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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
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Ernesto Cabral de Luna is a Mexican lens-based artist working in Toronto. Utilizing both analog and digital pr...
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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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Morris Wazney
OCAD U Feature Artist
While studying at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU), I found my passion for bronze cast...
Sophie Sawicka
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sophie Sawicka (b. 2003) is a visual artist based in Toronto. Her work explores feelings of alienation through...
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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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Sue Ennis
I'm a Toronto based painter, and a graduate of University of Toronto (B.A,B.Ed) and the Toronto School of Art...
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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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Reisha Felix
Reisha Felix is an award-winning Toronto based fine arts and multi-media artist who was born and raised on the...
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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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Boone Gourlay
Adam Gourlay is an interdisciplinary artist that focuses on painting, drawing, and performance. His most rece...
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Marjolyn Vanderhart
Inspire your Life with images from the Past! For many of us, our identity is tied to memories from our child...
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Amanda Amour-Lynx
Amanda Amour Lynx is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent urban L’nu-Scottish interdisciplinary artist and facilitat...
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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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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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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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Sandrine Dickel
Sandrine Dickel's work explores human existence with a focus on femininity. She draw and paint situations of h...
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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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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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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Clare McIntyre
Clare is a formally-trained artist and designer who lives in Toronto. She spent her early childhood in St. Joh...
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Valerie Carew
Valerie Carew (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores human relationships with land using body b...
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Ellee SY Lee
I am a Korean-Canadian, Toronto-based painter. I make imaginary paintings that oscillate between abstraction ...
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Brian Jiang
OCAD U Feature Artist
Bree Jiang (they/she) is a queer trans multi-disciplinary artist of Chinese-descent based in Tkaronto. Her pra...
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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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Michael Lé
michael lé also known as @indolestic [identities as interesting] Indolestic´s artwork explores the intercon...
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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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Farzaneh Alihosseini
My inspiration comes from the diverse environments I encounter during my travels within Canada and abroad—fr...
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Parastoo Mahmoudi
Artist Bio Parastoo Mahmoudi is a Canadian-Iranian artist who lives in Toronto. She started practicing her ...
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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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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Denys Golden
Denys Golden (FKA Golemenkov) is a Ukrainian-born, Toronto-based visual artist. Denys specializes in hard-edge...
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Anne-Marie Olczak
"The endless possibilities of the grid." The grid is a way to filter the many ideas and inspirations in my...
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Anam Feerasta
OCAD U Feature Artist
Anam Feerasta is a Pakistani-Canadian artist based in Toronto. She works primarily with acrylic and oil paints...
Shahrzad Amin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Shahrzad Amin is an Iranian-Canadian award-winning interdisciplinary artist with more than twelve years of div...
Michael Highway
OCAD U Feature Artist
Colour blocks are for sparkling moments of slow nights lines to recall the smell of here and that All these ...
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Olivier Salvas
Olivier Salvas is a distinguished artist, educator, media personality, and curator whose practice intersects a...
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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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Jennie Lau
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Jennie Lau is an emerging artist based in Toronto. Her art work consist of paintings, collages, time-based med...
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Suzanne Tevlin
Suzanne Tevlin is a well known artist and lecturer in Toronto. Author of “The Conspiracy of Silence; Gerica...
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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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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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ESTHER DOË KIM
OCAD U Feature Artist
Esther Kim (b. 1995, South Korea), also known as DOË, is a Korean-Canadian artist based in Toronto. A graduat...
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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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Amada Estabillo
Amada Estabillo is a Canadian-born artist of mixed Filipino heritage. She lives in the Brockton Village area ...
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Mekayla Dionne
OCAD U Feature Artist
Mekayla Dionne is an emerging Métis abstract painter. She was born in 1997 and spent her childhood in a small...
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Jose F Jimenez
Jose F Jimenez, born in Venezuela in 1986, is an artist deeply inspired by natural landscapes. Growing up surr...
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Linds Miyo
Linds Miyo is a self-taught, intuitive painter, known for process-based works that drift between abstraction, ...
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Laura Heaney
Laura Heaney is a contemporary portrait artist and creator of the Observing Green project, based in Toronto, C...
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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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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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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...
Carla Sierra Suarez
Carla is a Mexican artist based in Toronto, born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico. She completed her BFA at O...
Jane Forrest
Jane Forrest is currently studying contemporary art at the Etobicoke School of the Arts. She primarily works w...
CLAUDIO PARENTELA
Born in Catanzaro(1962-Italy) where he lives and works…Claudio Parentela is an illustrator,painter,digital p...
Shabnam Afrand
Shabnam Afrand is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and educator whose practice is influenced by performance,...
Veronique Ouaknine
Veronique has lived on 4 continents. She has studied Art History at Le Louvre in Paris, painting and drawing a...
