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Erica Gibbs
OCAD U Feature Artist
Erica Gibbs (b.2002) is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator based in Toronto and Mississauga, graduati...
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Ruobing Liao
Ruobing Liao is a Toronto-based oil painter whose work explores female emotion, the subconscious, and the quie...
Sue Mackay
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sue Mackay is a Canadian abstract artist, living and working in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently completing ...
Cassandra Cunningham
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cassandra Cunningham was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and has been creating art since her childhood. Ca...
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Janna Kumi
BIOGRAPHY Born in the Netherlands and raised in the suburbs of Montreal, Janna's artistic journey began with c...
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Sheryl Keen
Sheryl works mainly with acrylic mixed media. Using a technique that layers modeling paste, she creates 3D eff...
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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...
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Wiz Wensel
Wiz Wensel is a contemporary, abstract painter and mixed media artist currently residing in Edmonton. She rece...
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Katherine McKay
Katherine McKay is a Collage / Photography based artist working out of Ottawa. She uses altered and deconstruc...
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Morris Wazney
OCAD U Feature Artist
While studying at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU), I found my passion for bronze cast...
Shinae Kim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Shinae Kim is a Canadian painter of Korean descent, an OCAD University graduate (Honours BFA in Drawing and Pa...
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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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Janice Kovar
I am a Dundas based contemporary painter exploring the possibilities of both painting and sculptural assembl...
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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...
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Robin L Potter
I am currently exploring the subject of Gravity--its many connotations and iterations. In the process, I am wo...
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Darlene Winfield
Darlene Winfield is an award winning artist whose art may be found in numerous private around the globe incl...
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Ana Luisa Bernardez
OCAD U Feature Artist
Ana Luisa Bernárdez is a Venezuelan emerging artist based in Toronto. She holds a BFA with Distinction from O...
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Han Liu
Han Liu is a lens-based artist who lives in Toronto, Canada. He has a vast interest in discussing the indexica...
Dilshad Kanji
OCAD U Feature Artist
“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it...
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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Serge V Richard
Serge Gilles Richard is a Canadian artist who currently resides in Kedgwick, New Brunswick. He received his de...
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Francois Fournier
Nature varies itself relentlessly. It is my contact with this constantly changing environment that inspires my...
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Sue Ennis
I'm a Toronto based painter, and a graduate of University of Toronto (B.A,B.Ed) and the Toronto School of Art...
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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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Elizabeth Morales
Elizabeth is a self-taught abstract artist who’s work has been featured across three exhibitions, including;...
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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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Firouzeh Saremi Far
OCAD U Feature Artist
As an artist, my practice is a continuous exploration of the intersections between human experience and enviro...
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Pamela Dodds
Pamela Dodds’ artwork in printmaking, painting and drawing is exhibited regularly in Canada, the USA and Eur...
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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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Cristine Yunyk
Cristine Yunyk’s colourful and sensitive abstract works are made for lovers of contemporary painting. Conced...
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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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Kirk Sutherland
Kirk Sutherland is a Toronto-based Canadian artist. He has exhibited his work under the representation of many...
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Kristen Stephen
Kristen Stephen was born in Amherst, New York, and moved to Canada when she was six years old. Kristen spent h...
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Amanda Amour-Lynx
Amanda Amour Lynx is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent urban L’nu-Scottish interdisciplinary artist and facilitat...
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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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Mayra Majano
Mayra Majano is a visual artist living and working in Toronto. Majano’s work explores her personal relations...
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Melissa Beaulieu
Born in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada, in 1982. She is a Canadian abstract painter who is now based in Drummon...
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Della Hunter
Della Hunter who has painted under the name (Joye) and more recently DHunter, is a multimedia artist who once ...
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Maureen Doody
Maureen is an award-winning contemporary artist, writer, photographer and former elite athlete, from Ottawa, C...
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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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Katarina Holbrough
OCAD U Feature Artist
Katarina Holbrough (she/her) Currently living and working in Tkaronto, Ontario. A mixed-media artist, working...
