Ranbir Sidhu Gets Ultramodern With It in ‘No Limits’
On view at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto until January 2027.
Summary
- Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario is hosting artist and designer Ranbir Sidhu’s first museum solo exhibition
- On view until January 2027, No Limits is a deep dive into Sidhu’s chromatic, futurist landscapes with three new sculptural installations
The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) presents No Limits, Toronto-based artist Ranbir Sidhu’s debut museum solo. With an eye equally fixed on the past and future, Sidhu’s colossal, metal forms bridge this world and the beyond. In his latest sculptural suite, the artist-designer draws us into his futuristic vision, a lustrous landscape unbounded by scale, time and space.
“To work with metal is to wrestle with time itself, bending it into forms that speak of possibility,” explained Sidhu. Drawn to its timeless yet enduring poeticism, metal has served as the artist’s primary language, connecting the earthly and the cosmic, turning raw material into vehicles for storytelling . In addition to his personal art practice, this love for metal shines through his work at Futurezona, the creative studio making eye-catching, bespoke furniture, art and jewelry pieces for some of the biggest names in hospitality and hip-hop.
Unraveling across AGO’s Signy Eaton Gallery, No Limits is anchored by three monumental works — sculptural installations he calls “future relics” — each their own multi-ton, feat of artistic engineering. At the center of the show is “Asteroid 3033 XI” (2025), an angular, reflective piece that, much like a real asteroid, boasts crystalline bliss. Illuminated from within, the piece is imagined as a space vessel, built to carry the human into the cosmic, and “essence of our planet into the future.”
Elsewhere, historical reference is more conspicuous: in “Fortress of Memory” (2025), Sidhu pairs carved marble with steel in a 21-piece, chemically etched nod to the soldiers that fought Afghan forces in the 1897 Battle of Saragarhi. Moving further into the space, “Odyssey” (2025), composed of over 100 mirror-polished, gold-plated steel spires, taps into spiritual cartography, namely the sacred journeys of Guru Nanak Sahib.
“I hope No Limits shows people that there are no boundaries to what they can create,” the artist told Foyer in a recent interview. “I especially want the younger generation to see that their ideas, whether inspired by culture, science or dreams, can take shape and become reality. I hope visitors walk away feeling the power of No Limits, ready to chase their own infinite universe, just as I did.”
The exhibition is now on view in Toronto until January 3, 2027.
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