Greater Toronto Art 2024 (GTA24) is the second edition of MOCA Toronto’s recurring triennial exhibition, which was conceived in 2021 to look more closely and consistently at artistic practices with a connection to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Featuring a constellation of twenty-five intergenerational artists, duos, and collectives, GTA24 looks back as much as it looks forward. The exhibition presents work made between the 1960s and the present, allowing the comingling of art created in different decades to provide new ways of understanding the current moment and imagining the future.
Across the museum’s three floors—and in an energetic series of live programmes and screenings—the exhibition features fifteen newly commissioned presentations, performances, and events, furthering MOCA’s commitment to supporting artists in the development of new work and ideas. Thinking through the formation and designation of the Greater Toronto Area, GTA24 considers the arbitrary lines drawn to create maps, the ambiguities of an ever-widening geographic designation, and the precarity that arises for those displaced by rapid growth and expansion. These conditions create a state of otherness, and GTA24 reflects on the artistic strategies of working with, on, and against dominant cultural forms. Within this context, the exhibition emphasizes the crucial roles artistic language plays in developing more sustainable and caring ways of living together, and in building solidarity.
Participating Artists
Live Programme
The GTA24 Live Programme presents newly-commissioned performances and events that illuminate connections between the GTA and other geographies and histories, laid out as moments for contemplation and gathering.
Nobuo Kubota, Performance
Friday, March 22, 2024 | 7 pm | Free
Richard Fung, Immony Men, Peter Morin, Lisa Myers, and Dana Prieto
Monday, May 13, 2024 | 6 pm | PWYC, Suggested Rate $10 | Roncesvalles United Church
Hypericin Yellow Movie, Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger
Friday, May 31, 2024 | 7 pm | Free
The Treasury of Human Inheritance (Circuits), Alexis Kyle Mitchell and Luke Fowler
Friday, June 21, 2024 | 7 pm | Free
Solar Organ Concert, Mani Mazinani and Collaborators
Friday, July 19, 2024 | 7 pm | Free
All events take place at the museum, unless otherwise indicated.
Screening Programme
The GTA24 Screening Programme reflects the myriad ways that artists express their entanglement with place, whether through urban and personal histories, lived experience, or speculation.
The Treasury of Human Inheritance, Alexis Kyle Mitchell
Monday, June 17, 2024 | 7 pm | $15 | Paradise Theatre
Sasalubong/Will Meet, Kamias Triennial
Saturday, July 13, 2024 | 2 pm | $15 | Paradise Theatre
Both, Instrument & Sound, Sharlene Bamboat
Saturday, July 13, 2024 | 7 pm | $15 | Paradise Theatre
All events take place at the museum, unless otherwise indicated.
Artist Talk
A talk between artists as they discuss their connections to and distance from the Greater Toronto Area, and the notion of desire as it relates to each of their practices.
Artist x Artist: Jes Fan and Sin Wai Kin
Saturday, March 23, 2024 | 2 pm | $25 | Paradise Theatre