Myta Sayo Gallery is expanding into MSRP - Maita Sayo Research Projects
Building on our exhibitions, international art fairs, and artist relationships, MSRP brings together art advisory, custom commissions, and curation for collectors, designers, and businesses.
Exhibitions remain an important part of what we do. Moving beyond a permanent gallery space, we'll continue presenting artists through independently curated exhibitions, collaborations, and projects in Toronto and beyond.
This new direction allows us to work more closely with artists and clients, while creating new opportunities to experience contemporary art.
Founded by Maita Sayo and based in Toronto, msg* is a curatorial platform for contemporary art, working through fairs, exhibitions, and private sales.
We’ve exhibited emerging and mid-career artists working in painting and sculpture, foregrounding process and concept as drivers of meaning.
msg* stands at the intersection of curatorial thinking and the art market, shaping how work is realized, presented, and collected.
Medium: Found (unpainted) cardboard, foamcore
Dimensions: 12.5 x 10.75 x 3 in
Year: 2024
Ryan Sarah Murphy is a visual artist living and working in New York City. Her collage-based work is process-driven and incorporates the use of found and repurposed materials. From 2012-2014 she held a studio residency at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and is the recipient of a 2014 Fellowship Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across the US including C24 Gallery (NY), Platform Gallery (Seattle), Lesley Heller Workspace (NY), Mixed Greens (NY), Liliana Bloch Gallery (Dallas), Radiator Arts (Long Island City, NY) and ODETTA Gallery (Brooklyn). Permanent collections include the Foundation Center (New York) and the Holter Museum of Art (Montana). Ryan received her BFA in Sculpture from the School of Visual Arts in 2001.
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Price: $850 USD
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Medium: Found (unpainted) cardboard, foamcore
Dimensions: 10.75 × 8.25 × 3 in
Year: 2024
Ryan Sarah Murphy is a visual artist living and working in New York City. Her collage-based work is process-driven and incorporates the use of found and repurposed materials. From 2012-2014 she held a studio residency at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and is the recipient of a 2014 Fellowship Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across the US including C24 Gallery (NY), Platform Gallery (Seattle), Lesley Heller Workspace (NY), Mixed Greens (NY), Liliana Bloch Gallery (Dallas), Radiator Arts (Long Island City, NY) and ODETTA Gallery (Brooklyn). Permanent collections include the Foundation Center (New York) and the Holter Museum of Art (Montana). Ryan received her BFA in Sculpture from the School of Visual Arts in 2001.
“My creative practice is intuitive and process-driven, prompted by the found ephemera of my daily experience. Responding to the inherent energy within discarded and repurposed objects, I allow for the material to act as the guide, moving through the construction of a piece with no set plan or intended outcome.”
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Price: $850 USD
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Medium: Found (unpainted) cardboard, foamcore
Dimensions: 12 x 11 x 3.25 in
Year: 2024
Ryan Sarah Murphy is a visual artist living and working in New York City. Her collage-based work is process-driven and incorporates the use of found and repurposed materials. From 2012-2014 she held a studio residency at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and is the recipient of a 2014 Fellowship Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across the US including C24 Gallery (NY), Platform Gallery (Seattle), Lesley Heller Workspace (NY), Mixed Greens (NY), Liliana Bloch Gallery (Dallas), Radiator Arts (Long Island City, NY) and ODETTA Gallery (Brooklyn). Permanent collections include the Foundation Center (New York) and the Holter Museum of Art (Montana). Ryan received her BFA in Sculpture from the School of Visual Arts in 2001.
This artwork ships worldwide. Please be aware that shipping fees are not included. The gallery will contact you to confirm these costs.
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Price: $850 USD
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Medium: Found (unpainted) cardboard, foamcore
Dimensions: 10 × 10.5 × 3.5 in
Year: 2024
Ryan Sarah Murphy is a visual artist living and working in New York City. Her collage-based work is process-driven and incorporates the use of found and repurposed materials. From 2012-2014 she held a studio residency at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and is the recipient of a 2014 Fellowship Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across the US including C24 Gallery (NY), Platform Gallery (Seattle), Lesley Heller Workspace (NY), Mixed Greens (NY), Liliana Bloch Gallery (Dallas), Radiator Arts (Long Island City, NY) and ODETTA Gallery (Brooklyn). Permanent collections include the Foundation Center (New York) and the Holter Museum of Art (Montana). Ryan received her BFA in Sculpture from the School of Visual Arts in 2001.
“My creative practice is intuitive and process-driven, prompted by the found ephemera of my daily experience. Responding to the inherent energy within discarded and repurposed objects, I allow for the material to act as the guide, moving through the construction of a piece with no set plan or intended outcome.”
This artwork ships worldwide. Please be aware that shipping fees are not included. The gallery will contact you to confirm these costs.
