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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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Agnes Bellegris
Agnes is an artist who cherishes the interplay of light and dark and the colourful spaces we occupy. Her goal...
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Sara Purves
Sara Purves is an artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was a fine art major at the Claude Watson School o...
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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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Christine Cloutier
Christine Cloutier is a passionate abstract artist, originally from Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula, based in Kelowna...
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Erin Crysdale
Erin's paintings explore how something personal is in fact a universal experience and is what links us to the ...
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Michelle Kast
It can be incredibly daunting and difficult to write about yourself, so lets start with a few descriptive word...
Suhmer Hyatt
OCAD U Feature Artist
Suhmer Hyatt (pronounced like the season) is an illustrator from Toronto. She is an OCAD University Bachelor ...
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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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Trinley Dorje
Trinley Dorje is a Toronto based mixed media/collage artist whose artworks are visual anthropological explorat...
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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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Jeanie Lui
I am a visual art artist based in Toronto, Ontario, graduated from Ontario College of Art and Design (OCADU) i...
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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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Lynne Saintonge
A connection to nature and love of the evocative, expressive qualities of colour and light are the foundation ...
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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Zana Wensel
Zana Wensel is a multidisciplinary artist, queer ecologist, and somatic practitioner, who lives and practices ...
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Jim Pescott
Hello, thank-you for stopping by to visit. Over the years I have been know a 'The Dot Painter'. This is beca...
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Sara Abulkarim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sara Abulkarim is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. She studied at Cégep Marie-Victorin in Montrea...
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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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Brian Jiang
OCAD U Feature Artist
Brian Jiang (they/she) is a queer trans multi-disciplinary artist of Chinese-descent based in Tkaronto. Their ...
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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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Lynn Spencer
Inspire Your Soul! We all need to feel a moment of inspiration. Enhance your life with art that brings light...
Sue-Ann Brereton
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sue-Ann Kathleen Brereton, is a Toronto based visual artist working mainly with acrylic, watercolour and digit...
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Reisha Felix
Reisha Felix is a Toronto based fine arts artist who was born and raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica. ...
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Alysha Rocca
OCAD U Feature Artist
HELLO!! My name is ALYSHA, I am a Vaughan-born artist, who studied in Toronto at OCAD University, earning a BF...
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Laura Heaney
Laura Heaney is a contemporary portrait artist and creator of the Observing Green project, based in Toronto, C...
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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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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karen klucowicz
Karen Klucowicz is a Canadian artist creating concept-driven, bold, figurative abstract art. Her art focuses 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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Tatiana Nikolaeva
Hi, my name is Tatiana and I am an emerging artist with a passion for creating art that captures the beauty an...
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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Ruth Thorogood
For over a decade, Ruth ran a brand and marketing company but pivoted to abstract art during COVID. Having pro...
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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...
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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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Kaitlin Johnson
Kaitlin works in acrylics on canvas, creating dramatic abstract paintings inspired by nature. After completi...
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Loretta Kaltenhauser
As a contemporary, award-winning artist, Loretta expresses her visions in a spontaneous and direct fashion. Ac...
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Firouzeh Saremi Far
OCAD U Feature Artist
Firouzeh Saremi Far, a Painting and Sculpture major at OCAD University, is a Toronto-based artist. She is infl...
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Ellee SY Lee
I am a Korean-Canadian, Toronto-based painter. I make imaginary paintings that oscillate between abstraction ...
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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Linda DeLuca
Linda DeLuca was born in Welland, Ontario and currently lives in Toronto. She is a graduate from the School o...
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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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Marianne Sung
Marianne is an emerging and self-taught Korean-Canadian artist. Radiating warmth and light, her art is inte...
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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Olivier Salvas
Olivier Salvas is a queer artist, educator, media personality and curator specializing in arts education and s...
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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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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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Natalia Ackers
Natalia is a late-blooming, emerging Toronto-based abstract painter. As a teenager, Natalia’s bedroom walls...
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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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France Benoit
France Benoit, artiste en arts visuels de la relève, s'est particulièrement distinguée pour ses œuvres d'e...
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Garth Eley
Garth has deep roots on Manitoulin Island, and although a seasonal resident now, still has family living there...
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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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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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Sherry Dube
Sherry Dube is a self taught traditional artist who creates acrylic works with a highly detailed and realistic...
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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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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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Clare McIntyre
Clare McIntyre is a classically-trained artist and designer who lives in Toronto. The daughter of a professio...
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June Tenzin
June Tenzin is a visual artist based in Toronto. After graduating from the Stroganov Academy of Applied Arts, ...
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Spiritman Art (Jackie Gaistman)
I began my journey as an artist from the moment I could hold a crayon. Creating art has been like breathing ev...
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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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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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Montina Hussey
Montina (b.1989) graduated with a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University. . She currently resides i...
