The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto is opening its fall 2026 exhibition season with a lineup that runs October 24, 2026 through March 21, 2027. The program brings together painting, sculpture, photography, film, sound and large-scale installation around questions of place, identity, ecology and connection, with an opening reception on October 23 from 7 to 9pm.

The headline exhibition belongs to Zadie Xa, presented with longtime collaborator Benito Mayor Vallejo under the title "Moonlit Confessions Across Deep Sea Echoes: Your Ancestors Are Whales, and Earth Remembers Everything." It is Xa's first major exhibition in Toronto, and it unfolds as an immersive installation: a sound piece, a hand-painted mural in saturated twilight colours, delicate bronze sculptures co-authored with Vallejo, and Xa's paintings, many of which incorporate textile panels that recall traditional Korean patchwork quilting. The exhibition was developed with the Esker Foundation in Calgary and PHI in Montreal.

The season also pairs the gallery with the Vega Foundation for Sharon Lockhart's "Fogo," the artist's most recent body of work made over four summers on Fogo Island in Newfoundland. The exhibition centres on "Fogo Island Portrait Studio," a 2025 series of photographs of the island's young residents, alongside "WINDWARD," a 2025 film in which Lockhart observes the island's geography and directs its youth in play across the vast landscape. The film is co-commissioned by Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts, the Vega Foundation and the National Gallery of Canada.

Rounding out the season is "Owner of a Lonely Heart," an 80-minute moving-image program with works by Haig Aivazian, Stephanie Comilang, Alia Farid, Hope Pearl Strickland and Yuyan Wang that follows raw materials from the earth through the waterways of global circulation. The inaugural Smokestack Commission goes to Sami Tsang for "What We Carry Forward," a large-scale ink mural populated by tiny porcelain figurines, while Ella Gonzales and Morgan Sears-Williams take on the Fleck Clerestory commission and the South Facade billboard respectively.