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Connor Garito
OCAD U Feature Artist
Connor Garito is a multidisciplinary artist born in Mississauga, Canada currently a third year student at OCAD...
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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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Heejung Shin
Heejung Shin is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Korea, working primarily in installation, drawi...
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Edith Kernerman
Edith Kernerman (she/her) is a Canadian-born artist working in sculpture installation, painting, photography, ...
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Forbes Sang
Forbes Sang is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Tkaronto (Toronto). Sang received his BFA from OCAD Univer...
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Heather Assaf
Heather Assaf, an artist located near Ottawa, Ontario, is known for her non-objective abstract and impressioni...
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Katherine McKay
Katherine McKay is a Collage / Photography based artist working out of Ottawa. She uses altered and deconstruc...
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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Alice Jennex
After becoming a mother, the capacity for growth and change of the body resulted in new explorations of contem...
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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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Kaitlyn Roberts
I am an interdisciplinary artist absorbed in how art-making and art-viewing can create an empathetic relations...
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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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Marc Thivierge
Born in Ottawa in 1953 - Franco-Ontarian Mentor/friend: Bernard Poulin High school diploma in 1973 Algonquin C...
Gülay Alpay
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a Turkish & Canadian Artist. My paintings are playful, spirited, freeform, and deceptively complex. I br...
Rashvena Khosa
OCAD U Feature Artist
Rashvena Khosa is an Indian/Malaysian interdisciplinary artist in Brampton and Tkaronto/Toronto with a Bachelo...
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Erin McGean
Erin studied Fine Art at York University in Toronto and although originally trained in Painting and Drawing sh...
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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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Daniel Maluka
Daniel, a writer and self-taught visual artist from Toronto, has a deep passion for storytelling, which he exp...
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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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steven sabados
After completing an education in Fine Art Steven moved to Toronto where he excelled as the in-store Creative ...
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R Tetrault
Richard Tetrault Raised on the West Coast of Canada, my work focuses on the dynamics of the contemporary land...
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Emily King Simpson
Emily King Simpson is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in oil painting and textile based sculptura...
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Barb Symons
Barb Symons is a Toronto-based artist whose work ranges from monoprints, life drawings and other works on pap...
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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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Carrie Chisholm
Carrie Chisholm, AOCAD, MFA is an award-winning artist/designer and marketing/ business development profession...
Alejandro Rizzo Nervo
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alejandro Rizzo Nervo (b. 1993, Caracas, VE), is an interdisciplinary artist and performer that lives and work...
Raha Fard
OCAD U Feature Artist
BIO Raha Fard is an Iranian Canadian multidisciplinary artist, holding an MFA and BFA from OCAD University. Sh...
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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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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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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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Paulette Melanson
Paulette Melanson is an artist who paints abstracts and landcapes. She lives in Lunenburg, a UNESCO World Heri...
Leilah Dhoré
OCAD U Feature Artist
Based in Toronto, Leilah Dhoré an artist whose multidisciplinary work encompasses photography, digital collag...
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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...
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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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Blaine White
Blaine White is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist. His racial background is black, white and some indig...
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Nicole Krstin
Nicole Krstin is a Filipinx-Canadian visual artist currently residing in Calgary. Nicole’s work explores how...
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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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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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Susan Robertson-Baranick
I am resident of Ottawa Ontario and I am a"late" emerging artist, mother of 3 and about to retire from the ca...
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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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Michael Lé
michael lé also known as @indolestic [identities as interesting] Indolestic´s artwork explores the intercon...
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Patrick Skals
Patrick Skals is a Canadian artist based in Toronto, renowned for his distinctively edgy and conceptual painti...
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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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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...
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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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...
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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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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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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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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Laura Kay Keeling
Laura Kay Keeling (she/her/they) is a self-taught visual artist based in Hamilton. Her practice is rooted in a...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
Zee B.F.
Zee is a self-taught Afro-Indigenous digital artist from New York who is currently based is Durham Region, ON....
Jasmine Cardenas
Jasmine Cardenas is an Ecuadorian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist working with sculptural paintings, collag...
Harjot Chahal
Harjot Chahal is an 18-year-old Punjabi-Canadian Digital artist. Inspired by multiple forms of media, he uses ...
CLAUDIO PARENTELA
Born in Catanzaro(1962-Italy) where he lives and works…Claudio Parentela is an illustrator,painter,digital p...
Hannah Somers
Hannah Somers is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based artist and curator. She has a completed BFA at Toronto Metropolitan...
Vidhya Srijesh
Vidhya Srijesh, based in Oshawa is a Visual artist who specializes in nature/wildlife art. Her passion for art...
Franziska Barczyk
Franziska Barczyk is a multi-disciplinary artist working in collage, acrylic, sculpture and works on paper. Sh...
ievgeniia cherednikova
Ievgeniia is a painter born in Kyiv, Ukraine and working and living in Tkaronto/Toronto. Studying at OCAD Univ...
Dennis Fuentes
Dennis Fuentes can be described as a time traveler of sorts. In the day time he is a graphic designer in an ur...
Sara Lamond
Sara Lamond, a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist born in Nova Scotia, has cultivated an eclectic and emotiona...
Mikena Kuzmienska
Mikena Kuzmienska is a traditional and contemporary artist working in acrylic paint and coloured pencil. She r...
Patti Agapi
Patti Agapi is an Orillia, Ontario based abstract artist who works across the mediums of paint and collage. Sh...
Blair Immink
Blair Immink is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary “painter”. Blair studied his undergrad at OCAD U in the ...
