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Nicole Ji Soo Kim is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada working through conceptual frameworks of grief, loss and their inevitable connections to time, presence and meaning. Her art education began at School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, before completing her BFA at Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2020. Kim’s first solo exhibition was presented at Franz Kaka (Toronto, CA). She has recently exhibited at Hawkins Headquarters (Atlanta, GA) Tala, Weatherproof (Chicago, IL), New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation (New York, US), Zalucky Contemporary, and the plumb (Toronto, CA). She has participated in the Roundtable Residency (Toronto, CA) and NARS Foundation International Residency (Brooklyn, US). She received a certificate of completion of the Grief Education program through OISE Continuing and Professional Learning at the University of Toronto.
Surabhi Ghosh is an artist and educator based in Montreal. She exploits the tensions and imperfections in handmade patterns to give material and spatial form to narratives of pride and shame. Her visual strategies for prompting active viewership involve inverting the central and the peripheral, interrupting architectural edges, and disrupting the functionality and familiarity of everyday materials. Mapping points of intersection between abstraction, minimalism, and ornamentation, Ghosh speculates on ways to “trouble” these and other(ed) entwined histories. Her discursive position is developed using unruly textiles, repetitive processes, and site-responsive installations.
Recent solo exhibitions have been at Patel Brown Gallery (Montreal), Maison des arts de Laval, Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown), and Hawthor Contemporary (Milwaukee, WI). Recent duo and group exhibitions include projects at Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Gund Gallery (Gambier, OH), and Stewart Hall Art Gallery (Pointe-Claire, QC). Ghosh is Associate Professor of Fibres & Material Practices at Concordia University and is currently the Chair of the Department of Studio Arts in the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Recent solo exhibitions have been at Patel Brown Gallery (Montreal), Maison des arts de Laval, Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown), and Hawthor Contemporary (Milwaukee, WI). Recent duo and group exhibitions include projects at Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Gund Gallery (Gambier, OH), and Stewart Hall Art Gallery (Pointe-Claire, QC). Ghosh is Associate Professor of Fibres & Material Practices at Concordia University and is currently the Chair of the Department of Studio Arts in the Faculty of Fine Arts.
Patience
May 24 - October 25, 2025
Artists:
Alan Belcher
Parick Cruz
Surabhi Ghosh
Nicole Ji Soo Kim
Ben Kinmont
Steffani Jemison
Eunice Luk
Christian Vistan
and more
Virtue, faith, suspense, forbearance, boredom—the vast quiet that amounts to perseverance. Patience is an exhibition in dialogue with the many inflections of time’s protracted passing. We perceive time differently depending on our circumstances, emotions, and bodies. Whether we are confronted with distraction, disorder, disease or despair, the moments where patience feels impossible are often, stubbornly, the times it would be the most soothing.
Joys’ programming for 2025 was enveloped by Patience, a 5-month exhibition between May and October. Further installations, artist projects, events, and texts to came as time unfurled.
Nicole Ji Soo Kim is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada working through conceptual frameworks of grief, loss and their inevitable connections to time, presence and meaning. Her art education began at School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, before completing her BFA at Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2020. Kim’s first solo exhibition was presented at Franz Kaka (Toronto, CA). She has recently exhibited at Hawkins Headquarters (Atlanta, GA) Tala, Weatherproof (Chicago, IL), New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation (New York, US), Zalucky Contemporary, and the plumb (Toronto, CA). She has participated in the Roundtable Residency (Toronto, CA) and NARS Foundation International Residency (Brooklyn, US). She received a certificate of completion of the Grief Education program through OISE Continuing and Professional Learning at the University of Toronto.
Eunice Luk is an artist and artist-publisher based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Through sculpture, installations, an multiples, Eunice creates poetic experiences that situate viewers in their responsibilities and sense of belongin within the broader context of our ecological system. Eunice has participated in exhibitions internationally and nationally - including at YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto, ON), Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto, ON) Junbicyu (Tokyo, Japan), LVL3 (Chicago, IL), Critical Distance (Toronto, ON), Kamloops Art Gallery (Kamloops, BC), Walter Philips Gallery at the Banff Centre, and The Prince Takamado Gallery at th Embassy of Canada (Tokyo, Japan).
PA(T)IENCE: Patrick Cruz, Eunice Luk, Ensemble (after Ben Kinmont)
July 19 - August 23, 2025
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Patrick Cruz is an artist, educator, and albularyo who considers the role of spirituality, improvisation, intuition and play as emancipatory tools to reify embedded colonial frameworks and ideologies in art making. Cruz employs healing, meditation, divination, exorcism and hypnosis as research methodologies to exhume and retrieve hidden knowledge. His works are informed by the intersections of clown philosophy, magic, and the occult, and their syncretic manifestations and relationship in contemporary life. Most recently, Cruz has been
making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity.
In 2021, he received the prestigious Thirteen Artist Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and won the national title for the 17th RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Daniels Campuses. He is the founder and co-directo of the Kamias Triennial, co-curator of Ben Flores Fan Club Collective with Christian Vistan, collaborator at Boring Earth with Laila Fox, and one of the 19 members of the artist-run collective the Plumb.
