Upcoming
May 1 - July 27, 2024: Liberation in Four Movements, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
June 20 - September 22, 2024: Love Languages, Art Windsor Essex, Windsor, ON.

Past
2024
March 2024: Cycladic Art Residency, Paros, Greece.
January 19 - March 9, 2024: Reimagining Icons: Counter-Narratives and Histories Enriched, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY.
2023
November 16 - January 6, 2024: Conflictual Distance, The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, NY.
October 13 - November 18, 2023: The Black Madonnas of Perpetual Murmurs, Christie Contemporary, Toronto, ON. (solo)
September 16 - December, 2023: it’s because of the shimmer, the verge, the yet., Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, ON. (solo)
September 6 - November 25, 2023: Performance of Shadows, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
October 22, 2023: Wendy Wersch Memorial Lecture, Winnipeg, MB.
September 7 - November 10, 2023: The Undead Archive: 100 Years of Photographing Ghosts, C103, University of Winnipeg, MB. 
July, September, October 2023: Doris McCarthy Artist Residency, Toronto, ON.
May 1 - August 27, 2023: This Unfathomable Weight, Blackwood Art Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga Campus lightboxes and public billboard, ON.
August 2023: Artist-In-Residence, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK.
April 2023: Artist’s Archive: to affect/to appear (Planche XXIII.bis)
January 23 - April 30, 2023: Living Library, Art Gallery of Burlington, ON.
February 16 - April 28, 2023: Performance of Shadows, School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.
Tim Whiten in conversation with Erika DeFreitas
2022
October 8 - December 11, 2022: Undone, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB. 
November 8 - 20, 2022: Collection Count + Care, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, ON. 
November 18 - December 3, 2002: Photorama, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON.
September 7 - November 19, 2022: As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, Selections from the Wedge Collection at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
June 11 - September, 2022: Cultiver l’humilité | M8jagen piwihozw8gan, ORANGE 2022, L’événement d’art actuel de Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec.
August 26-28: Papier Contemporary Art Fair, Booth B07, Grand Quai, Montreal, Qc.
June 29 - August 6, 2022: a soft landing, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON.
July 7, 2022 at 7pm: Rebellious Flesh as a part of the Images Festival, Innis Town Hall, Toronto, ON. 
April 29, 2022: There Are Fragments. Artist-led workshop co-presented with CMagazine and the Toronto Biennial of Art, ON.
March 18 - April 22, 2022: To meet the curve of movement with the rhythm of legibility, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, SK.
February 2 - March 26, 2022: I'll Be Your Mirror, The Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, ON. 
January 6 - April 24, 2022: Mystic Toolkit at Artpace, San Antonio, TX.
August 19 - February 18, 2022: In Keeping With Myself (Fidèle à moi-même), Portrait gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON. 
October 14 - February 13, 2022: Beyond the Stone Angel, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK.
2021
Knowing/Doing, The Bows, Calgary, AB.
December 12 from noon to midnight EST: -And- a 12-hour online event organized by Christof Migone
November 24 - December 21: S.P.A.N.E. 2021: Air, RPL Film Theatre presents on VUCAVU, curated by Johannes Zits
November 26-28: Papier Contemporary Art Fair, Booth A01, Grand Quai, Montreal, Qc.
November 18, 7:30 pm: AKA Artist Run, Art Draw Fundraiser, Saskatoon, ON.
October 21 - November 10, 2021: The Curatorial Incubator, v.17: On the Other Side - It's Heaven, Program 3 Embodied Intimacies: Gesturing Towards Understanding
September 10 - October 16, 2021: to meet, or meet again, Christie Contemporary, Toronto, ON. (solo)
BlackFlash Magazine, Issue 38.1, I See You Too (a discussion between Erika DeFreitas and Tarin Dehod)
August 21: A Gesture, a Reading: Finding Touch in Occult Practices and Performance Art, Minor Hockey Curatorial with the Witch Institute, Toronto, ON.
April 14 - May 24, 2021: Of Several Depths, The Plumb, Toronto, ON. Curated by Miles Rufelds
October 3 - May 16, 2021: RESOLUTION: A Century of Photographic Art, Museum London, ON.
February 13 - April 25, 2021: close magic, at the Evergreen Art Gallery, Coquitlam, BC. Curated by Katherine Dennis. (solo)
December 10 to March 14, 2021: everything she inspires remains, belongs to light at the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON. Curated by Emily McKibbon (solo) 
January 23, 2021: Q and A with Erika DeFreitas and Daisy Desrosiers, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON.
January 2021: Part II of my artist project launch on www.tofeelclose.com
2020
September 8 - November 8, 2020: an object, a gesture, a scene (II) curated by Sandy Saad Smith at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, ON.
September 30 - October 3, 2020, Nightly from 8:00-11:00pm: The Essentials (projection location: Canada Malting Co.), presented by The Bentway as part of BigArtTO, Toronto, ON.
September 10 - October 3, 2020: Boiling Point: How it Feels, Projet Pangée, Montreal, QC.
August 15 - October 25, 2020: Arrangements, Art Gallery at Evergreen, Coquitlam, BC.
August 27, 2020: O'Brien Davis, Lillian, "Witch Weather," Peripheral Review.
July 7 - September 12, 2020: How dark does it get when the lights go out?, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON. 
August 24 - September 5, 2020: Spirits, Satellite Project Space, London, ON.
