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April 25 – August 31, 2025
Storm Watch
Group exhibition at the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON, Canada.
Dec 9, 2023 – March 2, 2024
Parallax
Solo exhibition, Tom Thomson Gallery, Owen Sound, ON, Canada.
June, 2023
“Dusting for Prints”
Essay by Georgia Phillips-Amos, in the book Les archives/The Archive, published by ARTEXTE.
June, 2023
Les archives/The Archive
Book edited by Martha Langford and Eduardo Ralickas
10 artist pages featuring a new body of work titled Special Collections. Published by ARTEXTE.
May, 2022
“Susan Dobson”
Exhibition review by Rhiannon Vogl, Border Crossings magazine.
Feb 18 – Mar 26, 2022
Focus Finder
Solo exhibition, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON, Canada.
Jan 8 – Feb 12, 2022
Chroma IV
Group exhibition, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON, Canada.
Dec 9, 2021
“The 10 Most Stunning and Startling Artworks at Canadian Galleries in 2021”
By Kate Taylor for The Globe and Mail.
Nov 11, 2021
Artist Talk
The Image Centre (formerly the Ryerson Image Centre), Toronto, ON, Canada.
Oct 7, 2021
“With a Heap of Thousands of Discarded Slides, Artist Susan Dobson Questions the Value of Analog in a Digital Age”
By Kate Taylor for The Globe and Mail
Sep 15 – Dec 4, 2021
Slide|Lecture
Solo exhibition at the Image Centre University Gallery (formerly the Ryerson Image Centre), Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sep 15 – Dec 4, 2021
June 28 – Aug 8, 2021
There and Then
Group exhibition, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, Canada.
Sep 7 – Oct 2, 2021
On Water
Group exhibition, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON, Canada.
2021
The Making of a Museum
Image reproduced, book by Judith Nasby, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.
2021
Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image
Photograph’s Mise en Abyme: Metapictures of Scale in Repurposed Slide Libraries, book chapter by Dr Annebella Pollen, published by Edinburgh University Press (images reproduced; work discussed)
July, 2021
Focus Finder Exhibition Publication
Essay by Sarah Bassnett, in the exhibition publication Focus Finder
Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON, Canada.
July 8, 2021
Artist Talk
Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON, Canada.
Oct 26 – Oct 31, 2021
POP-UP @ SBG 2021
Small scale art fair with Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Stephen Bulger Gallery, TrepanierBaer and
Wil Aballe Art Projects at Stephen Bulger Gallery.
May 2021
CONTACT Catalogue Slide|Lecture
April 7, 2021 – Jan 31, 2022
Focus Finder
Solo exhibition at the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON, Canada.
Oct 29 – Nov 1, 2020
ART TORONTO
New work on view with Michael Gibson Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Jan – Mar, 2020
30 Years In Focus Gallery
Group exhibition curated by Burkhard Arnold, Cologne, Germany.
October, 2019
“On Slide Libraries and Their Obsolescence”
Paper presented at the University Art Association Conference panel “Sites of Photographic Knowledge: Archives and Narratives,” chaired by Martha Langford and Eduardo Ralickas, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
June 2, 2019
Artist Talk
University of the Arts Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
May 1 – Sep 15, 2019
CONTACT Catalogue Back|Fill
A mural on the Daniels Building, and a site specific installation inside the building.
Core exhibition for the 2019 CONTACT photography festival
Curated by Bonnie Rubenstein and Laura Miller
One Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON
“Optical Illusion sees a Toronto Building Turned into a Back-filled Rubble Heap,” by Betty Wood, The Spaces, May 10, 2019. https://thespaces.com/optical-illusion-sees-a-toronto-building-turned-into-a-back-filled-rubble-heap/
“Susan Dobson Exhibits Back/Fill Installation at University of Toronto,” Canadian Architect, June 2019. https://www.canadianarchitect.com/susan-dobson-exhibits-back-fill-installation-at-university-of-toronto/
May 6, 2019
CONTACT Public Installation Panel, Jackman Hall, the Art Gallery of Ontario.
May 1 – 31, 2019
Rearview Mirror
CONTACT Photography festival exhibition at Image Foundry, curated by Thom Sokoloski, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
March, 2019
Scotiabank Photography Prize Longlist
Nomination for the 2019 Scotiabank Photography Prize
Oct 15 – Nov 23, 2018
Slide Library
Solo exhibition, curated by Suzanne Luke for the Robert Langen Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
May 3 – 26, 2018
Slide Library
Solo exhibition, Michael Gibson Gallery, London, ON, Canada.
“On the Canvas: Outdated Slides given New Life by Guelph Photographer”
London Free Press, by Joe Belanger, May 2, 2018.
Nov 2017 – Oct 2018
Installation in the Santa Cruz Library
Italy 1 – 74, Fotonoviembre 2017
Curated by Gilberto Gonzalez, for Fotonoviembre 2017, Tenerife, Spain.
Oct 21, 2017 – Jan 28, 2018
Downtown/s – Urban Renewals Today for Tomorrow
Curated by Jaclyn Meloche for the 2017 Art Gallery of Windsor Triennial, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada.
November, 2017
Published image from the Viewfinder series
Harper’s
Oct 27 – 30, 2017
Art Toronto, Booth A57
May, 2017
Cover and slide library portfolio
Prefix Photo, Issue 34
Jun 3 – July 4, 2017
City Landscape
Curated by Burkhard Arnold for In Focus Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
May 13 – July 9, 2017
Viewfinder
Curated by Angela Brayham for Gallery Stratford, Stratford, ON, Canada.
Sep 10 – Oct 2, 2016
Festival Images – Visual Arts Biennial of Vevey
Curated by Stefano Stoll for the Swiss Museum of Photography, Vevey, Switzerland.