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Freda Tan
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Freda Tan is an emerging artist based in Toronto, Canada. She works in various painting mediums and transform ...Nadia Da Silva
OCAD U Feature Artist
My work delves into themes of longing and otherness, navigating the intricate terrains of displacement, identi...Erica Gibbs
OCAD U Feature Artist
Erica Gibbs (b.2002) is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator based in Toronto and Mississauga, graduati...Saruye s
OCAD U Feature Artist
I, an Iranian-Canadian woman, explore identity, diaspora, and duality through the tension between precision an...
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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...Mio Reynolds
OCAD U Feature Artist
Mio Reynolds is an illustrator and painter born and raised in Toronto. Having a passion for art at a young age...Cassandra Cunningham
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cassandra Cunningham was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and has been creating art since her childhood. Ca...Nadine Alexeev
OCAD U Feature Artist
Nadine Alexeev is a Russian/Ukrainian contemporary painter and textiles artist based in Toronto. She is a fi...Sarvin Sadeghian
OCAD U Feature Artist
I’m Sarvin Sadeghian, an Iranian artist currently living in Toronto and pursuing a Bachelor of Design in Ill...Vismay Sanghavi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Vismay Anand Sanghavi is an West Indian Canadian artist, currently living, working and creating from the city ...
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Tony Luib
I'm awe-inspired by chromatic psychedelia patterns found in nature and urban centres. I've been obsessed with...
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Karen Jeffrey
Karen is an abstract artist working in cold wax, and oil. She currently lives in Markham, Ontario, with her tw...Ernesto Cabral
OCAD U Feature Artist
Ernesto Cabral de Luna is a Mexican lens-based artist working in Toronto. Utilizing both analog and digital pr...
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Annette Courtemanche
Artist Statement: I am a Toronto-based artist, and my love of drawing and painting started at an early age. I ...Elyse Ricketts
OCAD U Feature Artist
Elyse Skye Ricketts is a multidisciplinary artist in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. She is currently on her artisti...Sophie Sawicka
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sophie Sawicka (b. 2003) is a visual artist based in Toronto. Her work explores feelings of alienation through...
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Judith Leidl
Short Biography Judith J. Leidl, MFA Judith Leidl received both her BFA and MFA from NSCAD University wher...Jenny Tchen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Jenny Tchen is a Chinese Vietnamese artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, currently in her final year at OCAD Univ...
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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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Shawn Goldberg
Shawn Goldberg was born and raised in Toronto. His photography covers a wide range; Movie sets, Editorial, B...Isabelle Halmos
OCAD U Feature Artist
Isabelle Halmos is a 2021 graduate of Drawing and Painting from OCAD University, completing her Bachelor degre...
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Anika Becker
Anika Becker explores the intricate relationships between humans and animals, embracing Intertwingularity—th...
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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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Morgan Abenhaim
Morgan Abenhaim, born in 1989 in Toronto, Canada, is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in the same ci...
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Kelly Harper Morehouse
A Newfoundlander by birth, and having lived in various places across Canada and the U.S., Kelly now lives with...Isabella Nicastro
OCAD U Feature Artist
Isabella Nicastro is a contemporary Canadian artist based in Toronto, Ontario. Currently completing a Bachelor...
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Shimoni Bhattee
Hi I'm Shimoni, a self-taught artist based in Toronto, Ontario. Its my love for creativity and colours inspire...
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Alannah Tassone
My name is Alannah Tassone and I am an abstract/contemporary artist living in Toronto, Canada. I started exper...Anoosh Mubashar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Anoosh is a Toronto-based artist who enjoys working in many mediums, especially paint and printmaking. She is ...
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Kim Foster Yardley
As a black woman in Cape Town, South Africa, I grew up steeped in segregation, only realising the extent to wh...
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Alexander Slim
With over 20 successful exhibitions and 15 years of creating fine art, Alexandre Slim is a seasoned professio...
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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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Annette Dunlop
I am a self taught artist. I am drawn to expressing the beauty of the human eros through paint. I am most exc...
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Reisha Felix
Reisha Felix is an award-winning Toronto based fine arts and multi-media artist who was born and raised on the...
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Ivy Tang
Zishan(Ivy) Tang is an artist who specializes in painting and drawing. Her focus is on capturing the intricate...
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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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Sepi Borhani
Sepi is a self-taught artist based in Toronto, Ontario with a background in Engineering; however, her lifelong...
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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...
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Anthony Francis
〰️ Candid, Street, Abstract 〰️ "It’s all about timing. We look with our eyes, but see with our mind...
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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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Alina Karmadanova
Alina Karmadanova is a painter born in Siberia. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and Design. From...
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Jason Balducci
Jason Balducci is a contemporary figurative painter who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Originally from I...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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Sandrine Dickel
Sandrine Dickel's work explores human existence with a focus on femininity. She draw and paint situations of h...Haley Parker
OCAD U Feature Artist
Haley Parker (b. 1996) is an emerging Canadian lens-based artist currently based in Toronto. After attending...
