On Saturday, December 6, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto invites you to attend a free guided bus tour to explore current exhibitions at the Art Museum, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, and the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University. 

The bus tour begins at 11am at the Art Museum with Earthwork, an exhibition that redresses 1960s land art by considering multiple histories and layers of engagement with the earth through an Indigenous lens. The tour continues to Dwelling Under Distant Suns, where artists explore the entanglement between climate, the environment, and geopolitics. 

At 12pm, the bus will depart for the Power Plant, where we will visit two solo exhibitions: Jeneen Frei Njootli: The skies closed themselves when we averted our gaze and Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar. Though distinct in their approaches, both artists share an interest in the production of lens-based representations and in examining histories of land relations, past and present. The tours here will last until 1:30pm, at which time we will reboard the bus. 

The final stop is the Goldfarb Gallery for exhibitions Standing in the Room Together with its reflection on relations between art and artists across generations and places, before concluding with 83% Perfect, Toronto artist Amy Ching-Yan Lam’s work including her analytics of the conditions of contemporary protest. Following these concluding tours, the bus will return passengers to the Art Museum for 4:30pm.  

This event is free and open to the public, though spots are limited! Please register on Eventbrite. Snacks will be provided on the bus. 

Detailed itinerary: 

11am–12pm: Tours at the Art Museum 
12pm–12:30pm: Depart for The Power Plant 
12:30pm–1:30pm: Tours at The Power Plant 
1:30pm–2:30pm: Depart for The Goldfarb Gallery 
2:30pm–3:30pm: Tours at The Goldfarb Gallery 
3:30pm–4:30pm: Arrive back downtown at the Art Museum 

About the Exhibitions: 

ART MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 

Earthwork 
September 4–December 22, 2025 
University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle 

Works by Alex Jacobs-Blum, Art Hunter, BUSH Gallery, Edward Poitras, Faye HeavyShield, Lisa Myers, Michael Belmore, Mike MacDonald, Protect the Tract Collective 
Curated by Mikinaak Migwans 

Earthwork re-imagines working with and for the earth centringIndigenous ways of repair, resilience, and possible futures. Considering multiple layers of engagement with the land, this exhibition brings together histories of land defense movements, the cultivation of plants, and ancestral practices of prescribed burns alongside contemporary artworks, approaching each ascreative acts of relational intervention.  

Dwelling Under Distant Suns 
September 4–December 22, 2025 
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House Circle 

Works by Kent Chan, Alvin Luong, and Solveig Qu Suess 
Curated by Yantong Li 

Dwelling Under Distant Suns originates from the struggle to represent an increasingly precarious environment, a landscape of slow violence that occurs out of place and out of sight. The exhibition focuses on myth-making and speculation as methods of inquiry into the entanglement of environmental discoursesand human movements on the ground. 

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THE POWER PLANT CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY 

Lucy Raven: Murderers Bar 
November 7, 2025–March 22, 2026 

Curated by Julia Paoli, Director & Curator, The Vega Foundation and Kate Whiteway, Assistant Curator, The Vega Foundation 

Lucy Raven’s Murderers Bar is set against the backdrop of the largest dam removal project in North American history, continuing the artist’s exploration of material state change, force, pressure, and cycles of violence. 

Jeneen Frei Njootli: The skies closed themselves when we averted our gaze 
November 7, 2025–March 22, 2026 

Curated by Frances Loeffler, Curator of Exhibitions and Sarah Edo, TD Curatorial Fellow 

Jeneen Frei Njootli’s The skies closed themselves when we averted our gaze presents works that involve their ancestral land almost as a collaborator, deeply rooted in their life on the land in Old Crow. 

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THE GOLDFARB GALLERY 

Standing in the Room Together 
September 26, 2025–January 31, 2026 
Triangle Gallery 

Works by Michael Belmore, Bob Boyer, Jack Bush, Edward Poitras, and Tariku Shiferaw 
Curated by Lillian O’Brien Davis with Michael Belmore 

Standing in the room together is an exhibition grounded in relationships. Starting with artworks from the York University Art Collection, the exhibition travels a circuit of influences and inheritances, suggesting that while artworks are situated in their own time, they also continue to impact and influence artists and publics through continuing existence. 

Amy Ching-Yan Lam: 83% Perfect 
September 26, 2025–January 31, 2026 
Rectangle and Square galleries 

Curated by Jenifer Papararo 

83% Perfect by Amy Ching-Yan Lam begins with the anxiety of a childhood school admission test, a familiar ritual of sorting and ranking that shapes how we define ourselves. For Lam, the memory of that test lingers not as an achievement but as a frightening formative moment. Lam recounts that “an astrologer once told me that I was born under the banner of ‘I have to be perfect.’ She said that this is the key imperative that I have lived with since birth.” Recounting and re-imagining Lam’s first test becomes a means to understand the need to be perfect, where it comes from, how it is taught, and how to unlearn it.