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The Toronto visual arts community chooses its favourite shows of 2016 We surveyed artists, curators and our own writer to see which 2016 shows moved them most. Their answers reveal an immense range of artistic visions. Link to article: https://nowtoronto.com/art-and-books/art/toronto-best-art-shows-of-2016/

I’m including a rare photographic print of my work in this year’s Photorama fundraiser for Gallery TPW. Collector’s Preview Thursday, November 24, 2016, 6 – 9 pm Opening Reception Friday, November 25, 2016, 6 – 9 pm Sale continues Saturday, November 26 – Saturday, December 3, 2016, 12 – 6 pm We will be open Sunday, November 27, 12 –… Continue reading Photorama at Gallery TPW

Photos from Sunday, November 13th premiere of Rites of Passage including Music is Magic or Goddamn You, Half-Japanese Girls and the live score by Ohbijou.

Alison S. M. Kobayashi’s new multimedia performance piece, Say Something Bunny!, first shown in Toronto at Gallery TPW this past winter, combines found and invented documents, theatrical staging, costumes, props, and multiple screens. Kobayashi and Allen’s striking re-imagination of the life and times of a Jewish family is based on a fragment of whose story was captured on… Continue reading Brooklyn Rail: Interview by Tess Takahashi

Sunday November 13, 2016 7 pm Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto Buy Tickets MUSIC by Ohbijou (in attendance) FILMMAKERS Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Casey Mecija, Shasha Nakhai, Leslie Supnet and May Truong Working from personal home videos, filmmakers Kobayashi, Mecija, Nakhai, Supnet and Truong use experimental editing techniques, animation and documentary interviews to reflect on their understandings of cultural heritage and… Continue reading Music is Magic in Rites of Passage, Reel Asian Film Festival

Dan Carter included in the first program by new Milwaukee screening series, aCinema. October 28th, 2016 7pm PMat Woodland Pattern Book Center. Screening artists include Kim Kielhofner, Alison SM Kobayashi, Colleen Plumb, Eeva Siivonen, Josh Yates, and more. http://www.acinema.space/

Alex to Alex has been included in a program by Collectivo Toronto presented at Club Cultural Matienzo, Buenos Aires. Wednesday December 14th, 8pm 1249 Pringles, Buenos Aires For more information about the program or about Collectivo Toronto visit: http://guillerminabuzio.com/Colectivo-Toronto

Open Ears Fri, May 27, 2016 9:00pm Sun, Jun 26, 2016 11:59am Kitchener Sky Gallery 12-34 Young St Kitchener, ON, N2H 6P6 Canada Curated by Karie Liao When Open Ears wanted to animate the Cube in City Hall with a reel of GIFs that would tie-in to our festival theme - ReReRe – we immediately appealed… Continue reading Open Ears, Kitchener

“Having received from a friend a 64 year old wire recording purchased at an estate sale, the Toronto and Brooklyn-based artist manages to unspool a multigenerational yarn of Rothian heights.” MORE HERE.

Thursday, March 24, 2016, 8pm Gallery TPW, 170 St. Helen’s Ave, Toronto In conjunction with the exhibition Say Something Bunny! join Alison Kobayashi, Christopher Allen and Tess Takahashi for drinks and conversation about live documentary, identity contortion, reenactment, play, staging, research, family dynamics, and whatever else you want to bring to the table. Participant Biographies:… Continue reading Alison S.M. Kobayashi and Christopher Allen in conversation with Tess Takahashi

Saturday, November 7th. 6-7p. Free Comic Signing by José Luis Medina at Comic Arts Brooklyn Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church 12 Havemeyer St Brooklyn, NY I’m proud to have published Medina’s first comic book, I Walk Alone in Darkness: A Trilogy at UnionDocs this past June. Join us this evening for a one hour… Continue reading Upcoming Events and Exhibitions

Sunday, November 8th, 2015. 7.30p. $9 UnionDocs 322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn NY Curated with Johanna Linsley. Begins with David Helbich’s No Music – ‘Ohrstücke’, a performative rehearsal followed by presentations by artists Brian House, Laure Fernandez, Brian Fuata and Alison S. M. Kobayashi. Concludes with an open discussion. Performing Lost, Stolen and Misplaced Sounds This… Continue reading EAVESDROPPERS, VENTRILOQUISTS AND GHOSTS at UnionDocs

ACTIVATE THE ARCHIVES Working with Archival Materials and Found Footage, an Intensive Seminar for Documentary Artists Friday September 25th to Sunday September 27th, 10am-5pm UnionDocs, 322 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211 “History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.” (Voltaire) This intensive seminar will explore the creative use of archival materials for documentary art. Over the course of three… Continue reading Untitled

Tuesday, July 28 | 8PM Bad Asians 3.0 Stonewall Inn | 53 Christopher St. Curatored by Leeroy Kun Young Kang ManChyna, Chinese Up Them Eyes Like Beyonce, digital video, Canada, 2014 Lu Yang, Uterus Man, digital video, 11:19min., Shanghai, China, 2013 Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Dan Carter, video, 15min., Canada, 2006 Tanwarin Sukkhapisit, I’m Fine, video, 3:20min., Thailand, 2008 Yozmit, Sound… Continue reading Bad Asians 3.0, Dirty Looks July 28th, Stonewall Inn

Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Ryan Park, Roula Partheniou, Jon Sasaki and Josh Thorpe June 14 – August 2, 2015 Curated by Julia Abraham Special Events Opening Reception Sunday, June 14, 1 – 3PM A FREE shuttle bus will depart from Mercer Union (1286 Bloor Street W) at 12:30pm and return for 3:30pm. Artists will be… Continue reading Always Already at Blackwood Gallery opens June 14th.

Photographs from the event on January 16th, 2015 focusing on a palm sized Food Diary from 1929. At Artscape Youngplace, Toronto.

January 16th, 2015 1929 Food Diary Tonight, two artists will be taking their audience through a food tasting. Matt Galloway spoke with Alison S.M. Kobayashi. She is one of two artists who will be speaking at Artscape Youngplace tonight in a talk called “Prunes, Arrowroots, Soup, Good”. http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=2648220509

Friday January 16, 2015 6PM- 7:30PM @ Artscape Youngplace 180 Shaw, Toronto ON Free, reservations can be made to ayp@torontoartscape.on.ca Join us for an artist talk by Alison S.M. Kobayashi an evening of sampling dishes listed in a found food diary (c. 1929). The diary, a matchbook sized book chronicling Mr. N. Sakaliuk every meal and whether it… Continue reading January 16th Personality Unlimited Closing Event & Artist Talk