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Welcome to MOCA Toronto, your destination for contemporary art!

08/20/2026

A few favourite moments from an incredible season. ✨

A big thank you to everyone who made this season so special. Your curiosity, creativity, and energy brought MOCA to life. 🙌

Spring 2026 was filled with talks, tours, hands-on workshops, Free Friday Nights and captivating performances. We showcased emerging talent with an exhibition from "Creative Youth," MOCA’s Youth Council, friends and families joined us for TD Community Sundays, Art Hives continued to grow, and you added your part to our community loom.

As we take a break to install our next exhibitions, we can’t wait to show you what’s next!

📹: MOCA Toronto, 2026.

For , we’re looking back at a few unforgettable photography exhibitions that have transformed MOCA. From Shirin Neshat’...
08/19/2026

For , we’re looking back at a few unforgettable photography exhibitions that have transformed MOCA.

From Shirin Neshat’s “Land of Dreams” and Thomas Demand’s “HOUSE OF CARD” to “Jeff Wall Photographs 1984–2023,” photography has taken many forms at the museum, from intimate portraits and constructed scenes to surreal narratives and monumental installations.

Swipe through for a look back.

📸 1. Shirin Neshat, “Land of Dreams,” 2019. Installation view 2022, MOCA Toronto. Copyright Shirin Neshat. Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Courtesy Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Cape Town and London. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

2. Shirin Neshat, “Whispers,” 1997. From the “Women of Allah” series. Installation view, MOCA Toronto. 2022. Copyright Shirin Neshat. Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Courtesy Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Cape Town and London. Photo: Toni Hafkenscheid.

3, 4. Thomas Demand, “Thomas Demand, House of Card,” installation view, MOCA Toronto, 2022. © Thomas Demand, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery / Galerie Sprüth Magers / Esther Schipper, Berlin / Taka Ishii Gallery. Photo: Laura Findlay.

5. Jeff Wall, “The Flooded Grave,” 1998–2000. Transparency in light box. “Peas and Sauce,” 1999. Transparency in light box. “Jeff Wall Photographs 1984–2023,” installation view, MOCA Toronto, 2025. Photo: LF Documentation. © Jeff Wall.

6. Jeff Wall, “The Storyteller,” 1986. Transparency in light box. “Jeff Wall Photographs 1984–2023,” installation view, MOCA Toronto, 2025. Photo: LF Documentation. © Jeff Wall.

🚨 MOCA is hiring! Are you enthusiastic about the arts and searching for your next career move? Explore exciting opportun...
08/18/2026

🚨 MOCA is hiring!

Are you enthusiastic about the arts and searching for your next career move? Explore exciting opportunities at MOCA! We’re currently hiring for:

Exhibition Intern — open until filled
TD Public Programmes and Learning Fellow — open until filled

If one of these roles sounds like a perfect fit, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now and be part of our dynamic team!

Visit our careers page via the link in our bio.

08/14/2026

📣 Final weekend!

There are just three days left to experience Sara Cwynar’s “Baby Blue Benzo Beta,” Kimsooja’s “Dimensions of a Needle,” and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi’s “Suspension!”

Come by before they close this Sunday, August 16.

Visit the link in bio to plan your visit.

📹: Spring 2026 Season Preview, MOCA Toronto, 2026.

MOCA Toronto’s Fall 2026 season opens October 4 ✨Bringing together three internationally acclaimed artists, the season m...
08/13/2026

MOCA Toronto’s Fall 2026 season opens October 4 ✨

Bringing together three internationally acclaimed artists, the season moves across sculpture, installation, painting, and sound.

Bharti Kher’s “Bones” brings together works from the past 15 years with new sculptures, exploring assemblage, transformation, and the body through surreal figures, geometric forms, and her signature bindi-covered paintings.

Delcy Morelos unveils “Ombligo,” a major new site-specific commission created for MOCA. Inspired by the womb and spider web, the installation is woven from sisal rope treated with soil and corn roots harvested in Toronto, continuing Morelos’s exploration of our relationship to the land.

