Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
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The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), was officially founded from the former Art Gallery of North York in 1999 with a mandate to exhibit, research, collect, and promote innovative art by Canadian artists whose works engage and reflect the relevant stories of our times. MOCCA currently exists as a not-for-profit, arms-length agency of the City of Toronto's Culture Division.
In January 2005, MOCCA relocated to 952 Queen Street West in downtown Toronto. In the heart of one of North America’s most vibrant arts communities, MOCCA’s facility is modest in scale, impressive in design and functions effectively as a nucleus of energies for the production and exchange of creativity, ideas and innovation.
MOCCA’s exhibition program reflects a dynamic yet balanced approach to presenting the wide range of ideas and media being explored by established artists at advanced stages of practice, and emerging artists who have demonstrated strong promise and exceptional commitment. In addition, MOCCA features work by non-Canadian artists in group exhibitions, thereby creating a global context for the Canadian cultural voice.
MOCCA maintains and builds upon its permanent collection, currently holding approximately 400 works of art by more than 150 Canadian artists, acquired through purchase and donation. The collection includes seminal works by some of Canada’s most important artists.
MOCCA also presents exhibitions and special projects off-site - in the community, across the country and abroad. In the last three years MOCCA has presented more than 40 exhibitions and projects, in eight countries, (U.S.A., China, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Taiwan), including Canada, featuring work by over 200 contemporary Canadian and international artists. MOCCA’s objective of forging a network of contacts and partnerships, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally, has widened the breadth and scope of opportunities for Canadian artists and the communities, institutions and agencies that support them.
ŵ== Recent Exhibitions ==
2008
John Brown | The Visceral THING & Balint Zsako: Works from the Bernardi Collection, February 1 – April 20, 2008
2007
Kent Monkman | The Triumph of Mischief & Shelagh Keeley: An Encyclopaedia of Memory and Slowness, November 15 – December 30, 2007
BMO First! Invitational, October 2 - 28, 2007
Wildflowers of Manitoba, presented in partnership with the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), September 7 - 16, 2007
Eat the Food!, September 7 – October 28, 2007
LoVE/hAte: New-crowned Glory in the G.T.A., June 21 – August 19, 2007
The Constructed Image: Photographic Culture, co-presented by the Contact Toronto Photography Festival, May 5 – June 3, 2007
Carolee Schneemann | Breaking Borders & Garry Neill Kennedy: Nothing Personal, March 24 – April 22, 2007
Walter Redinger | Return to the Void & Art and Cold Cash, February 3 – March 11, 2007
2006
The Invisible Landscape: revealing our place in the world, a touring exhibition circulated by the National Gallery of Canada, November 25, 2006 – January 21, 2007
Unholy Alliance: Art and Fashion Meet Again, October 5 – November 12, 2006
Darkness Ascends & Sideshow, June 9 – August 13, 2006
Imaging a Shattering Earth: Contemporary Photography and the Environmental Debate, presented in partnership with the Contact Toronto Photography Festival, & Future Species: Mike Bilodeau | Exoskell, April 29 - May 28, 2006
The Deergirl Diaries: adventures in combat and passion, DMT, & How I Loved the Broken Things of Rome, The Deergirl Diaries: adventures in combat and passion, DMT, & How I Loved the Broken Things of Rome, The Deergirl Diaries: adventures in combat and passion, DMT, & How I Loved the Broken Things of Rome, The Deergirl Diaries: adventures in combat and passion, DMT, & How I Loved the Broken Things of Rome, The Deergirl Diaries: adventures in combat and passion, DMT, & How I Loved the Broken Things of Rome, The Deergirl Diaries: adventures in combat and passion, DMT, & How I Loved the Broken Things of Rome, April 13 - 23, 2006
Andrew Hardwood: Bikes, February 4 - March 26, 2006
The Perm Show: Beauties from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, January 27 - March 26, 2006
