Paul Petro Contemporary Art presents solo and collaborative works by Andil Gosine and others. The group exhibition “Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine”—with work by Andil Gosine, Llanor Alleyne, Romy Ceppetelli, Bev Koski, Zachari Logan, Angie Quick, Deborah Root, Marinna Shareef, and Natalie Wood—opens on October 10, 2025, from 7:00 to 10:00pm. Paul Petro Contemporary Art is located at 980 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
A preliminary conversation—“A PREE-View of Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine, featuring Annie Paul and Tameka Samuel-Jones”—will take place on Wednesday, October 1, from 1:00 to 2:30pm, at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), 8th Floor, Kaneff Tower, York University.
Description: “Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine”, an exhibition over three years in the making and developed from Gosine’s same-titled book, was to have opened at the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) in Washington, D.C. But on February 5, just weeks before installation was set to begin, AMA cancelled the show and catalogue, as directed by the Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS), which administers the museum. Neither AMA nor the OAS has offered any explanation, but the cancellation has been widely covered in international media.
The AMA exhibition emerged from Gosine’s lauded text about sexual rights and freedoms, “Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean”. It included a number of his collaborations with artists and writers across the Americas: the late American conceptual and performance artist, writer, translator and critic Lorraine O’Grady, Caribbean painter, sculpture and installation artist Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Vancouver-based beader Bev Koski, Regina-based drawing, ceramic and installation artist Zachari Logan, Trinidadian-Canadian artist, curator and professor Natalie Wood, Toronto ceramicist Romy Ceppetelli, London-based Angie Quick and Prince Edward County Deborah Root, both painters from Ontario, and American collage artist Llanor Alleyne.
In the wake of the show’s cancellation, Paul Petro joins New York-based Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in honouring the work with an exhibition that derives from the original show. Annie Paul, editor of the cancelled catalogue from the original “Nature’s Wild” exhibition will also be in attendance at the opening.[. . .]
Andil Gosine is a professor of environmental art and justice at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is credited with constituting the field of “Visual Arts After Indenture.” and has made numerous scholarly contributions to the fields of Caribbean studies, international development, environmental justice and art history. His book Nature’s Wild has been the subject of academic papers and discussions. Gosine’s most recent curatorial projects — everything slackens in a wreck at the Ford Foundation Gallery (2022), Kelly Sinnapah Mary the international solo debut show of the artist at Aicon Gallery (2023) and The Plural of He at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (2024) — received widespread praise. In 2024, Gosine held the Beinecke Fellowship at The Clark Art Institute.
Exhibition Programming:
A PREE-View of Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine, featuring Annie Paul and Tameka Samuel-Jones
Wednesday, October 1
1 to 2:30 pm
Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC)
8th Floor, Kaneff Tower, York University
Opening Celebration
Friday, October 10
7 to 10 pm
Paul Petro Contemporary Art
980 Queen St. W., Toronto
Pop-up performance and discussion with York University EUC artists-in-residence Angie Quick and Marinna Shareef
Saturday, October 11
2 to 4 pm
Paul Petro Contemporary Art
980 Queen St. W., Toronto
Chocolate + Compositions with Gillian Goddard & Andil Gosine
Sunday, October 26
4 to 5:30 pm
AM Coffee Studio
2233 Dundas St. W., Toronto
Tickets are available via Eventbrite at: www.eventbrite.ca/e/1664265345449/ (sold out)
George and Emile pop up performances featuring York University EUC graduate students
Saturday, November 1
1 to 3 pm
Paul Petro Contemporary Art
980 Queen St. W., Toronto
For more information about the exhibition and programming, see https://www.paulpetro.com/exhibitions/674-nature-s-wild-with-andil-gosine-returns
Paul Petro Contemporary Art presents solo and collaborative works by Andil Gosine and others. The group exhibition “Nature’s Wild with Andil Gosine”—with work by Andil Gosine, Llanor Alleyne, Romy Ceppetelli, Bev Koski, Zachari Logan, Angie Quick, Deborah Root, Marinna Shareef, and Natalie Wood—opens on October 10, 2025, from 7:00 to 10:00pm. Paul Petro Contemporary Art
