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Freda Tan
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Freda Tan is an emerging artist based in Toronto, Canada. She works in various painting mediums and transform ...
Nadia Da Silva
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My work delves into themes of longing and otherness, navigating the intricate terrains of displacement, identi...
Shamika Pierre
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My name is Shamika Pierre, and I am an illustrator based in Toronto. My work primarily utilizes inks, watercol...
Connor Garito
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Connor Garito is a multidisciplinary artist born in Mississauga, Canada currently a third year student at OCAD...
Erica Gibbs
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Erica Gibbs (b.2002) is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator based in Toronto and Mississauga, graduati...
Saruye s
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I, an Iranian-Canadian woman, explore identity, diaspora, and duality through the tension between precision an...
Kiran Senthilnathan
OCAD U Feature Artist
Kiran Senthilnathan is a 22-year-old multidisciplinary artist currently pursuing a degree in Experimental Anim...
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Jenn Lantz
From an early age, I had an unstoppable interest in drawing, painting, sewing and making things of all kinds. ...
Stephanie Camille
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My name is Stephanie Camille, and I’m an artist based in the GTA. While I primarily work in oil painting, I...
Mariam Fahmy
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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 ...
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...
Mio Reynolds
OCAD U Feature Artist
Mio Reynolds is an illustrator and painter born and raised in Toronto. Having a passion for art at a young age...
Cassandra Cunningham
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cassandra Cunningham was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and has been creating art since her childhood. Ca...
Nadine Alexeev
OCAD U Feature Artist
Nadine Alexeev is a Russian/Ukrainian contemporary painter and textiles artist based in Toronto. She is a fi...
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...
Zhuyu Li
OCAD U Feature Artist
Zhuyu is a Toronto-based artist who merges traditional Chinese aesthetics with contemporary approaches. Workin...
Vismay Sanghavi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Vismay Anand Sanghavi is an West Indian Canadian artist, currently living, working and creating from the city ...
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...
Elyse Ricketts
OCAD U Feature Artist
Elyse Skye Ricketts is a multidisciplinary artist in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. She is currently on her artisti...
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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...
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...
Sophie Sawicka
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sophie Sawicka (b. 2003) is a visual artist based in Toronto. Her work explores feelings of alienation through...
Jenny Tchen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Jenny Tchen is a Chinese Vietnamese artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, currently in her final year at OCAD Univ...
Xijia(Romee) Lai
OCAD U Feature Artist
Xijia Lai, an artist from Northeast China, is currently studying drawing and painting at OCAD University in To...
Isabelle Halmos
OCAD U Feature Artist
Isabelle Halmos is a 2021 graduate of Drawing and Painting from OCAD University, completing her Bachelor degre...
Mahir Siraj
OCAD U Feature Artist
Mahir Siraj b.1992 Mahir Siraj is an Eritrean-born artist who lives and works in Toronto. He is an emerging ...
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Mary Ann Maiangowi-Manatch
Mary Ann Maiangowi-Manatch is an emerging Odawa (Wiikwemkoong) & Algonquin (Mitchikanibikok Inik) artist pract...
Ksenia Danilova
OCAD U Feature Artist
Ksenia Danilova is a mixed-media artist living and working in Toronto. She’s currently studying at OCAD Univ...
Deepikah bhardwaj
OCAD U Feature Artist
Deepikah(Born in 1985) is an Indian interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, who graduated with an MFA in In...
Gülay Alpay
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a Turkish & Canadian Artist. My paintings are playful, spirited, freeform, and deceptively complex. I br...
Rashvena Khosa
OCAD U Feature Artist
Rashvena Khosa is an Indian/Malaysian interdisciplinary artist in Brampton and Tkaronto/Toronto with a Bachelo...
Isabella Nicastro
OCAD U Feature Artist
Isabella Nicastro is a contemporary Canadian artist based in Toronto, Ontario. Currently completing a Bachelor...
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Ana Luisa Bernardez
OCAD U Feature Artist
Ana Luisa Bernárdez is a Venezuelan emerging artist based in Toronto. She holds a BFA with Distinction from O...
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...
Anoosh Mubashar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Anoosh is a Toronto-based artist who enjoys working in many mediums, especially paint and printmaking. She is ...
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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kaya joan
OCAD U Feature Artist
Kaya Joan is a multi-disciplinary Afro-Indigenous (Vincentian, Kanien’kehá:ka, Jamaican, settler) artist bo...
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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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Firouzeh Saremi Far
OCAD U Feature Artist
As an artist, my practice is a continuous exploration of the intersections between human experience and enviro...
Hana Hozhabr Pour
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hana Hozhabr Pour is a visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. In her painting practice, she creates abstract ...
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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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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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Cristine Yunyk
Cristine Yunyk’s colourful and sensitive abstract works are made for lovers of contemporary painting. Conced...
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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Kirk Sutherland
Kirk Sutherland is a Toronto-based Canadian artist. He has exhibited his work under the representation of many...
