+ Contemporary art gallery & curatorial practice
Jessica Bradley
Art + Projects
+ Jessica Bradley · curator & founder
+ About
A Toronto gallery that read the present tense of art — local exhibitions held to an international measure.
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects opened in May 2005 in a storefront on Dundas Street West, minutes from the Queen West galleries and the Drake and Gladstone hotels. Founded by curator Jessica Bradley after two decades shaping contemporary collections at the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario, the gallery showed artists from Toronto and across Canada alongside peers from New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Berlin and London. Its program favoured an emerging generation whose interests were not bound by medium, and built context through group shows, special projects and collaborations as readily as solo presentations.
The gallery mounted more than eighty exhibitions before closing in 2015. This site keeps its record and carries forward Jessica Bradley's independent advisory practice.
+ Contents
- 01 The GalleryFounding, program, the Dundas West storefront and the Junction Annex — a history of the spaces, 2005–2015. →
- 02 Jessica BradleyCurator, writer, dealer. From the National Gallery of Canada and the AGO to an independent practice in Montreal. →
- 03 ArtistsThe gallery roster and the artists Bradley has curated and written on across four decades. →
- 04 ExhibitionsThe exhibition archive, 2005–2015 — solo shows, group presentations and special projects. →
- 05 Writing & PressBooks, catalogue essays and selected critical coverage of the gallery and its program. →
- 06 AdvisoryCollection consultation, appraisal and assessment, and secondary-market sourcing and sales. →
"A range of artistic practice today — regardless of generation or national origin."
+ The program
From a Dundas Street West storefront, the gallery set Toronto and Canadian artists beside peers from New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Berlin and London — building context through group shows and special projects as readily as solo presentations.