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Nadia Da Silva
OCAD U Feature Artist
My work delves into themes of longing and otherness, navigating the intricate terrains of displacement, identi...Kiran Senthilnathan
OCAD U Feature Artist
Kiran Senthilnathan is a 22-year-old multidisciplinary artist currently pursuing a degree in Experimental Anim...
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Jenn Lantz
From an early age, I had an unstoppable interest in drawing, painting, sewing and making things of all kinds. ...Stephanie Camille
OCAD U Feature Artist
My name is Stephanie Camille, and Iโm an artist based in the GTA. While I primarily work in oil painting, Iโ...Vismay Sanghavi
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Vismay Anand Sanghavi is an West Indian Canadian artist, currently living, working and creating from the city ...
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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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Christine Cloutier
Christine Cloutier is a passionate abstract artist, originally from Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula, based in Kelowna...
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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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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...
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Carmen Alonso
Carmen Marie Alonso is a self-taught artist with a primary focus on oil painting. She was born in 1997 and rai...
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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 ...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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Omar Zayed
Omar Tarek Zayed is a textile artist based in Toronto, ON. His practice focuses on transforming traditional cr...
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Tamkeen S
Tamkeen is an artist based in Toronto, Canada. She creates landscape, still life and abstract paintings using ...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 Intertwingularityโth...
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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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Daniela D'Ambrosio
Daniela is a self-taught visual artist living in Toronto. Her work explores themes of nature, femininity, and ...
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Katrina Ewanchuk
โYour vision will become clear only when you can look down into your own heart.โ Carl Jung As a child gro...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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Marc Thivierge
Born in Ottawa in 1953 - Franco-Ontarian Mentor/friend: Bernard Poulin High school diploma in 1973 Algonquin C...Gรผlay Alpay
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a Turkish & Canadian Artist. My paintings are playful, spirited, freeform, and deceptively complex. I br...
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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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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...Dilshad Kanji
OCAD U Feature Artist
โInside you thereโs an artist you donโt know aboutโฆ say yes quickly, if you know, if youโve known it...
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Eddie Li
Eddie Li is a 23-year old artist with Autism Spectrum Disorder who lives in Toronto. He has studied art under...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sepi Borhani
Sepi is a self-taught artist based in Toronto, Ontario with a background in Engineering; however, her lifelong...
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Ayan Melikli
OCAD U Feature Artist
My work on Partial is predominantly a mix of traditional and digital painting, but I aim to constantly evolve ...
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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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Boone Gourlay
Adam Gourlay is an interdisciplinary artist that focuses on painting, drawing, and performance. His most rece...
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Amanda Amour-Lynx
Amanda Amour Lynx is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent urban Lโnu-Scottish interdisciplinary artist and facilitat...
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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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Carrie Chisholm
Carrie Chisholm, AOCAD, MFA is an award-winning artist/designer and marketing/ business development profession...
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Mayra Majano
Mayra Majano is a visual artist living and working in Toronto. Majanoโs work explores her personal relations...
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Jason Balducci
Jason Balducci is a contemporary figurative painter who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Originally from I...
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Aadila Munshi
Aadila Munshi is a contemporary artist living and working in Toronto, Canada. She is known for her paintings o...
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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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Rexhep Bucinca
Rexhep Buรงinca 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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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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Maureen Doody
Maureen is an award-winning contemporary artist, writer, photographer and former elite athlete, from Ottawa, C...
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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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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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Matthew Catalano
Matthew Catalano was born in Oshawa Ontario and received his BFA from the University of Waterloo. He currentl...
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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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Parveen Dhatt
I create artwork from post consumer โwasteโ, remnants of everyday life; newspapers, food packaging, fast f...
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Michael Lรฉ
michael lรฉ also known as @indolestic [identities as interesting] Indolesticยดs artwork explores the intercon...
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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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Maggie Shepherd
I love using light and line to create landscapes and still life paintings. The forgiving and dramatic oil med...
