A Kind of Order is a free, publicly accessible art exhibition presented by Union, sponsored by TD Bank Group (TD), and curated in partnership with BAND Gallery. The exhibition is part of Union’s year‑long commitment to promoting and supporting BIPOC creatives, using public space to amplify Black voices at one of the busiest civic sites in the country.
Featuring Timothy Yanick Hunter, Aaron Jones, Thato Toeba, and Hazelle Palmer, the exhibition explores movement, migration, memory, and becoming through collage, photography, installation, and mixed media.
A Kind of Order considers transit as more than physical travel, framing it as an emotional, intellectual, and imaginative state shaped by lived experience, history, and identity. Installed across multiple locations within Union Toronto, the exhibition meets audiences mid‑journey, creating moments of reflection and storytelling. Storytelling and collage act as both method and metaphor, assembling fragments of personal and collective history into new forms of relation, belonging, and possibility.
Where is the exhibition located?
The exhibition is installed throughout the station, including:
- The West Wing
- The Oak Room
- Façade banners
- Union Market hoarding walls
Our Artists
Timothy Yanick Hunter
Timothy Yanick Hunter uses self-led research and methodologies of recording and sampling to explore the experiential and aesthetic dimensions of the Black diaspora. References culled from a range of sources suggest shifting proximities, novel interactions between material and provenance. Historical photographs from museum archives meet ephemera from obscure corners of the Internet, overlaid with shards of music and spoken recordings. The resulting works are living mélanges, invested in alternative modes of making and thinking about memory, temporality, and the unknowable facets of existence.
Aaron Jones
Combining elements of collage, photography, and found imagery, Aaron Jones (b.1993) constructs dreamlike worlds that examine Black identity, memory, and transformation. His work reimagines personal and collective histories through a lens of fantasy, spirituality, and the everyday, exploring fragments of life that cannot be captured in real time. Jones began experimenting with collage as a way to escape and feel free from his undergraduate studies at OCAD University, reassembling meaning from fragments of the familiar—books, magazines, family photographs, and discarded materials. This practice evolved into a meditation on the irreparable and the imaginative, merging the mystical with the mundane. Jones’s work considers the tensions between the real and the fantastical, the visible and the invisible. By constructing hybrid figures and landscapes, he offers poetic counter-narratives to dominant visual histories of Blackness—ones that prioritize renewal, play, and inner life over representation and spectacle.
Thato Toeba
Thato Toeba was born in 1990 in Maseru, and lives in Amsterdam. They completed a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in 2025, and received an LLM from Humboldt University, Berlin in 2015.
Toeba’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Phate lia Lekana, took place in Johannesburg in 2023, followed by sehlahla se tukang empa se sa che in Cape Town in 2025. The artist is included in I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies at Autograph, London (October 2025) and Manifestation #52: To Be Determined, Buro Stedelijk, Amsterdam (August 2025). Past group exhibitions include Tools for Conviviality, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (2024); Today I wish to talk to your dreams, Mount Nelson, Cape Town (2023); Where do I begin, Stevenson, Cape Town (2022); and Propelling Otherness, Morija Museum, Maseru (2021) Toeba was awarded the 2025 FNB Art Prize, which is accompanied by a solo exhibition at the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 2026.
Hazelle Palmer
Hazelle Palmer is a Toronto based artist whose work embodies the diversity of her lived experiences. Hazelle has been an artist for over 30 years and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. Her work has appeared on the covers of publications including “Tales from the Gardens and Beyond” and “Eyeing the North Star”. Her work is held in numerous private collections.
Hazelle Palmer is drawn to a dynamic palette of rich, rustic tones that evoke the colours and memories of her childhood experiences and celebrate the tropical hues often associated with her Caribbean heritage. Fascinated by the ways in which she can add depth to her work, she explores how colour is used to define identity and how the use of texture, paper and patterns bring those identities to life and capture moments defined by her experiences. Her work is always evolving from the abstract to collage to figurative depictions but central is an element of perfect imperfection – often visible in how she blends colour, layers paper in collages, or the sometimes-awkward positions of the figures in her work to suggest the challenges we all face fitting in.
