ABSTRACTS 2025
Juried Online Exhibition and Catalogue
JUROR: LYLA RYE
CATALOG: ELIZA TRENT RENNICK
ABSTRACTS 2025 brings together a dynamic group of artists working across painting, digital media, photography, drawing, sculpture, and mixed media. Rather than treating abstraction as a single style, the exhibition highlights it as an active and evolving field of inquiry that invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and engage with form, colour, material, and gesture in new ways.
Reflecting the Aird Gallery’s commitment to presenting rigorous contemporary work by artists across Ontario, ABSTRACTS showcases the breadth and vitality of abstraction today.
Who is Your Self-ie
Juried Group Photography Exhibition
Online exhibition + one-day in-person exhibition & awards ceremony
DEADLINE: APRIL 11, 2026
Who is Your Self-ie invites artists to turn the lens inward and explore the many dimensions of identity and self-expression. In an era shaped by the selfie and evolving forms of portraiture, this call encourages photographers to reflect on how they represent themselves through the medium of photography—whether through historical processes or contemporary digital techniques. The selected works will highlight the many ways image-making can reveal, question, and communicate the self.
Presented by the Aird Gallery as part of the CONTACT Photography Festival, this juried exhibition includes two opportunities: a virtual exhibition and a one-night-only in-person showcase with an awards reception.
A milestone worth celebrating!
The John B. Aird Gallery is proud to share that works first exhibited at the Aird have been acquired by the Government of Ontario Art Collection, stewarded by the Archives of Ontario.
Works by Arnie Guha, Robert Houle, Shawn Johnston, Ilene Sova, and Natalie Wood have been added to the collection, marking a meaningful recognition of both the artists and the Gallery’s ongoing commitment to presenting significant contemporary art in Ontario.
On behalf of the Aird Board and our partner societies, we warmly congratulate the artists on this important milestone.
