Queer Multiples
Group Exhibition
Curated by Dallas Fellini
Art Metropole
Toronto, ON
March 13– May 11, 2025
Queer Multiples presents works by queer artists drawn from Art Metropole’s inventory and spanning from 1978–2025. The featured works trace a queer tradition of artists’ multiples permeated with absurdity, sexuality, and magic, gesturing towards the slipperiness of everyday objects. The exhibition considers the form of the multiple and its potential to subvert (or queer) normative and capitalistic expectations.
This exhibition features my artist multiple Queer Mug, based on a mug that appears in the 1999 film But, I’m a Cheerleader.
Queer Multiples features works from Derya Akay, Barbara Balfour, Adrien Crossman, Jess Dobkin, Brendan Fernandes, General Idea, Terence Koh, Phillip Lý, Van Maltese, Julius Poncelet Manapul, Philip Leonard Ocampo, Robert Anthony O’Halloran, Peaches, Cleopatria Peterson, P.G. THING CO. (Paige Gratland), Finn Simard, Maximilian Suillerot Wilke, Derek Sullivan, Chelsea Thompto, Mary Tremonte, and Tobaron Waxman.
Exhibition Documentation by Ananna Rafa and Nathaniel Fischer
Queer Multiples was launched in tandem with Fan Wu’s Reactivating the Archive presentation on Terence Koh’s edition A Beaver Tail (2008). Reactivating the Archive is a series of artist talks and performance lectures responding to works published by Art Metropole over our 50-year history.
This project gratefully acknowledge ongoing support from The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, and the City of Toronto through Toronto Arts Council.