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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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Natalia Ackers
Natalia is a late-blooming, emerging Toronto-based abstract painter. As a teenager, Nataliaโs bedroom walls...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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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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Jonathan Palter
Born in Toronto, Jonathan Milne Palter began his art career as a sculptor. Using traditional tools such as ham...
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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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Trinley Dorje
Trinley Dorje is a Toronto based mixed media/collage artist whose artworks are visual anthropological explorat...
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CathArine Somerville
Catharine works in both the UK and Canada. Note: She spells her name with two aโs which is unusual and every...
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Dรฉsirรฉ Betty
Artist Dรฉsirรฉ Betty has long explored the spiritual serenity that manifests itself through her artistic expr...
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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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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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Jill Huang
Hailing from Vancouver, BC, Jill Huang graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a degree in...
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Juliet Sekandi
Juliet Sekandi is a Ugandan-Canadian Toronto-based artist working primarily in acrylic on canvas. Juliet is a ...
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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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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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Roshni Wijayasinha
Roshni Wijayasinha is a Toronto based visual artist who specializes in large abstract expressionist paintings ...
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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...
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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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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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Linds Miyo
Linds Miyo is a self-taught, intuitive painter, known for process-based works that drift between abstraction, ...
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Sook Chang
Sook Chang's painting journey started as a PleinAir artist, with oil as her major medium. As her journey unfol...
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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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Ian McLean
In his oil paintings, Ian presents otherworldly depictions of imagined residential environments โ both inter...
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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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Rita Vindedzis
I believe art should feel like an extension of the space it inhabitsโsomething 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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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...Rebecca Bender
Rebecca is fascinated by the connection between emotion and art. While she greatly values aesthetics in her wo...Carla Sierra Suarez
Carla is a Mexican artist based in Toronto, born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico. She completed her BFA at O...Sima Salehi Rahni
Sima Salehi Rahni is an award-winning artist whose diverse practice spans photography, moving images, installa...Christie Baker
Christie Baker is a self-taught Canadian painter whose work explores memory, material, and the quiet significa...Lili Xu
Iโm Toronto based part-time painter, and aiming to create visually bold, and emotionally charged paintings o...Melsa Montagne
Melsa Montagne offers a series of anonymous portraits. Characters from another time, sensitive and strange, wh...Camila Wong
Camila Wong is a Peruvian born artist and illustrator based in Toronto, Ontario. She began drawing and paintin...Veronique Ouaknine
Veronique has lived on 4 continents. She has studied Art History at Le Louvre in Paris, painting and drawing a...Hannah Somers
Hannah Somers is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based artist and curator. She has a completed BFA at Toronto Metropolitan...pam sawhney
