Exhibitions & Fairs

Take It With You: A Farewell Salon

Main Gallery | Group Exhibition 13 - 28 Jun 2025 Abbozzo Gallery Is Moving!

After over 12 wonderful years at 401 Richmond – and 20 years in Oakville – Abbozzo Gallery is preparing for an exciting new chapter. Beginning this September, we will reopen in a newly renovated space on Sousa Mendes Street, in Toronto’s Dundas West/Wallace-Emerson/Dupont neighbourhood. Read more

Mental Landscapes

Owen Rival | Feature Gallery Exhibition 13 - 28 Jun 2025 Abbozzo Gallery is proud to present Mental Landscapes, the first Canadian solo exhibition of Toronto-born, Owen Rival. In this new body of work, Rival charts the shifting terrain between memory and emotion, offering not literal depictions of place, but internalized impressions shaped by feeling. In this series, the artist constructs not a topographical map, but a psychic one—where form bends to feeling, and places exist not as they are, but as they are remembered. The result is a suite of moody, atmospheric compositions that read less as documentation and more as reverie. Read more

Out of Print

Alek Bèlanger | Pride Affiliate Event | Feature Gallery Exhibition 9 May - 7 Jun 2025 Read more

Moving Landscapes II

Steve Kean | Contact Photo Festival | Project Gallery Exhibition 9 May - 7 Jun 2025 Read more

What Time Is This Place?

Sylvia Galbraith | Contact Photo Festival | Main Gallery Exhibition 9 May - 7 Jun 2025 Read more

The Garbage and the Flowers

John Vitale | Feature Gallery Exhibition 4 Apr - 3 May 2025 'The Garbage and the Flowers' brings together a new series of abstract paintings by John Vitale that explore the relationship between beauty and decay. Vitale’s practice is largely distinguished by a search for beauty and balance in the chaos and struggle of the unrefined human experience; the decay has a way of transmuting itself into a bloom. His paintings build on discarded moments—mistakes, imperfections, and overlooked details—transforming them into spaces of balance and possibility. Guided by an intuitive process, he searches for what is buoyant and hopeful within the rough and unrefined, allowing each piece to unfold as a reflection of resilience and quiet optimism. Read more

Crossfade

Kelly Grace | Main Gallery Exhibition 4 Apr - 3 May 2025 Exploring the space between reality and imagination, Crossfade blurrs the transition between the everyday and the cinematic. Figures, clad in vintage 3D glasses, are frozen in moments of collective wonder, their expressions reflecting the immersive power of film. Streetscapes, often overlooked in their everyday rhythm, become theatrical in their framing suggesting that cinematic moments exist all around us. Read more

One More

Miles Ingrassia | Feature Gallery Exhibition 4 - 29 Mar 2025 Read more

Garden of Hope

Vladimir Kanic | Main Gallery Exhibition 28 Feb - 29 Mar 2025 We are thrilled to welcome Vladimir Kanic back to Abbozzo Gallery for his first solo Main Gallery exhibition, Garden of Hope. A trans-disciplinary artist exhibiting with Abbozzo since 2021, Kanic is known for his living algae sculptures, which transform spectators’ breath into oxygen, redefining the gallery as a living ecosystem – where art is not just observed but experienced as an act of care.

Now expanding his practice, Garden of Hope introduces futuristic textiles, film projections and print-based works, re-imagining breathing not only as a biological function but as a site of deep ecological entanglement – where every breath connects us to the fragile, resilient networks of life. Blending his signature living installations with explorations of memory, displacement, and resilience, Kanic offers a vision where healing is not just personal but planetary, and where survival is not about returning to what was, but about imagining what can be built anew – a radical hope. Read more

Surfacing

Alek Bélanger • Charlotte Blake • Bill Boyko • Jacob Freeman • Roda Medhat • Ali Pilli • Jake Santos 31 Jan - 22 Feb 2025 Read more