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Ethel Voronkova
Ethel Voronkova, a Stylized Abstract Artist originally from the Philippines, is currently based in Ontario, Ca...
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Laurent Good
Laurent is a visual artist, originally from France and born in South Pacific. Settled in Toronto, Ontario, he ...
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Tamkeen S
Tamkeen is an artist based in Toronto, Canada. She creates landscape, still life and abstract paintings using ...
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Dorota Dziong
Dorota graduated from the Studio program at the University of Toronto and her exhibition history includes invi...
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Edith Kernerman
Edith Kernerman (she/her) is a Canadian-born artist working in sculpture installation, painting, photography, ...
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Srini Balram
I went for the uncommon. Forever on the prowl. With a camera and a diligent scowl. On one of those trudges cam...
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Forbes Sang
Forbes Sang is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Tkaronto (Toronto). Sang received his BFA from OCAD Univer...
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Erin McGean
Erin studied Fine Art at York University in Toronto and although originally trained in Painting and Drawing sh...
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Jacquelyn Sloane Siklos
Jacquelyn is a Toronto based artist, working in photography and painting. She graduated from a joint art and a...
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Agnes Bellegris
Agnes is an artist who cherishes the interplay of light and dark and the colourful spaces we occupy. Her goal...
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Daniel Maluka
Daniel Maluka is a Toronto based artist and writer hailing from South Africa. His work takes an Afrocentric ap...
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Barbara Chapman
Born on the eastern edge of Canada, Barbara is influenced by the world we live in; coast-lines, plant-life, th...
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Keerthana Jayakumar
Born in Chennai, India, Keerthana had chosen to set most of her paintings in her hometown. Some of her collect...
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Parveen Dhatt
I create artwork from post consumer ‘waste’, remnants of everyday life; newspapers, food packaging, fast f...
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Katya Garipova
Russian-born Katya Garipova is a Toronto-based artist and illustrator. After completing her BA in Graphic Arts...
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Genevieve Blais
Genevieve Blais is a lens-based artist earning great praise for her work involving art historical and theoreti...
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Trinley Dorje
Trinley Dorje is a Toronto based mixed media/collage artist whose artworks are visual anthropological explorat...
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R Tetrault
Richard Tetrault is a Vancouver-based artist who works in the territory between gritty urban topographies and ...
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Sabina Rak
Sabina Rak is currently a students in the Masters of Fine Arts program at Concordia University (Montreal), Pri...
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Penny Lam
Penny Lam is a modern abstract artist based in Toronto. Her vision is to create original pieces of art that re...
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Parastoo Mahmoudi
Artist Bio Parastoo Mahmoudi is a Canadian-Iranian artist who lives in Toronto. She started practicing her ...
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Michelle Kast
It can be incredibly daunting and difficult to write about yourself, so lets start with a few descriptive word...
Alejandro Rizzo Nervo
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alejandro Rizzo Nervo (b. 1993, Caracas, VE), is an interdisciplinary artist and performer that lives and work...
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Laurie Skantzos
Laurie’s contemporary, process driven painting is largely inspired by the interactions of colour, shape and...
Nhi Nguyen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Nhi Nguyen is an illustrator graduate from OCAD University, Toronto, Canada. Creating art has always been her...
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vera saiko
Vera Saiko is a Canadian visual artist whose works are exhibited in Canada, China, the USA, and Europe. She wo...
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Melissa Fice
Melissa Fice attended Fleming College in Haliburton, Ontario, where she studied general arts. After graduating...
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karen klucowicz
Karen Klucowicz is a Canadian artist creating concept-driven, bold, figurative abstract art. Her art focuses o...
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Reisha Felix
Reisha Felix is a Toronto based fine arts artist who was born and raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica. ...
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Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson is a multi-media artist who studied illustration at OCADU and graduated in 2021. He also cr...
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Blaine White
Blaine White is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist. His racial background is black, white and some indig...
Raha Fard
OCAD U Feature Artist
Raha Fard is an Iranian-Canadian artist, based in GTA, Canada. She is currently studying MFA, IAMD at OCAD U, ...
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John Ford
ARTIST STATEMENT My latest work continues an exploration of a kind of everyday, active remembrance, building ...
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Laura Heaney
Laura Heaney is a contemporary portrait artist and creator of the Observing Green project, based in Toronto, C...
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Alysha Rocca
OCAD U Feature Artist
HELLO!! My name is ALYSHA, I am a Vaughan-born artist, who studied in Toronto at OCAD University, earning a BF...
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Arif Bahaduri
Arif Bahaduri was born and raised in Afghanistan,1992. He is an artist who started learning art in 2007 in a p...
