Join us at Le Germain Hotel on Wednesday, November 18th from 5:30PM-8:30PM for a private launch of this year’s Silver Editions, featuring artists Abraham Onoriode Oghobase, Jake Kimble, and Rydel Cerezo.
Now celebrating over 20+ years, each limited-edition print offers a glimpse into the ideas and practices shaping contemporary photography today, bringing together artists whose work reflects the breadth of lens-based practices across Canada.
In anticipation of Gallery TPW’s 50th anniversary next year, we’re also delighted to introduce a special Golden Edition by Suzy Lake, one of TPW’s founding members. This special release celebrates TPW’s longstanding commitment to supporting artists and creating critical dialogue around photography and lens-based media.
We look forward to celebrating this year’s editions with you!
Please RSVP below by Wednesday, November 4th.
Artist Bios
Abraham Onoriode Oghobase (b. 1979 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a visual artist and researcher living and working in Toronto, Canada. In his photography-based practice, he explores issues around knowledge production, land, colonial history and representation by deconstructing traditional modes of making and experimenting with the narrative and material potential of images and objects, all the while embracing the power of abstraction and revealing new possibilities in meaning and imagination. Oghobase’s work has been exhibited widely, including in the Nigeria Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennial; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Polygon Gallery, Vancouver; Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg; and Art Twenty One, Lagos. His work is held in the permanent collections of institutions including the AGO; MoMA; Art Institute of Chicago; Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki. Oghobase holds an MFA in Visual Arts from York University, Toronto, where he is currently a PhD candidate.
Jake Kimble is a multidisciplinary Chipewyan (Dënesųłıné) artist and curator from Treaty 8 territory in the Northwest Territories whose practice revolves around acts of self-care, self-repair, and gender-based ideological refusal. Kimble belongs to the Deninu K’ue First Nation and currently lives, works, and shoots on the stolen territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Holding both a degree in Acting from Vancouver Film School as well as a BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design Kimble imbues his work with a sense of theatricality and levity, which are core principles in their practice. Through a clever subversion of the everyday aesthetics Kimble also plays with language and ambiguity – something that comes natural with them being a two-spirited artist. Using a funny bone as a tool, Kimble excavates themes of existentialism, narcissism, and the strange, offering an invitation to the audience to examine the absurdities that exist within the everyday so that they too may exhale, unclench, and even chuckle in the spaces where laughter is often lost.
They have completed residencies at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Yukon, and the Banff Centre for Arts + Creativity, Alberta, and was the co-curator of the 2024 Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA). Most recently Kimble had their inaugural solo institutional exhibition at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Kimble’s work was featured on the King and Shaw Street billboards for the 2023 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, and was included in a group exhibition at the Audain Art Museum alongside Adad Hannah, Michelle Sound, and Jin-me Yoon for the 2024 Capture Photography Festival. Kimble’s work has been exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions across Canada, and can be found in notable collections such as the TD Collection, the Scotiabank Collection, and in the Art Gallery of Hamilton.
Rydel Cerezo investigates the spaces between sexuality, religion and race. He is interested in how these disparate themes metaphorically and visually coalesce. Cerezo instrumentalizes the camera as a means to work through queerness, ancestry and destiny. Cerezo has exhibited internationally including Aperture Foundation, the Vogue Italia Festival and the Polygon Gallery. Cerezo was shortlisted for the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, Jurors Pick for the Salt Spring Art Prize and shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award.