Pam Sawhney is a Toronto-based abstract artist whose work is a vibrant exploration of spiritual life and inner...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...Meera Dinh
I am captivated by the intricate relationship between the hidden sanctum of the soul and the psychological con...Eva Lewarne
I was born in Poland and have lived half my life here, in Toronto. Both countries have influenced and shaped m...Kim Ricalton
Kim Ricalton is an abstract expressionist who creates heavily textured and multi layered paintings. She is a N...Le K (Krish Liang)
Le K (Krish Liang) is an multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Toronto, CA and Guangzhou, CHN. She ...Bre Ritchie
Breann Ritchie was born in Grimsby, Ontario on October 4th, 1988. In 2007, Breann was accepted to the Art and ...Morgan Booth
Morgan Booth is an artist and arts administrator based in Toronto, Canada. Her oil paintings use female figure...Kevin Matheson
Iโm an artist and graphic designer based in Toronto, Canada. Iโve been working in the field of graphic des...Heath Johnston
Originally from Tennessee and living & working in Colorado, Heath is a graphic designer, painter, illustrator ...Azadeh Pirazimian
Azadeh Pirazimian is a practising multidisciplinary artist, art educator based in Toronto and formerly a lectu...Zoey Zoric
In my artistic practice, I explore the interplay between technology, human connection, and the transient natur...Ken Kowalchuk
I attended Emily Carr College of Art & Design (now Emily Carr University) from 1980-84 and graduated with an H...Lucien Charron
Lucien Charron is a visual artist based in Ottawa, Canada. He has studied at Algonquin College in Fine Art her...Mirรฉ Albornoz
ARTISTโS BIO Mirรฉ Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...Renรฉ Lemay
A pluridisciplinary and self-taught artist, Renรฉ Lemay (1934-2015) has made his mark in contemporary realist ...Carlos Delgado
Carlos Delgado is Colombian visual artist living in Toronto, Canada. As an internationally recognized artist, ...Szonja Vucsetics
Szonja Vucsetics is a Hungarian - Canadian artist based in Toronto, working primarily in oil paint and mixed m...Siriaus T
As a concept creator which includes: fine arts, digital painting, progress painting videos, cinematography + f...Laura Thipphawong
Laura Thipphawong is a Canadian artist, writer, and historian, and has exhibited art and presented her researc...Marc-Etienne Des Rosiers
Marc E. Des Rosiers is a contemporary self-taught multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting, music, ph...Cassandra Makerewich
Who am I and what do I do? ... I've never had an easy answer for this. I am a lover of life and do the things ...Tiffany Blaise
Vancouver-based artist Tiffany Blaise creates expressionistic paintings of land and sea with a dream-like qual...Maryam Astaneh
Mainly a photographer & videographer who does paintings on the side. My focus is figurative painting that deal...Irfan Ajvazi
Irfan Ajvazi (born 2001) is a Kosovan painter he received a Diploma in Graphic Design from Great Learning Acad...Dre Nnamdi Anozie
Nnamdi Onyi Anozie is a Nigerian born, self-taught Fine Artist with a primary focus in Fine Art Photography, A...Christian Redermayer
My name is Christian Redermayer and I'm a creative problem solver as architectural and fine art photographer f...Brenna Tomas
Brenna Tomas is an interdisciplinary female artist, recreation therapist, writer and mother born and raised in...Charlotte Healey
Charlotte Healey (Canadian b. 1989) is an emerging contemporary painter and printmaker living in Toronto. Alth...Katya Ilina
Katya Ilina is a London and Toronto based artist working at the intersection of portrait, fashion and observat...Liz โElaโ Szymczak
Liz aka Ela, is a self taught abstract artist known for her vibrant & joyful paintings. After experiencing a h...leon zheng
Leon ( Longxuan Zheng) is a contemporary artist based in Toronto, Canada, with a diverse artistic journey spa...Sharon Trickett
My name is Sharon Trickett and I am a self taught contemporaryt artist in Nova Scotia. I have been honing my s...Becks .
Hi there, my name is Becks! I am a self-taught abstract artist. Abstract art is something that Iโve always...Riley Greco
Riley Greco is a visual artist based in Northern Ontario, Canada, who has created art throughout her lifetime....Katerina Pravda
Toronto-based contemporary visual artist Katerina Pravda creates environmentally-driven works characterized by...Alison Boyack
Alison was born in Montreal in 1969. She grew up in Ontario, living in Niagara Falls, Pembroke and North Bay,...Melissa Boodoo
Melissa Boodoo is a Chinese-Trinidadian fine artist and interior designer based in Toronto, Canada. As a daugh...Camille Brack
As an emerging but practicing artist of many years, I have many finished pieces, and lots of large projects. ...Tessa Alexander
