lido pimienta | hanging by the threads
Toronto | November 20 - December 18, 2021

Hanging by the Threads marks a reflection on a loving personal world filled with familiar faces who guide the way. Lido Pimienta fills the works with the colours and symbolic faces that remind her of her upbringing, and mark reflections of her personal memories inspired by childhood. Hanging by the Threads is Pimienta’s first solo show at Patel Brown Gallery, exhibiting at our Patel Brown East location at 184 Munro St.

Artifacts of the Horizon, Part 2: Setting into Space | Group Exhibition
Toronto | November 9 - December 18, 2021

Artifacts of the Horizon works to replace possible futures with the frontier of the present, transcending identified categorizations and emphasizing the collective viewpoint and way forward through a variety of unique perspectives and the objects that reflect them.

Artifacts of the Horizon, Part 1: rising from place | Group Exhibition
Toronto | September 25 - October 30, 2021

Artifacts of the Horizon works to replace possible futures with the frontier of the present, transcending identified categorizations and emphasizing the collective viewpoint and way forward through a variety of unique perspectives and the objects that reflect them.

maria hupfield | storywork
Toronto | September 4 - October 16, 2021

Maria Hupfield’s solo exhibition, Storywork, at Patel Brown East explores  how we carry living knowledge through our actions, clothing, words, and actions. The items in the gallery are both sculptures and live performance components, activated by the artist’s touch.

Rajni perera & nep sidhu | in the realm of lightning
Toronto | August 7 - September 18, 2021

Rajni Perera and Nep Sidhu present a collaborative multi-faceted body of work for In the Realm Of Lightning. Comprising of large-scale experimental marbled textile wall work, embroidered protection for ride-or-die spiritualists and kin, as well as varied object, the exhibition culminates two years of labor, life, and intention.

Michael dumontier & neil farber | thought landscape
Toronto | July 23 - August 28, 2021

Patel Brown East is pleased to present a new series of works by Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber. Whimsical flowers, emotive mixed tapes, and a composite work that continues their Library series comprise the exhibition, further expanding the narrative and visual repertoire of Dumontier & Farber.

alexa hatanaka | side by each
Toronto | June 26 - July 31, 2021

Consisting of relief-prints and kamiko garments constructed with washi, side by each weaves the long and delicate threads of paper to manifest ancestral connections and intersecting crises. 

flesh on the floor | Group Exhibition
Toronto | May 22 – July 3, 2021

Mohamad Abdouni, Evan Atwood, Jorian Charlton, Roya Delsol, Ty Ford, Jah Grey, Isabella Isaziga, Katerina Jebb, Luna Khods, jes sachse, Neva Wireko, Ji Yeo

Curated by Maya Fuhr

maya fuhr | living in a material world Toronto | May 01 – June 23, 2021

Recording the fabric of clothing and other related materials, Fuhr examines the relationship with textiles of dress, coalescing the geographic anatomy of the clothing we wear each day.

anique jordan | nowing
Toronto | May 15 - June 19, 2021

Nowing is an exhibition of photographs and sculptures that work across time to find, examine, and name  “political histories of the present” and imagine how we might contend with these histories today.

Michael dumontier & neil farber | precarity
Toronto | April 03 - May 08, 2021

Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber’s practice distills nuanced emotional moments, often to humorous effect. Utilizing various juxtapositions of familiar objects (flowers, animals, houses, books), their works read as a categorical indexing of linguistic and painterly exploration.

ella gonzales, tristam landsdowne, and luke painter | personal space
Toronto | April 02 - May 08, 2021

The works in this exhibition conjure unsettled, and sometimes unsettling spaces that address the contemporary interior. Existing in differing degrees of relation to inhabitable locations, these works navigate the terrain between digital rendering, dream-image, and place.

vanessa brown | slumber
Toronto | February 27 - March 28, 2021

SLUMBER engages a slowness in the viewer’s eyes. Populated by five ambiguously figurative, larger than life sculptures, the exhibition takes sculptural contour as its point of departure and suggests in its slow forms the heaviness of aging bodies.

alex sheriff | closing parties
Toronto | February 05 - March 27, 2021

Rooted in themes surrounding the Anthropocene, the works in the exhibition explore ambivalent attitudes towards our species’ extinction within the broad narrative arch of natural history and challenges the audience to adopt viewpoints of other things on Earth.

marigold santos | hiwa-hiwalay
Toronto | November 21, 2020 - January 16, 2021

In hiwa-hiwalay, Marigold Santos embraces multifarious self-hoods and fragmented identities as expressions of empowerment and resiliency. Folklore, textures, gestures and objects particular to the Philippines persist in her imagery, which collide and reconfigure in an effort to acknowledge heritage and examine complex histories within diasporic experiences.