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Paulette Melanson
Paulette Melanson is an artist who paints abstracts and landcapes. She lives in Lunenburg, a UNESCO World Heri...
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Sherry Dube
Sherry is a self-taught traditional artist whose work encompasses landscapes, florals, and wildlife. Her art i...
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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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Ellee SY Lee
I am a Korean-Canadian, Toronto-based painter. I make imaginary paintings that oscillate between abstraction ...
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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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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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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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Farzaneh Alihosseini
My inspiration comes from the diverse environments I encounter during my travels within Canada and abroad—fr...
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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Amber Ozols
Amber Ozols is a multidisciplinary artist who creates paintings, murals, and paper products. Her most recent o...
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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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Jasper Urbina
OCAD U Feature Artist
Jasper Urbina is a Canadian born Filipino artist from Toronto, Ontario and is a 2019 Graduate of OCAD Universi...
Sara Shoghi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sara Shoghi (@sarahshoghi) is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist specializing in painting, illustration,...
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Olivier Salvas
Olivier Salvas is a distinguished artist, educator, media personality, and curator whose practice intersects a...
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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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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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Julien Poublanc
Julien Poublanc is a self taught artist who grew up in France and moved to Toronto in 2003. The inspiration...
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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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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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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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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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April Pyne
April Pyne is a visual artist living in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her abstract geometric paintings are informed ...
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Mash Ritchie
OCAD U Feature Artist
Mash Ritchie is an abstract artist living and working in Toronto. Her work explores themes of fragility, tempo...
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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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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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Roshni Wijayasinha
Roshni Wijayasinha is a Toronto based visual artist who specializes in large abstract expressionist paintings ...
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ESTHER DOË KIM
OCAD U Feature Artist
Esther Kim (b. 1995, South Korea), also known as DOË, is a Korean-Canadian artist based in Toronto. A graduat...
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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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Avery Gibbes
OCAD U Feature Artist
It’s inevitable at different points in our lives that we'll be faced with entering worlds that are outside o...
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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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Jordan Clayton
Jordan clayton is an award-winning artist who specializes in painting and drawing. His work has been exhibite...
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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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Amada Estabillo
Amada Estabillo is a Canadian-born artist of mixed Filipino heritage. She lives in the Brockton Village area ...
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Mekayla Dionne
OCAD U Feature Artist
Mekayla Dionne is an emerging Métis abstract painter. She was born in 1997 and spent her childhood in a small...
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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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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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Linds Miyo
Linds Miyo is a self-taught, intuitive painter, known for process-based works that drift between abstraction, ...
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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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Suyin Wai
"Every artist was first an amateur" - Ralph Waldo Emerson Born in Montreal, Quebec but, now lives in Toronto....
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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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Kyle Yip
Born in Scarborough in 1988, Kyle Yip is an acclaimed Toronto-based artist celebrated for his hypersurrealist ...
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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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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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Diana Rosa
As a visual artist, Diana Rosa takes inspirations from an alternative upbringing where she closely connected w...
Johnathan Dunslow
Johnathan Dunslow who was raised in Georgetown ON, is a contemporary Canadian artist based in the GTA. He is a...
Jane Forrest
Jane Forrest is currently studying contemporary art at the Etobicoke School of the Arts. She primarily works w...
Melsa Montagne
Melsa Montagne offers a series of anonymous portraits. Characters from another time, sensitive and strange, wh...
Wang Zi 王紫
Wang Zi (born in Nanjing, China) is an artist-educator based in Toronto. She holds a BFA in printmaking (OCAD)...
Trevor Novak
Trevor Novak is a visual artist whose art practice is focused on digital art and sculpture. He grew up in Toro...
Joshua hyman
Josh Hy The Dezinr is a mixed-media digital artist based in Toronto and a descendant of Jamaican and Panamania...
Frank Danielson
Frank Danielson is a painter working in Sudbury, Ontario. He has practised the creation of art for the past t...
