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Celia Petconi
OCAD U Feature Artist
My goal is to create art that is meaningful, interesting, and for it to look great on a wall. I love using bri...
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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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Alexander Slim
With over 20 successful exhibitions and 15 years of creating fine art, Alexandre Slim is a seasoned professio...
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Tanya Keigan
My name is Tanya Keigan, and I’m a multidisciplinary artist and designer living in Nova Scotia, Canada. I’...
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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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Fabrizio Sclocco
Born in Pescara, Italy, 1989. Dropped out of Architecture college, I moved across the pond, Toronto, in 2012. ...
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Heejung Shin
Heejung Shin is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Korea, working primarily in installation, drawi...
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Tyler Burey
Tyler Burey is a multidisciplinary queer indigenous artist from northern Ontario and graduate of OCAD Universi...
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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...
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Maya Skarzenski
OCAD U Feature Artist
Maya Skarzenski is a multidisciplinary artist fusing together painting, textiles, and photography. She graduat...
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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...
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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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Jeff Riffle
"The octopus saved me. Weird statement I know. During the Covid lockdowns I found myself struggling artistical...
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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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Pasi J. Paltanen
Pasi Paltanen is a Finnish-Canadian painter/illustrator based out of Stouffville, Ontario, Canada, whose recen...
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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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Sabina Rak
Sabina Rak is currently a students in the Masters of Fine Arts program at Concordia University (Montreal), Pri...
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Sheila Thompson
Sheila Thompson moved her fibre art practice to Guelph from Toronto in 2021. She has been making fine woolen a...
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Judith Leidl
Short Biography Judith J. Leidl, MFA Judith Leidl received both her BFA and MFA from NSCAD University wher...
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Lindsay Smail
Lindsay’s oil paintings have been described as mysterious, sensual, and lit from within. She uses thin layer...
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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Laurie Skantzos
Laurie’s contemporary, process driven painting is largely inspired by the interactions of colour, shape and...
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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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Parastoo Mahmoudi
Artist Bio Parastoo Mahmoudi is a Canadian-Iranian artist who lives in Toronto. She started practicing her ...
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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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Roshni Wijayasinha
Roshni Wijayasinha is a Toronto based visual artist who specializes in large abstract expressionist paintings ...
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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...
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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Marjolyn Vanderhart
Inspire your Life with images from the Past! For many of us, our identity is tied to memories from our child...
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Lynne Saintonge
A connection to nature and love of the evocative, expressive qualities of colour and light are the foundation ...
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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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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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Zana Wensel
Zana Wensel is a multidisciplinary artist, queer ecologist, and somatic practitioner, who lives and practices ...
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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Sepi Borhani
Sepi is a self-taught artist based in Toronto, Ontario with a background in Engineering; however, her lifelong...
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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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Helen Nhan
I am an abstract artist based in Ottawa, ON. My current ongoing body of work began with exploring the intrinsi...
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Ahlena Sultana-McGarry
OCAD U Feature Artist
Ahlena Sultana-McGarry is a Pakistani-Canadian cross-disciplinary artist who visually explores diaspora and he...
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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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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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Valerie Carew
Valerie Carew (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores human relationships with land using body b...
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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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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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Kirk Sutherland
Kirk Sutherland is a Toronto-based Canadian artist. He has exhibited his work under the representation of many...
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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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Amber Ozols
Amber Ozols is a multidisciplinary artist who creates paintings, murals, and paper products. Her most recent o...
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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...
Sara Shoghi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sara Shoghi (@sarahshoghi) is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist specializing in painting, illustration,...
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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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Mike Alexander
Mike Alexander is an emerging Anishinaabe visual artist and writer originally from Swan Lake First Nation in T...
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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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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...
Emma Enright
OCAD U Feature Artist
Emma Enright is a textile artist and designer from Hamilton, Ontario. Her series of work investigates the mat...
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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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Tony Luib
I'm awe-inspired by cross sections of organisms at varying magnifications. I'm constantly interested in Abst...
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Patrick Skals
Patrick Skals is a working artist residing in his hometown of Toronto, Canada. In 2019, after 10 years employe...
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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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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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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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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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Suyin Wai
"Every artist was first an amateur" - Ralph Waldo Emerson Born in Montreal, Quebec but, now lives in Toronto....
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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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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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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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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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Drea Cohane
Drea is a visual artist who draws and paints from the city of Toronto. Due to an mTBI, Drea was inspired and m...
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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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Jordan Clayton
Jordan clayton is an award-winning artist who specializes in painting and drawing. His work has been exhibite...
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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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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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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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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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Amada Estabillo
Amada Estabillo is a Canadian-born artist of mixed Filipino-Irish heritage. Amada attended York University an...
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Mash Ritchie
OCAD U Feature Artist
Mash Ritchie is an abstract artist living and working as an art consultant in Toronto, ON. She graduated from ...
