Art Installations
Welcome to Pride Toronto 2023: [Pride Across the Multiverse – Love beyond Time and Space]. Explore our fantastic Installation artworks and immerse yourself in a captivating collection of boundary-breaking artworks. Discover diverse installations from various talented artists. Join us in celebrating 2SLGBTQI+ communities and let art be your guide to a world without limits. Welcome to a journey of love and discovery.
Exhibition Date | June 1 – June 30 |
Location | College Park |
Title of the Artwork | Menshen (Door Gods) |
Name of the Artist | En Tze Loh |
Short Artist Statement (Max 400 Characters) | Menshen (Door Gods) is an art installation featuring the Chinese culture of Menshen which are divine guardians of doors and gates with a queer, trans, and Malaysian twist. The doors feature trans and queer humanized interpretations of the East and Southeast Asian gods Azure Dragon and White Tiger set in ancient times, and the Vermilion Bird and Black Tortoise set during the present day. |
Short Artist Biography: | En Tze Loh (they/them) is a queer & non-binary Malaysian illustrator, graphic designer, tattoo artist, filmmaker, and creator of queer goth apparel & art brand GRRRL Spells, based in Toronto, Canada. |
Instagram / Website: | @en_tze l en-tze.format.com |
Exhibition Date | June 1 – June 30 |
Location | CF Toronto Eaton Centre |
Title of the Artwork | Conversation Pit |
Name of the Artist | Caylen Monroe & JoyO. |
Short Artist Statement (Max 400 Characters) | This project aims to address the disappearing queer spaces and the importance of community. Queer communities have historically relied on spaces like bars, clubs, and community centres to connect and find belonging. Currently, these spaces are endangered by gentrification, capitalism, and erasure of 2SLGBTQA+ history. As artists, we are committed to using our platform and skills to create inclusive spaces that foster community, facilitate rest and empower queer joy. We believe art can connect people, encourage dialogue, and empower individuals to share stories and build new relationships. |
Short Artist Biography: | Caylen Monroe & JoyO. are multidisciplinary queer artists dedicated to creating immersive art experiences that bring together communities and facilitate spaces of rest, queer joy, and playfulness. Their past projects include murals, interactive installations and secret art shows. |
Instagram / Website: | Instagram / Website @caylenmonroe @midnight_mangooo |
Exhibition Date | June 1 – June 30 |
Location | The Distillery Historic District |
Title of the Artwork | Let It Grow |
Name of the Artist | Terran McNeely |
Short Artist Statement (Max 400 Characters) | This work for Pride Toronto is a celebration of the most beautiful and vibrant community of people. It is intended to highlight the beauty, joy and resilience our surrounding friends and families bring to the LGBT2Q+ community. We hold our histories, stories, and vibrancy within each of us. This energy and strength radiates outwardly, demanding respect and encouraging growth. This mural is intended to represent the notion of sharing our collective beauty with the world, starting with each of us, and expanding as we nurture where we have come from and what we have experienced in order to celebrate who we are. |
Short Artist Biography: | Terran McNeely is a Canadian Artist with a background in visual design. His work is influenced by the people and spaces around him through a bold and graphic lens. McNeely’s images feature both figurative and representational subject matter intentionally placed into each composition with carefully considered colour palettes. |
Instagram / Website: | @terran_paints ㅣ www.terranmcneely.com |
Exhibition Date | June 23, 24, 25 |
Location | Pride Toronto StreetFair Artzone [Outdoors between CarltonSt. and Granby St.] |
Title of the Artwork | LGBT je Srbija |
Name of the Artist | Adam Zivo |
Short Artist Statement (Max 400 Characters) | This mural explores what LGBTQ life is like in Serbia, a Balkan country where homophobia and transphobia are the norm and where queer people risk being beaten if they hold hands in public. Though Belgrade, the capital, provides a protective bubble for LGBTQ Serbians and their friends, life remains dangerous – but this danger has also created a radiant sense of solidarity. |
Short Artist Biography: | Adam Zivo is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker. He is best known for his columns in the National Post, as well as for founding and directing the Love is Love is Love project. |
Instagram / Website: | @adamzivo | www.adamzivo.com |
Exhibition Date | June 23, 24, 25 |
Location | Pride Toronto StreetFair Artzone [Outdoors between CarltonSt. and Granby St.] |
Title of the Artwork | Queer Ukraine Speaks |
Name of the Artist | Adam Zivo |
Short Artist Statement (Max 400 Characters) | Queer Ukraine Speaks is a mobile mural that spotlights LGBTQ Ukrainian activists and gives them an opportunity to challenge negative stereotypes about their country. The mural is composed of portraits and quotes dervied from interviews conducted in Kyiv in the spring of 2022. The mural illustrates what’s at stake for Ukraine’s queer community should Moscow’s colonial invasion succeed. |
Short Artist Biography: | Adam Zivo is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker. He is best known for his columns in the National Post, as well as for founding and directing the Love is Love is Love project. |
Instagram / Website: | @adamzivo |www.adamzivo.com |
Exhibition Date | June 23, 24, 25 |
Location | City Hall – Nathan Phillips Square |
Title of the Artwork | LOVE IS LOVE |
Name of the Artist | Bruno Duarte |
Short Artist Statement (Max 400 Characters) | This creation is a celebration of LOVE. There are many parts of the world where we aren’t allowed to love who we want because of judgment, religion and laws put on us. I want this art to be a reminder that we all need Love and deserve to love who we want no matter what. LOVE IS LOVE |
Short Artist Biography: | Bruno grew up surrounded by flowers on his family’s farm in Madeira. His approach to floral design is both sculptural and emotional, blending organic materials and found objects together to create works of art. When he’s not at his studio, Bruno can be found creating arrangements in front of a live audience in many places in the USA, Northern Ireland and the UK. He has won the CAFA award at Canada Blooms Florist Alley in 2017 and 2018 and people’s choice award in 2018. He has also won the Pacific Northwest Floral Design Competition in 2018. He had the great opportunity to represent Canada in Singapore in 2018 in Windows of the World at their garden show. He won Floral Artist of the year 2019 at Canada Blooms, Got second place at Maple Leaf Cup 2019 and won the CAFA award for most creative use of materials at the Maple Leaf Cup 2019. |
Instagram / Website: | @freshfloralcreations ㅣ www.freshflorals.com |