Franziska Barczyk
Franziska Barczyk is a multi-disciplinary artist working in collage, acrylic, sculpture and works on paper. Sh...
Jill McNair
Jill McNair is an artist and an educator. Her background as an Art Therapist and Art Instructor has expressed ...
Amy Merritt
Kezliegh, also known as Amy Merritt is a Canadian new media artist who uses digital media that’s printed on ...
Azadeh Razzagh
Azadeh Razzagh is an artist, designer and art curator based in Toronto. Liberty, freedom, rights and identity ...
Marina FAW
Marina FAW is a Takronto (Toronto) based emerging mixed media artist. Born in Takronto and raised in Brasilia,...
Eric Daniels
Eric Daniels is a 2020 graduate of Drawing and Painting and Expanded Animation (DPXA) at OCADU. He is Guelph b...
Che Ree Kwon
Che Ree Kwon is a visual artist, currently based in Toronto, Canada. She was born and raised in South Korea wh...
Amanda Gallagher
Amanda works with oils, acrylics, spray paint, and uses art to investigate the perception of memories on archi...
Haley Meyer
Haley Meyer (b. 2000) is an emerging oil painter based in Toronto. Her work explores the connection between m...
Patricia Lourenco
Residing in Toronto, Patricia was born in a small coastal fishing town in Portugal. Her creative spark was ign...
Marc-Etienne Des Rosiers
Marc E. Des Rosiers is a contemporary self-taught multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting, music, ph...
Rachael Speirs
Rachael Speirs was born in Oakville, Ontario and raised in Toronto and Cambridge, Ontario. As a child Rachael ...
Donna Chudnow
The memories and feelings of childhood camping and canoe trips in parts of northern Ontario are essential to ...
Ellie Hsu
OCAD U Feature Artist
Ellie Hsu is a Taiwanese-Canadian illustrator based in Toronto. She values living in true essence and finds in...
leon zheng
Leon ( Longxuan Zheng) is a contemporary artist based in Toronto, Canada, with a diverse artistic journey spa...
Alison Boyack
Alison was born in Montreal in 1969. She grew up in Ontario, living in Niagara Falls, Pembroke and North Bay,...
bhavya dixit
Bhavya Dixit is a self-taught fine artist based in Montreal, Canada. Originally from India, she creates intric...
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...
Brubey Hu
Brubey (Wanzhi) Hu (b. 1994) is an artist, graphic designer, and educator living in Toronto. Brubey works most...
SHU LI
Art is not just a visual experience, but an emotional journey. In my oil paintings, I strive to capture the fl...
Susana Mingram
Susana Mingram is an acrylic and Photoshop artist who was raised in Mexico City and resides in Ajax, ON. She e...
Dan Murphy
Concepts and Expressions I’m fascinated with include psychology and the functions and malfunctions of the mi...
Cissy Shi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cissy Ruoyao Shi is a Toronto-based contemporary artist specializing in drawing and acrylic painting. She grad...
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...
JIHU KIM
I am a Korean artist based in Vancouver, BC. I graduated from Emily Carr University of Art+Design in 2022, an...
Jasmin-Nicole A.
My name is Jasmin-Nicole, and I am a Ghanaian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and art educator specializing ...
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...
Varvara Nedilska
OCAD U Feature Artist
I’m a Toronto-based Ukrainian Canadian artist and a 2020 graduate of the OCADU illustration program. My prac...
Eduard Gurevich
Eduard was born in 1969 in Ukraine. In 1992, he immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto where he lives ...
Katrina Jurjans
Katrina graduated from Concordia University in 2014 with a BFA in Studio Art and Art History. In her last year...
Megan Hazen
Born in Renfrew Ontario, Megan Hazen is a 2017 graduate of OCAD University in Toronto with a Bachelor of Fine ...
Tiffany Tremaine
Tiffany Tremaine is an artist located in Toronto Ontario, whose work focus's on life and all of it's little th...
Caroline Ji
Caroline Ji is a self-taught artist with a previous background in engineering. In 2014 she left her engineerin...
Olivia Di Gregorio
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Di Gregorio is an emerging Canadian artist with a mixed background of Chinese and Italian heritage. She...
Nicole Moss
Nicole Moss is an award winning collage artist currently living and working in Toronto. She studied drawing an...
Michèle White
Michèle White’s work explores – often through sources in literature – manifestations of the unconscious...Discover collector-worthy artwork by outstanding OCAD University alumni and students.
Freda Tan
OCAD U Feature Artist
Freda Tan is an emerging artist based in Toronto, Canada. She works in various painting mediums and transform ...
Nadia Da Silva
OCAD U Feature Artist
My work delves into themes of longing and otherness, navigating the intricate terrains of displacement, identi...