401 Richmond opens its doors for Doors Open Toronto!
Explore the building and the community of tenants, and observe the Three ‘C’s – community, culture, and commerce – at work. Join a guided tour or wander freely through galleries, shops, open artist studios and more. Fuel your visit with refreshments from our licenced café and take in our green rooftop and inner courtyard. Family-friendly and free!
WHAT TO SEE & DO
Lower Level Shops, Galleries
LL01 Museum of Toronto – Toronto Gone Wild
B02 Spacing Store
B04 Swipe Design | Books + Objects – Free Leuchtturm Notebook Embossing
B20 yumart Gallery – Kathryn Bemrose *Last Day!
B104 Esmeralda Enrique Academy of Spanish Dance – Demonstrations
L106 Artspace TMU – Laura Honsberger, Christina Oyawale, Beckett Koreen, Annika Karpal
LL108 BAND Gallery – Jay Grey *Last Day!
Lower East Side – Architectural Conservancy of Ontario – Information Station
1st Floor Galleries, Café, Courtyard
12PM & 3PM Spadina Entrance – Building Tours
1 – 2PM Urbanspace Gallery – The Prefix Prize: Julya Hajnoczky, Curator’s Tour with Prefix ICA’s Scott McLeod
2 – 3PM Abbozzo Gallery – Meet & Greet with photographer/filmmaker Nika Belianina
2 – 4PM Courtyard – A Garden and a Library: Mayworks Festival Planting Workshop with Atanas Bozdarov and Disability Justice Network of Ontario
Coach House – CineCycle Screening: Son of Tutti-Frutti, 1972
104 Open Studio – Printmaking Studio Tours, Exhibitions Ha̲mdzat̓si Collective, Khadijah Morley
110 A Space Gallery – Amanda Boulos, Ibrahim Abusitta
115 Red Head Gallery – Artist Pearl Van Geest’s Stencil Workshop
119 Park People – Meet & Greet
120 Gallery 44 – Julianna A.S., Delali Cofie, Kourtney Jackson
122 Critical Distance Centre for Curators – Azadeh Elmizadeh, Maryam Tafakory, Shelley Niro, Anna Gronau
124 Tangled Art Gallery – Felicia Byron
128 Abbozzo Gallery – Nika Belianina, Matthew Stephenson, Arnold Zageris
133 Simon Bentley Fine Art – Lamana x Isaacs
135 Dark Horse Espresso Bar – Licenced Café and Pantry Shop
140 YYZ Artists’ Outlet – Yusuf Hassan, Claudia Chagoya
2nd Floor Open Studios
209 Lana Yuan – Artist Studio
210 Lindsay Chambers – Artist Studio
218 Suharu Ogawa – Children’s Book Illustrator Studio with family activities
219 Inside Out LGBTQ+ Film Festival – Short Films and 2024 Festival Trailer Screening
220 Rob Nicholls – Artist Studio
226 Guido Costantino Projects Inc.
228 Surface Impression, Take part in a digital arts and culture survey and see the results in real time
250 Brigitte Nowak, David Connolly – Artists Studio with participatory art-making
260 Roda Medhat – 401 Career Launcher Prize Studio Recipient
276 William Greaves – Artist Studio
277 Le Labo Francophone Media Arts Centre – Andreas Krätschmer, Paul Ruban, Tania Love
278 Marian Wihak – Artist Studio
281 Between the Lines Books – Book Sale
3rd Floor Open Studios
359 Simon Glass – Artist Studio
362 OCADU Illustration Studio – Ivy Chen, Daria Joyce, Hyunsun Park, Gabrielle Schwartz
366 Janine Lindgren, Vikramjit Sra – Artists Studio
376 Canadaland – Studio Tours
378 Journalists for Human Rights, Solidarity Marathon Campaign Exhibition
383 Peter Harris – Artist Studio
389 Joanie Ellen, Christie Hayhoe, Diane Mohan, Angela Tamari – Artists Studio
392 Third Party Public
396 Erik Mohr, Tania Janthur – Artists Studio
396 Made By Emblem – Design Your Own Shield/Sigil/Emblem Workshop
4th Floor Open Studios, Live Music, Rooftop Garden
417 Nancy Friedland, Sara MacCulloch – Artists Studio
427 Anthony Trask, Calligraphy and Design Studio – Participatory demonstrations
440 – 452 The Commons, Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space – Film Curation: to be here is to be affected
Adjacent to 434 Donald Quan and Friends musical performance
Rooftop Garden – 401 Seedlings Sale