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Jenn Lantz
From an early age, I had an unstoppable interest in drawing, painting, sewing and making things of all kinds. ...
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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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Anson Ng
Hello! I am Anson Ng — I am a landscape painter and painting instructor born in Thailand and raised in Toron...
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Sharon Hunter
Sharon Hunter Artist Bio I am an artist of mixed Indigenous and settler heritage. My paintings explore the n...
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Hee J. Jo
Hee J. Jo (b. 1987) is a Korean Canadian artist currently residing in Mississauga, Ontario. Jo is a City of Mi...
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Omar Zayed
Omar Tarek Zayed is a textile artist based in Toronto, ON. His practice focuses on transforming traditional cr...
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Julea Boswell
My art is sparked by movement and beauty. Primary influences stem from my involvement in art, dance music and ...
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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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Mackenzie Lenters
Mac Lenters is a visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across...
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Cherie Leung
Cherie is a third career emerging contemporary artist from Toronto. Her body of work is a journey of self-exp...
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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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Katrina Ewanchuk
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look down into your own heart.” Carl Jung As a child gro...
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Anika Becker
Anika Becker is an emerging artist, residing throughout Ontario, CA. Prefurring rural areas, her work depicts ...
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MJ Dominey
MJ Dominey is a native of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. She holds a Diploma in Commercial Design and a Bach...
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Alice Jennex
Alice Jennex is a Canadian visual artist working in watercolour, and living in Nova Scotia. Alice’s work exp...
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Daniela D'Ambrosio
Daniela is a self-taught visual artist living in Toronto. Her work explores themes of nature, femininity, and ...
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Lindsay Smail
Lindsay’s oil paintings have been described as mysterious, sensual, and lit from within. She uses thin layer...
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Helena Wehrstein
Discarded, outmoded, unwanted stuff….my passion is to breathe new life into these by-products of our society...
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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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CathArine Somerville
Catharine works in both the UK and Canada. Note: She spells her name with two a’s which is unusual and every...
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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Roshni Wijayasinha
Roshni Wijayasinha is a Toronto based visual artist who specializes in large abstract expressionist paintings ...
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Tueai La
Tueai’s work is inspired by a deep reverence for nature. Her floral paintings aim to evoke the beauty and my...
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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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Désiré Betty
Artist Désiré Betty has long explored the spiritual serenity that manifests itself through her artistic expr...
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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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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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Brian Jiang
OCAD U Feature Artist
Brian Jiang (they/she) is a queer trans multi-disciplinary artist of Chinese-descent based in Tkaronto. Their ...
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Ester Pugliese
Ester Pugliese's multilayered mixed media paintings utilize a coral reef aesthetic to reimagine Vanitas still ...
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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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Kim Gullion Stewart
Kim Gullion Stewart has been a visual artist for more than 30 years. She’s a member of the Métis Nation wit...
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Tatiana Nikolaeva
Hi, my name is Tatiana and I am an emerging artist with a passion for creating art that captures the beauty an...
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Cherie Harte
Cherie Harte (b.1973) is a self-taught artist following in the tradition of Art Brut, Graffiti and Abstract Ex...
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...
Hau Pham
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hau Pham is an emerging artist based in Vaughan, Ontario. She is 2021 graduate of OCAD University, with a spec...
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Emma Ducharme
OCAD U Feature Artist
An emerging artist based in Tkarón:to/Toronto, Emma Ducharme’s work is an investigation into the absurd. He...
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Kaitlin Johnson
Kaitlin works in acrylics on canvas, creating dramatic abstract paintings inspired by nature. After completi...
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David Brandy
David Brandy is an award-winning lens-based artist. His artistic mantra is, "Beauty can be strange. The strang...
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Ruth Thorogood
For over a decade, Ruth ran a brand and marketing company but pivoted to abstract art during COVID. Having pro...
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Valerie Carew
Valerie Carew (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores human relationships with land using body b...
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Farzaneh Alihosseini
I was born and raised in Iran. I was drawn to art and painting from a young age. The culture I grew up in did ...
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sujesh Chitty V
Chennai born artist; Sujesh Chitty brings contemporary reflections of his eastern influences to life through t...
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Ellee SY Lee
I am a Korean-Canadian, Toronto-based painter. I make imaginary paintings that oscillate between abstraction ...
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Mina Nowzari
Mina Nowzari is an artist working across a wide range of media including photography, mail art, and site-speci...
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Gillian Toliver
OCAD U Feature Artist
Gillian Toliver is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Toronto. Recently graduating from OCAD Univer...
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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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Rexhep Bucinca
Rexhep Buçinca is a master of abstract expressionism, breathing life into his canvases with fiery brushstroke...
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Tony Luib
I'm awe-inspired by cross sections of organisms at varying magnifications. I'm constantly interested in Abst...
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Lori Ryerson
I am a Toronto-based contemporary art photographer. In our increasingly noisy world I look to capture the sile...
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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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Rose L. Williams
Rose L. Williams is a mixed media artist working with Nature’s chemistry based in Vancouver BC, Canada. Her ...
