Date

October 18th, 2025

Time

6pm onwards

Tickets:

19+: $150

Under 30: $50

Join us for A Gala Evening of Art celebrating the Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation’s and KUMF Gallery’s

50th Anniversary saluting The Past, Present and Future

on Saturday,
October 18, 2025 –
 6pm

Featuring internationally renowned, Canadian photographer ED BURTYNSKY

In Conversation…
with Ukrainian visual artist MAXIM DONDYUK

Enjoy a night dedicated to creativity and change, weave your way through inspiring installations and exhibitions, chat with artists, sip on a cocktail, snack on hors d’oeuvres, indulge in the cuisine stations, and relax to easy, mellow jazz tunes.

Ticket details

To purchase tickets – CLICK HERE 
or call  KUMF Gallery – 416 766 6802

Join us for A Gala Evening of Art celebrating the Ukrainian Canadian Art Foundation’s and KUMF Gallery’s

50th Anniversary saluting The Past, Present and Future

on Saturday,
October 18, 2025 –
 6pm

Featuring internationally renowned, Canadian photographer ED BURTYNSKY

In Conversation…
with Ukrainian visual artist MAXIM DONDYUK

Enjoy a night dedicated to creativity and change, weave your way through inspiring installations and exhibitions, chat with artists, sip on a cocktail, snack on hors d’oeuvres, indulge in the cuisine stations, and relax to easy, mellow jazz tunes.

Ticket details

To purchase tickets – CLICK HERE 
or call  KUMF Gallery – 416 766 6802

Edward Burtynsky is regarded as one of the world’s most accomplished contemporary photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes represent over 40 years of his dedication to bearing witness to the impact of humans on the planet. Burtynsky’s photographs are included in the collections of over 80 major museums around the world. Major (touring) exhibitions include: BURTYNSKY: Extraction/Abstraction (2024) which premiered at London’s Saatchi Gallery; Anthropocene (2018); Water (2013) organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art & Contemporary Art Center, Louisiana; Oil (2009) at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; China (2005 five-year tour); and Manufactured Landscapes (2003) at the Na- tional Gallery of Canada. Burtynsky’s distinctions include the inaugural TED Prize in 2005, which he shared with Bono and Robert Fischell; the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts; the Outreach Award at the Rencontres d’Arles; the Roloff Beny Book award; and the 2018 Photo London Master of Photography Award. In 2019 he was the recipient of the Arts & Letters Award at the Canadian Association of New York’s annual Maple Leaf Ball and the 2019 Lucie Award for Achievement in Documentary Photography. In 2020 he was awarded a Royal Photo- graphic Society Honorary Fellowship and in 2022 was honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award by the World Photography Organization. In 2022 he was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and was named the 2022 recipient for the annual Pollution Probe Award. Most recently he received the 2023 PHotoESPAÑA Award for Professional Career and was awarded with the 25th edition of the Pino Pascali Prize. Burtynsky was also a key production figure in the award-winning documentary trilogy Manufactured Landscapes (dir. Jen nifer Baichwal, 2006), Watermark (dir. Baichwal and Burtynsky, 2013), and ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch (dir. Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Burtynsky, 2018). All three films continue to play in festivals around the world. Burtynsky currently holds nine honorary doctorate degrees.
In Conversation… with Ukrainian visual artist

Maxim Dondyuk
(b.1983, Ukraine, maximdondyuk.com) is a research-based photographer and artist who combines fieldwork, historical inquiry, and personal reflections with the medium of photography, video, text, and archival materials. His regular interests include history, memory, conflict, and their enduring impact. His recent projects examine the meanings of war, nuclear energy, and their impact on human perception. His work has received international acclaim, marked by prestigious awards including the 2022 W.Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, being named International Photographer of the Year at the Lucie Awards, and becoming a finalist for the Prix Pictet Photography Prize. His art has been exhibited worldwide, in venues such as the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, Somerset House in London, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome, the House of Lucie in Budapest, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva, and L’Arsenal in Bastia among others.

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