Exhibitions in Toronto

May 2027

May at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 1 closing, and 3 more on view across the city.

Retracing Tatreez: Palestinian Thobes through the 20th Century

Over and Over Again exhibition image

Installation view of Dawoud Bey's film 350,000 projected in the gallery

Kamrooz Aram, Untitled (Arabesque Composition in Lapis Lazuli), 2021

Closing in May

Retracing Tatreez: Palestinian Thobes through the 20th Century2 May
Textile Museum of Canada
Palestinian embroidered thobes and jellayeh from the collection, most shown for the first time, curated by Nina Rafique with restored context on their regional motifs and journeys.

Also on through May

Over and Over Againto 17 Jun
Art Museum at the University of Toronto · Free
Carol-Ann Apilado, Kuh Del Rosario, Sukaina Kubba and Esmelyn Miranda Orozco use weaving to probe broken patterns. At the Jackman Humanities Institute, Mon–Fri 9–4.
Dawoud Bey: Material Histories, Living Landscapesto 4 Jul
Art Gallery of Ontario
Dawoud Bey's landscape photographs and the two-channel video 350,000 meditate on North American land and Black diasporic history, with works from the AGO's Frum Collection.
Kamrooz Aram: Lapis Interventionto 11 Jul
Aga Khan Museum
Artist Kamrooz Aram co-curates a gallery intervention setting his lapis-blue Arabesque paintings among collection works to challenge Eurocentric display.

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