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Sonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way, 2022

Sonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way, 2022. Commissioned by the British Council for the British Pavilion for the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2022. © Sonia Boyce (Copyright Visual Arts-CARCC, 2023). Installation view, Leeds Art Gallery, 2023. Image credit: Rob Battersby.

Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way

September 19, 2024 - April 6, 2025

Located on Level 1 in Gallery 128 & 129.

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EXHIBITION OVERVIEW

Recipient of the prestigious Golden Lion prize for Best National Participation at the 2022 Venice Biennale, acclaimed British artist Sonia Boyce DBE RA brings Feeling Her Way to the AGO for its second North American presentation. This captivating installation combines video, collage, music and sculpture.

Feeling Her Way centers the vocal performances of four female musicians: Jacqui Dankworth, Poppy Ajudha, Sofia Jernberg, and Tanita Tikaram in a playful and thought-provoking visual and auditory experience. Brought together by Boyce at Abbey Road Studios in London and Atlantis Studios in Stockholm, the vocalists were guided by composer Errollyn Wallen through improvisation, imagination, and exploration. 

Spanning across two adjacent galleries, the audience will encounter colour-tinted videos that take centre stage among immersive and tessellating wallpapers created by Boyce, as well as gold 3D geometric sculptures, and a rich display of music memorabilia from the artist’s ongoing collection documenting the transnational contributions made by Black British female musicians.

This site-specific installation is presented at the AGO in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art 2024.
The Canadian presentation of Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way is initiated and organized by the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art. The work was originally commissioned by the British Council for the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2022.

Toronto Biennal of Art Sept 21 - Dec, 2024
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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Sonia Boyce DBE RA (born 1962) is a British interdisciplinary artist and academic working across film, drawing, photography, print, sound, and installation.

A key figure in the Black Arts Movement in the early 1980s, Boyce continues to address issues of race and gender in Britain. Her recent work explores the intersection of art and social practice. She utilizes performance and audio-visual elements, encouraging collaboration, improvisation, and participation to blur the lines between artist and audience.

In 2024, the artist received an DBE for art services in the King’s New Year Honours List and holds Honorary Doctorates from the Royal College of Art, The Courtauld, and Birmingham City University, UK. Her work appears in the collections of many British and international  museums, including the TATE in London, Saastamoinen Foundation in Helsinki, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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PAST EVENTS

A photograph of Sonia Boyce's artwork. Polygonal, golden sculptures are on the ground, in front of a wall panels in a kaleidoscope-style pattern, with 4 centre coloured panels, with tinted photographs of four people.
Performance
Feeling Her Way: Dancer Responses
Wednesdays, February 5, March 5, April 2, 7 pm 2025

Every First Wednesday Night Free during the Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way exhibition, an invited dance artist will perfo

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Two children making art collages
Workshops
Maker Friday: Sonia Boyce
Friday, October 18, 6 pm, 2024

Join us for a vibrant pop-up art-making event inspired by the innovative works of Sonia Boyce!

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Abstract painting by Rita Letendre
Workshops
Seniors Social: The Artist's Process
Tuesday, October 8, 1 pm, 2024

Join us for our Seniors Social and ignite new connections.

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Sonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way, 2022
Special Events
Nuit Blanche 2024
Saturday October 5, 7 pm – 7 am, 2024

Take part in Nuit Blanche, an all-night celebration of contemporary art that transforms Toro

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An abstract pattern of black and white digital waveform shapes
Special Events
AV Live: Ambient Waves
Friday, October 4, 6 - 9 pm, 2024

Join artists from the AGO’s AV team in Walker Court as they presents live multimedia performances,  programming a live audiovisual set using generative art software and Stream Diffusion.

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phot of artist SOnia BOyce in a black, long-sleeved top, black-framed glasses, standing with hands in pockets in front of her work
Talks
Sonia Boyce in conversation
Wednesday, September 18, 7 pm, 2024

Join British artist Sonia Boyce and Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) curator Dominique Fontaine for a conversation about Boyce’s work to mark the opening of the exhibition,

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