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08.18.2010 Save the Date: The MOCCA Award in Contemporary Art will be presented on April 14, 2011. More information will be available in the near future. 08.04.2010 MOCCA will be open until 9 p.m. on August 5 for the West Queen West First Thursdays: Toronto's Monthly Cultural Crawl. For more information click here. 08.04.2010 Please join us at MOCCA for our two final events for Empire of Dreams, happening this Saturday, August 7th.
06.07.2010 The opening reception for the exhibition Empire of Dreams, presented in collaboration with the IMAA ON.Fire 2010 National Media Arts Conference + Festival, will take place on June 19 from 7 – 11 p.m. 06.07.2010 MOCCA is pleased to announce an exciting roster of outreach and education events this summer in conjunction with the exhibition Empire of Dreams: Phenomenology of the built environment. Meet the Artists: Saturday July 10, at MOCCA, free to the public 2 p.m. Janet Jones speaks about her paintings that investigate the spaces of cyber-cities in relation to women in the urban environment and the techno-sublime Meet the Artist: Saturday August 7, 1 p.m., at MOCCA, free to the public Members’ Events Exhibition tour with Artistic Director & Curator David Liss Studio Visit with artists Yvonne Lammerich & Ian Carr-Harris and MOCCA Exhibition Tour with Artistic Director & Curator David Liss Collecting Contemporary Art: A conversation with Jamie Angell & Gareth Brown-Jowett Angell Gallery Co-Directors and artist 05.26.2010
04.28.2010 John Armstrong & Paul Collins Sunday, May 2, 12:00 p.m. Armstrong and Collins speak about their series of colour photographs on which they have painted images, text and swatches of colour, featured in the exhibition The Mechanical Bride. Collaborating since 2000, Armstrong and Collins, have had over 20 exhibitions in Canada and France. Jacqueline Hassink
Sunday, May 2, 1:00 p.m. Dutch artist Jacqueline Hassink has received critical acclaim for her work about issues of power and social relations. Hassink created Car Girls over the course of five years, photographing major car shows in seven different cities on three continents. The lecture will follow with a book signing. 04.13.2010 Emma Hart and Benedict Drew (UK) win the OCAD off Screen Award for their installation Untitled Seven presented at MOCCA during the 23rd Images Festival.
04.01.2010 Thursday, May 6 In this lecture, Thierry de Duve argues that the question "Where is the medium?" is nearly impossible to answer. Instead, we must ask, "When did the medium disappear?" What were the historical conditions surrounding this so-called disappearance of the medium? By looking at the historical context of this conundrum, de Duve insists, we might get an inkling of what its significance might be. For more information click here. 03.10.2010 Please consider attending Partners in Art’s 2Artrageous on May 13, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. in support of their 2010 philanthropic activities, including the exhibition Empire of Dreams opening on June 19 at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Partners in Art is a non-profit group of Toronto art enthusiasts with an interest in supporting the visual arts in Canada in two ways – first by partnering with established arts organizations on collaborative fund-raising projects, and secondly, by furthering members’ own understanding and knowledge of the visual arts through an active educational program. The group cultivates alliances among artists, dealers, curators, educators, business, and the public to develop vital and exciting contemporary art projects that raise the awareness of Canadian art and artists nationally and internationally.
03.04.2010 MOCCA is please to present Steven Laurie's Mud Flap Project, 2008, in the Media/Retail Lounge. The mud flap project is an experimental body of mixed media work designed to ‘brand’ my art making practice and connect to new audience members. Operating as both functional and aesthetic accessories, these flap works will be installed on 55 tractor-trailer trucks and carried across Ontario, Canada and the U.S.A. The silhouettes used in this work were generated from documentation images of my machine projects and demonstrations.
03.03.2010 MOCCA will be open until 9 p.m. on March 4 for the West Queen West First Thursdays: Toronto's Monthly Cultural Crawl. For more information click here. 02.16.2010
The exhibition catalogue Nicolas Baier : Pareidolias is now available for purchase at MOCCA for $35.00 / $25.00 for members. This bilingual 108 page hard-cover book features an essay by MOCCA's David Liss and is co-published by the Musée régional de Rimouski, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the RBC Foundation. 02.08.2010 The year is 2010 and there’s no place better to be right now than here in Toronto! From our headquarters in the heart of the West Queen West Art + Design District, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is pleased to launch our 2010 season of exciting programming! For more information download our Winter / Spring 2010 brochure.