Tessa creates visual images which explore themes surrounding identity and heritage. Her compositions whether ...Corina Hanson
Born in Nakusp, BC, Vancouver painter and mixed media artist Corina Hanson has a diverse range of art practic...Hamid Mohammadi
Hamid Mohammadi has studied architecture at Dalhousie University, figurative painting at NSCAD and industrial ...Hakan Kamasik
Hakan Kamasik was a modern expressionist artist who was born in Turkey in 1992. He had a degree on Bachelor of...Suzette Terry
Suzette Terry is an accomplished painter who has been working primarily with acrylics and mixed media/collage ...Assaad Elsibai
Lebanon is where my story began, with a nursing degree shaping the first chapters. For 16 years, I dedicated m...Irina Zlobina
Irina Zlobina is a Russian-born painter and printmaker with more than twenty years of artistic practice, and w...Jeanmarie Weatherhead
CJ Weatherhead, is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in Tโkaronto and born in Guatemala. My artisti...Erin Shakespeare
Born in North Vancouver, B.C., Erinโs artwork has been greatly impacted by her love of nature, and time spen...Jenny Liu
A contemporary landscape artist, Jenny Liu creates intuitively expressive semi-abstract watercolor and mixed m...Emmette Lewis
I am a Canadian and South African artist who is now based in Toronto, Ontario. I understand art as an unparall...Pat Cantin
Bachelor in visual and media arts, Pat Cantin approaches as subject, abstract portrait, semi-figurative or, "...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...Davinson Nunez Sanchez
CURRICULUM VITAE Davinson Nuรฑez Sanchez, Caibariรฉn, 18 de marzo de 1989. Direcciรณn particular: Call...Michaela Fernandes
Michaela Fernandes is a multi-faceted artist originally from Goderich, Ontario currently residing in Toronto. ...Gwen Tooth
Gwen Tooth is an expressionist painter. She paints to express energy, soul and mood. She has in recent years ...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...Reynold Thomas
Reynold Thomas is a Visual Artist whose work shows a perfect mix of exquisite beauty and raw strength. His art...Dan Murphy
Concepts and Expressions Iโm fascinated with include psychology and the functions and malfunctions of the mi...Candice Grant
Candice is an abstract artist based in Surrey, BC. Her work is all about colorโbold, vibrant, and expressive...Cristina Getson
Cristina Getson is an abstract expressionist painter based in Toronto, Canada. With a degree in Biomedical Eng...Melanie Lixiyue Yan
OCAD U Feature Artist
Melanie L. Yan is an emerging illustrator/artist based in Toronto. She graduated from OCAD University and now ...Judith McKay
Judith McKay is a modern abstract artist based in the Toronto area. She is an intuitive and high energy painte...MARILU RIVERA
Marilu Rivera is a contemporary, self-taught artist born on August 24 th , 1991 in Oaxaca, Mexico. She started...Eduard Gurevich
Eduard was born in 1969 in Ukraine. In 1992, he immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto where he lives ...Yuan Wen
Yuan Wen is a printmaker and visual artist based in Vancouver. Wenโs practice focuses on printmaking, drawin...Sara Petroff
SARA PETROFF Born an artist, Sara has only recently given herself permission to self identify, allowing meanin...Dominique Czerednikow
Dominique Czerednikow is self-taught digital and visual artist. Freely developing her passion and artist educa...Kamil Swiatek
Kamil Swiatek is a multi-disciplinary artist from Toronto, Ontario who has been painting since the late 1990s....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...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...Anastasia Tarkhanova
OCAD U Feature Artist
Anastasia is a Russian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist currently working and living in Toronto. In 2020 she ...Dana McCool
OCAD U Feature Artist
Dana McCool is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and anarchist. Using symbolism, colour harmonies ...Dan Nuttall
Dan Nuttall has a professional background in the natural sciences and design. Much of his art practice is base...Sarah Van Dusen
Artist Statement Sarah Van Dusen is an artist from Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from Centennial College Fin...Julie Gladstone
Julie Gladstone is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist. Gladstone's paintings reveal hidden facets of the lan...Nicole Moss
Nicole Moss is an award winning collage artist currently living and working in Toronto. She studied drawing an...Archivaldo Rozas
Archivaldo Rozas was born in Concepciรณn, Chile and studied painting and engraving at the School of Fine Arts ...Hana Elmasry
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hana Elmisry is a painter, educator and counsellor. Hana's praxis engages with concepts in cognitive science a...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.