Ben Kinmont is an artist, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller whose work explores alternative systems of exchange, archival methodologies, and social sculpture. His project-based practice often involves publishing and distributing materials outside traditional art world channels to create more direct connections with audiences. Kinmont started his Antinomian Press in 1995 as an alternative to the commercial gallery system and as a means to distribute the free books and ephemera crucial to project-based artwork.
making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity.
In 2021, he received the prestigious Thirteen Artist Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and won the national title for the 17th RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Daniels Campuses. He is the founder and co-directo of the Kamias Triennial, co-curator of Ben Flores Fan Club Collective with Christian Vistan, collaborator at Boring Earth with Laila Fox, and one of the 19 members of the artist-run collective the Plumb.
Ben Kinmont is an artist, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller whose work explores alternative systems of exchange, archival methodologies, and social sculpture. His project-based practice often involves publishing and distributing materials outside traditional art world channels to create more direct connections with audiences. Kinmont started his Antinomian Press in 1995 as an alternative to the commercial gallery system and as a means to distribute the free books and ephemera crucial to project-based artwork.
Eunice Luk is an artist and artist-publisher based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Through sculpture, installations, an multiples, Eunice creates poetic experiences that situate viewers in their responsibilities and sense of belongin within the broader context of our ecological system. Eunice has participated in exhibitions internationally and nationally - including at YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto, ON), Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto, ON) Junbicyu (Tokyo, Japan), LVL3 (Chicago, IL), Critical Distance (Toronto, ON), Kamloops Art Gallery (Kamloops, BC), Walter Philips Gallery at the Banff Centre, and The Prince Takamado Gallery at th Embassy of Canada (Tokyo, Japan).
PAT(I)ENCE: Patrick Cruz, Steffani Jemison, Ensemble (after Ben Kinmont)
August 23rd - September 6, 2025
Exhibition Text
Patrick Cruz is an artist, educator, and albularyo who considers the role of spirituality, improvisation, intuition and play as emancipatory tools to reify embedded colonial frameworks and ideologies in art making. Cruz employs healing, meditation, divination, exorcism and hypnosis as research methodologies to exhume and retrieve hidden knowledge. His works are informed by the intersections of clown philosophy, magic, and the occult, and their syncretic manifestations and relationship in contemporary life. Most recently, Cruz has been
making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity.
In 2021, he received the prestigious Thirteen Artist Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and won the national title for the 17th RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Daniels Campuses. He is the founder and co-directo of the Kamias Triennial, co-curator of Ben Flores Fan Club Collective with Christian Vistan, collaborator at Boring Earth with Laila Fox, and one of the 19 members of the artist-run collective the Plumb.
Ben Kinmont is an artist, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller whose work explores alternative systems of exchange, archival methodologies, and social sculpture. His project-based practice often involves publishing and distributing materials outside traditional art world channels to create more direct connections with audiences. Kinmont started his Antinomian Press in 1995 as an alternative to the commercial gallery system and as a means to distribute the free books and ephemera crucial to project-based artwork.
making works using material retrieved from past-life regressions to navigate and side-step cultural and ancestral identity.
In 2021, he received the prestigious Thirteen Artist Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines and won the national title for the 17th RBC Canadian Painting Competition in 2015. He is an Assistant Professor in Studio Art at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Daniels Campuses. He is the founder and co-directo of the Kamias Triennial, co-curator of Ben Flores Fan Club Collective with Christian Vistan, collaborator at Boring Earth with Laila Fox, and one of the 19 members of the artist-run collective the Plumb.
Ben Kinmont is an artist, publisher, and antiquarian bookseller whose work explores alternative systems of exchange, archival methodologies, and social sculpture. His project-based practice often involves publishing and distributing materials outside traditional art world channels to create more direct connections with audiences. Kinmont started his Antinomian Press in 1995 as an alternative to the commercial gallery system and as a means to distribute the free books and ephemera crucial to project-based artwork.
Steffani Jemison (b. 1981) lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions, screenings, and performances include Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford (2025); Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon (2025; 2021); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2024); Greene Naftali, New York (2024, 2021); JOAN, Los Angeles (2022); Annet
Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2022, 2020); Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (2021); Kai Matsumiya, New York (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Lincoln Center, New York (2018); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2017); CAPC Bordeaux (2017). Notable group exhibitions include Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient
Egypt, 1876–Now, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2024-25); Counterpublic, St. Louis (2023); ; Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York (2021); Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, organized by The Studio Museum in Harlem and The American Federation for Arts (travelled 2019–21); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019).
Jemison is Associate Professor of Art & Design at Rutgers University; her first novel, A Rock, A River, A Street, was published by Primary Information in 2022.
Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2022, 2020); Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (2021); Kai Matsumiya, New York (2019); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2019); Lincoln Center, New York (2018); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2017); CAPC Bordeaux (2017). Notable group exhibitions include Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient
Egypt, 1876–Now, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2024-25); Counterpublic, St. Louis (2023); ; Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York (2021); Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, organized by The Studio Museum in Harlem and The American Federation for Arts (travelled 2019–21); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2019).
Jemison is Associate Professor of Art & Design at Rutgers University; her first novel, A Rock, A River, A Street, was published by Primary Information in 2022.