June 22 – September 23
Curator: Anthony Kiendl
Walter Phillips Gallery · Free

Informal Architectures features predominantly new work by 15 contemporary artists exploring the intersections of art, architecture, social thought, and failure. Chocolate and dirt, shopping malls and ruins, humour and destruction — the artworks propose alternatives for the creation, representation and the inhabitation of space.
Opening Reception: Friday, June 22, 7:00 p.m.
Curator’s Tour and Artists’ Talk: Saturday, June 23, 2:00 p.m.

Thursdays at 7:00 p.m.
Walter Phillips Gallery · Free

Join us for a revealing tour of the Walter Phillips Gallery's current exhibition. Informal Architectures features a diverse group of artists exploring the intersections of architecture, social thought, and failure.

July 19 – September 5
Curator: Naomi Potter
Eric Harvie West Lobby · Free

Stand Out brings together work from the Walter Phillips Gallery's permanent collection that explores the northern landscape as a stage on which the drama of human presence and invention is played out.
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 19, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Previous WPG events from this year’s Festival

March 31 – May 27
Curator: Séamus Kealy
Walter Phillips Gallery · Free

18:Beckett is an interdisciplinary exhibition inspired by the work of Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The title refers to the 18 years since Beckett’s death and the 18 elements of the exhibition, including artist’s projects, film screenings, and a publication. 18:Beckett is organized by the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga.
Exhibition Tours: Every Thursday in May at 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 19, 2:00 p.m.
Max Bell Auditorium · Free

Focusing on Samuel Beckett’s experiments with film and television as well as his influence on contemporary art, this afternoon features 18:Beckett Curator Séamus Kealy, American video artist Gary Hill, and concludes with a screening of Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s film adaptation of Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.

Images: (18:Beckett) Gary Hill, Wall Piece, 2000, singled-channel video/sound installation, courtesy of the artist and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago; (Informal Architectures) Rita McKeough, Knockout, 1982, collection of the Walter Phillips Gallery; (Stand Out) Kahty Chenoweth, Lake Louise Wear, 2002, collection of the Walter Phillips Gallery