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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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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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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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Lorette C Luzajic
Lorette's mixed media paintings have been collected in more than 40 countries worldwide, including Canada, USA...
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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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Ally Zlatar
Ally Zlatar is an artist and activist. She is the founder of The Starving Artist; an artist initiative that ut...
emily pope
Emily Pope is an artist living and working in Toronto. Her work focuses on pairing and mirroring representatio...
Matthew Ferguson
I am a Barrie-based multidisciplinary artist who combines traditional realism painting with digital media and ...
Lili Xu
I’m Toronto based part-time painter, and aiming to create visually bold, and emotionally charged paintings o...
Trevor Novak
Trevor Novak is a visual artist whose art practice is focused on digital art and sculpture. He grew up in Toro...
Ghazaleh Rastgar
Ghazaleh is an artist and illustrator based in Toronto. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art & Design...
Claire Anderson
Claire Anderson is a graduate of the Sheridan College Crafts and Design Glass Program where she discovered her...
Kate Rogers
Kate Rogers mixed-media art practice uses collage, drawing, painting, photography and video, to address the cu...
efemena ogboru
Efemena Ogboru was born and raised in Abuja, Nigeria until 2017 where she moved to Canada to pursue a degree i...
Siriaus T
As a concept creator which includes: fine arts, digital painting, progress painting videos, cinematography + f...
Shabnam Afrand
Shabnam Afrand is an Iranian-Canadian multi-disciplinary visual artist and educator born and raised in Tehran....
Jill McNair
Jill McNair is an artist and an educator. Her background as an Art Therapist and Art Instructor has expressed ...
Morgan Sheardown
Morgan Sheardown, the visionary artist, born and raised in downtown Toronto, transcends fine art and design. A...
Emily Zdunich
Emily Zdunich is a Saskatoon based interdisciplinary artist who has developed a figurative practice in paintin...
Erika Nielsen
ERIKA NIELSEN, CELLIST AND ARTIST Erika Nielsen's multi-faceted creative background as a cellist, artist, and ...
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...
Katya Ilina
Katya Ilina is a London and Toronto based artist working at the intersection of portrait, fashion and observat...
Madison Rudin
Madison Rudin is a Toronto-based artist and recent graduate of OCAD University in the Drawing and Painting pro...
Mike Lau
Mike Lau (b. 1996) is a Hong Kong-born photo artist based in Toronto. He is a graduate of OCAU University with...
James Legaspi
James Legaspi is an emerging Filipino-Canadian multimedia artist currently completing an undergraduate degree ...
Eduard Gurevich
Eduard was born in 1969 in Ukraine. In 1992, he immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto where he lives ...
Kendra Schellenberg
Kendra Schellenberg is an award-winning artist born and raised in the Fraser Valley, BC. She works in multiple...
DELIA MOLDOVAN
Delia is an abstract artist who lives and works in Canada, Ontario.She is currently a member of the Mississaug...
Ashley Snook
Informed by biology, scientific research and socio-cultural dynamics, Ashley Snook explores the complexities o...
Laura Thipphawong
Laura Thipphawong is a Canadian artist, writer, and historian, and has exhibited art and presented her researc...
LOANNE TRAN
OCAD U Feature Artist
Loanne II Tran is a photographer filled with curiosity. They explore the grounds of fashion editorial while ex...
Megan Hazen
Born in Renfrew Ontario, Megan Hazen is a 2017 graduate of OCAD University in Toronto with a Bachelor of Fine ...
Akash Inbakumar
Akash Inbakumar’s practice, based in Tkaronto / Toronto, explores the queering of the human body in relation...
Jenny Chen
I continuously explore different mediums but at the core, I am a painter. I feel most comfortable with waterco...
Jordan Baraniecki
Artist Statement Jordan Baraniecki, is a renowned artist hailing from Saskatoon, Canada. His ink collage pain...
Riley Greco
Riley Greco is a visual artist based in Northern Ontario, Canada, who has created art throughout her lifetime....
Sarah Graeme
Sarah Graeme is an emerging ceramic artist currently based on T’Sou-ke and Pacheedaht Territory on Vancouve...
Brittany/Andrew Forrest
Brittany/Andrew Forrest (she/her or he/him) is a queer Ontario-based surrealist artist and author. She focuses...
Tristan Coloma
Tristan Velasquez Coloma is a Filipino-born emerging artist based in Toronto. He graduated with his BFA in Dra...
Tiffany Tremaine
Tiffany Tremaine is an artist located in Toronto Ontario, whose work focus's on life and all of it's little th...
Janet Read
Janet Read is a painter, musician, and poet, whose childhood was spent near Lake Simcoe. The artist has sought...
Alice Zilberberg
Alice Zilberberg is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist, recognized by curators, collectors,...
Alexandra Marcuzzi
Born and raised in Toronto, Alexandra Marcuzzi is a versatile artist with a practice that emphasizes drawing a...
