Going Rogue A Group Exhibition at Gagne Project Space, Toronto June 6 – June 30, 2026.
Curated by PE Sharpe, Pearl Van Geest, and James Fowler
Part of Nuit Rose Festival of Queer Performance and Visual Art

Going Rogue is an open call for artists whose practices engage landscape, ecology, and territory through a queer lens. The exhibition takes as its starting point the act of deviation: from expected practice, from inherited genre, from the sanctioned image of land and who belongs in it.

We are interested in work that reclaims terrain, introduces the body into spaces that have historically excluded it, and troubles the canonical formulations of the Sublime. Canadian landscape carries particular weight here — its colonial surveyor lines, its romantic mythologies, its post-Anthropocene reckoning. We welcome artists working across all media, including painting, photography, video, textile, installation, and hybrid forms.

Going Rogue invites artists to bring us their departures.

KEY DATES

Submission deadline: May 1, 2026 Artwork delivery: By June 1, 2026 Exhibition runs: June 6 – June 30, 2026 Artwork pickup: By July 3, 2026

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

A maximum of three artworks per applicant may be submitted. Please include all of the following in a single email:

Images — Up to three images of proposed works (JPG or PNG, maximum 2MB each)
Image list including medium, size and date.
CV — Current curriculum vitae
Artist bio — 100 words maximum
Artist statement — 150 words maximum
Website — URL of your website
Social media — Your social media handles

Submit to: info@throbbingrose.ca
Deadline: May 1, 2026, 11:59pm.
Incomplete submissions will not be considered.

LOGISTICS

All accepted works must be delivered to Gagne Project Space at 136 Brooklyn Avenue by June 1, 2026 and collected by July 3, 2026. Artists are responsible for the shipping and handling of their own work. As this is an unfunded exhibition, there are no artist fees or curatorial fees. Each selected work will be accompanied by a contextual statement prepared by the curatorial team.