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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...
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...
Elyse Ricketts
OCAD U Feature Artist
Elyse Skye Ricketts is a multidisciplinary artist in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. She is currently on her artisti...
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Vani V
Vani, is an abstract artist from Toronto, Ontario. Since her childhood, Vani has nurtured her passion for art,...
Deepikah bhardwaj
OCAD U Feature Artist
Deepikah(Born in 1985) is an Indian interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, who graduated with an MFA in In...
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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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Boone Gourlay
Adam Gourlay is an interdisciplinary artist that focuses on painting, drawing, and performance. His most rece...
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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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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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Amanda Amour-Lynx
Amanda Amour Lynx is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent urban L’nu-Scottish interdisciplinary artist and facilitat...
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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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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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Nadiya Svirsky
Nadiya Svirsky is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in printmaking, painting and sculpture. Born i...
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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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Clare McIntyre
Clare is a formally-trained artist and designer who lives in Toronto. She spent her early childhood in St. Joh...
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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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Parastoo Mahmoudi
Artist Bio Parastoo Mahmoudi is a Canadian-Iranian artist who lives in Toronto. She started practicing her ...
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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...
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Keerthana Jayakumar
Born in Chennai, India, Keerthana had chosen to set most of her paintings in her hometown. Some of her collect...
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Anne-Marie Olczak
"The endless possibilities of the grid." The grid is a way to filter the many ideas and inspirations in my...
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Anam Feerasta
OCAD U Feature Artist
Anam Feerasta is a Pakistani-Canadian artist based in Toronto. She works primarily with acrylic and oil paints...
Shahrzad Amin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Shahrzad Amin is an Iranian-Canadian award-winning interdisciplinary artist with more than twelve years of div...
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Nick Zhurid
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a modern calligraphy artist from Kiev, currently based in Toronto. My way started back in 2012 with stre...
Michael Highway
OCAD U Feature Artist
Colour blocks are for sparkling moments of slow nights lines to recall the smell of here and that All these ...
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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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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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April Pyne
April Pyne is a visual artist living in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her abstract geometric paintings are informed ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Rita Vindedzis
I believe art should feel like an extension of the space it inhabits—something that not only complements you...
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Sobo Artz
b. Georgetown, Guyana, South America- Lives and works in Toronto, Canada As a child, Sobo lived steps from th...
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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...
Tiffany Duong
Tiffany Duong (b. 2002) is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator based in Toronto and Mississauga. She g...
Izzy Paez
Izzy Paez is a Latine visual artist working out of Toronto Canada. The main themes explored in Izzy's work ar...
Jasmine Cardenas
Jasmine Cardenas is an Ecuadorian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist working with sculptural paintings, collag...
Maggie Chow
My background as an art education consultant and a pedagogy researcher in Early Childhood Education. The Reggi...
Vidhya Srijesh
Vidhya Srijesh, based in Oshawa is a Visual artist who specializes in nature/wildlife art. Her passion for art...
Lana Yuan
Yuan is a BA. graduated from the Studio Art program at University of Toronto Scarborough. Through her art prac...
Val P
I’m an illustrator and designer. Moving between places during my early childhood, image-making became my f...
Olga Kharchuk
My painting journey is an ongoing exploration of colour, form, and the ability of art to transform space and s...
Nasim Esmailpoor
I paint since 1995,I think creation is something that astonish me more than every thing in the world,in my p...
Angelica Candido
Angelica Candido is a contemporary artist specializing in impressionistic paintings of Canadian landscapes and...
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...
Patricia Lourenco
Residing in Toronto, Patricia was born in a small coastal fishing town in Portugal. Her creative spark was ign...
René Lemay
A pluridisciplinary and self-taught artist, René Lemay (1934-2015) has made his mark in contemporary realist ...
Phyllis Schwartz
Born in Brooklyn, raised in Texas, educated in the Mid-West, Phyllis Schwartz migrated to Western Canada durin...
Rachael Speirs
Rachael Speirs was born in Oakville, Ontario and raised in Toronto and Cambridge, Ontario. As a child Rachael ...
Maryam Astaneh
Mainly a photographer & videographer who does paintings on the side. My focus is figurative painting that deal...
Donna Chudnow
The memories and feelings of childhood camping and canoe trips in parts of northern Ontario are essential to ...
Qudsia Hussain
OCAD U Feature Artist
My name is Qudsia Hussain. I am a Pakistani Canadian Muslim woman. I have attended Ocad University and recentl...
Ellie Hsu
OCAD U Feature Artist
Ellie Hsu is a Taiwanese-Canadian illustrator based in Toronto. She values living in true essence and finds in...
Kelsea chatburn
Kelsea Chatburn is a Toronto-based watercolour artist, known for her vibrant paintings of Los Angeles and Asia...
Becks .
Hi there, my name is Becks! I am a self-taught abstract artist. Abstract art is something that I’ve always...
bhavya dixit
Bhavya Dixit is a self-taught fine artist based in Montreal, Canada. Originally from India, she creates intric...
Janet Read
Janet Read is a painter, musician, and poet, whose childhood was spent near Lake Simcoe. The artist has sought...
Erika Li
Erika Li is a contemporary calligraphy artist who began studying classical Chinese calligraphy at the age of f...
ANN SAINT-GELAIS
I was born in 1950 in Saguenay in Quebec Canada and as far as I can remember I tell you about my journey... M...
Callie DeWees
Multimedia feminist illuminations through self-portraiture and parody or re-contextualization of religious art...
Emily Zou
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a queer Canadian-Chinese multimedia artist. My art practice explores the intersection of climate awarenes...
Gregory Geipel
Gregory Geipel s a fine art photographer whose work reflects the experience of growing up in post-Expo 86 Vanc...
Kanchan Quinlan
Kanchan Quinlan is a Canadian-Indian visual artist and an architectural designer. Born in Toronto and raised i...
Brubey Hu
Brubey (Wanzhi) Hu (b. 1994) is an artist, graphic designer, and educator living in Toronto. Brubey works most...
Susana Mingram
Susana Mingram is an acrylic and Photoshop artist who was raised in Mexico City and resides in Ajax, ON. She e...
Cissy Shi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cissy Ruoyao Shi is a Toronto-based contemporary artist specializing in drawing and acrylic painting. She grad...
JIHU KIM
I am a Korean artist based in Vancouver, BC. I graduated from Emily Carr University of Art+Design in 2022, an...
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...
Olivia Aguiar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Aguiar is an emerging artist born, raised and working in Tkaronto. Olivia's practice is interdisciplin...
Candice Grant
Candice is an abstract artist based in Surrey, BC. Her work is all about color—bold, vibrant, and expressive...
Cristina Getson
Cristina Getson is an abstract expressionist painter based in Toronto, Canada. With a degree in Biomedical Eng...
Olivia Di Gregorio
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Di Gregorio is an emerging Canadian artist with a mixed background of Chinese and Italian heritage. She...
Nicole Moss
Nicole Moss is an award winning collage artist currently living and working in Toronto. She studied drawing an...
Michèle White
Michèle White’s work explores – often through sources in literature – manifestations of the unconscious...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...