If street art is found within the walls of a museum, can we still find something in this vibrant international art movement that can be respected as critical and exceptional art? This exhibition, driven by the street artists themselves, is a distillation of the spontaneity, spirit of collaboration, accessibility and social consciousness from which street art has emerged. Housepaint at the Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the ROM is the first exhibition of street art in a major Canadian museum, an open-ended exhibition and experiment. Through the run of the exhibition, every month-and-a-half another street artist will be invited to respond and add to the canvas houses from Tent City and the previous art work in the sequence -- layering the exhibition with meaning and building organic connections between the works.

At the end of the exhibition the canvas houses will be auctioned for Habitat for Humanity Toronto. Please register at http://www.housepaint.ca for programming updates.

Artists
STARSHIP / GENE PENDON (HVW8) | SPECTER / GABRIEL REESE | ROYAL / DIXON / JUAN CARLOS NORIA | OTHER / DEREK SHAMUS MEHAFFEY | LEASE / LISA MANSFIELD | FAUXREEL / DAN BERGERON | EVOKE / PATRICK THOMPSON | ELICSER ELLIOT | EGR / ERICA GOSICH ROSE | DSTRBO / DAN BULLER (HVW8) | CASE / RYAN MACKEEN | CANT 4 / AMANDA MARIE

ICC Guest Curator
DEVON OSTROM

Starting December 13th, 2008
Institute for Contemporary Culture - Roloff Beny Gallery
4th Floor, Royal Ontario Museum
Free with ROM Admission (read less)

If street art is found within the walls of a museum, can we still find something in this vibrant international art movement that can be respected as critical and exceptional art? This exhibition, driven by the street artists themselves, is a distillation of the spontaneity, spirit of collaboration, accessibility and social consciousness from which street art has emerged. Housepaint at the Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the ROM is the first exhibition of street art in a major... (read more)