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Remote Gallery, 568 Richmond Street West, Toronto, ON (2026)

06/11/2026

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FL**ZY
Shawna Willow & Sucka Queen
June 20, 2026
8pm
Remote Gallery
68 Richmond St W

sometimes, in order to survive, you have to become mythological
Step into the FL**ZY-verse.

FL**ZY is a one-day immersive art spectacle exploring shame, glamour, and what happens when the performance of self is over.

Featuring visuals, poetry, and a live performance art confessional, we celebrate our inner FL**ZY by throwing glitter on ourselves after the fall.

- Live Reading at 8:30 PM

- Dance Party until 10 PM

- FL**ZY Merch Table

Everyone leaves with an art-ifact.
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06/11/2026

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Join us at Remote Gallery, located at 568 Richmond Street, on Tuesday July 7th from 6-8pm, for an Open House event. This is a great opportunity for artists and creative folks who are interested in checking out the gallery to meet the Gallery Manager, Renato Baldin, to discuss tips for setting up exhibitions, available dates, and the logistics involved in bringing your ideas to life.

Remote Gallery is Akin’s dedicated exhibition and programming space. It provides opportunities for artists and members of the public to rent space for single or multiple day exhibitions, workshops, artist talks, readings, presentations, pop-ups and other artistic programs.

No registration necessary, drop-ins welcome.

For more details on Remote Gallery, click the link in our bio.

See you there!

06/09/2026

Reissue Pop-Up
June 13 & 14, 2026
11-6pm
Remote Gallery
568 Richmond St W
Gallery B

After years of doing markets together, , and started to create a more considered way to shop vintage - centered in quality, craftsmanship and design

06/03/2026

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Warren MacDonald
'Twenty-Blue'
June 11 -14, 2026
Remote Gallery
568 Richmond St W
Gallery A

Gallery Hours:
12pm-9pm daily, or by appointment

Twenty-Blue is a photographic body of work exploring Blue as a visual motif and emotional register, through gradually changing perspectives. Opening on a rocky shoreline at sea level and closing above the clouds – landscapes, interiors, and aerial views become markers along a journey tracing departures, discoveries, trials, and quiet reconciliations that shape life in motion.

05/28/2026

Saviah,
‘First Date'
May 29 - 31, 2026
Remote Gallery
568 Richmond St W..
Opening Reception: Saturday May 30, 6-10pm
Gallery Hours: 12-5pm

Saviah (.art) is a Multidisciplinary Artist and Designer based in Toronto. Her creativity most often takes form as acrylic and mixed-media paintings, digital art and sculpture. She explores themes of love, escapism, intimacy, self-reflection, and Caribbean culture through her work.

The ‘First Date' Exhibition will serve as an official intro to Saviah as a professional Visual Artist. Interactive Acrylic paintings, art prints, and merch will be available for purchase.

05/05/2026

Raquel Mendes
Curated by Daniel Mira
'They Whispered Sacred Words into the Wind'
May 14 to 20, 2026
Remote Gallery
568 Richmond St W
Gallery B
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Opening Reception:
Wed May 13, 6pm
Gallery Hours:
11am to 6pm

What winds hear us when we whisper? How do our bodies move the earth? What affects reflect the spirits circulating around us? They Whispered Sacred Words into the Wind is an exploration in photography and spirit by Raquel Mendes in collaboration with her daughters, and curated by Daniel Mira. Longing for stronger ties with ancestral knowledge, the artist sought to enlist the wisdom of her progeny in a deeply invested venture into embodied relational experience through play and art. The artist positions herself as witness, guest, and participant in her children's spontaneous acts of connection with the urban more-than-human worlds they inhabit.

Raquel Mendes (.art) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher from Brazil based in Toronto. Her work has been shown in exhibitions in Brazil, Canada, United States and Argentina, exploring themes around relationality, feminist subjectivity, and the interconnectedness of existence. She performs research that explores practical engagements of reciprocal multispecies exchange in urban environments through auto-ethnographic and research-creation methodologies. She has a BFA from Universidade de Brasília in Brazil, an MFA from OCAD University, and is currently a PhD student in the Environmental Studies program at York University.

Curated by: Daniel Mira (.art)

This exhibition contains scents.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

04/30/2026

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Pierre St-Jacques
'People in the City'
Presented by Station Independent Projects
May 8 - 16
Remote Gallery
568 Richmond St W
Gallery A..