Ryota Matsumoto
Ryota Matsumoto is an artist, educator, and architect based in New York, Toronto, and Tokyo. He is internatio...
Diana Shamoun
Art has always being a safe place for me to express myself and my outlook on the world. I strive to document s...
Ashley Snook
Informed by biology, scientific research and socio-cultural dynamics, Ashley Snook explores the complexities o...
Meera Dinh
I am captivated by the intricate relationship between the hidden sanctum of the soul and the psychological con...
Cassandra Atter
Cassandra Atter is a 24 year old Canadian Artist who resides in Toronto and has just completed her thesis in t...
Kevin Matheson
I’m an artist and graphic designer based in Toronto, Canada. I’ve been working in the field of graphic des...
Max Dalí Kamilla Kulova
Italian, non binary, neurodivergent, award winning, multidisciplinary artist, part of Techspressionism Interna...
Chanel DesRoches
Chanel works in the moment. Surrendering feelings onto a surface is her way of suggesting that there is a pers...
Noelle Feodora Mok
Noelle Feodora Mok (b.1993) is a Canadian emerging artist based in Richmond Hill (York Region), Ontario. She ...
Morgan Sheardown
Morgan Sheardown, the visionary artist, born and raised in downtown Toronto, transcends fine art and design. A...
Odette Valero
OV artisticdrive The name “OV” is an abbreviation of the artist´s name Odette Valero, while the name “a...
Amanda Gallagher
Amanda works with oils, acrylics, spray paint, and uses art to investigate the perception of memories on archi...
Lucien Charron
Lucien Charron is a visual artist based in Ottawa, Canada. He has studied at Algonquin College in Fine Art her...
Miré Albornoz
ARTIST’S BIO Miré Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...
Deniz Yilmaz
Deniz is a Toronto-based artist of Mongolian and Turkish ancestry. Her art explores human-land relations and i...
Kendra Schellenberg
Kendra Schellenberg is an award-winning artist born and raised in the Fraser Valley, BC. She works in multiple...
Eric Sandstrom
Eric Sandstrom (b. 1997) is a Canadian street photographer, currently based in Barcelona, Spain. His work expl...
Marc-Etienne Des Rosiers
Marc E. Des Rosiers is a contemporary self-taught multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting, music, ph...
Phyllis Schwartz
Born in Brooklyn, raised in Texas, educated in the Mid-West, Phyllis Schwartz migrated to Western Canada durin...
Patrick Nunziata
Patrick is a visual artist and designer based in Toronto, he has a BFA (2015) from Western University. The pra...
Brenna Tomas
Brenna Tomas is an interdisciplinary female artist, recreation therapist, writer and mother born and raised in...
Madeline Brimble
Madeline Brimble is a Toronto based new media artist who primarily works with sheet acrylic. With a process th...
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...
Alison Boyack
Alison was born in Montreal in 1969. She grew up in Ontario, living in Niagara Falls, Pembroke and North Bay,...
Brittany/Andrew Forrest
Brittany/Andrew Forrest (she/her or he/him) is a queer Ontario-based surrealist artist and author. She focuses...
Valerie Marshall
Valerie Marshall is a visual artist whose practice spans analogue and digital mediums. With a Master of Archit...
Melissa Boodoo
Melissa Boodoo is a Chinese-Trinidadian fine artist and interior designer based in Toronto, Canada. As a daugh...
Corina Hanson
Born in Nakusp, BC, Vancouver painter and mixed media artist Corina Hanson has a diverse range of art practic...
Ovase .
I am an emerging multidisciplinary artist that often conceptualizes work around the human figure or condition,...
Luke Labelle-Stackhouse
Luke Labelle-Stackhouse is a hard-edge abstraction artist based in Toronto. Turning towards painting as his pr...
Samy Sabani
Samy Sabani is an Ontario-based artist exploring modern existence through playful experimentation of materials...
Suzette Terry
Suzette Terry is an accomplished painter who has been working primarily with acrylics and mixed media/collage ...
