Grace Wang in the Hallway Galleries: Artist Highlight

ArtHubs Programs • April 8, 2026

Coming to Daniels Spectrum:
The Heart Has Not Stopped

Head in the Clouds II, 2024, Archival Pigment Print

The Heart Has not Stopped

April 27 - may 30, FIrst Floor Hallway Galleres


With the approach of Spring so approaches Grace Wang's CONTACT Festival exhibition at Daniels Spectrum. Don't miss this stunning photography exhibition this April and May.



We sat down with Grace to learn more about her work, practice, inspirations, and current print flash sale!


Describe you and your practice in your own words.

"I'm a self-taught Toronto-based visual artist working primarily with analogue photographic processes. I shoot on 35mm and 120mm film, and all of my multiple exposures are made in-camera. My practice extends into darkroom printing, cyanotypes, and silk-based photographic works, and last year I completed my first permanent public art installation for a public bus shelter in Calgary.
 
My work explores nature, time, memory, and the complexity of being human. Working through extended presence and intuitive image-making, I attend to how light, bodies, and landscape intersect over time. Water is a recurring motif — shaping both my material processes and how I think about duration, reflection, and uncertainty. I'm drawn to moments where forms overlap and dissolve, where human and natural elements blur, allowing photographs to hold traces of time, memory, and material transformation."
 
How does your exhibition fit into your on-going artistic practice?

"The Heart Has Not Stopped is a large-scale photo series I developed between 2022 and 2025, built through analogue, in-camera multiple exposures that compress time, memory, and emotional states into single images. The work treats time as something that gathers and folds rather than proceeds in a line, letting moments coexist rather than resolve.
 
The series began as a way of making sense of my deeply personal relationship to nature, shaped by displacement and delayed access. I grew up in a working-class family in urban China, where wild landscapes weren't part of my life — nature existed more as an idea than as a lived experience. It was only after immigrating to Canada that extended time in nature became possible: going on my first hike, burying my face in a meadow. That delayed access carried wonder alongside grief for what had been absent. This tension — between presence and loss, remembering and dreaming, belonging and distance — forms the emotional core of the work. Images emerge in states of flux, often vivid yet indistinct, intimate yet just out of reach, reflecting an inner landscape shaped by diaspora and solitude. Nature is not approached as a documentary subject but as a psychological terrain — fluid, interwoven, and unbound from fixed geography. Photographing becomes a method of reclaiming space and inhabiting landscapes once imagined from afar.
 
The Daniels Spectrum exhibition is the second presentation of the work, following my solo show at the Clark Centre for the Arts last November. Each iteration finds its own shape in response to the space. For Daniels Spectrum I'm showing a selection of large-scale prints — a chance to let the images live at a scale I'm really excited about. Showing the work as part of CONTACT, in a community-facing space rather than a traditional gallery, feels right for a project that has always been about quiet attention and encounter."
 
Tell us more about your artistic inspirations.

"Inspiration is slippery. Most of my inspiration comes from sustained time in the natural world — daily walks, repeated returns to the same places, attention to small shifts in light and season. It's just about being open.
 
I watch and read everything and anything that interests me: poetry, astronomy, quantum physics, anthropology, dance, etc. I try to get offline and do things in real life as much as possible. I return most often to painters. Last year I spent a lot of time with Georgia O'Keeffe's early watercolours and charcoals. Joan Mitchell is a north star — I return to her constantly."

Where can we find you?

"The Heart Has Not Stopped opens at Daniels Spectrum on April 27 and runs till May 30 as part of the 2026 CONTACT Photography Festival. Alongside the exhibition, I'm collaborating with Toronto-based artist–publisher Howsem Huang on a small-edition, hand-bound Riso artist book made as a companion to the project, which we’ll be launching at the festival on May 24, 3-6pm, at the CONTACT Photobook Lab."

Peonies at First Light, 2025, from The Heart Has Not Stopped, multiple exposure in-camera on 120mm film

FLASH PRINT SALE

Peonies at First Light, 2025
From The Heart Has Not Stopped, multiple exposure in-camera on 120mm film
 
Moo, 2025
Analogue photograph on 120mm film

  • Each print is an 9x12 inch archival pigment print on Hahnemühle fine art paper
  • Open edition (Hand signed by the artist)
  • $185 CAD Each
  • Free pickup / delivery in downtown Toronto
  • $12 flat shipping (Canada / USA)
  • International Shipping: reach out for a shipping quote

Prints can be ordered via the contact form at gracewang.format.com/contact or through Instagram by DMing Grace (@etheriel).


ORDER DEADLINE: April 14, 2026

"Looking ahead, I have a few projects on the go: a long-term series about the human body that I'm eager to return to, an experimental polaroid thread, and spending more time with textiles, screen-printing, cyanotypes, and installation — all extensions of the analogue world I'm rooted in. You can find more of my work at gracewang.format.com and follow along at @etheriel."

Moo, 2025, Analogue photograph on 120mm film

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