Image Credits: Tribute by Omar Tarek Zayed and Lin Juan Dai. Photo by Peiying Xie.
OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce Ernesto Cabral de Luna as the recipient of the 2025 DesignTO Exhibition Stantec Window Gallery Career Launcher!
Ernesto Cabral de Luna is a Mexican lens-based artist working in Toronto. Utilizing both
analog and digital processes, he merges experimental techniques with sculpture and
installation, printing onto unconventional and manipulated surfaces to emphasize the
multi-dimensionality and materiality of the image. His work centers around altering perception through image manipulation – providing new ways to experience recognizable imagery in unconventional manners and outside of their intended purpose. Ernesto's practice is interested in the fragmentary nature of memory, both individual and collective - constantly seeking new ways to manipulate these alternative histories he is creating.
Ernesto received his BFA in photography from OCAD in 2024, where he received the 2024 Barbara Astman Photography Award and the 2021 Wendy Coburn Art and Social Change Scholarship. A recipient of the 2024 Gallery44 Residency and the 2024 PIA Artist-Direct Grant, Ernesto has exhibited at Patel Brown, Ignite Gallery, Ada Slaight, Xpace Cultural Center, and Abbozzo Gallery.
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Ernesto's work will be shown from December 21, 2024 to March 20, 2025 at the Stantec Window Gallery as part of the 2025 DesignTO festival.
DesignTO is a non-profit arts organization that curates exhibitions, presentations and educational programming to increase the public’s knowledge and appreciation of design and its role in creating a sustainable, just and joyful world. DesignTO is best known for the DesignTO Festival, Canada’s leading and largest annual design festival that celebrates design as a multidisciplinary form of creative thinking and making, with 100+ free exhibitions and events forming Toronto’s design week every January.
The Stantec Window Gallery is located in Toronto’s historic Garment District at the corner of Spadina Avenue and Wellington Street West, in the former home of the McGregor Sock Factory. In an effort to ‘give back’ to the community – economically, environmentally and culturally, a part of the Stantec office retrofit, the original retail entrance to the McGregor Sock Factory was reconceived as a contemporary art gallery to be open and experienced by all: pedestrians, cyclists, drivers, streetcar riders, and skateboarders, free of charge. Installations rotate on a quarterly basis, at solstice and equinox. Past projects can be viewed on Stantec’s Instagram page.
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