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401 Richmond

401 Richmond

Built For Art

Toronto's Downtown Arts Hub

401 Richmond is a heritage-designated industrial building turned arts and culture hub. The building was originally constructed in several phases between 1899 and 1923 for the Macdonald Manufacturing Company. The building operated as a tin factory best known for its lithographic work. That artistic lineage is still seen today with a community of nearly 150 artists, cultural producers, nonprofits and microenterprises.

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Simon Bentley Fine Art

First Floor, Studio 133
Founded in 2020, Simon Bentley Fine Art is devoted to seeking out artworks of quality and aesthetic interest, with a primary focus on Post-Modern Canadian Abstraction. The gallery is committed to the promotion of Canadian Art both in Canada and abroad, as well as protecting and nurturing Canadian Heritage and Cultural Sovereignty. With nearly a…
Events & Exhibitions

ART HUNT 2025

401 Richmond, 1st Floor and Lower Level Mar 13, 2025
5 – 6 PM
Art Hunt is an art treasure adventure! Participants use a series of clues to search 401 Richmond’s first floor and lower level for one-of-a-kind wooden eggs decorated by 401 artists and crafters. Enjoy exploring 401’s galleries, shops and corridors, and hopefully head home with a free, unique, wooden egg artwork. It’s ‘first come – first…
Hannah Doucet's 'Exiting the Castle' at Gallery 44

Virtual Window Gallery

Hannah Doucet's 'Exiting the Castle' at Gallery 44 on until February 1

Stars, green screens, butterflies, princesses, fruit, magic and candy: within an absurd and colourful landscape, objects are blown up larger-than-life, surfaces condense repeatedly and documentary and constructed imagery co-exist and collide. Through photography, video and sculpture, Exiting the Castle extends Doucet’s ongoing project exploring illness, fantasy and wish fulfillment through the lens of her own experience receiving a wish trip to Disney World as a child, following two years of treatment for Lymphoma. In this iteration, Doucet focuses on wishmaking as brand identity, exploring the many ways corporate visual languages co-opt the universal—and potentially radical—gesture of making a wish.

Hannah Doucet is a visual artist and arts educator from Winnipeg, based in Toronto. She works within photography, video and sculpture to explore fantasy, illness, and the body. She has exhibited at venues including the National Gallery of Canada, PLATFORM, Arsenal Contemporary Art and The New Gallery. Doucet won the inaugural PLATFORM Photography Award and was a recipient of the New Generation Photography award. She is one of four founders of Blinkers, a gallery in Winnipeg, where she was a co-director until August 2021. Doucet attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Summer 2024.