Ryerson Image Centre

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Ryerson Image Centre

Location of the gallery in Toronto
Established	September 2012 (2012-09)
Location	122 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Type	Photography, art museum and education centre
Director	Doina Popescu
Curator	Gaëlle Morel
Public transit access	■ Dundas subway station 505 Dundas streetcar
Website	www.ryerson.ca/ric

The Ryerson Image Centre, (formerly known as the Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre), is a renovated and remodelled former warehouse building at Gould and Bond Streets on the campus of Ryerson University in Toronto. The centre includes gallery, collections, teaching, research and exhibition spaces and shares the building with the School of Image Arts.

Bond Street entrance; showing that the structure contains LED lighting effects on the exterior walls at night

History

The gallery was officially opened on September 29, 2012.

The new building, designed by Toronto architect Donald Schmitt (architect) Donald Schmitt of Diamond and Schmitt Architects^[1] contains:

three public gallery spaces
New Media Colonnade at the entrance
a fully staffed professional research centre with museum-quality environmental controls
a climate controlled vault built to contain a million photographic images, including The Black Star Collection
Ryerson University Fine Art Photography Collection
Great Hall reception, conference and screening area

The centre was in part created to display some of the 292,000 photos from Black Star which it had received as an anonymous bequest.^[2]

References

↑ "Ryerson Image Centre". UrbanToronto. Retrieved 2012-04-03.
↑ "Black Star photos on show at new Ryerson gallery". CBC News. 28 September 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-29.

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