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The 2026 edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art, curated by Allison Glenn, will be titled Things Fall Apart. It will feature more than 30 artists and collectives and will include 17 newly commissioned works, many of which respond to the environment of Toronto and its surroundings.

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The exhibition will lean on ideas of syncopation and rupture, and will take water as a throughline, tracing relationships between global waterways from the local Great Lakes region to the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean, the Persian Gulf and beyond. For the first time, the Biennial will extend beyond the Greater Toronto Area to feature projects and collaborations across North America, including in Detroit, New York and Anchorage.

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‘Growing up in nearby Detroit deeply informed my understanding of how water, as both a physical resource and a historical witness, connects distant geographies through shared, fluid systems’, said Allison Glenn in a statement. ‘The expansion of the Biennial footprint across international borders is driven by this curatorial frame and a cohort of artists and collaborators whose work is profoundly site-responsive, connecting to histories and moments of rupture across vast waterways.’

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The full list of artists is as follows:

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Andrés Ramirez Gaviria, Antonio Obá, Bonnie Devine, Brendan Fernandes, Cameron Harvey, Carole Harris, Carolina Fusilier, Céline Semaan and Jean-Marc Bullet, Charisse Pearlina Weston, Chiedza Pasipanodya, Coco Fusco, Dala Nasser, Dawit L. Petros, Dawoud Bey, James Perkins, Julianknxx, Julien Creuzet, Kent Monkman, Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, Nanibah (Nani) Chacon, Naotaka Hiro, Nirbhai, Raphaël Barontini, Rebecca Belmore, Regina de Miguel, Rouzbeh Akhbari, Simranpreet Anand, Skawennati, Solange Pessoa, Taqralik Partridge, Tetsuya Yamada, Drexciya and beyond presented by Underground Resistance and Wen Liu.  

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The Toronto Biennial of Art will be on view from 26 September to 20 December, 2026.

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