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Price: $850 USD
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Medium: Acrylic, plexiglass
Size: 48” dia, 2.75” depth
Year: 2025
Kal Mansur’s wall works are dimensional objects made of plexiglass. An internal plexiglass object is encased within translucent plexiglass. Embedded fluorescent pigments project color through the edges. Surrounding areas are painted, yielding an artwork that is a hybrid of painting and sculpture. The artwork magnifies available light, inviting the viewer to visually travel through the composition. According to Mansur, “The ability to conduct how light interacts with surfaces is my ongoing attempt to create a visual braille – a language by which color, light, and composition can be felt and not merely observed.”
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Medium: Graphite, watercolor pencil crayon, gesso, molding paste
Dimensions: 30” x 40” x 1.75”
Year: 2022
Amanda Nedham collapses the monumental and the mundane through radical memorial gestures. She is interested in how drawing intersects with architecture and is subject to change. In her Flashlight Drawings, she layers drawings of flowers found in Houdini’s grave in Brooklyn, a sketch of a Bruegel painting, and a stencil of Elaine de Kooning’s hands with a cigarette. The drawings began during the pandemic and were worked on during the course of two years. They reflect the journey of trying to make sense of a difficult and all encompassing situation, increasingly being drawn towards a cycle of additive and subtractive drawing, and abstraction. She aptly refers to these works as "dynamic ghosts," evoking a transient quality.
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Medium: Acrylic on panel, white acrylic frame
Dimensions: 48" x 48" x 2"
Year: 2023
Kal Mansur distills the interplay of light and surface to a succinct, minimal expression. His new series of paintings are made with gold or black acrylic and a house painting brush. On first impression, the surfaces appear to be divided into geometric fields of varying shades, some lighter, and some darker. But move around and you will see that the colours shift depending on your point of view and the angle of light. Move in close and you’ll notice that the sharply defined geometry is textured with prominent brush marks. You’ll also notice that the paintings are completely monochrome. The appearance of different shades is solely due to the textured surface. In this work, no single view is resolved. Whereas some elements suggest receding depth, other elements contradict this reading. We are left with a kind of fragmented space that folds back and forth and eventually leads back to the flat surface of the artwork. The work questions the solidity of borders and their role in mediating everyday life. “If you just change the way you view something you might completely alter your perception of it,” says Mansur.
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Medium: Acrylic, plexiglass
Size: 32” x 32” x 2.75”
Year: 2025
Kal Mansur’s wall works are dimensional objects made of plexiglass. An internal plexiglass object is encased within translucent plexiglass. Embedded fluorescent pigments project color through the edges. Surrounding areas are painted, yielding an artwork that is a hybrid of painting and sculpture. The artwork magnifies available light, inviting the viewer to visually travel through the composition. According to Mansur, “The ability to conduct how light interacts with surfaces is my ongoing attempt to create a visual braille – a language by which color, light, and composition can be felt and not merely observed.”
This artwork ships worldwide. Please be aware that shipping fees are not included. A representative will contact you to confirm these costs.
Medium: Acrylic, plexiglass
Size: 32” x 32” x 2.75”
Year: 2025
Kal Mansur’s wall works are dimensional objects made of plexiglass. An internal plexiglass object is encased within translucent plexiglass. Embedded fluorescent pigments project color through the edges. Surrounding areas are painted, yielding an artwork that is a hybrid of painting and sculpture. The artwork magnifies available light, inviting the viewer to visually travel through the composition. According to Mansur, “The ability to conduct how light interacts with surfaces is my ongoing attempt to create a visual braille – a language by which color, light, and composition can be felt and not merely observed.”
This artwork ships worldwide. Please be aware that shipping fees are not included. A representative will contact you to confirm these costs.
msg* is built on the view that intent, as defined by the artist and carried forward by the collector, is what enables art to endure.
Featuring the work of Sharl G. Smith, Tracey-Mae Chambers, Svava Juliusson, Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster, and Jes Young
Featuring the work of Robert Farmer, Kal Mansur, Matt Neuman, Jill Paz, and Ryan Sarah Murphy
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Medium: Found (unpainted) cardboard, cut book covers, foamcore
Dimensions: 12 x 15.25 x 2.5 in
Year: 2022
Ryan Sarah Murphy is a visual artist living and working in New York City. Her collage-based work is process-driven and incorporates the use of found and repurposed materials. From 2012-2014 she held a studio residency at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts and is the recipient of a 2014 Fellowship Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across the US including C24 Gallery (NY), Platform Gallery (Seattle), Lesley Heller Workspace (NY), Mixed Greens (NY), Liliana Bloch Gallery (Dallas), Radiator Arts (Long Island City, NY) and ODETTA Gallery (Brooklyn). Permanent collections include the Foundation Center (New York) and the Holter Museum of Art (Montana). Ryan received her BFA in Sculpture from the School of Visual Arts in 2001.
This artwork ships worldwide. Please be aware that shipping fees are not included. The gallery will contact you to confirm these costs.
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Price: $900 USD
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