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Margie Kelk
MARGIE KELK Toronto-based multi-media artist Margie Kelk takes an exploratory and experimental approach as she...
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Marianne Sung
Marianne is an emerging and self-taught Korean-Canadian artist. Radiating warmth and light, her art is inte...
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Elizabeth Forrest
A graduate in printmaking from the Ontario College of Art and Design, Elizabeth Forrest later travelled to Ky...
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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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Anam Feerasta
OCAD U Feature Artist
Anam Feerasta is a Pakistani-Canadian artist based in Toronto. She works primarily with acrylic and oil paints...
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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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April Pyne
April is a visual artist living in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her work explores simplified shapes and fragmented ...
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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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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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Lulu H.
OCAD U Feature Artist
Lulu H. (she/her) is a visual artist practicing in Toronto, Ontario. Her works are usually intuitively abstrac...
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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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Jose F Jimenez
Jose F Jimenez was born in Venezuela in 1986. Having grown up close to the sea and surrounded by mountains, hi...
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Ian Mead
Ian Mead is from Ontario, Canada, and residing in the Bruce Peninsula; has taken 3 years of fine arts studies ...
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Jennie Lau
OCAD U Feature Artist
Jennie Lau is an emerging artist based in Toronto. Her art work consist of paintings, collages, time-based med...
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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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Corynn Kokolakis
OCAD U Feature Artist
Corynn Kokolakis is a figurative painter whose practice merges the disparate roles of mother and artist. Influ...
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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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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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Kyle Yip
Born in Scarborough in 1988, Kyle Yip is an acclaimed Toronto-based artist celebrated for his hypersurrealist ...
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Ian McLean
In his oil paintings, Ian presents otherworldly depictions of imagined residential environments – both inter...
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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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Diana Rosa
As a visual artist, Diana Rosa takes inspirations from an alternative upbringing where she closely connected w...
Anabelle Smith
Thanks for stopping by! My name is Anabelle Smith and I am a working artist in Portland Oregon. I have a degre...
Megan Berardelli
My name is Megan Berardelli, and I'm a fine art photographer based in Ottawa, Canada. My photography seeks to ...
Jill McNair
Jill McNair is an artist and an educator. Her background as an Art Therapist and Art Instructor has expressed ...
Honeylyn Romales-Amaga
I am a self taught artist with naturalistic approach in painting. Generally I prefer painting with acrylics, c...
Emily Zdunich
Emily Zdunich is a Saskatoon based interdisciplinary artist who has developed a figurative practice in paintin...
Rosie Schinners
Rosie Schinners (b.1979) is a collage artist who resides on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. She ...
Dan Murphy
Concepts and Expressions I’m fascinated with include psychology and the functions and malfunctions of the mi...
Yasir Hameed
Yasir Hameed has been painting since 2010. He is a representational artist, and his current work explores urba...
Mary Pal
Mary Pal is a Canadian fibre artist best known for her cheesecloth portraiture, artworks that are made with sc...
Odette Valero
OV artisticdrive The name “OV” is an abbreviation of the artist´s name Odette Valero, while the name “a...
Madeline Brimble
Madeline Brimble is a Toronto based new media artist who primarily works with sheet acrylic. With a process th...
Eduard Gurevich
Eduard was born in 1969 in Ukraine. In 1992, he immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto where he lives ...
Ashley Snook
Informed by biology, scientific research and socio-cultural dynamics, Ashley Snook explores the complexities o...
Kendra Schellenberg
Kendra Schellenberg is an award-winning artist born and raised in the Fraser Valley, BC. She works in multiple...
Patricia Lourenco
Residing in Toronto, Patricia was born in a small coastal fishing town in Portugal. Her creative spark was ign...
Laura Thipphawong
Laura Thipphawong is a Canadian artist, writer, and historian, and has exhibited art and presented her researc...
Vanessa Pejovic
Through my photos, I explore themes of beauty, memory, wonder, and renewal in the most ordinary of places, but...
Bidemi Oloyede
OCAD U Feature Artist
Bidemi Oloyede (b. 1996) is originally from Port Harcourt, Nigeria now based in Toronto, ON, Canada. He holds...
Pamela Dodds
"Printmaker Pamela Dodds employs a bold linearity...to create a world of deeply human and healing interaction....
Erika Li
Erika Li is a contemporary calligraphy artist who began studying classical Chinese calligraphy at the age of f...
Varvara Nedilska
OCAD U Feature Artist
I’m a Toronto-based Ukrainian Canadian artist and a 2020 graduate of the OCADU illustration program. My prac...
Anna Snyder
Stemming from a longing for sensorial experiences with nature in contemporary culture, my photo-based practice...
Miré Albornoz
ARTIST’S BIO Miré Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...
Karen Colville
Karen Colville is a contemporary Nature Artist. A West Coast Scenery Painter of mood, light, calmness, tranqui...
Adrian Duchateau
The Value of Things by Adrian Duchateau Every value designation gets made from a functionality point of view...