Elyse Ricketts
OCAD U Feature Artist
Elyse Skye Ricketts is a multidisciplinary artist in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. She is currently on her artisti...
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Janna Robins Walters
Whether it's a portrait, still life or landscape my work expresses a playful youthful artistry that emits a dr...
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kaya joan
OCAD U Feature Artist
Kaya Joan is a multi-disciplinary Afro-Indigenous (Vincentian, Kanien’kehá:ka, Jamaican, settler) artist bo...
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Sarah Klawiter
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sarah Klawiter is an abstract artist based in Toronto, ON who works primarily by painting and drawing. She has...
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Amanda Amour-Lynx
Amanda Amour Lynx (they/them/nekm) is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent, urban L’nu (Mi’kmaw)-Scottish interdis...
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Gail Williams
I am a Toronto artist, but consider Northern Ontario my spiritual home. For many years I worked as a radiation...
Shinae Kim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Shinae Kim is a Canadian painter of Korean descent. She creates work that moves between figuration and abstrac...
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Olivier Salvas
Olivier Salvas is a queer artist, educator, media personality and curator specializing in arts education and s...
Sarah Young
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sarah Young is a fourth-year student studying at OCAD University in the Drawing and Painting program with a mi...
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Anne-Marie Olczak
"The endless possibilities of the grid." The grid is a way to filter the many ideas and inspirations in my...
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Eddie Li
Eddie Li is a 23-year old artist with Autism Spectrum Disorder who lives in Toronto. He has studied art under...
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Taruna Singh
Born in India and educated in a Middle Eastern convent, my formative years unfolded amid the vibrant neighbour...
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June Tenzin
June Tenzin is a visual artist based in Toronto. After graduating from the Stroganov Academy of Applied Arts, ...
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Adam Gourlay
Adam Gourlay is an interdisciplinary artist that focuses on painting, drawing, and performance. His most rece...
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Jason Zante
OCAD U Feature Artist
Jason Zante is a Filipino-Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada. With a multidisciplinary background rangin...
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Pandora Owl
Pandora Owl was born and raised outside of Toronto, Ontario. Her art focuses on mental health & illness in ord...
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Suzanne Tevlin
Suzanne Tevlin is a well known artist and lecturer in Toronto. Author of “The Conspiracy of Silence; Gerica...
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Montina Hussey
Montina (b.1989) graduated with a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University. . She currently resides i...
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April Pyne
April is a visual artist living in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her work explores simplified shapes and fragmented ...
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Sophia Kim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sophia Kyungwon Kim is a Toronto-based visual artist and mother of four, is currently pursuing an MFA at OCAD ...
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Valerie Carew
Valerie Carew (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores human relationships with land using body b...
Shahrzad Amin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Shahrzad Amin is an Iranian-Canadian award-winning interdisciplinary artist with more than twelve years of div...
Boyu Jiang
OCAD U Feature Artist
Boyu Jiang is a lens-based multidisciplinary artist and editorial/fashion photographer based in Toronto. He wa...
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Nancy Bennett
Nancy Bennett is primarily a landscape artist who was cracked open by the pandemic and now paints everything....
Sara Shoghi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sara Shoghi (@sarahshoghi) is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist specializing in painting, illustration,...
Sonya Katashonova
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sonya is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator working in oils, acrylics, inks and watercolors, with a B....
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Firouzeh Saremi Far
OCAD U Feature Artist
Firouzeh Saremi Far, a Painting and Sculpture major at OCAD University, is a Toronto-based artist. She is infl...
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Jordan Nahmias
Jordan Nahmias is a photographer living and working in Toronto, Canada. Traditionally capturing images of plac...
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Sandrine Dickel
Sandrine Dickel's work explores human existence with a focus on femininity. She draw and paint situations of h...
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Susan Ross
A graduate of the Alberta College of Art, Susan Ross has exhibited in many juried shows, commercial and public...
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Clare McIntyre
Clare McIntyre is a classically-trained artist and designer who lives in Toronto. The daughter of a professio...
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Grace Dam
Grace is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. Her works center on oil and acrylic but also other media, with ...
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Jill Huang
Hailing from Vancouver, BC, Jill Huang graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a degree in...
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Maryam Ebrahimi
Artworks of Canadian-Iranian artist, Maryam Ebrahimi, are magnetic in their meditative flow. Her paintings hav...
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Andria Keen
Andria Keen (she/her) is currently completing her MFA in Visual Art at York University. She received her BFA f...
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Avery Gibbes
OCAD U Feature Artist
There are many different "worlds" that exist within our perception. These worlds exist physically, figurativel...