Opening Reception:
Friday, May 8th, 2026: 6-8 pm
Gallery Hours:
Thursday to Sunday from 1-6 pm

St-Jacques’ () new body of work reflects a diffused sense of disorientation that feels inseparable from contemporary life. Society has created systems so complex that attempts to improve one area often produce unintended consequences elsewhere. The result is a pervasive uncertainty—a feeling that it’s no longer clear where we stand, or how best to move forward. These works sit within that uncertainty. They speak to the unease of navigating a world we have meticulously constructed yet struggle to inhabit comfortably.

St‑Jacques wanted to approach the people in his work with generosity while acknowledging their flaws—seeing those imperfections as meaningful and worth understanding, as if the people in the works gathered endless measurements only to find the final structure doesn’t quite fit. The figures exist within that awkwardness, searching for grounding, connection, and meaning in the gaps.

Pierre St-Jacques
'People in the City'
Presented by Station Independent Projects ()..

Pierre St‑Jacques is a Toronto‑based artist working in video and 2D media, often creating multi‑channel installations and finished sketchbook pieces. He has exhibited widely in Canada and the U.S., with work shown at Artist Space, Station Independent Projects, the Bronx Museum, BRIC, and various art fairs and film festivals. His recent work includes the four‑channel installation Two Birds on a Wire and new canvases depicting contemporary urban life.

04/28/2026

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99% of you have to go, the rest of you can stay
Dave Addington, Jeff Elkow & Jen Gaatch
Thurs. May 7: 12-9pm
Fri. May 8: 12-11pm
Remote Gallery
568 Richmond St W
Gallery B

Opening Reception: Fri. May 8: 6-11

This exhibition presents photographs by Jeff Elkow (), David Addington (), and Jen Gaatch that explore the idea of sharing the same space while experiencing it in very different ways. Each artist looks at familiar places but notices different details, moods, and moments. What feels ordinary to one can seem distant or even unseen to another. Shown together, the photographs reveal how multiple realities can exist side by side, shaped by personal perspective and lived experience. The exhibition reflects on how we move through the same environments every day, often unaware of how differently others see and inhabit those same spaces.

04/24/2026

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BALD BALL
Thursday May 2nd, 5pm to 9pm
Remote Gallery
568 Richmond St W
Gallery B

BALD BALL is a photography series highlighting the power and diversity of Black, bald women while promoting self love, acceptance and re-defining the social norms of beauty. Society is obsessed with long, straight, “good” hair. Lack of hair is never celebrated and beauty was something that had to be achieved, not something you already have. This series is about reclaiming narrative power. It is about saying, boldly and unapologetically, that Black bald women are beautiful, complex, and worthy of being seen in all our glory.

Deon Mars is a Black, q***r, visual artist whose work centers intimate, story-driven imagery celebrating Black and LGBTQ+ communities. Since 2018, she has developed a distinctive voice through freelance practice and technical experience, with work exhibited internationally, including at Monad Gallery in Brooklyn for Black History Month 2026.

She has also co-directed a YouTube dramedy series with BSSN exploring relationship dynamics. As a multidisciplinary artist, Mars has presented work at Pride Toronto, contributed to SKETCH’s Queering Place, an earth-art installation and served as Visual Art Director with Peace Camp Theatre, developing a youth arts curriculum inspired by bell hooks’ All About Love.

At the heart of Mars’ practice is a deep commitment to Black love in all its forms. Her work seeks to expand narratives, promote self-love and acceptance, and honor the full spectrum of Black identity with care, intention, and unapologetic authenticity.
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04/18/2026

Bernadette Peets
'Recent Landscapes'
April 30 - May 6
Remote Gallery
568 Richmond St W
Gallery A

Opening Reception: Sun. May 3, 1 - 7 pm
Gallery Hours: 1 - 7 pm or by appointment
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In my recent landscape paintings, I explore the physical properties of oil paint—using wax paste, thinners, and varied mediums—to create contrasting surfaces within a single work. These material shifts mirror the complex elements that currently co-exist within the natural environment.

Calm areas such as skies and still water are rendered with smooth, thin layers, while thicker, textured applications are used to describe elements like dense tree lines, rugged terrain or turbulent water. This contrast reflects the tension between stability and disruption in the landscape.

Fluorescent acrylic underpainting subtly emerges through the surface, while neon-painted edges and plexiglass framing cast an artificial glow around each piece. This heightened, unnatural light interrupts the illusion of serenity, suggesting the increasing intrusion of human impact on the natural world.

The central piece, Burn Barrel, introduces an intrusive element into an otherwise serene landscape, establishing a tension between the human made object and the natural landscape.

The work reflects the inter-relationship that currently exists between the beauty of planet earth and the detrimental effects that the human species have had upon the natural environment.

—Bernadette Peets ( )

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