Tirando Polilla, TD Vitrine @ Gallery TPW

June 3 - August 29, 2026
Gallery TPW - 170 St Helens Ave, Toronto

Tirando Polilla continues a series of stained-glass-inspired works begun during a Spring residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. With a focused, close framing, Cabral de Luna isolates details that might otherwise go unnoticed, allowing new compositions to emerge from his family’s archives. Through the acts of cutting, omitting, and rearranging the vernacular photographs - splitting them into fragments across multiple pieces of glass, Cabral de Luna then carefully mends the pieces back together. In their new and brittle state, the resulting objects become fragile containers for memory—simultaneously delicate yet resilient.

“When I pick up a memory, I become hyper-aware of the dust in the air, and am conscious of the fingerprints I leave behind.”

View Exhibition Documentation and Read Accompanying Text

Exhibition Documentation by Alison Ruma
Accompanying Text by Kay Rangel

Excerpt: "A kid who once knelt to play with his toys at his abuela’s house, was also taught to kneel to pray. Inside a church, the stained windows stand tall, illuminating those who lack the knowledge to discern words and present an image to be digested as holy, almighty. The coloured glass shows, to fresh eyes, a miracle - divine light... (read more)" 

- Kay Rangel

Upcoming Exhibition: Uprooting a Flower

Opening: May 9, 6-8PM
Blouin Division (Toronto)
Part of CONTACT Photography Festival

"Uprooting a Flower marks Ernesto Cabral de Luna’s first commercial solo exhibition. Developed during residencies at the Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image in Philadelphia and the Wassaic Project in New York, the works emerge through image transfers of vernacular photographs onto found architectural fragments: stained glass, ceramic kitchen tiles, and sheets of metal roofing. These materials, once part of other structures and lives, become vessels for memory. Tracing his family’s passage from Mexico to Canada, the exhibition unfolds as a meditation on displacement, inheritance, and the quiet persistence of diasporic experience... (read more)"

Curated by Laura Carusi

Banff 2026 Early Career Artist in Residence (BAiR) Open Studios

Wed, Apr 01, 2026 @ 4 - 7PM
Glyde Hall, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Banff)

"Visit the studios of the Early Career Banff Artist in Residence (BAiR) 2026 participants and see how they pushed creative boundaries during their five weeks at Banff Centre.

Early Career BAiR is a transformative five-week residency that provides mentorship, critical feedback, and studio time to visual artists in the early stages of their careers.

Open to visual artists working across mediums, BAiR combines the artistic freedom of a self-directed residency with the supportive benefits of an organized program. As well as having the space to create, research, and experiment, participants are part of a community of artists committed to developing and expanding their practice... (read more)"

Photo by Abigaile Edwards, Banff Centre 2026

Proof of Life

Opening: September 10, 2025 (4-6pm)
Jackman Humanities Institute
170 St George Street, 10th Floor
Curated by Chloe Gordon Chow

"In a world pushed to its limit, it would appear we are teetering on the edge of apocalypse. Projecting into the future is a daunting task amidst dystopian realities. The continuity of this world necessitates the systemic and strategic destruction of other possible worlds. By continuing to aspire to an inherently violent and colonial world order, what futures are we denying ourselves? Perhaps it would make more sense to imagine apocalypse guaranteed: the end of this world as we know it... (read more)"