October 28 – December 13, 2024
Creative Campus Gallery
Sheridan College, Hazel McCallion Campus
Reception: Friday, November 29 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Rafael Goldchain is a renowned Canadian contemporary photographer and retired Professor and Program Coordinator of Sheridan’s Honours Bachelor of Photography program. His photographs are included in the collections of major museums including the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), the Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris) and the Museum of Modern Art (New York).
Goldchain was born in 1953 of Polish-Jewish heritage in Santiago, Chile and educated in Jerusalem, Israel before moving to Toronto. He earned a Master of Arts in Art History (University of Toronto, 2017), a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts (York University, 2000) and a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Photographic Studies (Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly Ryerson University, 1980).
Rafael Goldchain’s distinctions include the Leopold Godowsky Prize in Photography (Boston University, 1989) and the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography (The Canada Council, 1989). Goldchain’s life and work are also the subject of a documentary film entitled “Beautifully Broken: The Life and Times of Rafael Goldchain* (TVO, Willing Mind Productions, Vladimir Kabelik, Director 2013).
In recent bodies of work (Beautifully Broken, 2011, and later) Goldchain resorts to architectural and natural subject matter. Conceived as a form of self-portraiture, images of crumbling pillars and tangled shrubs are meditations on aging, beauty, complexity and mortality that seek a balance between vulnerability and strength. The photographs in this exhibition are generously donated by the artist to the Sheridan Art Collection/ Creative Campus Galleries.
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