The Image Centre

The Image Centre
The Image Centre is located in Toronto
The Image Centre
Location of the gallery in Toronto
EstablishedSeptember 2012 (2012-09)
Location33 Gould Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Coordinates43°39′27″N 79°22′45″W / 43.65750°N 79.37917°W / 43.65750; -79.37917
TypePhotography, art museum and education centre
DirectorPaul Roth
CuratorGaëlle Morel
Public transit access Dundas
 505 
Websitetheimagecentre.ca

The Image Centre (formerly known as the Ryerson Image Centre and the Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre) is a photography and art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The centre is a university museum operated by Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), and is housed in a renovated and remodelled former warehouse building at Gould and Bond Streets on TMU's campus. The centre includes gallery, collections, teaching, research and exhibition spaces and shares the building with the School of Image Arts.

History

Former logo for the centre, used until July 2022.

The gallery was officially opened on September 29, 2012.[1]

The new building, designed by Toronto architect Donald Schmitt of Diamond and Schmitt Architects[2] contains:

  • Three public gallery spaces
  • Glassed in entrance Colonnade that hosts the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall
  • A fully staffed professional research centre with museum-quality environmental controls
  • A climate controlled vault to house the collections, including The Black Star Collection

The centre was in part created to display some of the 292,000 photos from Black Star which it had received as an anonymous donation.[3]

In August 2013, Paul Roth, a former senior curator and director of photography at Corcoran Gallery of Art was appointed as new director of the Ryerson Image Centre.[4] In March 2015, the museum has acquired the archive of Berenice Abbott, which included more than 6,000 photos and 7,000 negatives.[5]

In July 2022, the centre renamed itself "the Image Centre".[6] This followed the renaming of Ryerson University to Toronto Metropolitan University in April 2022, in response to concerns about Egerton Ryerson's influence on the Canadian Indian residential school system.[7]

References

  1. ^ Hume, Christopher (September 24, 2012). "Ryerson Image Centre focuses on photography". Toronto Star. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  2. ^ "Ryerson Image Centre". UrbanToronto. Retrieved 2012-04-03.
  3. ^ "Black Star photos on show at new Ryerson gallery". CBC News. 28 September 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
  4. ^ Whyte, Murray (August 7, 2013). "Ryerson Image Centre names Paul Roth as new director". Toronto Star. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  5. ^ Adams, James (March 5, 2015). "Ryerson acquires archive of Berenice Abbott". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
  6. ^ "RIC renamed The Image Centre". The Image Centre. 13 July 2022. Retrieved 2023-08-30.
  7. ^ Bowden, Olivia (April 26, 2022). "Ryerson to be renamed Toronto Metropolitan University". Toronto Star. Retrieved April 26, 2022.