Ryerson Image Centre


The Ryerson Image Centre,, is a renovated and remodelled former warehouse building at Gould and Bond Streets on the campus of Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The centre includes gallery, collections, teaching, research and exhibition spaces and shares the building with the School of Image Arts.

History

The gallery was officially opened on September 29, 2012.
The new building, designed by Toronto architect Donald Schmitt of Diamond and Schmitt Architects contains:
The centre was in part created to display some of the 292,000 photos from Black Star which it had received as an anonymous donation.
In August 2013, Paul Roth, a former senior curator and director of photography at Corcoran Gallery of Art was appointed as new director of the Ryerson Image Centre. In March 2015, the museum has acquired the archive of Berenice Abbott, which included more than 6,000 photos and 7,000 negatives.