Open Studio

Open Studio Open Studio is a Canadian Artist-Run Centre dedicated to contemporary print.

Open Studio is a non-profit, charitable organization that supports artists in the creation and exhibition of contemporary print in an open-minded, safe and collaborative environment. Our facility supports various printmaking techniques, including screenprinting, lithography and intaglio/relief printing. We open the door to printmaking through our studio facilities, education programming, residenci

es, scholarships, exhibitions and public art installations. Our vision is to shape the exploration of print as essential, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture and creative thought.

Open Studio is looking for an Executive Director to lead Toronto’s only artist-run printmaking centre into its next chap...
08/10/2026

Open Studio is looking for an Executive Director to lead Toronto’s only artist-run printmaking centre into its next chapter. You’ll oversee finances, fundraising, staff, and our studio community, working closely with our Board to support Open Studio’s growth. We’re looking for a leader with strong financial management skills and a genuine commitment to accessibility and inclusion.

Applications close: September 16, 2026 at 5pm ET
Salary: $65,000 - $75,000
Full posting and how to apply: https://openstudio.ca/open-studio-is-hiring-an-executive-director/

Questions? Email [email protected]

We’re taking a short summer break, but here’s an exhibition well worth adding to your gallery visits this month.☑️ Visit...
08/07/2026

We’re taking a short summer break, but here’s an exhibition well worth adding to your gallery visits this month.

☑️ Visit the Robert McLaughlin Gallery to see ‘Sukaina Kubba: Not Soft by Nature’, on view until September 6. Through textiles, printmaking, and material research, the exhibition offers a rich exploration of history, craft, and cultural exchange. More info: https://rmg.on.ca/exhibitions/sukaina-kubba-not-soft-by-nature/

Many of the exhibition’s printed works were produced right here at Open Studio, and we’re grateful to have contributed to bringing them to life.

☀️ Enjoy the rest of your summer, and we’ll see you soon!

Join us for our next exhibition opening reception on September 11, 6-8pm, featuring work by Özge Dîlan Arslan, Claudine Crangle, Elizabeth D’Agostino, and Dana Tosic. More info: https://openstudio.ca/exhibitions/

📷 Photos: Installation view of ‘Sukaina Kubba: Not Soft by Nature’, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2026. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid. Photos provided courtesy of the artist.

Open Studio’s front-of-house galleries, office, and shop are now closed for our summer break. 🌞Our online shop remains o...
08/02/2026

Open Studio’s front-of-house galleries, office, and shop are now closed for our summer break. 🌞

Our online shop remains open, and artwork can still be purchased, but orders will be fulfilled when we reopen in September.

Approved members will continue to have 24/7 studio access during this time.

The office reopens on September 2.

We’ll return with our next exhibitions and opening reception:

What's On
https://openstudio.ca/whats-on/

Opening Reception
📅 Friday, September 11
🕕 6 to 8 PM

Main Gallery
My Memory Echoes in You
Dana Tosic

Project Space
Tracing What the Sea Alters
Özge Dîlan Arslan

Vitrine
Building Blocks
Claudine Crangle

Vitrine
Woven Topographies
Elizabeth D’Agostino

Have a wonderful summer! We look forward to welcoming you back in September. 🌿

‼️Today, August 1st, is your last chance to visit our current exhibitions before they closeMAIN GALLERYDefiant MemorySyl...
08/01/2026

‼️Today, August 1st, is your last chance to visit our current exhibitions before they close

MAIN GALLERY
Defiant Memory
Sylvat Aziz

PROJECT SPACE
Refraction: Translations of Japanese Landscape
Fumiko Goto, Fuki Hamada, and Yoshie Uchida

VITRINE
Jenn Law
to your own devices

VITRINE
Mohammad Tabesh
Book of Roaring Memories

After August 1, our front-of-house galleries and shop will be closed for the remainder of the month. Studio access will continue for approved members. Our office reopens September 2, and we look forward to welcoming you back for our next exhibition, opening Friday, September 11.

We hope to see you today!

📸 Images in order of artists presented.

🌟Last week to view our current exhibitions!We are also excited to be included in the latest issue of Printmaking Today (...
07/28/2026

🌟Last week to view our current exhibitions!

We are also excited to be included in the latest issue of Printmaking Today (Printmaking Today), which highlights ‘Refraction: Translation of Japanese Landscape’ in the Project Space, featuring work by Fumiko Goto, Fuki Hamada, and Yoshie Uchida.

