Ontario Juried Exhibition 2019

October 25, 2019 – January 5, 2020

Artists: Peter Adams , Bev Brawley, TJ Brown, Jessica Caissie, Susan Campbell, Anne-Marie Cosgrove, Wayne Gascho, François Grenier, Cathy Groulx, Michaela Lucio, Jackie Lyons, Lori MacDonald, Gisele Poisson, Graeme Skelton, Martin Stevens, Patrick Stieber, Lorie Thibault, Isaac Watamaniuk, Jessica Wyma , Petra Zantingh

The jury is in! The Thames Art Gallery is excited to open the 2019 edition of this much-anticipated bi-annual exhibition.

Guest juror Matthew Ryan Smith had his hands full with 57 artists from across Ontario submitting over 100 works for consideration. In the end, works by 20 artists were chosen for the exhibition.

The Thames Art Gallery would like to offer its congratulations and appreciation to all the artists who submitted their work as well as to Dr. Smith, Curator of the Glenhyrst Gallery, Brantford, for the care he put into the selection process.

Matthew Ryan Smith, writer and Curator of the Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant in Brantford Ontario will serve as this year’s juror. Smith is a Sessional Professor of Indigenous Art at the University of Toronto, Mississauga, the literary editor of First American Art Magazine, and the Canadian section editor of the forthcoming Art Market Dictionary. He also sits on the editorial board of the Moving Image Science Research Group at Kiel University, Germany. In 2012, he earned his Ph.D. in Art and Visual Culture at Western University. Matthew has published extensively on art and visual culture in publications including Canadian Art, Border Crossings, Prefix Photo, ESSE Arts + Opinions, Briarpatch, Blackflash, C Magazine, Alternatives Journal, First American Art, Artinfo Canada, Magenta, ArtUS, Contemporary Canadian Glass, Visual Arts News, and FUSE.