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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 ...
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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. ...
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Hee J. Jo
Hee J. Jo (b. 1987) is a Korean Canadian artist currently residing in Mississauga, Ontario. Jo is a City of Mi...
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Janna Kumi
BIOGRAPHY Born in the Netherlands and raised in the suburbs of Montreal, Janna's artistic journey began with c...
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Anson Ng
Hello! I am Anson Ng — I am a landscape painter and painting instructor born in Thailand and raised in Toron...
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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...
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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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Helena Wehrstein
Discarded, outmoded, unwanted stuff….my passion is to breathe new life into these by-products of our society...
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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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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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Tamkeen S
Tamkeen is an artist based in Toronto, Canada. She creates landscape, still life and abstract paintings using ...
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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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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
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look down into your own heart.” Carl Jung As a child gro...
Nhi Nguyen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Nhi Nguyen is an illustrator graduate from OCAD University, Toronto, Canada. Creating art has always been her...
Dilshad Kanji
OCAD U Feature Artist
“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it...
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Francois Fournier
Nature varies itself relentlessly. It is my contact with this constantly changing environment that inspires my...
Sarah Young
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sarah Young is an artist specializing in drawing and painting. Born in Toronto, she makes paintings primarily ...
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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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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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Mackenzie Lenters
Mac Lenters is a visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across...
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Pamela Dodds
Pamela Dodds’ artwork in printmaking, painting and drawing is exhibited regularly in Canada, the USA and Eur...
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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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Mike Alexander
Mike Alexander is an emerging Anishinaabe visual artist and writer originally from Swan Lake First Nation in T...
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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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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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Amanda Amour-Lynx
Amanda Amour Lynx is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent urban L’nu-Scottish interdisciplinary artist and facilitat...
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Mina Nowzari
Mina Nowzari is an artist working across a wide range of media including photography, mail art, and site-speci...
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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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Rexhep Bucinca
Rexhep Buçinca 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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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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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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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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Tueai La
Tueai’s work is inspired by a deep reverence for nature. Her floral paintings aim to evoke the beauty and my...
Leilah Dhoré
OCAD U Feature Artist
Based in Toronto, Leilah Dhoré an artist whose multidisciplinary work encompasses photography, digital collag...
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Helen Tran
OCAD U Feature Artist
Born and raised in Vietnam, Helen Tran has always been naturally drawn towards creating art as a young girl. H...
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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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Elizabeth Forrest
A graduate in printmaking from the Ontario College of Art and Design, Elizabeth Forrest later travelled to Ky...
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Sherry Dube
Sherry is a self-taught traditional artist whose work encompasses landscapes, florals, and wildlife. Her art i...
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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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MJ Dominey
MJ Dominey is a native of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. She holds a Diploma in Commercial Design and a Bach...
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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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France Benoit
After twenty years of painting and experimenting with various mediums, I discovered a true passion for encaust...
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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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Melissa Fice
Melissa Fice attended Fleming College in Haliburton, Ontario, where she studied general arts. After graduating...
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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 ...
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Sunny Nestler
~welcome to my happy place~ I am a multi-disciplinary artist working on unceded Coast Salish territories belo...
Hau Pham
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hau Pham is an emerging artist based in Vaughan, Ontario. She is 2021 graduate of OCAD University, with a spec...
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Margie Kelk
MARGIE KELK Toronto-based multi-media artist Margie Kelk takes an exploratory and experimental approach as she...
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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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Tatiana Nikolaeva
Hi, my name is Tatiana and I am an emerging artist with a passion for creating art that captures the beauty an...
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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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Marianne Sung
**Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (Nathan Philip Square): July 11-13 , Booth 542 (Zone E)** **New Website: mariannes...
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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...
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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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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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Jennie Lau
OCAD U Feature Artist
Jennie Lau is an emerging artist based in Toronto. Her art work consist of paintings, collages, time-based med...
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Teri Donovan
Teri Donovan is a mixed media artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, and photo-based work. Among the t...
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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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Désiré Betty
Artist Désiré Betty has long explored the spiritual serenity that manifests itself through her artistic expr...
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Janna Robins Walters
Whether it's a portrait, still life or landscape my work expresses a playful youthful artistry that emits a dr...
