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Greater Toronto Art 2021

September 29, 2021 — January 30, 2022

Greater Toronto Art 2021 (GTA21), brings together twenty-one of the most energizing artists and art collectives working in Toronto or intensely connected to the city. The title we’ve adopted, which plays on the name of the city’s broad metropolitan area, addresses our ever expanding notion of what Toronto might be, where it extends, and what practices and attitudes exist here. 

This large-scale exhibition is a new triennial, defined by its pledge to Toronto artists and the commissioning of new projects that add to a local and global discourse. For the inaugural iteration, we asked each contributor to consider: What feels most urgent to you today? Taken together, their responses offer different imaginations of the city, society and the world. Uniting them, however, is a profound belief in remembering, storytelling, questioning, resisting, celebrating, making and speculating.

Curators: Daisy Desrosiers, Rui Mateus Amaral and November Paynter

Ashoona Ashoona and Alexa Hatanaka


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Ghazaleh Avarzamani


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Nour Bishouty


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Jesse Chun


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Tom Chung


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Common Accounts
– Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler


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Julia Dault


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Azza El Siddique


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Kareem-Anthony Ferreira


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Aaron Jones


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Pamila Matharu


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Native Art Department International
- Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan


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Oluseye


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Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum


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Jagdeep Raina


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Tony Romano


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Jennifer Rose Sciarrino


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Walter Scott


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Kara Springer


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Sahar Te


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The collective of Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko


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Visionary support for MOCA in 2021 has been provided by four anonymous donors.

Presenting Sponsor(s):

Lead Sponsor(s):

The Lindy Green Family Charitable Foundation

Foundational Supporter(s):

Major Supporter(s):

Karen Green

Major Sponsor(s):
Contributing Supporter(s):

Ron and Sharon Baruch
Diana Billes
Hesty Leibtag and Terry Verk
Liza Mauer and Andrew Sheiner
Bruce Munro Wright

Supporter(s):
Dr. Parambir S. Keila and Ms. Anjli Patel
Dr. Bruno L. Vendittelli and Jane Halverson
Popsy and Bob Johnstone
Acción Cultural Española
Sue and Bill Kidd
Susie and Vahan Kololian
Victoria Foley and Paul Fredricks
Kaye Beeston
Publication Supporters:

Karen Green
Bill Morneau & Nancy McCain Foundation
Dara and Marvin Singer
Liza Mauer and Andrew Sheiner