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Freda Tan
OCAD U Feature Artist
Freda Tan is an emerging artist based in Toronto, Canada. She works in various painting mediums and transform ...
Saruye s
OCAD U Feature Artist
I, an Iranian-Canadian woman, explore identity, diaspora, and duality through the tension between precision an...
Mariam Fahmy
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am an Egyptian-Canadian artist currently based in Japan. I graduated from OCAD university in 2024. My work s...
Maariyah Mohiuddin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Maariyah Mohiuddin is an emerging artist based in the GTA. Much of her practice involves depicting her Indian ...
Sue Mackay
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sue Mackay is a Canadian abstract artist, living and working in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently completing ...
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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...
Sarvin Sadeghian
OCAD U Feature Artist
I’m Sarvin Sadeghian, an Iranian artist currently living in Toronto and pursuing a Bachelor of Design in Ill...
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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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Tony Luib
I'm awe-inspired by chromatic psychedelia patterns found in nature and urban centres. I've been obsessed with...
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Karen Jeffrey
Karen is an abstract artist working in cold wax, and oil. She currently lives in Markham, Ontario, with her tw...
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...
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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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Annette Courtemanche
Artist Statement: I am an emerging Toronto-based artist working primarily with acrylic/mixed media on canvas. ...
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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 ...
Shinae Kim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Shinae Kim is a Canadian painter of Korean descent, an OCAD University graduate (Honours BFA in Drawing and Pa...
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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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Sharon Hunter
Sharon Hunter Artist Bio I am an artist of mixed Indigenous and settler heritage. My paintings explore the n...
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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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Anika Becker
Anika Becker explores the intricate relationships between humans and animals, embracing Intertwingularity—th...
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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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Lynne Saintonge
A connection to nature and love of the evocative, expressive qualities of colour and light are the foundation ...
Gülay 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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Sheila Thompson
Sheila Thompson moved her fibre art practice to Guelph from Toronto in 2021 and has enjoyed something of an re...
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Kelly Harper Morehouse
A Newfoundlander by birth, and having lived in various places across Canada and the U.S., Kelly now lives with...
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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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Alannah Tassone
My name is Alannah Tassone and I am an abstract/contemporary artist living in Toronto, Canada. I started exper...
Anoosh Mubashar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Anoosh is a Toronto-based artist who enjoys working in many mediums, especially paint and printmaking. She is ...
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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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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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Maureen Bradshaw
Maureen Bradshaw is a Toronto based artist. Her work is primarily oil on canvas. She layers lively brush strok...
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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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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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Penny Griffin
Penny Griffin is a Toronto based artist working in pastel and acrylic who is endlessly inspired by the colours...
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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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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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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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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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Nicole Krstin
Nicole Krstin is a Filipinx-Canadian visual artist currently residing in Calgary. Nicole’s work explores how...
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Audrey Feltham
I am a professional artist working both in traditional print practise and in fibre art. I have been creating ...
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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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France Benoit
After twenty years of painting and experimenting with various mediums, I discovered a true passion for encaust...
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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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Farzaneh Alihosseini
My inspiration comes from the diverse environments I encounter during my travels within Canada and abroad—fr...
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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Ahlena Sultana-McGarry
OCAD U Feature Artist
Ahlena Sultana-McGarry is a Pakistani-Canadian cross-disciplinary artist whose work delves into the intricate ...
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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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Marianne Sung
**Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (Nathan Philip Square): July 11-13 , Booth 542 (Zone E)** **New Website: mariannes...
Shahrzad Amin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Shahrzad Amin is an Iranian-Canadian award-winning interdisciplinary artist with more than twelve years of div...
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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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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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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CathArine Somerville
Catharine works in both the UK and Canada. Note: She spells her name with two a’s which is unusual and every...
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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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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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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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Juliet Sekandi
Juliet Sekandi is a Ugandan-Canadian Toronto-based artist working primarily in acrylic on canvas. Juliet is a ...
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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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Nancy Bennett
Nancy Bennett is primarily a landscape artist who was cracked open by the pandemic and now paints everything....
