The Toronto Art Book Fair (TOABF) is a free public event taking place Thursday, June 16th – Sunday, June 19th at Artscape Youngplace (180 Shaw St. Toronto, ON) featuring curated exhibitions, 75 Canadian and international vendors, and community programming that includes a speaker series, readings, talks, launches and workshops. In its inaugural year TOABF will highlight over 150 national and international artists, publishers, designers, curators, bookmakers, writers, and performers.
TOABF is dedicated to increasing the visibility, dissemination, appreciation, and understanding of the artist’s book and its contemporary expression in print culture and visual arts. Independent artistic print culture has a rich narrative in Canadian art history, and is an often overlooked aspect of Canadian cultural identity. The goal of TOABF is to highlight these personal and collective stories, elevate the artistic integrity of artists’ books, multiples, and printed matter by presenting Canadian and international artists to a wide audience.
Funded by: Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council
Program Partners: 8Eleven, Art Metropole, C Magazine, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada, PaperHouse Studio, SKETCH, Colour Code, Blackflash Magazine, Nothing Else Press and Typology Projects
OPENING LAUNCH PARTY
Thursday, June 16th 6-9pm
FAIR HOURS
Friday, June 17th 11-7pm
Saturday, June 18th 11-7pm
Sunday, June 19th 11-6pm
Vendors:
Akin Collective
8Eleven
Alicia’s Klassic Kool Shoppe
Anchorless Press
B&D Press
Badlands Unlimited
BlackFlash
Booger Brie
C Magazine
Cabinet Magazine
Carbon Paper
Colour Code
CRIT Paper
DNA Artspace
Double Dot Magazine
Draw Down Books
Ediciones Daga
Eli Howey
Endless Editions
Fangrrlz
Femme Crimes Distro
Fillip
Food Court
GuyGuyGuy
Halifax Ink
Hesse Press
Hex Editions
Impulse (b:)
Issue Press
Jackie Lee Art
Jonathan Rotsztain
Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative
Kendra Yee
Lido Pimienta
Lise Haller Baggesen
Louise Reimer Illustrations
Makuktu Art Project
Massive Goods
Matte Magazine
Matthew Scott Gualco
Micah Lexier
Milkweed Zine
Mother Books
Musterni
New Documents
Nothing Else Press
Open Sesame
Or Gallery and Bookstore
Paul and Wendy Projects
Perish Publishing
Phil Woollam
Possible Worlds
Prefix Photo Magazine
Project Space/ Vancouver Art Book Fair
Ray Ray
Sab Meynert
Sagan Editions
Sarahaha
School of Image Arts – Ryerson
Scrapbooks
Sergej Vutuc
Slow Editions
Soon.tw
Space Face Books
Studio-Set
Swimmers Group
Tallulah Fontaine
Technologie und das Unheimliche
The Canadian Academy in Rome
TXTbooks
Typology Projects
University of Toronto Art Galleries
Vice Versa Press
YYZ Artists’ Outlet
And more…