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Gerry Ruecker
Gerry Ruecker is a self-taught artist and art educator who has for the past thirty years, been working in mix...
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Teri Donovan
Teri Donovan is a mixed media artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, and photo-based work. Among the t...
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Rick Palidwor
After completing a masters degree in sociology at York University Rick Palidwor was a member of the comedy tro...
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Jason Bomers
Jason Bomers lives in the west end of Toronto with his partner and two tweenage girls. Jason is a multidiscip...
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Julia Hacker
Julia Hacker is a Canadian contemporary artist. She was born in Belarus, part of the former USSR. After recei...
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ESTHER DOË KIM
OCAD U Feature Artist
Esther Kim (b. 1995, South Korea), also known by her artistic moniker DOË, is a Korean-Canadian artist curren...
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Linds Miyo
Linds Miyo is a self-taught, intuitive painter, known for process-based works that drift between abstraction, ...
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Marta Stares
Marta Stares is an artist and educator interested in painting the outdoors, especially the Northern Ontario la...
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Kyle Yip
Born in Scarborough in 1988, Kyle Yip is an acclaimed Toronto-based artist celebrated for his hypersurrealist ...
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Melissa Patel
OCAD U Feature Artist
Melissa Patel is a Toronto based artist who works primarily in drawing, painting, and photography. She was bor...
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Gordon Sellen
Born in the Yukon Territory, back when car's had wooden wheels. Currently resides in Collingwood Ontario Canad...
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Diane Fine
I express my exuberance for life through art. Drawn to creating uplifting images, I invite my audience to be ...
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Ally Zlatar
Ally Zlatar is an artist and activist. She is the founder of The Starving Artist; an artist initiative that ut...
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Diana Rosa
As a visual artist, Diana Rosa takes inspirations from an alternative upbringing where she closely connected w...
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Lorette C Luzajic
Lorette's mixed media paintings have been collected in more than 40 countries worldwide, including Canada, USA...
Jasmine Cardenas
Jasmine Cardenas is an Ecuadorian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist working with sculptural paintings, collag...
Patti Agapi
Patti Agapi is an Orillia, Ontario based abstract artist who works across the mediums of paint and collage. Sh...
Yannis Lobaina
Yannis Lobaina is an award-winning Cuban artist, author, film producer, and photographer based in Toronto. She...
Veronique Ouaknine
Veronique has lived on 4 continents. She has studied Art History at Le Louvre in Paris, painting and drawing a...
Jane Forrest
Jane Forrest is currently studying contemporary art at the Etobicoke School of the Arts. She primarily works w...
Sasha Jimenez French
The work of Cuban American artist Sasha Jimenez French can be found throughout Canada and across the United St...
Val P
I’m an illustrator and designer. Moving between places during my early childhood, image-making became my f...
Marina FAW
Marina FAW is a Takronto (Toronto) based emerging mixed media artist. Born in Takronto and raised in Brasilia,...
Yi Ming Li
Born in Hefei, Anhui, China, Yiming lives in Toronto, Canada throughout his life. Yi Ming is a mixed-media art...
Steph Cloutier
Steph Cloutier is an artist and maker based in Toronto, Canada. She received her Bachelors of Fine Art with Di...
Siriaus T
As a concept creator which includes: fine arts, digital painting, progress painting videos, cinematography + f...
Carlos Delgado
Carlos Delgado is Colombian visual artist living in Toronto, Canada. As an internationally recognized artist, ...
Chanel DesRoches
Chanel works in the moment. Surrendering feelings onto a surface is her way of suggesting that there is a pers...
Thamara Perera
Thamara Perera is an emerging mixed-media illustrator and artist based in Toronto, Canada. She graduated from ...
Amanda Gallagher
Amanda works with oils, acrylics, spray paint, and uses art to investigate the perception of memories on archi...
Shabnam Afrand
Shabnam Afrand is an Iranian-Canadian multi-disciplinary visual artist and educator born and raised in Tehran....
Emily Zdunich
Emily Zdunich is a Saskatoon based interdisciplinary artist who has developed a figurative practice in paintin...
DELIA MOLDOVAN
Delia is an abstract artist who lives and works in Canada, Ontario.She is currently a member of the Mississaug...
Angelica Candido
Angelica Candido is a contemporary artist specializing in impressionistic paintings of Canadian landscapes and...
Kirollos Kilada
OCAD U Feature Artist
Kirollos is an artist and illustrator from Mississauga, ON. He works in a variety of techniques both traditio...
