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Régis Souto

Work & Exhibitions


The series, newest first. Each one was built for a show and opens into its own page. One thread runs through all of them: identity as something layered, mirrored and always becoming. The complete record is at the bottom.

Source Resolution poster: Régis Souto and Patrick Stevens, November 10–15, 2026, The Show Gallery, Toronto

2026 · Duo exhibition On now

Source Resolution

With Patrick Stevens · The Show Gallery, 978 Queen St W, Toronto · Nov 10–15, 2026. New mixed-media paintings, finished in oil, hung beside digital works. Two practices built on the square, asking the same question: what is the original?

May the World Receive Me Whole, oil on canvas, by Régis Souto Splenic, oil on canvas, by Régis Souto Cardiac, oil on canvas, by Régis Souto Invitation, mixed media on canvas, by Régis Souto Never Apart, mixed media on wood panel, by Régis Souto
Conscience Framed, oil on canvas, Act III of Beyond the Contour by Régis Souto

2026 · Solo exhibition

Beyond the Contour

The Show Gallery, Toronto · April 6–12, 2026. Three acts, Ten Seconds of Light, Brazilian Poems and The Line of Choice, on what we choose to remember and what those choices reveal about who we are.

Hummingbirds, gouache on paper, by Régis Souto Carnival, oil on canvas, by Régis Souto Red Crown, oil on wood, by Régis Souto Negotiation, oil on canvas, by Régis Souto Compassion, oil on canvas, by Régis Souto
Becoming, mixed media on canvas, from Archive of Unstoppable Bodies, Pride Toronto 2026, by Régis Souto

2026 · Pride Toronto / ARTZONE

Archive of Unstoppable Bodies

CF Toronto Eaton Centre · June 2026. A portrait series made for Pride Toronto 2026, celebrating LGBTQIA+ identity, resilience, visibility, and the power of showing up as yourself.

Creating, featuring Zhané, mixed media on canvas, by Régis Souto Existing, featuring Ms. Myles, mixed media on canvas, by Régis Souto Morphing, featuring Pinkity Twinkity, mixed media on canvas, by Régis Souto Becoming, mixed media on canvas, by Régis Souto
Study after Jean-Léon Gérôme's Bashi-Bazouk, oil on canvas, 2021, by Régis Souto

2021 · Solo exhibition and book launch · Brazil

Malakoi – Desviado

Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Brazil. Studies after Rubens, Van Dyck and Gérôme from three years of Baroque training, shown alongside the launch of the novel. The foundation under the black line.

Head of a Bearded Man, study after Peter Paul Rubens, by Régis Souto The Bagpipe Player, study after Anthony van Dyck, by Régis Souto Study after Jean-Léon Gérôme's Bashi-Bazouk, by Régis Souto

Complete exhibition record

Solo and duo

2026Source Resolution · duo with Patrick Stevens · The Show Gallery, Toronto
2026Archive of Unstoppable Bodies · CF Toronto Eaton Centre · Pride Toronto / ARTZONE
2026Beyond the Contour · The Show Gallery, Toronto
2021Malakoi – Desviado · Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Brazil

Group

2026Holiday Group Exhibition · The Show Gallery, Toronto · December, dates TBA
2026BLANK SPACE 002 · The Space Between · Remote Gallery / Akin Collective, Toronto · Nov 13–14
2026BLANK SPACE 001 · Remote Gallery / Akin Collective, Toronto
2026LANDSCAPES — Canada Strong & Free · Gallery 1313, Toronto
2026The SEX Show · Gallery 1313, Toronto
2026Be Creative, Be You, Be All In! (NPCC Pride) · Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto
2025Under 100 · Northern Contemporary, Toronto
2025Worthy Circa 4×4 · Worth Gallery, Toronto
2025Feira Latina · Hispanic Canadian Heritage Council, Toronto
2025Be Creative, Be You, Be All In! (NPCC Pride) · Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto
2025Pancakes & Booze Art Show · The Opera House, Toronto
2024Under 100 · Northern Contemporary, Toronto
2024Joy III · Summer & Grace Gallery, Oakville
2024A Nightmare on Roncesvalles 3 · Northern Contemporary, Toronto
2024All The Small Things · Northern Contemporary, Toronto
2023Art Battle Toronto · Toronto

Video and screenings

2020Espraia-se · National Arts Council of Brazil
2009Your Whole World in Your Hands · Sony Europe

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