Alejandro Rizzo Nervo
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alejandro Rizzo Nervo (b. 1993, Caracas, VE), is an interdisciplinary artist and performer that lives and work...
Emma Enright
OCAD U Feature Artist
Emma Enright is a textile artist and designer from Hamilton, Ontario. Her series of work investigates the mat...
Haley Parker
OCAD U Feature Artist
Haley Parker (b. 1996) is an emerging Canadian lens-based artist currently based in Toronto. After attending...
Raha Fard
OCAD U Feature Artist
BIO Raha Fard is an Iranian Canadian multidisciplinary artist, holding an MFA and BFA from OCAD University. Sh...
Sonya Katashonova
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sonya is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator working in oils, acrylics, inks and watercolors, with a B....
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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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Katarina Holbrough
OCAD U Feature Artist
Katarina Holbrough (she/her) Currently living and working in Tkaronto, Ontario. A mixed-media artist, working...
Boyu Jiang
OCAD U Feature Artist
Boyu Jiang is a lens-based multidisciplinary artist and editorial/fashion photographer based in Toronto. He wa...
Leilah Dhoré
OCAD U Feature Artist
Based in Toronto, Leilah Dhoré an artist whose multidisciplinary work encompasses photography, digital collag...
Stacy Athena May
OCAD U Feature Artist
Stacy Athena May is an abstract painter and classically trained draughtswoman working out of Toronto. She earn...
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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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Pasi J. Paltanen
Pasi Paltanen is a Finnish-Canadian painter/illustrator based out of Stouffville, Ontario, Canada, whose recen...
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Deloris Chen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Currently based in Markham, Deloris Chen is an illustrator and painter. She graduated in 2020 from OCAD Univer...
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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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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Leone McComas
Leone McComas is a Canadian-Nigerian Artist, Muralist, and Designer. She is Toronto-based, London (UK) born, a...
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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...
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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Jacquelyn Sloane Siklos
Jacquelyn is a Toronto based artist, working in photography and painting. She graduated from a joint art and a...
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Alysha Rocca
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hello & welcome! My name is Alysha and I'm an emerging artist, who studied in Toronto at OCAD University, earn...
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Par Nair
Par is an Indian born Canadian maker who lives and works in Toronto. Her oil paintings are a critique on the s...
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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 ...
Mason Barnes-Crouse
OCAD U Feature Artist
Mason is an OCADU Illustration graduate living in Toronto's West End. He emphasizes strong traditional paintin...
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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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Maya Skarzenski
OCAD U Feature Artist
Maya Skarzenski creates creatures and emotional milieus through material play and amorphous shapes with paint,...
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Desiree Nechacov
OCAD U Feature Artist
Desiree Nechacov is a Toronto based artist originally from Kitchener Ontario. She completed her Bachelor of Fi...
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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...
Sara Shoghi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sara Shoghi (@sarahshoghi) is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist specializing in painting, illustration,...
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Nick Zhurid
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a modern calligraphy artist from Kiev, currently based in Toronto. My way started back in 2012 with stre...
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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Tania Costa
OCAD U Feature Artist
Tania Costa is a Toronto-based Portuguese-Canadian artist whose paintings have been shown at Toronto Outdoor A...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Devon Pryce
OCAD U Feature Artist
Devon Pryce is an emerging artist currently working and living in Toronto. He completed his BFA in Drawing an...
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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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Donny Nie
OCAD U Feature Artist
Donny Nie is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist. She received a BFA from OCAD University, and an MFA fro...
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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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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...
Kayla Ferreira
OCAD U Feature Artist
Kayla Ferreira is a Toronto-based artist and a graduate of OCAD University with a BFA in Drawing and Painting....
Jenny Zhang
Jenny Zhang is a Chinese-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. In 2022, she received h...
Madelyn Rotella
OCAD U Feature Artist
Madelyn Rotella is an emerging artist living and working in Mississauga, Ontario. She holds a BFA in Drawing &...
Kaspian Kondrat
OCAD U Feature Artist
Kaspian Kondrat is a Toronto-based artist, working primarily in oil paint. Kaspian's work can be recognized th...
Eric Daniels
Eric Daniels is a 2020 graduate of Drawing and Painting and Expanded Animation (DPXA) at OCADU. He is Guelph b...
vridhhi chaudhry
OCAD U Feature Artist
Vridhhi is an interdisciplinary artist from India based in Toronto. She completed her MFA from OCAD University...
Qudsia Hussain
OCAD U Feature Artist
My name is Qudsia Hussain. I am a Pakistani Canadian Muslim woman. I have attended Ocad University and recentl...
LOANNE TRAN
OCAD U Feature Artist
Loanne II Tran is a photographer filled with curiosity. They explore the grounds of fashion editorial while ex...
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...
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...