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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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Avery Gibbes
OCAD U Feature Artist
It’s inevitable at different points in our lives that we'll be faced with entering worlds that are outside o...
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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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Maryam Ebrahimi
Artworks of Canadian-Iranian artist, Maryam Ebrahimi, are magnetic in their meditative flow. Her paintings hav...
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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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Marta Stares
Marta Stares is an artist and educator interested in painting the outdoors, especially the Northern Ontario la...
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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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Elena Gorlenko
Elena, a printmaker based in Toronto, divides her time between her homes in Canada and Berlin, Germany. She is...
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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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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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Ester Pugliese
Ester Pugliese's multilayered mixed media paintings utilize a coral reef aesthetic to reimagine Vanitas still ...
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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 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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Kaitlin Johnson
Kaitlin works in acrylics on canvas, creating dramatic abstract paintings inspired by nature. After completi...
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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...
Sophie Hansen
. In Somewhere Between Here and There I work with the quiet poetry of the natural world — dried florals, fe...
Snehal Mahajan
I’m a mixed media and resin artist based in Mississauga, Canada. My work is deeply inspired by nature—its ...
Veronique Ouaknine
Veronique has lived on 4 continents. She has studied Art History at Le Louvre in Paris, painting and drawing a...
Vidhya Srijesh
Vidhya Srijesh, based in Oshawa is a Visual artist who specializes in nature/wildlife art. Her passion for art...
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...
Ryota Matsumoto
Ryota Matsumoto is an artist, educator, and architect based in New York, Toronto, and Tokyo. He is internatio...
Meera Dinh
I am captivated by the intricate relationship between the hidden sanctum of the soul and the psychological con...
Kim Ricalton
Kim Ricalton is an abstract expressionist who creates heavily textured and multi layered paintings. She is a N...
Hugo Cantin
Hugo Cantin is a Montreal-based artist, designer and film collector. Inspired by mid-century art movements and...
Janet Taylor
On Making Art I am obsessed with those extraordinary moments that surface within the mundane. Maybe it’s a ...
Cassandra Atter
Cassandra Atter is a 24 year old Canadian Artist who resides in Toronto and has just completed her thesis in t...
Ruth Lane
I am a Toronto born painter, currently residing in Elora, ON. I attended York University, where I studied Soci...
Kate Rogers
Kate Rogers mixed-media art practice uses collage, drawing, painting, photography and video, to address the cu...
Kevin Matheson
I’m an artist and graphic designer based in Toronto, Canada. I’ve been working in the field of graphic des...
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...
Morgan Sheardown
Morgan Sheardown, the visionary artist, born and raised in downtown Toronto, transcends fine art and design. A...
Odette Valero
OV artisticdrive The name “OV” is an abbreviation of the artist´s name Odette Valero, while the name “a...
Ken Kowalchuk
I attended Emily Carr College of Art & Design (now Emily Carr University) from 1980-84 and graduated with an H...
Che Ree Kwon
Che Ree Kwon is a visual artist, currently based in Toronto, Canada. She was born and raised in South Korea wh...
Lucien Charron
Lucien Charron is a visual artist based in Ottawa, Canada. He has studied at Algonquin College in Fine Art her...
Miré Albornoz
ARTIST’S BIO Miré Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...
Erika Nielsen
ERIKA NIELSEN, CELLIST AND ARTIST Erika Nielsen's multi-faceted creative background as a cellist, artist, and ...
Patricia Lourenco
Residing in Toronto, Patricia was born in a small coastal fishing town in Portugal. Her creative spark was ign...
Gillian Lahav
Gillian Lahav is a self-taught oil painter and gilder. Her paintings are inspired by nature's magic, featuring...
Eric Sandstrom
Eric Sandstrom (b. 1997) is a Canadian street photographer, currently based in Barcelona, Spain. His work expl...
Carlos Delgado
Carlos Delgado is Colombian visual artist living in Toronto, Canada. As an internationally recognized artist, ...