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Laura Kay Keeling
Laura Kay Keeling (she/her/they) is a self-taught visual artist based in Hamilton. Her practice is rooted in a...
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Jason Zante
OCAD U Feature Artist
Jason Zante is a Filipino-Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada. Born in the Philippines in 1998, he receiv...
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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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Gillian Toliver
OCAD U Feature Artist
Gillian Toliver is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Toronto. Recently graduating from OCAD Univer...
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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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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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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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Maryam Ebrahimi
Artworks of Canadian-Iranian artist, Maryam Ebrahimi, are magnetic in their meditative flow. Her paintings hav...
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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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Marta Stares
Marta Stares is an artist and educator interested in painting the outdoors, especially the Northern Ontario la...
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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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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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Ester Pugliese
Ester Pugliese's multilayered mixed media paintings utilize a coral reef aesthetic to reimagine Vanitas still ...
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Ian McLean
In his oil paintings, Ian presents otherworldly depictions of imagined residential environments – both inter...
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Jordan Nahmias
Jordan Nahmias is a photographer living and working in Toronto, Canada. Traditionally capturing images of plac...
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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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Kaitlin Johnson
Kaitlin works in acrylics on canvas, creating dramatic abstract paintings inspired by nature. After completi...
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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...
Johnathan Dunslow
Johnathan Dunslow who was raised in Georgetown ON, is a contemporary Canadian artist based in the GTA. He is a...
Tiffany Duong
Tiffany Duong (b. 2002) is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator based in Toronto and Mississauga. She g...
Snehal Mahajan
I’m a mixed media and resin artist based in Mississauga, Canada. My work is deeply inspired by nature—its ...
Izzy Paez
Izzy Paez is a Latine visual artist working out of Toronto Canada. The main themes explored in Izzy's work ar...
Zee B.F.
Zee is a self-taught Afro-Indigenous digital artist from New York who is currently based is Durham Region, ON....
Ed Horner
Ed Horner is a wood carver living on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada. Ed finds inspiration in the island's ...
Megan Berardelli
My name is Megan Berardelli, and I'm a fine art photographer based in Ottawa, Canada. My photography seeks to ...
Anabelle Smith
Thanks for stopping by! My name is Anabelle Smith and I am a working artist in Portland Oregon. I have a degre...
Mikena Kuzmienska
Mikena Kuzmienska is a traditional and contemporary artist working in acrylic paint and coloured pencil. She r...
Honeylyn Romales-Amaga
I am a self taught artist with naturalistic approach in painting. Generally I prefer painting with acrylics, c...
Karen Phillips Curran
I’ve been an artist my whole life. It started over 50 years ago with an interest and lots of encouragement f...
Ashley Snook
Informed by biology, scientific research and socio-cultural dynamics, Ashley Snook explores the complexities o...
Eva Lewarne
I was born in Poland and have lived half my life here, in Toronto. Both countries have influenced and shaped m...
Jill McNair
Jill McNair is an artist and an educator. Her background as an Art Therapist and Art Instructor has expressed ...
Karen Colville
Karen Colville is a contemporary Nature Artist. A West Coast Scenery Painter of mood, light, calmness, tranqui...
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...
Mary Pal
Mary Pal is a Canadian fibre artist best known for her cheesecloth portraiture, artworks that are made with sc...
Vanessa Pejovic
Through my photos, I explore themes of beauty, memory, wonder, and renewal in the most ordinary of places, but...
Rosie Schinners
Rosie Schinners (b.1979) is a collage artist who resides on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. She ...
Miré Albornoz
ARTIST’S BIO Miré Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...
Jim Alpous
Jim Alpous is a Toronto based artist working predominantly in acrylic and watercolour who is drawn to the “r...
Kendra Schellenberg
Kendra Schellenberg is an award-winning artist born and raised in the Fraser Valley, BC. She works in multiple...
Patricia Lourenco
Residing in Toronto, Patricia was born in a small coastal fishing town in Portugal. Her creative spark was ign...
Yasir Hameed
Yasir Hameed has been painting since 2010. He is a representational artist, and his current work explores urba...
Laura Thipphawong
Laura Thipphawong is a Canadian artist, writer, and historian, and has exhibited art and presented her researc...
