Ryerson Image Centre

Ryerson Image Centre
Location of the gallery in Toronto
Established September 2012 (2012-09)
Location 33 Gould Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Type Photography, art museum and education centre
Director Paul Roth
Curator Gaëlle Morel
Public transit access Dundas subway station
505 Dundas streetcar
Website www.ryerson.ca/ric

The Ryerson Image Centre, (formerly known as the Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre), is a renovated and remodelled former warehouse building at Gould and Bond Streets on the campus of Ryerson University in Toronto. The centre includes gallery, collections, teaching, research and exhibition spaces and shares the building with the School of Image Arts.

Bond Street entrance; showing that the structure contains LED lighting effects on the exterior walls at night

History

The gallery was officially opened on September 29, 2012.

The new building, designed by Toronto architect Donald Schmitt (architect) Donald Schmitt of Diamond and Schmitt Architects[1] contains:

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.[2]

References

  1. "Ryerson Image Centre". UrbanToronto. Retrieved 2012-04-03.
  2. "Black Star photos on show at new Ryerson gallery". CBC News. 28 September 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
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