Current Shows and Exhibitions

Summer 2020

Past Exhibition Highlights

Holiday Season Schedule:
Toronto, One of a Kind Show, Nov 21st to Dec 1st
Ottawa, Originals Christmas Craft Sale, Dec 5th to 15th

“Stories to Tell: Africans and the Diaspora Respond to the Lang Collection,” African Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 30 April 2016 – 8 April 2018.

Stories to Tell: Africans and the Diaspora Respond to the Lang Collection

For the “Stories to Tell” exhibition, I responded to the Lang Collection of African Art by creating an original sculpture based on a very old Shona proverb from Zimbabwe that speaks to the idea of subjectivity as relationship with others.

Installation view, Stories to Tell. Chaka Chikodzi’s stone sculpture “Munhu munhu nekuda kwe munhu /People are people because of people” is in the centre. Photo: Paul Litherland
This team of advisors and contributors worked with guest curators Marc Epprecht and Allison Goebel to create a new exhibition that draws on, and expands the conversation around, the Lang Collection of African Art under the title, Stories to Tell: Africans and the Diaspora Respond to the Lang collection.


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“Dig: Chaka Chikodzi, Ben Darrah, Pat McDermott, Joan Scaglione, Su Sheedy, Sharon Thompson.” Contemporary Feature Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 30 April 2016–7 August 2016.

A presentation of six inventive contemporary art practices from Kingston, this exhibition draws together works of striking material intensity that break up paths of ordinary sense and action to expose uncommon potential. Featured works include stone sculpture by Chaka Chikodzi, wall assemblages by Ben Darrah, Pat McDermott’s distilled figurations, sculptural pilings and swells by Joan Scaglione, Su Sheedy’s encaustic colour quarries and Sharon Thompson’s shimmering oil and sand paintings. By tracing the sensuous pull between artistic sensibility and wood, wax, stone and paint, these artists make new and surprising contributions to primal artists’ activities: building form and cleaving matter to free an unexpected life.

Dig: Chaka Chikodzi, Ben Darrah, Pat McDermott, Joan Scaglione, Su Sheedy, Sharon Thompson

https://www.thewhig.com/2016/04/28/exhibitions-feature-works-by-kingston-artists/wcm/2f3fef60-c697-c851-6a0b-ac85aa0a24a3


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“Howzit?” A Conversation Between Chaka Chikodzi & Voti Thebe, at Abozzo Gallery, 401 Richmond Galleries, 20 August – 26 August 2015.