Royal Ontario Museum Annual Report 2007/2008

Shapeshifters, Time Travellers and Storytellers
This thought-provoking exhibition featured installations by
eight contemporary Aboriginal artists who, through video,
sound, sculpture, drawing, painting and performance art,
explored the ways in which past and present continue to
merge and shape one another. Five of the eight works were
created specifically for this exhibition. The exhibition was
co-organized by the Institute for Contemporary Culture at the
ROM and the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.
Presented by: BMo financial group
supporting sponsor: castlepoint reality Partners
financially assisted by the government of canada through
the department of canadian Heritage.
October 6, 2007 to February 28, 2008
Roloff Beny Gallery, Level 4
Charles Pachter’s Canada (II)
More than 50 iconic works by Canada’s leading contemporary
artist Charles Pachter were projected on the east wall of the
Hyacinth Gloria Chen Crystal Court as part of the ROM’s
A Season of Canada.
October 6, 2007 to January 6, 2008
Hyacinth Gloria Chen Crystal Court, Level 1
Cetology
Brian Jungen, 2002
Plastic and metal
collection of the vancouver art gallery. Purchased with the financial support
of the canada council for the arts acquisition assistance Program and the
vancouver art gallery acquisition fund.
vag 2003.8 a-z1
Trade Winds: Chinese export Wares from the 8th to 20th
Centuries
This small jewel box of an exhibition featured some of
the most popular export items China produced during the
1,200 years from the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE) to modern
times, including ceramics, wallpaper, watercolours, textiles,
lacquerware, ivory carving and silverware. It also explored the
long trading history of China and the influence this trade had
on Chinese ware.
exhibit sponsor: Manulife financial
December 1, 2007 to April 6, 2008
Herman Herzog Levy Gallery, Level 1
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