Through distinct approaches to printmaking and image-making, these three artists explore how landscape is translated, experienced, and reimagined within contemporary Japanese urban environments.

From quiet hillside forests and compressed perspectives to fragmented elemental forms, Refraction brings together poetic and intimate interpretations of nature, perception, and place.

Guest Curated by Derek Michael Besant

📍 Open Studio, Suite 104 at 401 Richmond Street West
🗓️ On view until August 1, 2026
🕚 Gallery hours: Tue-Fri 11-5 | Sat 12-5

Jenn Law is currently showing work in the Open Studio vitrine until August 1, 2026. ‘to your own devices’ explores the r...
07/21/2026

Jenn Law is currently showing work in the Open Studio vitrine until August 1, 2026. ‘to your own devices’ explores the relationship between language, plants, and the act of making through letterpress printing on the leaves of ivy.

Law’s process creates a collaborative exchange between artist and botanical subject. Printed one leaf at a time, the ivy is delicately coaxed into the press and begins to alter the text almost immediately, reordering and eventually erasing the printed phrases. Over the course of the exhibition, the words gradually disappear, leaving behind only the traces and outlines of their former presence.

Known for its resilience and adaptability, ivy becomes both material and collaborator, shaping the work through its own processes of growth, change, and survival. The installation considers connection, transformation, and the act of letting go.

Jenn Law is a Toronto-based artist and writer whose practice explores the intersections of language, ecology, and material processes. Through letterpress printing, she works with wild and cultivated plants to create poetic exchanges between text and the natural world.

📍Open Studio, Suite 104 at 401 Richmond Street West

💥Have you gotten your 401 Richmond update yet? The summer issue features a tenant profile about Open Studio.401 Update i...
07/16/2026

💥Have you gotten your 401 Richmond update yet? The summer issue features a tenant profile about Open Studio.

401 Update is a quarterly printed newsletter documenting the people and spaces that make 401 Richmond a unique artistic hub.

Visit us at 401 Richmond St. West, Suite 104, to get your FREE copy! Big thanks 401 Richmond Street West!

Read the online copy here: https://401richmond.com/newsletters/

Congratulations 🎉 to Open Studio artist Roberto Centazzo on receiving the Murray & Marvelle Koffler Founder’s Award at T...
07/11/2026

Congratulations 🎉 to Open Studio artist Roberto Centazzo on receiving the Murray & Marvelle Koffler Founder’s Award at TOAF65 for his work ‘Babylon’, 2024, a copper plate etching and aquatint.

Presented by The Koffler Foundation, this $10,000 award celebrates Roberto’s exceptional artistic achievement and recognizes his creativity, innovation, and distinctive voice in printmaking.

We are proud to celebrate this recognition of Roberto’s work! Make sure to visit his booth A58!

While visiting TOAF65, be sure to check out fellow Opem Studio printmakers Zoë Craig at booth A142 and Lisa Frost at booth E527.

📍Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, July 10-12, 2026

Mohammad Tabesh is currently showing work in one of the OS vitrines until August 1. ‘The Book of Roaring Memories’ gathe...
07/10/2026

Mohammad Tabesh is currently showing work in one of the OS vitrines until August 1. ‘The Book of Roaring Memories’ gathers anonymous oral memories from the Iranian diaspora shaped by war, violence, censorship, and displacement, translating them into poetic prose and colour-based print works.

Tabesh uses letterpress debossing and coloured pencil to create varied-edition prints. His red-green colour blindness shapes his process, leading him to approach colour through careful selection, documentation, and systems of reference rather than visual certainty. Each text is identified only by age markers, preserving anonymity while holding the tension between past experience and present memory.

The project explores collective memory and oral history, considering how colour appears within recollection as a sensory trace of lived experience.

Mohammad Tabesh is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture and installation, creative writing, and printmaking. He holds a BFA in Sculpture/Installation from OCAD University.

‘The Book of Roaring Memories’ is a work in progress, supported by the Access Copyright Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council. Access Copyright Canada Council for the Arts Ontario Arts Council | Conseil des arts de l’Ontario Toronto Arts Council

📍Open Studio, Suite 104 at 401 Richmond Street West

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Toronto, ON
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Wednesday 11am - 5pm
Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 5pm
Saturday 12pm - 5pm

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