The internationally celebrated Canadian artist Marcel Dzama opens his first major exhibition in this country in nearly a decade at the McMichael Canadian Collection, running Dec. 9 through June 9, 2024.
The exhibition – Ghosts of Canoe Lake – contains a new body of work inspired by Dzama’s interest in Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. (The revered Canadian artist Tom Thomson died mysteriously on Canoe Lake in Algonquin Park in 1917).
Dzama was born in Winnipeg and rose to prominence from the late 1990s for his delicate and fantastical drawings made with ink, watercolour paint and root beer. Based now in Brooklyn, his practice also includes performance, sculpture, and video.
Much more on Marcel Dzama at David Zwirner gallery, here.
About the exhibition at The McMichael, here.
Marcel Dzama on Instagram, here.
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Fascinating, I love this!
You remind me how much I miss access to the McMichael, and how much I admire the way they have enriched their original mandate, without betraying it.
It’s so true the McMichael has survived all the trends, and protected its mandate, as you say. I also think their curation of shows is beyond brilliant these days (ie Cobalt, Art of a Mining Town and quite a few others) I don’t get up there as much as I would like.
I also miss the Aga Khan Museum, and have strong memories of fine special exhibits there and, of course, also of the extraordinary architecture of that trio: the Museum, the garden, and the Ismali Centre.