Reading Room

Past

Jessica Berger | (embodied)
30 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Toronto Metropolitan University's Maximum Exposure Winner 2023 Exhibition Dates: September 30 – October 14, 2023 Closing Reception: October 14, 2-5pm Stephen Bulger Gallery is proud to host our annual... Read more
Kay Nadjiwon | Indian Savages: A Family Album & Niin, Nimaamaa, Nokomis
5 - 19 Nov 2022 Toronto Metropolitan University's Maximum Exposure Winner 2022 Exhibition Dates: November 5 – 19, 2022 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 5, 2 – 5pm Indian Savages: A Family Album Indian Savages:... Read more
Rita Leistner | The Tree Planters
Selection of Work on Display 13 Oct - 3 Nov 2022 Exhibition Dates: October 13 – November 3, 2022. The gallery is please to present a selection from Rita Leistner’s series The Tree Planters, on display in our reading room. Presented... Read more

ON STAGE | Hank Bull & Isobel Harry
Exhibition 10 Sep - 15 Oct 2022 Exhibition Dates: September 10 – October 15, 2022 The Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased to welcome Hank Bull and Isobel Harry under the gallery’s representation and introduce their archives with... Read more
Leah den Bok | Nowhere to Call Home | Volume 4 | Book Launch
26 Feb 2022 For the past six years Leah den Bok has travelled to major cities throughout the world photographing and recording the stories of people experiencing homelessness. Her fourth book entitled Nowhere... Read more
Mahtab Hussain | Muslims in Toronto
Exhibition & Virtual Lecture 4 - 22 Dec 2021 Mahtab Hussain in conversation with Chris Boot (virtual) recorded live: Tuesday November 30, 2021, 5pm To view a recording of the conversation, visit here . Exhibition Dates: Saturday,... Read more

Rita Leistner | Forest For The Trees
Exhibition & Book Launch 23 - 30 Oct 2021 Exhibition Dates: October 23 – November 6, 2021 Book Signing with Rita Leistner: October 23, 2021, 11am – 6pm Call or email the gallery to pre-order your copy. To... Read more
Robert Burley | Accidental Wilderness
Exhibition & Book Launch 21 - 29 Sep 2021 Exhibition Dates: September 21 – September 29, 2021 Book Signing with Robert Burley: September 25, 2021, 1 – 5:30pm To book your visit, or to attend the book launch, please... Read more
Ruth Orkin at 100 | A Celebratory Exhibition
Exhibition 14 Aug - 18 Sep 2021 Exhibition Dates: August 14 – September 18, 2021 In celebration of Ruth Orkin’s Centennial year, the gallery is pleased to present our third solo exhibition of work by photojournalist Ruth... Read more

Benjamin Freedman | Exquisite Corpse
Exhibition 10 Jul - 7 Aug 2021 Exhibition Dates: July 10 - August 7, 2021 Exquisite Corpse, Freedman’s first foray into autobiographical subjects, explores mythology through the lens of his Jewish heritage. The photographs investigate the 16th... Read more
Tommy Calderón | Untitled N. 01
14 - 21 Nov 2020 Ryerson's Maximum Exposure Winner 2020 Exhibition Dates: November 14 – November 21, 2020 Closing Reception: November 21, 2020 from 2 pm - 4 pm *Open by Appointment. Contact us to... Read more
Wendy Ewald | Portraits and Dreams
8 Sep - 21 Oct 2020 Exhibition Dates: September 8 – October 21, 2020 The gallery is honoured and excited to announce its representation of Wendy Ewald. In advance of a larger survey exhibition, we’re... Read more

Janet Dey | Magic
22 Feb - 14 Mar 2020 Exhibition Dates: February 22 – March 14, 2020 Artist Talk with Janet Dey: Saturday, February 22, 4pm Opening Reception: Saturday, February 22, 2 – 5pm The gallery is pleased to... Read more
Hannah Somers | Tracing Ethinicity
Opening Reception & Exhibition 21 - 28 Sep 2019 Ryerson's Maximum Exposure Winner 2019 Opening Reception: September 21, 2019, 2-5pm Exhibition Dates: September 21 – September 28, 2019 “Tracing Ethnicity” is a first-person account on the discussion of racial... Read more
Robert Giard | Remembering Stonewall through Gay Sites & Portraits
15 Jun - 27 Jul 2019 Exhibition Dates: June 15 – July 27, 2019 Opening Reception: June 27, 2019, 5-8pm In commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, the Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased... Read more

Meryl McMaster | As Immense as the Sky
4 May - 13 Jun 2019 In conjunction with Meryl McMaster's As Immense as the Sky at the University Gallery, Ryerson Image Centre from May 1 - August 4, 2019, the Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased... Read more
Leah den Bok | Nowhere to Call Home | Volume 2 | Book Launch
20 Apr 2019 Accompanied by her Dad, eighteen year-old photographer and author Leah Denbok has been travelling the world, photographing and recording stories of people experiencing homelessness. As Leah continues to gain international... Read more
John Lucas | Caryatids After Storm
9 - 30 Mar 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 9, 2-5pm, Artist will be in attendance Exhibition Dates: March 9 - March 30, 2019 Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased to present its third exhibition of... Read more

Sanaz Mazinani | Shift
Record Launch & Closing Reception 23 Feb 2019 Record Launch and Closing Reception: Saturday, February 23, 2-5pm Artist Talk with Sanaz Mazinani: Saturday, February 23, 3pm Stephen Bulger Gallery is pleased to announce the record release of Shift,... Read more
Where the Light Shines First
Opening Reception & Exhibition 11 - 15 Sep 2018 Ryerson's Maximum Exposure Winner 2018 Opening Reception: Tuesday, September 11th, 6-9pm Exhibition Dates: September 11-15, 2018 A selection of images from Where the Light Shines First, a photographic accumulation of... Read more
Vladimir Kabelik | Limping Forward, Looking Back
Exhibition & Book Signing 18 - 25 Aug 2018 Opening Reception: Tuesday, August 21, 2-5pm In 1960s Czechoslovakia was going through a rapid transformation. The initial phase of primitive, brutal communism was over and people welcomed even the smallest... Read more

Bertrand Carrière | Le Capteur
Exhibition & Book Signing 5 - 26 May 2018 Exhibition Dates: May 5 - May 26, 2018 Book Signing & Opening Reception: Sunday, May 6, 11am-5pm Stephen Bulger Gallery is proud to present a book launch and special exhibition... Read more
The Broadbent Sister | Telepathic Book
Book Launch 3 May 2018 The Stephen Bulger Gallery is proud to present a book launch in the Project Gallery by Toronto artist duo The Broadbent Sisters. The publication, Telepathic Book, was the winner of... Read more
Queering Family Photography
Presented by FamCam & CLGA 21 Apr - 26 May 2018 TORONTO, March 27, 2018 - The Family Camera Network (FamCam) and the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA) are pleased to announce the opening of Queering Family Photography, an original... Read more

Karl Spiess | A Saxon Light Artist and his Photographs
Exhibition & Book Launch 14 - 21 Apr 2018 The archives of the Saxon photographer Karl Spieß (1891-1945) were to be disposed of in a dump in East Germany in 1986. Photographers Dietmar and Marga Riemann managed to save... Read more
Debra Friedman | Coming of Age in Wonderland
Book Launch 24 Feb 2018 Book Launch: Saturday, February 24, 1-4pm, Artist will be in attendance The Stephen Bulger Gallery is proud to present a book launch in the Reading Room by Toronto artist Debra... Read more