Chris Harms
Chris Harms creates cosmic images with stained glass, vitreous paints, and dalle de verre. From intimate, othe...
Marc-Etienne Des Rosiers
Marc E. Des Rosiers is a contemporary self-taught multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting, music, ph...
manuela moldovan
Romanian-born Manuela Moldovan lives and works from her home studio in Toronto. She is a self-taught mixed med...
Steph Cloutier
Steph Cloutier is a francophone artist based in Toronto, Canada. She received her Bachelors of Fine Art with D...
Rachael Speirs
Rachael Speirs was born in Oakville, Ontario and raised in Toronto and Cambridge, Ontario. As a child Rachael ...
Olivia Mae Sinclair
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Mae Sinclair is a textile-book artist. Her intuitive and trauma-based practice is guided by sloppy craf...
Maureen Bradshaw
Maureen Bradshaw, is a Toronto based artist. Her work is primarily oil on canvas. She layers lively brush stro...
Alexandra Marcuzzi
Born and raised in Toronto, Alexandra Marcuzzi is a versatile artist with a practice that emphasizes drawing a...
Tessa Alexander
Tessa creates visual images which explore themes surrounding identity and heritage. Her compositions whether ...
Hakan Kamasik
Hakan Kamasik was a modern expressionist artist who was born in Turkey in 1992. He had a degree on Bachelor of...
Jill Letten
Jill Letten (@j.letten_art) is an artist based in Hamilton, Ontario, accredited with a BFA from McMaster Unive...
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...
Alanna Peters
Alanna Peters was born in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto. She earned an Honours BA for Fine Arts from M...
Kai Liu
Kai Liu, a Chinese-Canadian artist, is known for his semi-abstract depictions of urban landscapes and everyday...
Rabiyah Sagheer
Rabiyah Sagheer, a Canadian-Pakistani interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, explores the convergence of t...
Tristan Coloma
Tristan Velasquez Coloma is a Filipino-born emerging artist based in Toronto. He graduated with his BFA in Dra...
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...
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...
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 ...
Kristina Pavao
OCAD U Feature Artist
Kristina Pavao is a Filipino-Portuguese designer and illustrator based in Toronto. She is attending OCAD Unive...
Alessandra Singh
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alessandra Singh is a recently graduated Thesis student and Drawing and Painting major at OCAD University. Gro...
Katrina Jurjans
Katrina graduated from Concordia University in 2014 with a BFA in Studio Art and Art History. In her last year...
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...
Sara Petroff
SARA PETROFF Born an artist, Sara has only recently given herself permission to self identify, allowing meanin...
Adam Macciocchi- Lancia
Adam Macciocchi Lancia is a contemporary artist from Toronto, Canada. Accepted to the Art Gallery of Ontario'...
Dominique Czerednikow
Dominique Czerednikow is self-taught digital and visual artist. Freely developing her passion and artist educa...
Daniel Cardoso
OCAD U Feature Artist
Daniel Cardoso is a emerging printmaking artist based in Toronto who graduated in 2020 from OCAD University wi...
Frances Patella
Frances Patella lives and works in Toronto. She is a photo-based, mixed media artist, exploring perception, me...
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 ...
Lana Spieler
OCAD U Feature Artist
Lana Spieler was born in Barbados and currently lives and works in Toronto. She is a fourth-year thesis stude...
Julie Gladstone
Julie Gladstone is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist. Gladstone's paintings reveal hidden facets of the lan...
Erica Campitelli
Erica is an abstract artist born in Toronto, Canada. Painting is her way of being present. It allows her to sh...
Olga Klosowski
Olga Klosowski is constantly searching for new ways of commemorating history. Her work uses found objects in ...
Lizz Aston
Lizz Aston is a textile artist and industrial designer based in Toronto. In her work, she bridges gaps between...
Ritu G
My love for painting started as a preschooler when I was gifted my first box of wax crayons, it turned into my...
Christina Essue
Christina is an artist and creative strategist, interested in the worlds of art, design and commerce, and the ...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...