Stephen Perry
Stephen Perry’s paintings range from intimate to mythic. There is a story going on, but it’s not always ap...
Mary Pal
Mary Pal is a Canadian fibre artist best known for her cheesecloth portraiture, artworks that are made with sc...
Rachael Speirs
Rachael Speirs was born in Oakville, Ontario and raised in Toronto and Cambridge, Ontario. As a child Rachael ...
Odette Valero
OV artisticdrive The name “OV” is an abbreviation of the artist´s name Odette Valero, while the name “a...
Ehsan Bayat
Ehsan Bayat From Isfahan , Iran Live in Istanbul Turkey born in 1989 graduated from Iran, Tehran fine art u...
Max Dalí Kamilla Kulova
Italian, non binary, neurodivergent, award winning, multidisciplinary artist, part of Techspressionism Interna...
NARGIS NAQVI
My earliest memory of me paintings is of me as a four year old, using a red crayon on my neighbor's bedroom wa...
Brenna Tomas
Brenna Tomas is an interdisciplinary female artist, recreation therapist, writer and mother born and raised in...
James Legaspi
James Legaspi is an emerging Filipino-Canadian multimedia artist currently completing an undergraduate degree ...
Simone Guimaraes
Passionate about the conservation of life, Brazilian born / Canadian mixed media artist Simone Guimaraes explo...
Laura Thipphawong
Laura Thipphawong is a Canadian artist, writer, and historian, and has exhibited art and presented her researc...
Bre Ritchie
Breann Ritchie was born in Grimsby, Ontario on October 4th, 1988. In 2007, Breann was accepted to the Art and ...
Mike Lau
Mike Lau (b. 1996) is a Hong Kong-born photo artist based in Toronto. He is a graduate of OCAU University with...
Lubov Soltan
Lubov is a Belarusian-born student of Fine Art, who favours the versatile nature of oil painting. Drawing insp...
Sakina Ali
Through the meticulous fusion of mediums, Sakina creates a harmonious balance between strength and delicacy, c...
Akash Inbakumar
Akash Inbakumar’s practice, based in Tkaronto / Toronto, explores the queering of the human body in relation...
Phyllis Schwartz
Phyllis Schwartz is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in photography, ceramics and publishing. She is an E...
Megan Hazen
Born in Renfrew Ontario, Megan Hazen is a 2017 graduate of OCAD University in Toronto with a Bachelor of Fine ...
Miré Albornoz
ARTIST’S BIO Miré Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...
Jamie Ly
Jamie Ly is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist with a current focus on miniature scale gouache paintings w...
Kelsea chatburn
Kelsea Chatburn is a Toronto-based watercolour artist, known for her vibrant paintings of Los Angeles and Asia...
Abuk Lual
I primarily work with oil paint to introduce new elements of abstraction infused with portraiture and landscap...
Sarah Graeme
Sarah Graeme is an emerging ceramic artist currently based on T’Sou-ke and Pacheedaht Territory on Vancouve...
Moesha Clarke
Moesha is a Caribbean Canadian artist from Toronto, Canada. Her work is heavily influenced by Black culture, a...
Zoey Lin
Zoey Lin is a Toronto-based artist. Graduating from OCAD University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dr...
Alexandra Marcuzzi
Born and raised in Toronto, Alexandra Marcuzzi is a versatile artist with a practice that emphasizes drawing a...
Zach Warne
My artwork begins with a word or phrase, that I use as the title. As I write the given title onto the canvas I...
frances hahn
Frances studied English Literature and Art History before teaching for a year in Italy where she fell in love ...
ANN SAINT-GELAIS
I was born in 1950 in Saguenay in Quebec Canada and as far as I can remember I tell you about my journey... M...
Shannon Donovan
Shannon Donovan is a multidisciplinary artist whose current work examines aspects of history, mortality and ti...
Brittany/Andrew Forrest
Brittany/Andrew Forrest (she/her or he/him) is a queer Ontario-based surrealist artist and author. She focuses...
Alice Zilberberg
Alice Zilberberg is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist, recognized by curators, collectors,...
Sasha Q
Hello! My name is Sasha Q (real name Oleksandra Stepanenko) and I'm an artist born in Kyiv, Ukraine. I was f...
Assaad Elsibai
Lebanon is where my story began, with a nursing degree shaping the first chapters. For 16 years, I dedicated m...
Nicole Mandelis
Nicole Mandelis began her art career in commercial art and graphic design, having graduated from Sheridan Coll...
Rabiyah Sagheer
Rabiyah Sagheer, a Canadian-Pakistani interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, explores the convergence of t...