Elif Giray
Elif Giray is a Turkish/Canadian, Toronto-based, self-taught abstract painter and collage artist. Over the y...
efemena ogboru
Efemena Ogboru was born and raised in Abuja, Nigeria until 2017 where she moved to Canada to pursue a degree i...
Hugo Cantin
Hugo Cantin is a Montreal-based artist, designer and film collector. Inspired by mid-century art movements and...
Jenny Zhang
Jenny Zhang is a Chinese-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. In 2022, she received h...
Kate Rogers
Kate Rogers mixed-media art practice uses collage, drawing, painting, photography and video, to address the cu...
Olivia Trivieri
Olivia Trivieri is a visual artist living and working in Niagara. Her practice includes painting, print-work a...
Max Dalí Kamilla Kulova
Italian, non binary, neurodivergent, award winning, multidisciplinary artist, part of Techspressionism Interna...
Thamara Perera
Thamara Perera is an emerging mixed-media illustrator and artist based in Toronto, Canada. She graduated from ...
Angelica Candido
Angelica Candido is a contemporary artist specializing in impressionistic paintings of Canadian landscapes and...
Rosie Schinners
Rosie Schinners (b.1979) is a collage artist who resides on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. She ...
Miré Albornoz
ARTIST’S BIO Miré Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...
Birdie Sunday
Polish Canadian photographer and digital artist focusing on portraying Canadian nature in a new and romantic l...
Emebet Belete
Emebet Belete was born in Ethiopia. A graduate of the Addis Ababa Fine Arts School, and Queen’s University, ...
Rachelle Wunderink
Rachelle Wunderink is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe ...
Szonja Vucsetics
Szonja Vucsetics is a Hungarian - Canadian artist based in Toronto, working primarily in oil paint and mixed m...
manuela moldovan
Romanian-born Manuela Moldovan lives and works from her home studio in Toronto. She is a self-taught mixed med...
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 ...
Irfan Ajvazi
Irfan Ajvazi (born 2001) is a Kosovan painter he received a Diploma in Graphic Design from Great Learning Acad...
Brenna Tomas
Brenna Tomas is an interdisciplinary female artist, recreation therapist, writer and mother born and raised in...
Ruben Chavez-Munoz
Ruben Dario Chavez-Munoz is a first generation Latinx/Canadian artist working primarily in the visual arts. He...
Charlotte Healey
Charlotte Healey (Canadian b. 1989) is an emerging contemporary painter and printmaker living in Toronto. Alth...
Frances Sousa
Frances Sousa's practice explores combinations of paint, photography, collage and textiles. Her designs are co...
Alexandra Marcuzzi
Born and raised in Toronto, Alexandra Marcuzzi is a versatile artist with a practice that emphasizes drawing a...
Valerie Marshall
Valerie Marshall is a visual artist whose practice spans analogue and digital mediums. With a Master of Archit...
Samy Sabani
Samy Sabani is an Ontario-based artist exploring modern existence through playful experimentation of materials...
Fatima Raza
I am a contemporary abstract fine artist living in Toronto, Canada. I recently graduated from OCAD University ...
Suzette Terry
Suzette Terry is an accomplished painter who has been working primarily with acrylics and mixed media/collage ...
Nancy Newton
Nancy Newton is a Toronto based artist and has been exhibiting her mixed media drawing and paintings over the ...
Callie DeWees
Multimedia feminist illuminations through self-portraiture and parody or re-contextualization of religious art...
Randa Hijazi
« Art is how I battle against the indifference of humans and offer new ways of viewing the world. » Randa H...
Arlene John-Chuan
Arlene is a multidisplinary artist, designer and creator. Her current works were born out of a season of grief...
Claire Heidinger
OCAD U Feature Artist
Claire Heidinger is a Toronto-based visual artist with a BFA from OCAD University, specializing in Drawing and...
samuel Kasirer
My Name is Sam Kasirer-Smibert. I had my first solo show in November of 2015 entitled Atro Versiamo at the Vic...
Tristan Coloma
Tristan Velasquez Coloma is a Filipino-born emerging artist based in Toronto. He graduated with his BFA in Dra...
Heather J. A. Thomson
Heather J. A. Thomson’s practice amalgamates her passion for history and her desire to use a visual language...
Yuan Wen
Yuan Wen is a printmaker and visual artist based in Vancouver. Wen’s practice focuses on printmaking, drawin...
Alessandra Singh
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alessandra Singh is a recently graduated Thesis student and Drawing and Painting major at OCAD University. Gro...
Megan Hazen
Born in Renfrew Ontario, Megan Hazen is a 2017 graduate of OCAD University in Toronto with a Bachelor of Fine ...
Maryam zaraimajin
Maryam Zaraimajin is Canadian- Persian artist. She migrated to Toronto in 2003, where she later completed her ...
Claudia Menecola
OCAD U Feature Artist
Claudia Menecola is a Toronto-based artist and graduate of OCAD University where she received a BFA in Drawing...
anahita azrahimi
anahita azrahimi is a visual artist and Executive Director of Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. She draws the in...
Danielle Coleman
OCAD U Feature Artist
Danielle Coleman is a multidisciplinary artist who holds a BFA with distinction in Drawing & Painting from OCA...
Agent X
Agent X, cultural explorer and agent of the unknown, creates experimental, multimedia collages, paintings, and...
Dana McCool
OCAD U Feature Artist
Dana McCool is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and anarchist. Using symbolism, colour harmonies ...
Danielle Cole
Danielle Cole is a Toronto based artist who creates playful collages through an assembly of original vintage g...
leah landau
Leah Landau was born in Poland in 1945, a child of holocaust survivors. As a child she lived in Israel and mov...
Nicole Moss
Nicole Moss is an award winning collage artist currently living and working in Toronto. She studied drawing an...
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...