Posted on May 1, 2020: VTape Presents: REFLECTION / REFRACTION. A screening of Her body is full of light (often, very often, and in floods)
Posted on April 7, 2020: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery Artists at Home: Erika DeFreitas
Winter 2020: Artist Project published in Issue 144 “Déjà Vu” Winter 2020 of C Magazine with an accompanying text by Emily McKibbon
2019
October 19 - December 8, 2019: Thicker Than Water, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, ON. 
September 18 - November 17: Undomesticated, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON. 
November 3, 2019: Panel Discussion, Undomesticated, Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, ON. 
​September 10 - September 30, 2019: Undercurrents, The Bentway, Toronto, ON.
July 12 - October 12, 2019: Body of Waters, Ideas Exchange, Queen's Square, Cambridge, ON.
June 5 - July 27, 2019: Common Place: Common-Place, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, ON. 
June 21 - July 20, 2019: an object, a gesture, a scene, Open Studio, Toronto, ON.
Visiting Artist Residency at Open Studio: Contemporary Printmaking Centre, Toronto, ON.
May 17 - June 22, 2019: Over My Black Body, La Galerie de l' UQAM, Montreal, Qc.
May 4 - June 8, 2019: It is now here where I have gathered and measured yes. Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON.
May 18: Panel Discussion for the exhibition Over My Black Body, La Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, Qc.
April 23: 15th Annual C Magazine Contemporary Art Auction at The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Toronto, ON.
March 30, 2019: Performance for the 40th Anniversary of YYZ Artists' Outlet, 401 Richmond, Toronto, ON. 
February 1 - March 16, 2019: Disputed Bodies, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON.
October 5 - March 17: I'll be your Mirror, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, ON. 
2018
​November 22 - December 8: Photorama, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON.
November 9 - December 1: Almost, always, at once., Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON.
October 3: 7a*11d Festival, performing at 7:30pm at The Theatre Centre, Toronto, ON.
September 29: Scarborough Contemporary Artists speak. Erika DeFreitas, Anique Jordan and Rajni Perera. Moderated by Yaniya Lee. Nuit Blanche.
August 2018: Hospitalfield Interdisciplinary Residency, Arbroath, Scotland.
July 21 - August 19: Message in a Bottle, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto, ON.
April 7 - August 12: at; into; across, Grafly Gallery at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS. 
May 3 - June 17: seeping upwards, rupturing the surface, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON.
Article by Stacey Abramson for Galleries West, Like A Conjuring
April 13 - May 19: like a conjuring, Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg, MB. (solo exhibition)
March 3 - May 5: Black Borders: Arts of Color, Reframing Culture, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, TX.
Article by Valerie Frappier for Canadian Art, Erika DeFreitas's Mourning Gestures
April 7 - April 28: to prepare for a longing, an itch, Y+ Contemporary, Scarborough, ON. (solo exhibition)
April 28: Erika DeFreitas in conversation with Francisco-Fernando Granados, Ricky Varghese, and Fan Wu, Y+ Contemporary, Scarborough, ON.
April 10: Converge Student Lecture Series at Ryerson University School of Image Arts, 7PM, free. Toronto, ON. 
January - April: Y+ Contemporary, Scarborough, ON. (residency) 
February 27: Doris McCarthy Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1-2PM in room AA202, free. To register visit here.
February 11: Boundless Questions: Artists in Conversation, 2PM, free, at the Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2017
November 20 - December 9: The Sustenance Rite, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON. 
Article by Murray Whyte for the Toronto Star, Bright in the corners: A new art show at York University captures the suburbs' creative force
Article by Chris Hampton for The Globe and Mail, Unearthing the creativity within Toronto's suburbs
September 14 - December 4: Migrating the Margins, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON.
​July 24 - November 14: take your legs and your shoes, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON. Curated by Kate Benedict and Tamara Hart
Article by Leah Sandals for Canadian Art Magazine, Ending Nostalgia at the Heritage Museum
July - August: Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (residency)
Review by Noa Bronstein for Esse Magazine of the exhibition, like a conjuring (bringing water back to Bradley)
May 3 - August 20: Like a conjuring (bringing water back to Bradley), The Anchorage Bradley Museums, Mississauga, ON. (solo exhibition)
June 2 - July 8: Erika DeFreitas: Impossible Gardens, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON. 
​June 24, 2:30 p.m.: Artist Talk at Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON.
June 18: Panel Discussion about the exhibition Generators with curator Anthony Stepter and CDCC Director Shani Parsons, Toronto Art Book Fair, Studio 101 at Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON.
June 15 - June 18: Generators, Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto, ON.
June 10: 7a*md8 - ON SCREEN, 201 Guildwood Parkway, Scarborough, ON. (screening)
​Sobey Art Award, Long List
May 12 - June 10: The Inhabitants of Space in General, Open Studio, Toronto, ON. 
February 11 - May 7: Position As Desired: Exploring African Canadian Identity/Photographs from the Wedge Collection, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON.
April 22 - 7:00PM: Images Festival, Innis Town Hall, Toronto, ON. (screening)
April 6: and this seems to say everything, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON. (performance)
February 4 - April 8: All That is Left Unsaid/at the very point where words fail us, Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, ON.
March 30: SNAP! Auction, Aids Committee of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
March 24: Guest Speaker, Caribbean Cultural Traditions course at Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
March 7: Family Matters: Incorporating the Personal Into Your Art Practice, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON. (workshop)