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April Pyne
April is a visual artist living in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her work explores simplified shapes and fragmented ...
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Rita Vindedzis
"These new mixed media abstract paintings are optimistic. They are a journey into my imagination. As an introv...
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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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Linds Miyo
Linds Miyo is a self-taught, intuitive painter, known for process-based works that drift between abstraction, ...
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Elena Gorlenko
Elena is a printmaker from Toronto, Canada. She creates primarily linocuts. In creating relief prints, she use...
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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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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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Maryam Ebrahimi
Artworks of Canadian-Iranian artist, Maryam Ebrahimi, are magnetic in their meditative flow. Her paintings hav...
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Susan McLean Woodburn
"I am always open to the Spirit of grace and harmony. It is my desire to share these moments that inspires me ...
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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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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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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...
Kelly-Marie Murtha
I've been an artist all my life, in one form or another. An actor, A filmmaker. A singer, A musician. A painte...
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...
Janet Taylor
On Making Art I am obsessed with those extraordinary moments that surface within the mundane. Maybe it’s a ...
ievgeniia cherednikova
Ievgeniia is a painter born in Kyiv, Ukraine and working and living in Tkaronto/Toronto. Studying at OCAD Univ...
efemena ogboru
Efemena Ogboru was born and raised in Abuja, Nigeria until 2017 where she moved to Canada to pursue a degree i...
Blair Immink
Blair Immink is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary “painter”. Blair studied his undergrad at OCAD U in the ...
Ann Ryan
Hello! I am originally from Quebec and have been living in beautiful Burlington, Ontario for the last 40 years...
Honeylyn Romales-Amaga
I am a self taught artist with naturalistic approach in painting. Generally I prefer painting with acrylics, c...
René Lemay
A pluridisciplinary and self-taught artist, René Lemay (1934-2015) has made his mark in contemporary realist ...
Janie Dugan
As a visual artist my world is full of colours, reflections and filled with visions and dreams. As a self taug...
Jordyn Sweezey
Jordyn was born in Humboldt, SK in 1991. She currently lives & works in Paradise Hill, SK. Sweezey works in ...
Thamara Perera
Thamara Perera is an emerging mixed-media illustrator and artist based in Toronto, Canada. She graduated from ...
Becks .
Hi there, my name is Becks! I am a self-taught abstract artist. Abstract art is something that I’ve always...
Yasir Hameed
Yasir Hameed has been painting since 2010. He is a representational artist, and his current work explores urba...
Mary Pal
Mary Pal is a Canadian fibre artist best known for her cheesecloth portraiture, artworks that are made with sc...
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 ...
Odette Valero
OV artisticdrive The name “OV” is an abbreviation of the artist´s name Odette Valero, while the name “a...
Donna Chudnow
The memories and feelings of childhood camping and canoe trips in parts of northern Ontario are essential to ...
Patricia Lourenco
Residing in Toronto, Patricia was born in a small coastal fishing town in Portugal. Her creative spark was ign...
Zana Collab
Illustrators Anastasia Tarkhanova and Zuna Amir graduated into a pandemic world when ZANA collab was born as a...
James Okore
My name is James Okore, and I am a contemporary interdisciplinary artist, specializing in portrait paintings e...
Erika Li
Erika Li is a contemporary calligraphy artist who began studying classical Chinese calligraphy at the age of f...
Judith McKay
Judith McKay is a modern abstract artist based in the Toronto area. She is an intuitive and high energy painte...
Zach Warne
My artwork begins with a word or phrase, that I use as the title. As I write the given title onto the canvas I...
Vanessa Pejovic
Through my photos, I explore themes of beauty, memory, wonder, and renewal in the most ordinary of places, but...
vridhhi chaudhry
OCAD U Feature Artist
Vridhhi is an interdisciplinary artist from India based in Toronto. She completed her MFA from OCAD University...
Cristina Getson
Cristina Getson is an abstract expressionist painter based in Toronto, Canada. With a degree in Biomedical Eng...
Gwen Tooth
Gwen Tooth is an expressionist painter. She paints to express energy, soul and mood. She has in recent years ...
Miré Albornoz
ARTIST’S BIO Miré Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...
manuela moldovan
Romanian-born Manuela Moldovan lives and works from her home studio in Toronto. She is a self-taught mixed med...
Tina Seifpour
OCAD U Feature Artist
Tina Seifpour is a Toronto based artist interested in themes that revolve around the natural and different for...
jackie besteman
I have been painting birds for 3 years ( having worked as an illustrator for most of my career) Birds inspire ...
Tone Bailey
Anthony "Tone" Bailey is a mixed-media artist based in Toronto, Canada. His love for photography began in his ...
Sharon Trickett
My name is Sharon Trickett and I am a self taught contemporaryt artist in Nova Scotia. I have been honing my s...
