January 13th- February 17th, 2015

Artists Involved:
Ryan Ferko

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Ontario Place opened to the public on May 22, 1971, and closed in 2012 to seek design
proposals for a “new era” of private partnership and redevelopment. In 2013, A Proposal for Ontario Place responded to the Ontario Place Revitalization Panel’s search for a designed future for the post-utopian site.

Ryan Ferko is a Toronto-based artist working predominately with video and installation. Recent work has been shown at ZK/U Center for Art & Urbanistics (Berlin), the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, and been published by the Journal of Architecture in Canada, Columbia University, & the Liverpool Biennial. He completed his Master’s of Fine Art at OCAD University, where his work was supported by the Research Council of Canada. He was recently awarded a 2014 Emerging Media Artist Grant by the Toronto Arts Council.