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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...
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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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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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Maureen Doody
Maureen is an award-winning contemporary artist, writer, photographer and former elite athlete, from Ottawa, C...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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Leigh Nelson
B. 1980 My name is Leigh Nelson, and I am a digital artist from Toronto, Canada. I create digital artwork t...
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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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Nadiya Svirsky
Nadiya Svirsky is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in printmaking, painting and sculpture. Born i...
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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...Leilah Dhoré
OCAD U Feature Artist
Based in Toronto, Leilah Dhoré an artist whose multidisciplinary work encompasses photography, digital collag...Stacy Athena May
OCAD U Feature Artist
Stacy Athena May is an abstract painter and classically trained draughtswoman working out of Toronto. She earn...
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Blaine White
Blaine White is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist. His racial background is black, white and some indig...
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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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Catherine Mills
Catherine graduated with Honours from Guelph University with a degree in Bio.Sci. but couldn’t contain her ...
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Afifa Bari
(B.1997) Afifa Bari is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. She earned her BFA from York University i...
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Deloris Chen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Currently based in Markham, Deloris Chen is an illustrator and painter. She graduated in 2020 from OCAD Univer...
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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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Brian Jiang
OCAD U Feature Artist
Bree Jiang (they/she) is a queer trans multi-disciplinary artist of Chinese-descent based in Tkaronto. Her pra...
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Leone McComas
Leone McComas is a Canadian-Nigerian Artist, Muralist, and Designer. She is Toronto-based, London (UK) born, a...
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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...
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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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Parveen Dhatt
I create artwork from post consumer ‘waste’, remnants of everyday life; newspapers, food packaging, fast f...
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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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Melissa Fice
Melissa Fice attended Fleming College in Haliburton, Ontario, where she studied general arts. After graduating...
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Farzaneh Alihosseini
My inspiration comes from the diverse environments I encounter during my travels within Canada and abroad—fr...
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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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Sarah Arsenault
Sarah Arsenault is a British-Canadian artist based in London, UK. She is a semi-abstract painter who explores ...
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Sunny Nestler
~welcome to my happy place~ I am a multi-disciplinary artist working on unceded Coast Salish territories belo...
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Alysha Rocca
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hello & welcome! My name is Alysha and I'm an emerging artist, who studied in Toronto at OCAD University, earn...
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Par Nair
Par is an Indian born Canadian maker who lives and works in Toronto. Her oil paintings are a critique on the s...
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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...Mason Barnes-Crouse
OCAD U Feature Artist
Mason is an OCADU Illustration graduate living in Toronto's West End. He emphasizes strong traditional paintin...
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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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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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Cherie Daly
Making abstract art is how I make sense of the world. I try to make a deep connection with others through my ...
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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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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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Tania Costa
OCAD U Feature Artist
Tania Costa is a Toronto-based Portuguese-Canadian artist whose paintings have been shown at Toronto Outdoor A...
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Sophia Kim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sophia Kyungwon Kim is a Toronto-based visual artist and mother of four, currently pursuing her MFA at OCAD Un...
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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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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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Désiré Betty
Artist Désiré Betty has long explored the spiritual serenity that manifests itself through her artistic expr...
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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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Drea Cohane
Drea is a visual artist who draws and paints from the city of Toronto. Due to a brain injury, Drea was inspire...
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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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Carolanne MacLean
Carolanne MacLean, A.O.C.A 1996, B.A., University of Toronto,1972, abstract and figurative work. I am interes...
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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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Susan McLean Woodburn
"I am always open to the Spirit of grace and harmony. It is my desire to share these moments that inspires me ...
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Montina Hussey
Montina (b.1989) graduated with a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University. She currently resides in T...
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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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Devon Pryce
OCAD U Feature Artist
Devon Pryce is an emerging artist currently working and living in Toronto. He completed his BFA in Drawing an...
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Amada Estabillo
Amada Estabillo is a Canadian-born artist of mixed Filipino heritage. She lives in the Brockton Village area ...
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Jose F Jimenez
Jose F Jimenez, born in Venezuela in 1986, is an artist deeply inspired by natural landscapes. Growing up surr...
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Donny Nie
OCAD U Feature Artist
Donny Nie is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist. She received a BFA from OCAD University, and an MFA fro...
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Corynn Kokolakis
OCAD U Feature Artist
Corynn Kokolakis is a figurative oil painter whose practice merges the often-disparate roles of mother and art...
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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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Kyle Yip
Born in Scarborough in 1988, Kyle Yip is an acclaimed Toronto-based artist celebrated for his hypersurrealist ...
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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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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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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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Harley Yang
Think of photography as a person. Then every photograph is a collaboration. But what the human embodiment se...
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Ally Zlatar
Ally Zlatar is an artist, scholar and activist. She is the founder of The Starving Artist; an artist initiativ...
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Lorette C Luzajic
Lorette's award-winning mixed media paintings have been collected in more than 40 countries worldwide, includi...
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