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Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart
4 - 18 May 2024 Home: Between Worlds is set on a remote rural homestead where traditions passed down for generations are transformed by the internet, automation, and modern values. Without the use of studio assistants, the artist combines photography with newer digital mediums, photographing intricate sets that mix traditional building techniques with contemporary technologies. Read more -
Rosalie Sharp
Recent Paintings 18 - 28 Apr 2024 Rukaj Gallery is excited to showcase an exhibition featuring previously unseen pieces by Canadian artist Rosalie Sharp. Highlighting her vibrant colour palette, these paintings offer dynamic engagements with both the canvas and the audience, promising a one-of-a-kind experience. Read more -
Tritan Braho | Balance
12 Jan - 12 Feb 2024 In his second solo show with the gallery, Braho (b. 1967) gives the viewer insight into the last six years of his practice. Executing only a handful of paintings annually, Braho's intense study of still life and snapshots from daily life inform most of his work. Read more -
Simplified Forms
12 Dec 2023 - 12 Jan 2024 This survey exhibition explores works from Pop-star icons such as Tom Wesselman, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring as well as contemporary artists such as Eric Hibit and Sage Skabarnicki-Stuart Read more -
Malcolm Liepke
23 Nov - 23 Dec 2023 Rukaj Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition with Malcolm Liepke. Consisting of 15 never-before-seen paintings by Liepke, the show ranges from figurative works of intimate moments of introspection to expressive bar scenes. Experience portraits that are both visually familiar and wholly unique this November at Rukaj. Read more -
Less | Minimalism 1960.1970
On View | November 12 to November 22 12 - 22 Nov 2023 Rukaj Gallery is pleased to present Less | Minimalist Aesthetics, a survey of painting and drawing circa 1960-70 that investigate minimalist forms and composition. The show includes works by Ken Noland, Robert Mangold, Burgoyne Diller, Géneviéve Claisse and Roy Kiyooka. Read more -
William Perehudoff
21 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 Rukaj Gallery is thrilled to present an exhibition of works from the William Perehudoff Estate. As one of the key figures in the history of modern Canadian art, Perehudoff's work combines the sunlit expanse of the Canadian Prairies with gestural and geometric abstraction. He was interested in creating visual harmonies... Read more -
Eberhard Ross: looks good on paper
5 - 19 Oct 2023 Rukaj Gallery is pleased to present never-before-seen works in an exhibition of stunning colours, texture and composition. German artist, Eberhard Ross, implements calligraphic networks of lines and patterns that develop organically and aim to explore a sense of spirituality through the work. Read more -
Lulu Ladrón de Guevara + Robert Christie
14 - 30 Sep 2023 Rukaj Gallery is pleased to present a dual exhibition between mexican-canadian artist lulu ladrón de guevara and canadian artist, robert christie. while hailing from seemingly different backgrounds, both work to explore the facets of materiality and colour interaction through geometric abstraction and constructivism. Read more -
Jerry Schatzberg: Cuba, 1959
Presented with the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival 4 - 19 May 2023 In this never-before-exhibited series of photographs, Jerry Schatzberg transports viewers to a pivotal point in history at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro’s Communist Party had seized power that February, overthrowing the previous government in a widely-publicized guerrilla war. Schatzberg arrived in Havana shortly after. He wore a... Read more -
ADAC Gallery Week 2021
Large & Small Museum Works at the Gallery 26 - 31 Oct 2021 In partnership with ADAC's Toronto Gallery Week, Rukaj Gallery is highlighting a selection of modern artworks from our inventory. The exhibition brings together bold, colourful abstract works by European and North American artists including Ray Parker, Jack Youngerman, Friedel Dzubas, and William Perehudoff. Their paintings range in width and height... Read more -
Museum Paintings / Canvas
23 - 30 Mar 2020 Read more -
Gestural Hands: Women Painters in their Studio
15 Feb - 15 Mar 2020 This exhibition features the work of incredibly skilled and renowned female painters and artists from our collection. The show includes paintings and works on paper by Betty Goodwin, Miriam Schapiro, Louise Nevelson, Helen Frankenthaler, Sandrine Kern, Sonia Delaunay, Geneviève Claisse, and Melissa Meyer. Read more -
Eberhard Ross: refugium
9 - 30 Nov 2019 'EBERHARD ROSS SUBSUMES BOTH PROMINENT PIECES AS WELL AS ENTIRE WORK SERIES OF RECENT YEARS FITTINGLY UNDER THE TITLE REFUGIUM.' -PIERRE MATTERN, in Refugium (2019) Read more -
Antoni Tàpies
1 Sep - 1 Oct 2019 Antoni Tàpies was a Spanish Catalan artist, known for his mixed-media practice incorporating found objects and natural materials. Tàpies is also credited with introducing contemporary abstract painting into Spain. Social themes run throughout his highly textured and tactile artworks, influenced by political philosophy and the post-war state of the Spanish... Read more -
