artworks (sculpture, textiles, photography, drawing, painting, video, multimedia) for juried selection in an annual exhibition.
Apply for up to $5,000 in accessibility funding to support Deaf artists and artists with disabilities on Toronto Arts Council-funded projects.
Submit a cover letter and detailed CV for a contracted/casual installation technician position at the gallery.
Toronto Arts Council's Visual Artists Program: Creation provides support to visual artists with a professional independent art practice for the creation or completion of new works, with grants of $10,000 intended to cover direct costs and materials.
This exhibition brings together Toronto-based Afghan Canadian artist Shaheer Zazai and Mississauga-based Tamil Canadian artist Whyishnave Suthagar, both creating immersive, contemplative environments that engage with elements from their respective cultural heritage. The works explore themes of environmental consequence, diaspora, intergenerational healing, and memory through installations combining digital language, textiles, traditional motifs, and interactive elements.