Exhibitions in Toronto
May 2026
May 2026 at a glance: 3 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 7 more were on view across the city.
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Opened in May
Always In Fashion1 MayTextile Museum of Canada
Curated by Amber-Dawn Bear Robe, an immersive look at how contemporary Indigenous couturiers blend ancestral knowledge with innovation, featuring Kent Monkman, Brian Jungen and more.
BEES: A Story of Survival16 MayRoyal Ontario Museum
Immersive art-meets-science show by National Museums Liverpool and sculptor Wolfgang Buttress tracing 120 million years of bee adaptation and survival.
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Alize Zorlutuna: Surface Tension: To Comb [Tarak]23 MayMercer Union, a Centre for Contemporary Art · Free
Alize Zorlutuna's sculptural banners cut into large-format reproductions of Ebru, the marbled hydrographic printing technique, releasing the movement within.
Was on view in May
Rough & Ready: A History of the Cowboy Bootto 20 SeptBata Shoe Museum
The cowboy boot from its late-19th-century invention to ranches, cinema and contemporary fashion, with pieces from the collection and 13 lenders.
- In Search of Imperfection: The Macdonald Collection of Japanese and Japanese-Inspired Ceramicsto 31 Dec
Gardiner Museum
The Macdonald Collection shown in full for the first time: early Edo-period Japanese porcelain and Japanese-inspired ceramics, explored through nature, leisure and global trade.
Crawford Lake: Layers in Timeto 3 JanRoyal Ontario Museum
How sediments of a small lake near Milton, Ontario record 1,000 years of human impact, making it the "golden spike" candidate for the Anthropocene.
Critical Minerals: Critical Choicesto 3 JanRoyal Ontario Museum
Gallery installation in Earth's Treasures on the minerals essential to a net-zero society, and the lifestyle choices tied to them.
Chinese Zodiac Case: Year of the Horseto 31 JanRoyal Ontario Museum
ROM's annual zodiac installation marks the Year of the Horse with horse figures from early China, once placed in tombs to serve the dead.
Made By Many: 50 Years of the Textile Museum of Canadato 1 FebTextile Museum of Canada
A 50th-anniversary show tracing five decades of exhibitions back to the 1970s, with works by Bev Koski, Marimekko, Melinda Patterson, Thor Hansen, You Wenfeng and more.
André Perugia: A Design Legend Unveiledto 4 AprBata Shoe Museum
Over 95 designs by André Perugia (1893-1977), pioneer of the stiletto heel, made for Dior, Schiaparelli, Josephine Baker and other clients.
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