Phyllis Schwartz
Born in Brooklyn, raised in Texas, educated in the Mid-West, Phyllis Schwartz migrated to Western Canada durin...
Emily Zdunich
Emily Zdunich is a Saskatoon based interdisciplinary artist who has developed a figurative practice in paintin...
Irfan Ajvazi
Irfan Ajvazi (born 2001) is a Kosovan painter he received a Diploma in Graphic Design from Great Learning Acad...
Madeline Brimble
Madeline Brimble is a Toronto based new media artist who primarily works with sheet acrylic. With a process th...
Melissa Boodoo
Melissa Boodoo is a Chinese-Trinidadian fine artist and interior designer based in Toronto, Canada. As a daugh...
Tina Seifpour
OCAD U Feature Artist
Tina Seifpour is a Toronto based Iranian Canadian artist interested in themes that revolve around the natural ...
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 ...
James Zhao
I was born in China and I am living in Canada now. My background was electrical engineering and I was an engin...
Suzette Terry
Suzette Terry is an accomplished painter who has been working primarily with acrylics and mixed media/collage ...
Erika Li
Erika Li is a contemporary calligraphy artist who began studying classical Chinese calligraphy at the age of f...
Jeanmarie Weatherhead
CJ Weatherhead, is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in T’karonto and born in Guatemala. My artisti...
Emmette Lewis
I am a Canadian and South African artist who is now based in Toronto, Ontario. I understand art as an unparall...
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...
Nathan Cole
Nathan Cole is a visual artist, photographer, writer, and aspiring naturalist based in Toronto, Canada. Nathan...
Kanchan Quinlan
Kanchan Quinlan is a Canadian-Indian visual artist and an architectural designer. Born in Toronto and raised i...
Farihah Shah
Hi folks! I'm Farihah Aliyah Shah, a Canadian lens-based artist in Bradford and Toronto, Ontario originally fr...
SHU LI
Art is not just a visual experience, but an emotional journey. In my oil paintings, I strive to capture the fl...
Anna Snyder
Stemming from a longing for sensorial experiences with nature in contemporary culture, my photo-based practice...
Kai Liu
Kai Liu, a Chinese-Canadian artist, is known for his semi-abstract depictions of urban landscapes and everyday...
Dan Murphy
Concepts and Expressions I’m fascinated with include psychology and the functions and malfunctions of the mi...
Huaijun Wen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Huaijun Wen is a Chinese Canadian artist who specializes in fine art photography. His work is primarily figura...
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...
Olivia Aguiar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Aguiar is an emerging artist born, raised and working in Tkaronto. Olivia's practice is interdisciplin...
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 ...
Tiffany Tremaine
Tiffany Tremaine is an artist located in Toronto Ontario, whose work focus's on life and all of it's little th...
Jieun June Kim
Jieun June Kim is a Korean born painter, muralist, and art producer based in North York, Toronto. She has exh...
Keith Eager
Keith studied fine arts in high school at Central Technical School, animation at Max The Mutt Animation School...
Bidemi Oloyede
OCAD U Feature Artist
Bidemi Oloyede (b. 1996) is originally from Port Harcourt, Nigeria now based in Toronto, ON, Canada. He holds...
Miranda Crabtree
Miranda Crabtree is a Toronto-based artist who studied Interdisciplinary Fine Art at NSCAD University in Halif...
Tash Damjanovic
Artist Statement My work celebrates beauty, hidden in all the usual and sometimes unusual places. Inspiration...
Lilian Sim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Lilian Sim is an artist from Toronto who primarily works in watercolour, inks, and printmaking. They graduated...
Guillaume Marie Goder
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a freelance Illustrator and concept artist. Born and raised in Mauritius, I attended the Fashion and Desi...
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...
Nicole Moss
Nicole Moss is an award winning collage artist currently living and working in Toronto. She studied drawing an...
Melissa Neil
Melissa Neil is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design (2002). Recent exhibition history includes...
Refaya Turshin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Refaya Turshin (c.1994) is a Bangladeshi-Canadian fine artist, and photographer. Turshin is the founder and de...
dori vanderheyden
Dori Vanderheyden is an interdisciplinary artist-teacher-researcher living and working in Toronto. Diverse int...
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 ...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...