Mercer Union

A CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART

Mercer Union
1286 Bloor Street West (one block E of Lansdowne TTC Station), Toronto ON M6H 1N9
hours: Tues-Sat 11-6.
T: 416 536 1519 F: 416 536 2955
[email protected]
www.mercerunion.org

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Mercer Union is a non-profit, artist-run centre dedicated to commissioning and producing new works of contemporary art, and providing an engaging program that encourages critical inquiry and conversation. Member of ARCCO (Artist-Run Centres and Collectives of Ontario).

TAG: Artist-Run, Bloor & Lansdowne Art District, Bloordale, Canadian Museums Association, Toronto, Wallace Emerson

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

12 Jul -- 20 Sep 2025 | closing reception Sat 20 Sep, 6-9pm:

groundwork | Luis Jacob, EMILA-AMALIA, (Cecilia Berkovic, Annie MacDonell, Gabrielle Moser, Zinnia Naqbi, Joy Xiang). Curated by Kate Wong.
www.mercerunion.org/exhibitions/groundwork.


Thur 21 Aug 2025, 6:30-9pm:

Open Hearing Printing & Binding Party. Join EMILIA AMALIA for an evening of collective printing and binding! Taking cues from the 1969 Open Hearing in New York – in which participant statements were mimeog ... more


Sat 13 Sep 2025, 11am-1pm:

"Ordering the Museum" with Dr. Amy Fung. This program is initiated and facilitated by Luis Jacob as part of the groundwork project. https://mercerunion.org/programs/the-order-of-canada.


Sat 13 Sep 2025, 2pm:

"What Alternative Funding Models are Possible?" This session opens with a virtual conversation between Kate Wong and Sally Moussawi, associate director at the Mosaic Rooms and worker at the filmmaker's cooperative not/nowhere. Th

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BILLBOARD INSTALLATION

16 Jun - 25 Sep 2025:

SPACE. Ella Gonzales | Sleeve: as that surface fluctuates.
Learn more: https://mercerunion.org/exhibitions/as-that-surface-fluctuates.


WATCH NOW

Video walkthrough. Ella Gonzales welcomes us into her studio, to share the ideas and process behind her three-part SPACE billboard commission: Sleeve. www.mercerunion.org/exhibitions/as-that-surface-fluctuates.