Exhibitions
Current
Sort Events by: All / Art / Fentster / Heritage / Koffler Centre of the Arts / Miles Nadal JCC / Ontario Jewish Archives, Blankenstein Family Heritage Centre / Tour
Window Gallery
March 26, 2021
-May 16, 2021
A Jewish creative response to real-world plagues of our time. In Toronto, Bareket Kezwer’s mural at the Miles Nadal JCC engages with the plague of binary thinking.
Window Gallery
January 25, 2021
-June 1, 2021
A new, site-specific installation referencing the immigrant experience, environmental fragility, and resilience. Artist Rachel Miller creates a textured, tapestry-like assemblage from repurposed and natural materials taking inspiration from Jewish folk art and speaking to the urgent need for ecological healing.
Virtual
May 1, 2021
-June 30, 2021
Part studio portrait, part collaboration, Martha Davis empowers senior citizens to fulfill their longings virtually, using the magic of green screen photography.
Virtual
May 3, 2021
-June 30, 2021
Almost every family has a shoebox filled with old photos tucked away in a drawer or closet. But our shoebox is special. In it are images taken by my father during the l940’s and 50’s that have danced around in my head for years.
Virtual
July 4, 2016
-July 5, 2021
Self-Loving Jew by Jonathan Rotsztain is a series of autobiographical comics claiming a secular, cultural Jewish identity on Koffler Digital.
Virtual
November 4, 2019
-April 29, 2022
Thresholds is a new Koffler.Digital podcast hosted and produced by Maya Bedward in collaboration with members of Holland Bloorview’s Youth Advisory Council.
Virtual
November 11, 2020
-November 11, 2022
Over 17,000 Canadian Jews enlisted in the military during WWII. Through their personal collections, preserved at the OJA, we can learn about these Canadian Jewish servicemen and women and the Jewish organizations that aided them.
Virtual
May 1, 2021
-May 31, 2023
A virtual tour of Toronto’s historic Kensington Market. Scroll through all eight stops and watch the streets come to life though guided videos presenting the sights and sounds of the one-time Jewish Market.
Upcoming
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Archived Exhibitions
Virtual
March 8, 2021
-April 9, 2021
Amanta Scott celebrates International Women’s Day with Eyeing Medusa, 25 encaustic paintings depicting some of the most iconic women of our time such as Greta Thunberg, Margaret Atwood, Tarana Burke and Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
Virtual
February 1, 2021
-February 28, 2021
This series weaves together the visual vocabularies of communal Jewish prayer and the artist’s own objects of pain management.
Virtual
January 4, 2021
-February 28, 2021
The text in each print is customizable to reflect a couple’s distinct union. These prints juxtapose a modern-day aesthetic with a long-standing tradition.
Virtual
December 15, 2020
-January 31, 2021
Celia Brandao is a Toronto-based ceramic artist and educator with an extensive background in commercial graphic design.
Window Gallery
December 8, 2020
-January 4, 2021
For Hanukkah, the windows of the MNjcc have been covered with the work of Bareket Kezwer, who has added a burst of colour to the corner of Bloor and Spadina.
Virtual
October 1, 2020
-November 30, 2020
Archive is a combined series by multimedia artist Myriam Nafte, inspired by medieval Jewish communities and celebrating their contributions to the arts and sciences.
Window Gallery
September 25, 2020
-January 21, 2021
The site-specific installation, by Toronto-based photo-video artist Ella Cooper, features a self-portrait series, presenting faces of grief and sorrow through the lens of a mixed race artist of Jewish heritage.
Gallery
September 23, 2020
-November 15, 2020
Vancouver artist Carol Sawyer assembles a fiction as truthfully as possible to tell a needed story.