Tina Seifpour
OCAD U Feature Artist
Tina Seifpour is a Toronto based artist interested in themes that revolve around the natural and different for...
Eric Daniels
Eric Daniels is a 2020 graduate of Drawing and Painting and Expanded Animation (DPXA) at OCADU. He is Guelph b...
James Zhao
I was born in China and I am living in Canada now. My background was electrical engineering and I was an engin...
Kanchan Quinlan
Kanchan Quinlan is a Canadian-Indian visual artist and an architectural designer. Born in Toronto and raised i...
Tiffany Tremaine
Tiffany Tremaine is an artist located in Toronto Ontario, whose work focus's on life and all of it's little th...
Corina Hanson
Born in Nakusp, BC, Vancouver painter and mixed media artist Corina Hanson has a diverse range of art practic...
Hamid Mohammadi
Hamid Mohammadi has studied architecture at Dalhousie University, figurative painting at NSCAD and industrial ...
Jeanmarie Weatherhead
CJ Weatherhead, is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in T’karonto and born in Guatemala. My artisti...
Shailaja Sajja
# APRIL UPDATE: Sometime in 2025, once I feel sufficient number of my artwork have found homes, I would be mov...
Farihah Shah
Hi folks! I'm Farihah Aliyah Shah, a Canadian lens-based artist in Bradford and Toronto, Ontario originally fr...
Tash Damjanovic
Artist Statement My work celebrates beauty, hidden in all the usual and sometimes unusual places. Inspiration...
Nathan Cole
Nathan Cole is a visual artist, photographer, writer, and aspiring naturalist based in Toronto, Canada. Nathan...
Melissa Boodoo
Melissa Boodoo is a Chinese-Trinidadian fine artist and interior designer based in Toronto, Canada. As a daugh...
Emmette Lewis
I am a Canadian and South African artist who is now based in Toronto, Ontario. I understand art as an unparall...
Jieun June Kim
Jieun June Kim is a Korean born painter, muralist, and art producer based in North York, Toronto. She has exh...
Keith Eager
Keith studied fine arts in high school at Central Technical School, animation at Max The Mutt Animation School...
Jamie Pasquale
Jamie Ellis Pasquale (b. 1988, United kingdom) is visual Artist who was initially drawn to painting from a you...
julia ismambetova
I paint on silk. For more than 20 years, from the very first time I was introduced to it during my university...
gabbi culham putnoki
OCAD U Feature Artist
Gabbi Maria is a young Canadian artist, born in the town of Perth, Ontario. She has spent the last three years...
SHU LI
The lockdown has shaped me as an artist. I work as a programmer. At the beginning of lockdown, I was depressed...
dori vanderheyden
Dori Vanderheyden is an interdisciplinary artist-teacher-researcher living and working in Toronto. Diverse int...
Lilian Sim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Lilian Sim was born and raised in Toronto. She works mainly in watercolour, ink, and gouache but also enjoys w...
Suzette Terry
Suzette Terry is an accomplished painter who has been working primarily with acrylics and mixed media/collage ...
Francois Fournier
Nature varies itself relentlessly. It is my contact with this constantly changing environment that inspires my...
Dan Nuttall
Dan Nuttall has a professional background in the natural sciences and design. Much of his art practice is base...
Huaijun Wen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Huaijun Wen is a Chinese Canadian artist who specializes in fine art photography. His work is primarily figura...
Camilla Teodoro
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hello! My name is Camilla Teodoro and I am a Filipina-born illustrator based in Toronto, Ontario. My art is of...
Refaya Turshin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Refaya Turshin (c.1994) is a Bangladeshi born, Toronto-based fine artist and photographer whose work focuses o...
Olga Klosowski
Olga Klosowski is constantly searching for new ways of commemorating history. Her work uses found objects in ...
Olivia Aguiar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Aguiar is an emerging artist born, raised and working in Tkaronto. Olivia's practice is interdisciplin...
Erica Campitelli
Erica is an abstract artist born in Toronto, Canada. Painting is her way of being present. It allows her to sh...
Dana McCool
OCAD U Feature Artist
Dana McCool is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and anarchist. Using symbolism, colour harmonies ...
Nicole Moss
Nicole Moss is an award winning collage artist currently living and working in Toronto. She studied drawing an...
Miranda Crabtree
Miranda Crabtree is a Toronto-based artist who studied Interdisciplinary Fine Art at NSCAD University in Halif...
Ketty Haolin Zhang
Ketty Haolin Zhang (b. Chaoyang, China) is a visual artist currently based in so-called Vancouver, Canada. Inf...
Guillaume Marie Goder
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a freelance Illustrator and concept artist. Born and raised in Mauritius, I attended the Fashion and Desi...
Helen Tran
OCAD U Feature Artist
Born and raised in Vietnam, Helen Tran has always been naturally drawn towards creating art as a young girl. H...
Melissa Neil
Melissa Neil is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design (2002). Recent exhibition history includes...