Alison Boyack
Alison was born in Montreal in 1969. She grew up in Ontario, living in Niagara Falls, Pembroke and North Bay,...
Eric Daniels
Eric Daniels is a 2020 graduate of Drawing and Painting and Expanded Animation (DPXA) at OCADU. He is Guelph b...
Liz “Ela” Szymczak
Liz aka Ela, is a self taught abstract artist known for her vibrant & joyful paintings. After experiencing a h...
Serge Khrumalo
Serge is a Toronto-based artist who draws all the time, on everything. Experimenting with materials is an esse...
Sasha Q
Hello! My name is Sasha Q (real name Oleksandra Stepanenko) and I'm an artist born in Kyiv, Ukraine. I was f...
Brubey Hu
Brubey (Wanzhi) Hu (b. 1994) is an artist, graphic designer, and educator living in Toronto. Brubey works most...
Samy Sabani
Samy Sabani is a nonrepresentational painter based in southwestern Ontario. His work delves into the intersect...
Suzette Terry
Suzette Terry is an accomplished painter who has been working primarily with acrylics and mixed media/collage ...
frances hahn
Frances studied English Literature and Art History before teaching for a year in Italy where she fell in love ...
Shailaja Sajja
# APRIL UPDATE: Sometime in 2025, once I feel sufficient number of my artwork have found homes, I would be mov...
Liza Zawadzka
Liza is an artist and art teacher living in Toronto. She has a passion and love for the outdoors. Her art is...
Susana Mingram
Susana Mingram is an acrylic and Photoshop artist who was raised in Mexico City and resides in Ajax, ON. She e...
Nancy M. Martini
Hello! I’m Nancy Martini, a self-taught artist living in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Painting colourful e...
Randa Hijazi
« Art is how I battle against the indifference of humans and offer new ways of viewing the world. » Randa H...
Luke Labelle-Stackhouse
Luke Labelle-Stackhouse is a hard-edge abstraction artist based in Toronto. Turning towards painting as a pref...
leah landau
Leah Landau was born in Poland in 1945, a child of holocaust survivors. As a child she lived in Israel and mov...
Jasmin-Nicole A.
Jasmin-Nicole Amoako (she/her) is a Ghanaian-Canadian visual artist and community arts facilitator. She is a g...
Aidan Wilkins
Hi, I am Aidan Wilkins, I've recently moved to Vancouver and am very excited to enjoy nature. I love folk art ...
Francois Fournier
Nature varies itself relentlessly. It is my contact with this constantly changing environment that inspires my...
Gwynne Giles
Gwynne Giles is an emerging artist whose work is in collections in both North America and Europe. His naive, t...
Lilian Sim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Lilian Sim was born and raised in Toronto. She works mainly in watercolour, ink, and gouache but also enjoys w...
Refaya Turshin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Refaya Turshin (c.1994) is a Bangladeshi born, Toronto-based fine artist and photographer whose work focuses o...
Dan Nuttall
Dan Nuttall has a professional background in the natural sciences and design. Much of his art practice is base...
Jane Dickson
Jane Dickson, was born in the sixties and raised on a farm in Southern Ontario. She loved to colour and draw a...
Dawn Howie
OCAD U Feature Artist
Dawn Howie is a photographer based out of Toronto. Her practice explores macro photography, emphasizing the pa...
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...
Emily Zou
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a Toronto-based Canadian-Chinese multimedia artist, sculptor, illustrator, painter, and maker of earrings...
Ritu G
My love for painting started as a preschooler when I was gifted my first box of wax crayons, it turned into my...
Helen Baker
Helen Baker is a Canadian abstract painter living in Kingston, Ontario. She is also a local activist that a...
Erica Campitelli
Erica is an abstract artist born in Toronto, Canada. Painting is her way of being present. It allows her to sh...
Cissy Shi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cissy Ruoyao Shi is a Toronto-based contemporary artist specializing in drawing and acrylic painting. She grad...
Nicole Moss
Nicole Moss is an award winning collage artist currently living and working in Toronto. She studied drawing an...
Darcy Roop
OCAD U Feature Artist
Darcy was born in Montreal and studied Illustration in Toronto at OCADU. She is a multidisciplinary artist wit...
Dana McCool
OCAD U Feature Artist
Dana McCool is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and anarchist. Using symbolism, colour harmonies ...
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...
Alessandra Singh
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alessandra Singh is a recently graduated Thesis student and Drawing and Painting major at OCAD University. Gro...
Candice Grant
Colorful art is Candice's way of expressing herself during challenging times. Feelings of sadness, anxiety, fe...
Tal Paz-Fridman
My name is Tal Paz-Fridman, I am a photographer specializing in creative + documentary photography. To paraphr...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...