01.15.2010 MOCCA is pleased to announce the Montreal launch of Balint Zsako | Works from the Bernardi Collection on Saturday January 16, 2010, at Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, at 3:30 p.m. Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain is located at 12.22.2009 Read Sarah Milroy's Review of John Heward: A Trajectory / A Collection in the Globe and Mail. 12.22.2009
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Phantoms of Nabua, presented this past fall at MOCCA as part of the Toronto International Film Festival's Future Projections, ranked 4th in Canadian Art's " Year in Review: The Top 10 Exhibitions of 2009." To read the full review click here. MOCCA also ranked 8th in NOW Magazine's " The Decade in Review: Top 10 Art Developments," for our move from midtown to downtown Toronto in 2005. To read the full review click here. 11.20.2009 Saturday, November 28 @ 2 - 3 p.m. The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art presents a public talk by Roald Nasgaard about the work of John Heward. John Heward was born in Montreal in 1934. He is involved in visual and aural art as a painter, sculpture and musician, and has exhibited in Canada, the U.S.A., Europe and China. John Heward: A Trajectory / A Collection, currently on view at MOCCA, is the first solo exhibition of a retrospective nature devoted to him by a museum outside of the province of Québec. Roald Nasgaard is one Canada’s foremost scholars and historians of modern and contemporary Canadian art. His distinguished career in the arts includes fifteen years as Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, as well as authoring the critically acclaimed Abstract Painting in Canada, the first comprehensive publication of its kind. Most recently he curated the landmark exhibition The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960, which is currently on view at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham until February, and will travel to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, in Buffalo, New York, in March 2010. 11.20.2009 Thursday, December 3, 8 p.m. Doors open at 7 p.m. The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is pleased to present a music performance featuring John Heward. John Heward - drums 11.13.2009 MOCCA is pleased to announce the release of a new publication! 11.13.2009 Join us on Saturday, November 14, 2009, 2 – 5 pm for the opening reception of John Heward: A Trajectory / A Collection and Insoon Ha: Drain. 10.16.2009 The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) is pleased to announce a special fundraising initiative in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF), ART TORONTO 2009, taking place October 22 - 26, 2009, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. MOCCA and ART TORONTO have commissioned Toronto-based artist Jason McLean to create 9-5, (2009), a limited edition four-colour screenprint on archival paper, printed at Open Studio, Toronto. The prints will be exclusively available during the fair, and with only thirty prints available at a very reasonable price of $800.00 they will be sure to sell quickly. Pick up your print at the MOCCA booth located across from the NEXT Lounge! All proceeds from the sale will contribute to the support of programming initiatives at MOCCA.
09.28.2009 MOCCA congratulates Barr Gilmore Art + Design for the publication, Andy Fabo, and Brooklyn, N.Y. designer Jaspal Riyait for Balint Zsako: Drawings from the Bernardi Collection. 09.28.2009
Click Here For The Complete Program. 09.23.2009
MOCCA is organizing a charity hockey game to complement the exhibition ARENA: Road Game with the Good Times Hockey League of the Arts 09.09.2009 This Fall is a great time to discover and connect with Toronto's visual arts community! Familiarize yourself with the exciting projects and exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and the rich and diverse art world that lies beyond. Join educator Carol-Ann Ryan and immerse yourself in the world of visual arts through slide lectures, discussions, and presentations by Toronto’s most influential curators, artists, gallerists and collectors.
09.08.2009 Darryl Sittler will be present during the opening reception for ARENA: Road Game on September 10, 2009, from 7 -11 p.m. 08.27.2009 The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art presents: 07.27.2009 ...Between 1 pm and 5 pm on Saturday 15 August, Somewhere There Creative Music will once again turn Queen Street West into a focal point of creative music in Canada by filling the neighbourhood’s galleries with the diverse sounds of the finest players in the city. Visit us at MOCCA at 2 pm to indulge your aural senses with the solo saxophone of Kyle Brenders while our current exhibition Pulp Fiction takes care of your visual senses. The Toronto creative music scene is increasingly recognized as one of the world's finest, most active, and most diverse. Somewhere There Creative Music collaborates with some of Canada's brightest musical talents who are regularly lauded internationally. MUSIC(in)GALLERIES is a walking tour of this music scene through the geography of the Queen West neighbourhood and its art galleries. Listeners/viewers are invited to experience a range of local musical talent at no cost while viewing the exhibitions in the galleries where the music is being made.
06.30.2009 Thanks to the generous support of the Hal Jackman Foundation, visitors can view Pulp Fiction until 9 p.m. every Friday evening for the duration of the exhibition.
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05.14.2009 Saturday May 30, 2009
MOCCA is pleased to announce the official launch of our latest publication, Balint Zsako | Works from the Bernardi Collection, taking place at Art Metropole world headquarters at 788 King St. West, on Saturday May 30, 2009, from 1 to 3 p.m. To celebrate the release of this stunning hardcover book, the first in his young career, Balint Zsako will make the trip to Toronto from his current home in Brooklyn, NY.
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The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art is an institutional member of the Ontario Museum Association and is proud to participate in the 10th edition of May is Museum Month. For more information visit the Ontario Museum Association Website.
04.08.2009 MAY 2, 12PM This lecture is presented by the CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival.
01.29.2009 Starting in 2009, MOCCA is using Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper stock, which comes from forests that are well managed to meet the social, economic and ecological needs of present and future generations. We are also phasing out our paper mailings, thereby reducing the consumption of valuable resources. Help us make a difference by signing up for our e-newsletter! It's simple! Enter your e-mail address in the field located on the right hand side of our homepage.
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12.05.2008 MOCCA and works from the exhibition Carte Blanche | Vol. 2: Painting were featured on CBC's Living in Toronto, hosted by Mary Ito. 12.02.2008
The exhibition catalogue for Kent Monkman's exhibition The Triumph Of Mischief is now available for purchase at MOCCA for $50.00. The catalogue contains beautiful colour images of the exhibition, crtical essays by David Liss, Shirley J. Madill, David McIntosh, Gerald R. McMaster, and an interview by Catherine Mattes. Published in conjunction with the travelling exhibition organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. This publication is a collaboration between the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, St. Mary's University Gallery, Glenbow Museum, and Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, and has been generously sponsored by W. Bruce C. Bailey, Toronto.
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