And as part of MOCA’s “South Stairwell Sound Series,” Beverly Glenn-Copeland presents “Light of the Heavens,” a recently recovered song from around 1986, created during the same era as his landmark album “Keyboard Fantasies.”

Discover more about MOCA’s Fall 2026 season and read the full press release at the link in bio.

📸 1. Bharti Kher, “The messenger,” 2012. Fibre glass, sari, resin, granite, wooden rake, 188 x 132 x 80 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin. Photo: Genevieve Hanson.
2. Bharti Kher, “A line through time and space,” installation view, ‘The hot winds that blow from the west’, 2011. Wood, paint, bindis. Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin. Photo: Genevieve Hanson.
3,4. Delcy Morelos, “El abrazo (The Embrace),” installation view, Dia Chelsea, New York, 2023. Courtesy the Artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photo: Don Stahl.
5. Beverly Glenn-Copeland, “Light of the Heavens” (Official Video) (still), 2026. Courtesy of the artist, Third Side Music Inc., and Transgressive Records.

08/12/2026

There’s more to the moment than the performance.

Projected in MOCA’s South Stairwell, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi’s “Suspension” turns our attention to the intense concentration of female gymnasts of colour in the moments before they perform.

Nkosi pairs these intimate portraits with a haunting soundtrack, creating a powerful meditation on focus, pressure and resilience.

Just a few days left to experience it—closing this Sunday, August 16.

📹: Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Suspension (Sierra Brooks, Daisha Cannon, Luci Collins, Olivia Courtney, Naveen Daries …), 2020, installation view, MOCA Toronto, 2026. © Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town / Amsterdam.

08/11/2026

Photography and capitalism have developed side by side since their beginnings.

In “Baby Blue Benzo Beta,” Sara Cwynar considers this intertwined history alongside the endless stream of images that defines contemporary life.

Hear Cwynar discuss the ideas behind the work.

Experience the exhibition before it closes this Sunday, August 16: https://bit.ly/3A252TX

🎙️ Audio: Sara Cwynar, speaking about “Baby Blue Benzo,” MOCA Toronto, 2026.
📹: Sara Cwynar, “Baby Blue Benzo” (clip), 2024, “Baby Blue Benzo Beta,” installation view, MOCA Toronto, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and 52 Walker, Cooper Cole, Toronto, and The Approach, London. Photo: LF Documentation.

One week left! 📣 MOCA’s Spring 2026 exhibitions close this Sunday, August 16.Spend some time with the image-filled world...
08/10/2026

One week left! 📣 MOCA’s Spring 2026 exhibitions close this Sunday, August 16.

Spend some time with the image-filled world of Sara Cwynar’s “Baby Blue Benzo Beta,” move through the quietly powerful environments of Kimsooja’s “Dimensions of a Needle,” and experience Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi’s audiovisual project “Suspension” in our South Stairwell.

See them before they’re gone. Plan your visit: https://bit.ly/3A252TX

📸 1,4,5,6. Spring Season Preview, MOCA Toronto, 2026. Photo: Dean Tomlinson.
2–3. “Creative Youth,” spring session programme, MOCA Toronto, 2026.

We're thrilled by the response to Kimsooja’s and Sara Cwynar’s exhibitions. With less than two weeks until the exhibitio...
08/05/2026

We're thrilled by the response to Kimsooja’s and Sara Cwynar’s exhibitions. With less than two weeks until the exhibitions close, now is the time to experience them for yourself.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4pZMq0i

📸1, 5. Kimsooja, “Dimensions of a Needle,” installation view, MOCA Toronto, 2026. Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Studio Kimsooja. Photo: LF Documentation.
2, 3, 4, 6. Sara Cwynar, “Baby Blue Benzo Beta,” installation view, MOCA Toronto, 2026. Courtesy of the artist, Cooper Cole, Toronto, and The Approach, London. Photo: LF Documentation.
7. Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, “Suspension,” 2020, installation view, MOCA Toronto, 2026. © Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town / Amsterdam. Photo: LF Documentation.

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