Tammy Chan
OCAD U Feature Artist
Tammy Chan is an illustrator based in the Greater Toronto Area and a recent graduate from OCAD University with...
Kirollos Kilada
OCAD U Feature Artist
Kirollos is an artist and illustrator from Mississauga, ON. He works in a variety of techniques both traditio...
Xinming Yi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Xinming Yi is a Shanghai-based illustrator currently working in Toronto, working preliminarily in digital pai...
Tina Seifpour
OCAD U Feature Artist
Tina Seifpour is a Toronto based Iranian Canadian artist interested in themes that revolve around the natural ...
Janet Read
Janet Read is a painter, musician, and poet, whose childhood was spent near Lake Simcoe. The artist has sought...
Jes Thomas
Jes Bonnie is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist currently studying Sculpture & Installation at OCAD Uni...
Jeanmarie Weatherhead
CJ Weatherhead, is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in T’karonto and born in Guatemala. My artisti...
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...
Emily Zou
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a queer Canadian-Chinese multimedia artist. My art practice explores the intersection of climate awarenes...
Hiu Lam
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hiu Lam is a multi-media artist based in Toronto with experience in analogue painting media and digital practi...
Emerald Repard-Denniston
OCAD U Feature Artist
Emerald Repard-Denniston is a queer Chinese-Canadian contemporary artist based in Squamish, Tsleil-waututh and...
Evelyn Trista
OCAD U Feature Artist
Evelyn Trista Baik is a Creative Director and Photographer based in Toronto, Canada. She was born and raised i...
Julia Mathew
OCAD U Feature Artist
Julia Mathew is a Toronto based artist who graduated from Illustration at OCAD University. Julia first started...
Claire Heidinger
OCAD U Feature Artist
Claire Heidinger is a Toronto-based visual artist with a BFA from OCAD University, specializing in Drawing and...
Cissy Shi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cissy Ruoyao Shi is a Toronto-based contemporary artist specializing in drawing and acrylic painting. She grad...
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...
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 ...
Sarah Cannon
Sarah Cannon is a Toronto based artist. She received her BFA in 2011 from OCADU in Toronto, ON. Through the pr...
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...
Justin Mezzapelli
OCAD U Feature Artist
Justin Mezzapelli is an interdisciplinary artist whose curiosity intersects poetics, repetition, domesticity, ...
Grace Hotchkiss
OCAD U Feature Artist
A multimedia artist and production designer, Grace graduated with a Bachelor's of Environmental Design from O...
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...
Daniel Cardoso
OCAD U Feature Artist
Daniel Cardoso is a emerging printmaking artist based in Toronto who graduated in 2020 from OCAD University wi...
Mikayla Lacey
OCAD U Feature Artist
Mikayla Lacey’s work explores the way vulnerability can be used as a tool for creation. She draws upon the i...
Darcy Roop
OCAD U Feature Artist
Darcy was born in Montreal and studied Illustration in Toronto at OCADU. She is a multidisciplinary artist wit...
Claudia Menecola
OCAD U Feature Artist
Claudia Menecola is a Toronto-based artist and graduate of OCAD University where she received a BFA in Drawing...
Bidemi Oloyede
OCAD U Feature Artist
Bidemi Oloyede (b. 1996) is originally from Port Harcourt, Nigeria now based in Toronto, ON, Canada. He holds...
Dawn Howie
OCAD U Feature Artist
Dawn Howie is a photographer based out of Toronto. Her practice explores macro photography, emphasizing the pa...
Lilian Sim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Lilian Sim is an artist from Toronto who primarily works in watercolour, inks, and printmaking. They graduated...
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...
Zuna Amir
OCAD U Feature Artist
Zuna Amir is a Pakistani-Canadian Illustrator based in Toronto. In 2020, she graduated from OCAD University wi...
Anastasia Tarkhanova
OCAD U Feature Artist
Anastasia is a Russian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist currently working and living in Toronto. In 2020 she ...
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...
Danielle Coleman
OCAD U Feature Artist
Danielle Coleman is a multidisciplinary artist who holds a BFA with distinction in Drawing & Painting from OCA...
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...
Walter Segers
Walter Segers emigrated from Belgium in 1993 and currently lives and works in Toronto. He graduated from the O...
Sarah Van Dusen
Artist Statement Sarah Van Dusen is an artist from Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from Centennial College Fin...
frances hahn
Frances studied English Literature and Art History before teaching for a year in Italy where she fell in love ...
Refaya Turshin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Refaya Turshin (c.1994) is a Bangladeshi-Canadian fine artist, and photographer. Turshin is the founder and de...
Hana Elmasry
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hana Elmisry is a painter, educator and counsellor. Hana's praxis engages with concepts in cognitive science a...
Moira Ness
Moira Ness is an interdisciplinary visual artist specializing in contemporary photo-based landscapes and algor...
dori vanderheyden
Dori Vanderheyden is an interdisciplinary artist-teacher-researcher living and working in Toronto. Diverse int...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...