Erika Li
Erika Li is a contemporary calligraphy artist who began studying classical Chinese calligraphy at the age of f...
frances ferdinands
Born in Colombo Sri Lanka, Canadian artist Frances Ferdinands is based in Toronto. She holds a B.F.A.from York...
Torin Craig
Torin’s practice centers around the exploration of his subjective reactions to experiences as a neurodiverge...
Gwen Tooth
Gwen Tooth is an expressionist painter. She paints to express energy, soul and mood. She has in recent years ...
James Legaspi
James Legaspi is an emerging Filipino Canadian multimedia artist living and working in Brampton, Ontario. Thro...
Brubey Hu
Brubey (Wanzhi) Hu (b. 1994) is an artist, graphic designer, and educator living in Toronto. Brubey works most...
Ariel Shea
Born in 1994, Ariel Shea spent the first six years of her career as a self-taught artist. At twenty-six, she b...
Alanna Peters
Alanna Peters was born in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto. She earned an Honours BA for Fine Arts from M...
Reynold Thomas
Reynold Thomas is a Visual Artist whose work shows a perfect mix of exquisite beauty and raw strength. His art...
Wandy Cheng
I am a multidisciplinary illustrator from Hong Kong currently based in Toronto, Canada. My work embodies contr...
Martine Côté
Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 1981. Martine seeks to capture quiet beauty found in the everyday light....
Christy Winegarden
Christy Winegarden is a photographer who lives and works in a rural community near Waterloo Ontario. Although ...
samuel Kasirer
My Name is Sam Kasirer-Smibert. I had my first solo show in November of 2015 entitled Atro Versiamo at the Vic...
Felicia Cirstea
Felicia Cirstea is a Romanian-Canadian contemporary visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. Born and raised in...
Olivia Aguiar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Aguiar is an emerging artist born, raised and working in Tkaronto. Olivia's practice is interdisciplin...
Jasmin-Nicole A.
My name is Jasmin-Nicole, and I am a Ghanaian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and art educator specializing ...
Candice Grant
Candice is an abstract artist based in Surrey, BC. Her work is all about color—bold, vibrant, and expressive...
Grace Hotchkiss
OCAD U Feature Artist
A multimedia artist and production designer, Grace graduated with a Bachelor's of Environmental Design from O...
Megan Hazen
Born in Renfrew Ontario, Megan Hazen is a 2017 graduate of OCAD University in Toronto with a Bachelor of Fine ...
Dominique Czerednikow
Dominique Czerednikow is self-taught digital and visual artist. Freely developing her passion and artist educa...
Mikayla Lacey
OCAD U Feature Artist
Mikayla Lacey’s work explores the way vulnerability can be used as a tool for creation. She draws upon the i...
Bidemi Oloyede
OCAD U Feature Artist
Bidemi Oloyede (b. 1996) is originally from Port Harcourt, Nigeria now based in Toronto, ON, Canada. He holds...
Miranda Crabtree
Miranda Crabtree is a Toronto-based artist who studied Interdisciplinary Fine Art at NSCAD University in Halif...
Anastasia Tarkhanova
OCAD U Feature Artist
Anastasia is a Russian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist currently working and living in Toronto. In 2020 she ...
Dan Nuttall
Dan Nuttall has a professional background in the natural sciences and design. Much of his art practice is base...
Kate Civiero
As a glassblower and metalsmith, I make objects through deliberate design and thoughtful creation. Motivated ...
Julie Gladstone
Julie Gladstone is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist. Gladstone's paintings reveal hidden facets of the lan...
Melissa Neil
Melissa Neil is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design (2002). Recent exhibition history includes...
Refaya Turshin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Refaya Turshin (c.1994) is a Bangladeshi-Canadian fine artist, and photographer. Turshin is the founder and de...
Erica Campitelli
Erica is an abstract artist born in Toronto, Canada. Painting is her way of being present. It allows her to sh...Discover collector-worthy artwork by outstanding OCAD University alumni and students.
Freda Tan
OCAD U Feature Artist
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...