Adrien Crossman 


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Group Exhibitions
The Gesture and Its AftermathOreQueer MultiplesProto PupsCelestial Bodies
Fundraisers + Multiples
Lucky Draw: Art MetropoleREVEL24: Art Gallery of BurlingtonARTATTACK!: Buddies in Bad TimesExist Pin: Union Gallery18th Annual C Magazine Art AuctionArtLotto.ca
Curatorial
Orchid ContemporarySoda Jerk: Double FeatureDesire Lines Screeninga damiana proverb
elided text
hot dreamsPorous TerrainSOTA Artist in Residence Series


Production Residencies
Banff Spring Artist in Residence





[now]here


Solo Exhibition

Factory Media Centre
Hamilton, ON

August 11 – September 30, 2023
[now]here traverses time and space, existing at once “nowhere” and “now here.” Combining physical and digital renderings of light up signage, the work references places both real and imaginary. Through memorializing imagined queer spaces that act as virtual stand ins for the “real” gay bars we can no longer access, [now]here explores the intersection between fictionalized queer spaces in media, and the ghosts of many “real life” queer bars past. Without having a fixed temporal state or particular location, these fictionalized spaces live on indefinitely, allowing us to visit them over and over again, while many of their “real” counterparts become inaccessible. [now]here holds together a dreaming of queer utopia that rejoices in a holy love within queerness, while also recognizing the dystopic closure of so many vital places meant for queer life and love.

Exhibition documentation by Eli Nolet and Hubert Świętorzecki

This project would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council