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Public Pier brings food, music, dance and introduces SILO NIGHTS to Toronto's waterfront

Day-to-night cultural experience launches September 18 at Marina Quay West over three weekends (Fridays and Saturdays)

September 8, 2026

Renovations enhance studio, learning and research spaces

Improvements to the campus include upgrades, relocations and retrofits.

September 8, 2026

OCAD University presents Canada's Pavilion at 2026 Gwangju Biennale

“Skennen'kó:wa ken? (Do You Carry Great Peace?”, opened on Sept. 5, is curated by Ryan Rice, Executive Director and Curator, Indigenous Art, Onsite Gallery with Lee Sun, Chief Curator, Lee KangHa Art Museum as the Korean Partner Curator.

September 6, 2026

Research investigates how sustained material practices can help people process memory, grief and loss

Dr. Nithikul Nimkulrat’s research project is developing a theoretical account of how memory, grief, and loss are experienced not only cognitively or verbally, but through the body, materials, objects, relationships and time.

September 4, 2026

Op-ed: What sovereignty asks of us

Opinion piece by Ryan Rice and Ana Serrano explores what Canadian sovereignty means today.

September 3, 2026

SFI alums transform historic cemeteries into living museums of memory, nature and history

Yesterday. Today. Forever. applies strategic foresight to a large-scale public art project across 10 distinct sites.

August 28, 2026

Events and exhibitions happening at OCAD U

Crowd watching projection on Canada Malting Silos

SILO NIGHTS at Public Pier

September 18, 2026 8 p.m. - October 4, 2026 7 a.m.

Off Campus

SILO NIGHTS at Public Pier is curated by OCAD University as part of Public Pier, presented by The Bentway, Harbourfront Centre, OCAD University, and Waterfront BIA.

Event

Person standing in a forest with a bright red piece of fabric trailing behind them

Skennen'kó:wa ken? Do you carry great peace?

September 5, 2026 12 a.m. - November 15, 2026 11:59 p.m.

Off Campus

Canada Pavilion at the Lee KangHa Art Museum as part of the Gwangju Biennale September 5 to November 15, 2026

Exhibition

Returning to Ourselves: Rebecca Baird and Kenny Alvin Baird—A Retrospective of Art and Design by Cree Métis Siblings

September 2, 2026 12 a.m. - January 30, 2027 11:59 p.m.

Onsite Gallery (RHD)

Returning to Ourselves presents over forty years of transformative work by Rebecca Baird and Kenny Alvin Baird.

Exhibition

Michael Massie, “pop” art in suspension, 2025, aluminum, wood, copper, string/gut. Image courtesy of Fehely Fine Arts, photo by Renzo Fernandez.

Michael Massie: now and then

September 2, 2026 12 a.m. - January 30, 2027 11:59 p.m.

Onsite Gallery (RHD)

Celebrated Inuk artist Michael Massie is internationally recognized for his skill as a silversmith and sculptor, as well as for his keen design sensibility.

Exhibition

A human face, with starkly defined nose and lips, emerges alongside expansive phoenix-like wings through drifting smoke and ash. The composition blends dark, heavy textures with warm, glowing tones, evoking a sense of release, transformation, and renewal.

"beginning, breaking & becoming" by Ashlynn Doljac

July 8, 2026 12 a.m. - June 30, 2027 11:59 p.m.

113Research Project Gallery

Exhibition features work by multidisciplinary artist and OCAD U graduate Ashlynn Doljac that demonstrate Doljac's inquiries as an artist and researcher into intergenerational trauma.

Event

The Wolves, 2022, mixed media (gouache and pencil crayon), 3.5 x 6.5 inches © Gillian McLellan, courtesy of the artist

The Stories that Bind Us

August 28, 2026 12 a.m. - August 20, 2027 11:59 p.m.

Online-Only

OCAD U School of Continuing Studies presents an online exhibition showcasing artworks from participant in the Children's Book Illustration Studio and Bookbinding Studio courses.

Exhibition