Xinming Yi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Xinming Yi is a Shanghai-based illustrator currently working in Toronto, working preliminarily in digital pai...
Daniel St-Amant
Daniel graduated from NSCAD in 2005 with a major in painting and drawing. He also holds a graduate degree...
Rabiyah Sagheer
Rabiyah Sagheer, a Canadian-Pakistani interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, explores the convergence of t...
samuel Kasirer
My Name is Sam Kasirer-Smibert. I had my first solo show in November of 2015 entitled Atro Versiamo at the Vic...
leon zheng
Leon ( Longxuan Zheng) is a contemporary artist based in Toronto, Canada, with a diverse artistic journey spa...
Emmette Lewis
I am a Canadian and South African artist who is now based in Toronto, Ontario. I understand art as an unparall...
Hakan Kamasik
Hakan Kamasik was a modern expressionist artist who was born in Turkey in 1992. He had a degree on Bachelor of...
Melissa Boodoo
Melissa Boodoo is a Chinese-Trinidadian fine artist and interior designer based in Toronto, Canada. As a daugh...
Samantha Hazard
Samantha Hazard is a practicing artist who is based primarily in Hamilton, Ontario. She has graduated from the...
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...
Callie DeWees
Multimedia feminist illuminations through self-portraiture and parody or re-contextualization of religious art...
Jasmin-Nicole A.
Jasmin-Nicole Amoako (she/her) is a Ghanaian-Canadian visual artist and community arts facilitator. She is a g...
Refaya Turshin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Refaya Turshin (c.1994) is a Bangladeshi born, Toronto-based fine artist and photographer whose work focuses o...
Walter Segers
Walter Segers emigrated from Belgium in 1993 and currently lives and works in Toronto. He graduated from the O...
dori vanderheyden
Dori Vanderheyden is an interdisciplinary artist-teacher-researcher living and working in Toronto. Diverse int...
Reynold Thomas
Reynold Thomas is a Visual Artist whose work shows a perfect mix of exquisite beauty and raw strength. His art...
Rae White
Rae White lives and works in Toronto, Canada on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, t...
Sarah Van Dusen
Artist Statement Sarah Van Dusen is an artist from Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from Centennial College Fin...
Dre Nnamdi Anozie
Nnamdi Onyi Anozie is a Nigerian born, self-taught Fine Artist with a primary focus in Fine Art Photography, A...
Huaijun Wen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Huaijun Wen is a Chinese Canadian artist who specializes in fine art photography. His work is primarily figura...
JIHU KIM
I am a Korean artist based in Vancouver, BC. I graduated from Emily Carr University of Art+Design in 2022, an...
Emal de Lanerolle
Emal Joseph de Lanerolle is a Toronto-based Artist. He works in the mediums of paint, print- making, sculpture...
Emily Zou
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a Toronto-based Canadian-Chinese multimedia artist, sculptor, illustrator, painter, and maker of earrings...
Helio Eudoro Rodriguez Junior
OCAD U Feature Artist
Helio Eudoro is a Toronto-based Brazilian-Canadian hunter and gatherer artist whose work spans photography, vi...
Caroline Ji
Caroline Ji is a self-taught artist with a previous background in engineering. In 2014 she left her engineerin...
Darcy Roop
OCAD U Feature Artist
Darcy was born in Montreal and studied Illustration in Toronto at OCADU. She is a multidisciplinary artist wit...
Erica Campitelli
Erica is an abstract artist born in Toronto, Canada. Painting is her way of being present. It allows her to sh...
Olivia Aguiar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Aguiar is an emerging artist born, raised and working in Tkaronto. Olivia's practice is interdisciplin...
Cissy Shi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cissy Ruoyao Shi is a Toronto-based contemporary artist specializing in drawing and acrylic painting. She grad...
Dana McCool
OCAD U Feature Artist
Dana McCool is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and anarchist. Using symbolism, colour harmonies ...
Miranda Crabtree
Miranda Crabtree is a Toronto-based artist who studied Interdisciplinary Fine Art at NSCAD University in Halif...
Sarah Fuller
Sarah Fuller is a white settler Canadian artist of Icelandic and British descent who works across the mediums ...
Alessandra Singh
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alessandra Singh is a recently graduated Thesis student and Drawing and Painting major at OCAD University. Gro...
Justin Mezzapelli
OCAD U Feature Artist
Justin Mezzapelli is a multi-media artist interested in domesticity, multiplicity and queerness. Currently wor...Discover collector-worthy artwork by outstanding OCAD University alumni and students.
Celia Petconi
OCAD U Feature Artist
My goal is to create art that is meaningful, interesting, and for it to look great on a wall. I love using bri...
Alejandro Rizzo Nervo
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alejandro Rizzo Nervo (b. 1993, Caracas, VE), is an interdisciplinary artist and performer that lives and work...