PROTOTYPE Toronto: An Arts Publishing Assembly
November 20, 2026 - November 22, 2026Critical Distance is pleased to present
PROTOTYPE: An Arts Publishing Assembly
featuring our 3rd annual art book fair/market and show, plus a new arts publishing symposium produced in collaboration with KRIT Zine
DATES
Friday–Sunday, November 20–22, 2026
LOCATION
32 Lisgar, Toronto, Ontario M6J 0C7 Canada
Free and open to the public, PROTOTYPE: An Arts Publishing Assembly will encompass an art book fair/market, special exhibitions, and symposium/public program featuring talks, workshops, performances, and more.
Stay tuned for more info on our new location, partners, and programs coming soon. Follow us on Instagram at @prototype_toronto for updates as they happen!
ABOUT CRITICAL DISTANCE
Critical Distance Centre for Curators is a not-for-profit gallery, publisher, and professional network devoted to the advancement of curatorial inquiry in Toronto and beyond. With a focus on critically-engaged, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary practices, underrepresented perspectives and curatorial approaches, and wider public outreach and education on curating and exhibition-making, Critical Distance is an open platform for diverse curatorial perspectives, and a forum for ideas on curating as a way to foster meaningful connections between people across cultures, disciplines, geographies, and generations.
Through our publications-based programs, Critical Distance seeks to connect publishers from across Canada and the world with Toronto-based publics and colleagues interested in critical, artful, affordable, and unusual art books, publications, and editions. Subscribe to our newsletter, follow us on Instagram, or visit our website for more information on our publishing-related activities, past, present, and future, including new additions to our Curators Library, e-Shop, and expanded publications-based programs coming soon.
For any questions or more information, contact info@criticaldistance.ca.
Critical Distance gratefully acknowledges operating support from the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.