Paper Tigers
CANADA
16 July – 8 August 2025
60 Lispenard Street
Tribeca, NY 10013
With the new group exhibition Paper Tigers, CANADA launches CANADA Editions, a new platform devoted to prints and multiples by artists connected to the gallery. The exhibition marks the debut of this initiative and features a wide-ranging selection of works on paper by more than twenty-five artists, including Katherine Bernhardt, Joan Snyder, Marc Hundley, Hasani Sahlehe, Xylor Jane, and Sadie Laska. Installed across CANADA’s Tribeca space, the show affirms the gallery’s longstanding commitment to artist-driven practices while spotlighting the material and conceptual range that editions can offer.
Founded in 1999 by artists and friends Wallace Whitney, Phil Grauer, and Daniel McDonald, CANADA has remained artist-run in ethos, even as its program has grown to include major voices in contemporary painting and sculpture. The launch of CANADA Editions reflects a return to one of the gallery’s foundational principles: supporting experimentation and access across a broad range of practices. Unlike many commercial editions programs, this platform is embedded within the gallery’s core programming, not set apart from it.
Paper Tigers includes works that span multiple different mediums of print and editions. The diversity of materials and approaches reflects the generational breadth of the exhibition and its artists. The strength of the exhibition lies in its clarity. The works are modest in scale but rich in visual and conceptual density. The print format, traditionally more intimate and tactile, invites a slower pace of looking. There is a sense of immediacy and experimentation throughout the show, consistent with CANADA’s history of presenting work that privileges process and artist intention over polish or spectacle.
This exhibition also highlights the role of editions as accessible entry points into collecting, without compromising on substance. Rather than treating these works as secondary to paintings or sculptures, Paper Tigers positions them as fully resolved expressions in their own right. For a gallery whose artists often push at the boundaries of form, the edition becomes another tool for exploration—not a reproduction, but a variation.
Paper Tigers is both a practical and conceptual expansion for CANADA. It opens up new possibilities for supporting its artists while staying true to the collaborative and generative ethos that has shaped the gallery since its early days. Through this focused and vibrant presentation, CANADA Editions begins not as an auxiliary project, but as a thoughtful extension of the gallery’s core mission.