Roger LeMoyne: The Republic of Port-au-Prince
Presented as part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival 1 - 31 May 2019 Speaking as part truth and part wry joke, Haitians often refer to their capital as “the Republic of Port-au-Prince.” The city is home to almost 50 percent of the country’s population, and is strikingly different from the rest of the largely rural nation. All cities are rife with contradictions—rich and... Read more -
Group 10 Photographers
4 - 30 Apr 2019 This show features the photography of 10 renowned contemporary artists: Miles Aldridge, Christopher Makos, Edward Weston, Tim Forbes, Tomas Van Houtryve, Jerry Schatzberg, Martin Schoeller, Neil Folberg, Michael Kenna, & William Klein. Read more -
Rukaj on Bay
Pop-up exhibition space at Arbitration Place - 333 Bay St. #900 1 - 30 Sep 2018 Read more -
René Marcil
1 - 30 Apr 2018 Read more -
William Perehudoff
Recently acquired works from the estate of William Perehudoff, from the 1970s to the 1990s 2 Nov - 7 Dec 2017 Read more -
Daniella Zalcman: Signs of Your Identity
6 - 31 May 2017 In conjunction with Canada’s sesquicentennial, Nikola Rukaj Gallery presents Signs of Your Identity: a black and white photographic series by photojournalist, Daniella Zalcman, who visited various locations in Saskatchewan and interviewed a number of survivors of Canada’s Indian residential schools. Zalcman’s unique series of portraits are presented using double exposure... Read more -
Joseph Drapell: Stars * Earth * Life
5 - 19 Nov 2016 Read more -
Malcolm Liepke: October
1 - 31 Oct 2016 MALCOLM LIEPKE was born in 1953 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He then moved to New York and began studying artists such as John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Diego Velázquez, James McNeill Whistler, and Édouard Vuillard. Leipke’s... Read more -
Alex Katz
1 - 30 Oct 2016 Alex Katz is one of the most widely recognized and exhibited artists of his generation who has developed a distinctive form of abstracted realism. On exhibition is a celebrated body of work using his highly stylized contemporary aesthetic in brightly colored portraits and figures. Read more -
Poligrafa Obra Grafica: Highlights
15 - 30 Sep 2016 Read more -
Tomas Van Houtryve | Blue Sky Days: A Drone's-Eye View
Presented as part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival 14 - 30 May 2016 'By creating these images, I aim to draw attention to the changing nature of personal privacy, surveillance, and contemporary warfare. Underpinning my work is a belief that human activity becomes increasingly absurd and dangerous when it loses empathy. I agree with Albert Camus when he said, 'By definition, a government... Read more -
Russell Monk: Proximos
An Exhibition of Portraiture 3 - 31 May 2015 Read more -
Malcolm Liepke
1 - 30 May 2015 Read more -
Ebrahim Noroozi
Presented as part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Fest 10 May - 3 Jun 2014 This exhibition brings together multiple photo essays by Iranian photographer Ebrahim Noroozi. Included in the exhibition is Victims of Forced Love, a series that documents the life of a young mother and daugh-ter in the aftermath of an acid attack that left them severely disfigured and in need of many... Read more -
SCHATZBERG by Jerry Schatzberg
29 Apr - 2 Jun 2013 OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 4, 12 – 6 P.M ARTIST PRESENT 2 – 4 P.M This exhibition highlights the photographic work of Jerry Schatzberg from the 1950s – 70s. Schatzberg’s early career began in the 1950’s. His rise as a iconic portrait photographer was marked by his intimate and emblematic images of emerging... Read more -
The Optimism of Colour: William Perehudoff, a Retrospective
Presented by the Mendel Art Gallery & the Robert McLaughlin Gallery | Sponsored by Rukaj Gallery 14 Jan - 1 Apr 2012 Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor | January 14, 2012 - April 1, 2012 Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa | June 23rd, 2012 – September 9th, 2012 Curated by Karen Wilkin 'The Optimism of Colour is a major retrospective of the works of renowned Canadian abstract painter William Perehudoff. It traces the evolution of... Read more -
Eberhard Ross: Organic Geometry
15 Nov - 7 Dec 2010 Read more -
Julian Schnabel
1 Oct - 14 Nov 2010 Read more -
Melissa Meyer | Ilana Manolson
10 Oct - 5 Nov 2009 Read more
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Sonia Delaunay
1 - 31 Mar 2024 Rukaj Gallery is pleased to present an online exhibition of pioneer of abstract art, Sonia Delaunay. Delaunay was a prominent figure in the avant-garde scene in the early 1900s. This show explores her interest in Simultanism and love of Abstractionism with the use of bold colours, and geometric shapes, conveying... Read more -
Keith Haring
The Pop Shop 12 - 19 Feb 2024 Rukaj Gallery is pleased to present an online show for recent acquisitions of Keith Haring Pop Shop I Suite from 1987. Opening the year prior, the Pop Shop I expanded Keith’s vision, insisting that the retail experience was to be an inclusive one. Read more -
Miles Aldridge x Bonnie Lautenberg
Recent Photographs 16 - 30 Mar 2020 Read more -
Tritan Braho | Just A Moment
24 Jun - 24 Jul 2019 Read more