Tenant Category: Artist-Run Centre

Established in 2006, Le Labo is a center for francophone media arts in Toronto, supports and disseminates the work of artists in Toronto. Recognized for its strong community, Le Labo is a dynamic organization, catalyst for the practice of media arts in Toronto. As a member of the artistic community and the French-speaking community, the objectives of Le Labo are to support incubation, innovation, creation and production in the media arts, as well as to promote collaboration and dissemination.

Open Studio is an Artist-Run Centre dedicated to contemporary print and is located in downtown, Toronto, on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Chippewa that is home to many First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples. As a non-profit, charitable organization, Open Studio aims to offer accessible, inclusive and affordable printmaking facilities, programs and services for artists and the public across Canada and abroad. We support artists in the creation…

SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) is a non-profit, artist-run centre in Canada dedicated to increasing the visibility of culturally diverse artists by curating and exhibiting their work, providing mentorship, facilitating professional development and creating a community for our artists. SAVAC was founded to be an organization staffed by people of colour, committed to support the work of artists of colour. We promote self-representation by developing artistic practice that is often informed by cultural identity through a range of mediums,…

The Red Head Gallery, celebrating its 27th anniversary in 2017, is a professional artists’ cooperative committed to exhibiting the work of established and emerging artists and to encouraging work that is critically engaged within a wide range of contemporary discourse. The Red Head Gallery was established in 1990 and is Toronto’s most enduring collectively run art gallery. It has stood the test of time as an exhibition space as well as a collective where critically engaged, highly productive artists enjoy…

Trinity Square Video is a not-for-profit artist run centre and exhibition space. Since 1971, Trinity Square Video has supported community organizations and artists from diverse backgrounds whose practice incorporates the use of electronic moving images in their work, by commissioning, exhibiting, training and making equipment and integration services available. Most of our members are emerging and mid-career artists working on documentaries, dramas, experimental video and video installation. We have equipment for shooting and editing, and post-production including a Media Lab.…

Vtape is a vibrant distribution organization that represents an international collection of contemporary and historical video art and media works by artists. We make this collection accessible to curators and programmers, educators, scholars and public audiences worldwide. In addition to providing a distribution framework for established and emerging artists, Vtape is committed to establishing video art preservation and exhibition standards, and strives to support hybrid practices in an increasingly complex technical milieu. In addition to single-channel, artist-created and -controlled, non-commercial…