Farihah Shah
Hi folks! I'm Farihah Aliyah Shah, a Canadian lens-based artist in Bradford and Toronto, Ontario originally fr...
Tiffany Tremaine
Tiffany Tremaine is an artist located in Toronto Ontario, whose work focus's on life and all of it's little th...
Alli van Gruen
Alli van Gruen is a contemporary Canadian artist with a multifaceted mixed portfolio. From her animal portra...
Jeanmarie Weatherhead
CJ Weatherhead, is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in T’karonto and born in Guatemala. My artisti...
Katrina Jurjans
Katrina graduated from Concordia University in 2014 with a BFA in Studio Art and Art History. In her last year...
Peter McLennan
While he has never completed a formal photography program, Peter has taken several courses at Ryerson Universi...
Claire Heidinger
OCAD U Feature Artist
Claire Heidinger is a Toronto-based visual artist with a BFA from OCAD University, specializing in Drawing and...
Joey Dean
Joey Dean is a multidisciplinary artist and writer—from creating autobiographical comics, zines, graphic des...
Matthew Garby
Matthew Garby is a Toronto based Painter. Their works are an investigation into representations of (seemingly)...
Keith Eager
Keith studied fine arts in high school at Central Technical School, animation at Max The Mutt Animation School...
Callie DeWees
Multimedia feminist illuminations through self-portraiture and parody or re-contextualization of religious art...
Aidan Wilkins
Hi, I am Aidan Wilkins, I've recently moved to Vancouver and am very excited to enjoy nature. I love folk art ...
Karen Colville
Karen Colville is a contemporary Nature Artist. A West Coast Scenery Painter of mood, light, calmness, tranqui...
dori vanderheyden
Dori Vanderheyden is an interdisciplinary artist-teacher-researcher living and working in Toronto. Diverse int...
Huaijun Wen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Huaijun Wen is a Chinese Canadian artist who specializes in fine art photography. His work is primarily figura...
Jordan Baraniecki
Artist Statement Jordan Baraniecki, is a renowned artist hailing from Saskatoon, Canada. His ink collage pain...
Jamie Pasquale
Jamie Ellis Pasquale (b. 1988, United kingdom) is visual Artist who was initially drawn to painting from a you...
Reynold Thomas
Reynold Thomas is a Visual Artist whose work shows a perfect mix of exquisite beauty and raw strength. His art...
julia ismambetova
I paint on silk. For more than 20 years, from the very first time I was introduced to it during my university...
Kirk Gower
Kirk Gower is a visual artist based in Vancouver, BC. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr Univers...
Olga Klosowski
Olga Klosowski is constantly searching for new ways of commemorating history. Her work uses found objects in ...
Olivia Di Gregorio
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Di Gregorio is an emerging Canadian artist with a mixed background of Chinese and Italian heritage. She...
Gwynne Giles
Gwynne Giles is an emerging artist whose work is in collections in both North America and Europe. His naive, t...
Michèle White
Michèle White’s work explores – often through sources in literature – manifestations of the unconscious...
Jane Dickson
Jane Dickson, was born in the sixties and raised on a farm in Southern Ontario. She loved to colour and draw a...
Nicole Moss
Nicole Moss is an award winning collage artist currently living and working in Toronto. She studied drawing an...
Alessandra Singh
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alessandra Singh is a recently graduated Thesis student and Drawing and Painting major at OCAD University. Gro...
Tal Paz-Fridman
My name is Tal Paz-Fridman, I am a photographer specializing in creative + documentary photography. To paraphr...
Heather J. A. Thomson
Heather J. A. Thomson’s practice amalgamates her passion for history and her desire to use a visual language...
Michaela Fernandes
Michaela Fernandes is a multi-faceted artist originally from Goderich, Ontario currently residing in Toronto. ...
Justin Mezzapelli
OCAD U Feature Artist
Justin Mezzapelli is a multi-media artist interested in domesticity, multiplicity and queerness. Currently wor...
Sarah Fuller
Sarah Fuller is a white settler Canadian artist of Icelandic and British descent who works across the mediums ...
Candice Grant
Bio Hi! My name is Candice Grant and I’m deeply passionate about colors. I first discovered my love for col...
Melissa Neil
Melissa Neil is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design (2002). Recent exhibition history includes...Discover collector-worthy artwork by outstanding OCAD University alumni and students.
LaiLai .
OCAD U Feature Artist
LaiLai is a student and artist from Northeast China currently studying and residing in Toronto as a sophomore ...
Suhmer Hyatt
OCAD U Feature Artist
Suhmer Hyatt (pronounced like the season) is an illustrator from Toronto. She is an OCAD University Bachelor ...