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Nadia Da Silva
OCAD U Feature Artist
My work delves into themes of longing and otherness, navigating the intricate terrains of displacement, identi...
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...
Cassandra Cunningham
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cassandra Cunningham was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and has been creating art since her childhood. Ca...
Vismay Sanghavi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Vismay Anand Sanghavi is an West Indian Canadian artist, currently living, working and creating from the city ...
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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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Paolo Luciano
Paolo Luciano is a visionary artist from Toronto. His work surrounds his curiosity of sacred geometry and spir...
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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Erin Crysdale
Erin's paintings explore how something personal is in fact a universal experience and is what links us to the ...
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Julea Boswell
My art is sparked by movement and beauty. Primary influences stem from my involvement in art, dance music and ...
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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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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Daniela D'Ambrosio
Daniela is a self-taught visual artist living in Toronto. Her work explores themes of nature, femininity, and ...
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...
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Marc Thivierge
Born in Ottawa in 1953 - Franco-Ontarian Mentor/friend: Bernard Poulin High school diploma in 1973 Algonquin C...
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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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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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Erin McGean
Erin studied Fine Art at York University in Toronto and although originally trained in Painting and Drawing sh...
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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...
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Darlene Winfield
Darlene Winfield is an award winning artist whose art may be found in numerous private around the globe incl...
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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Serge V Richard
Serge Gilles Richard is a Canadian artist who currently resides in Kedgwick, New Brunswick. He received his de...
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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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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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Sepi Borhani
Sepi is a self-taught artist based in Toronto, Ontario with a background in Engineering; however, her lifelong...
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Wayne Fisher
From an early age photography has always been a passion of mine .The creative process was intriguing to me as ...
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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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Emily King Simpson
Emily King Simpson is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in oil painting and textile based sculptura...
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karen klucowicz
Karen Klucowicz is a Canadian artist creating concept-driven, bold, figurative abstract art. Her art focuses o...
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Barb Symons
Barb Symons is a Toronto-based artist whose work ranges from monoprints, life drawings and other works on pap...
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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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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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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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Melissa Beaulieu
Born in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada, in 1982. She is a Canadian abstract painter who is now based in Drummon...
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Felicity Somerset
I am a fine art photographer based in Toronto, Canada. I am curious about the world around me, and my photogr...
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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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Sabina Rak
Sabina Rak is currently a students in the Masters of Fine Arts program at Concordia University (Montreal), Pri...
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Jeff Riffle
"The octopus saved me. Weird statement I know. During the Covid lockdowns I found myself struggling artistical...
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Elizabeth Forrest
A graduate in printmaking from the Ontario College of Art and Design, Elizabeth Forrest later travelled to Ky...
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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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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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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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Taruna Singh
Born in India and educated in a Middle Eastern convent, my formative years unfolded amid the vibrant neighbour...
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Helen Nhan
I am an abstract artist based in Ottawa, ON. My current ongoing body of work began with exploring the intrinsi...
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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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Parveen Dhatt
I create artwork from post consumer ‘waste’, remnants of everyday life; newspapers, food packaging, fast f...
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Patrick Skals
Patrick Skals is a Canadian artist based in Toronto, renowned for his distinctively edgy and conceptual painti...
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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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Sarah Arsenault
Sarah Arsenault is a British-Canadian artist based in London, UK. She is a semi-abstract painter who explores ...
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Amber Ozols
Amber Ozols is a multidisciplinary artist who creates paintings, murals, and paper products. Her most recent o...
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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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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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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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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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Keerthana Jayakumar
Born in Chennai, India, Keerthana had chosen to set most of her paintings in her hometown. Some of her collect...
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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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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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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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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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Trinley Dorje
Trinley Dorje is a Toronto based mixed media/collage artist whose artworks are visual anthropological explorat...
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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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Carolanne MacLean
Carolanne MacLean, A.O.C.A 1996, B.A., University of Toronto,1972, abstract and figurative work. I am interes...
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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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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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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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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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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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Suyin Wai
"Every artist was first an amateur" - Ralph Waldo Emerson Born in Montreal, Quebec but, now lives in Toronto....
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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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Kyle Yip
Born in Scarborough in 1988, Kyle Yip is an acclaimed Toronto-based artist celebrated for his hypersurrealist ...
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Jason Bomers
Jason Bomers lives in the west end of Toronto with his partner and two tweenage girls. Jason is a multidiscip...
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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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Ally Zlatar
Ally Zlatar is an artist, scholar and activist. She is the founder of The Starving Artist; an artist initiativ...
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...
Anda Marcu
Anda Marcu is a multidisciplinary artist and curator based in London, Canada. Her work has been exhibited in n...
Melsa Montagne
Melsa Montagne offers a series of anonymous portraits. Characters from another time, sensitive and strange, wh...
Jen Lipski
Jen Lipski is a Canadian Artist, born and raised in southern Ontario and currently working from her studio-gal...
Blair Immink
Blair Immink is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary “painter”. Blair studied his undergrad at OCAD U in the ...
Allis Fiction
Allis Fiction, on top of the page, is a text, continuously moving forward. It is also an author, a typesetter,...
Meera Dinh
I am captivated by the intricate relationship between the hidden sanctum of the soul and the psychological con...
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 ...
Le K (Krish Liang)
Le K (Krish Liang) is an multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Toronto, CA and Guangzhou, CHN. She ...
Cassandra Atter
Cassandra Atter is a 24 year old Canadian Artist who resides in Toronto and has just completed her thesis in t...
Kevin Matheson
I’m an artist and graphic designer based in Toronto, Canada. I’ve been working in the field of graphic des...
Max Dalí Kamilla Kulova
Italian, non binary, neurodivergent, award winning, multidisciplinary artist, part of Techspressionism Interna...
Zoey Zoric
In my artistic practice, I explore the interplay between technology, human connection, and the transient natur...
Terence Reeves
A master at falling on his face, Terence Reeves is learning to fly through sheer force of will.
Thamara Perera
Thamara Perera is an emerging mixed-media illustrator and artist based in Toronto, Canada. She graduated from ...
Odette Valero
OV artisticdrive The name “OV” is an abbreviation of the artist´s name Odette Valero, while the name “a...
Che Ree Kwon
Che Ree Kwon is a visual artist, currently based in Toronto, Canada. She was born and raised in South Korea wh...
Ghazaleh Rastgar
Ghazaleh is an artist and illustrator based in Toronto. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art & Design...
Miré Albornoz
ARTIST’S BIO Miré Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...
Diogo Pinheiro
Emerging artist Diogo Pinheiro was born in Lisbon, Portugal and currently lives in Brampton, ON. He graduated ...
Gillian Lahav
Gillian Lahav is a self-taught oil painter and gilder. Her paintings are inspired by nature's magic, featuring...
Chris Harms
Chris Harms creates cosmic images with stained glass, vitreous paints, and dalle de verre. From intimate, othe...
Siriaus T
As a concept creator which includes: fine arts, digital painting, progress painting videos, cinematography + f...
Marc-Etienne Des Rosiers
Marc E. Des Rosiers is a contemporary self-taught multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting, music, ph...
Stéphanie Desmeules
1993, Fresh out of high school, I entered the Arts and Communication program, with a major in cinema at the CE...
Irfan Ajvazi
Irfan Ajvazi (born 2001) is a Kosovan painter he received a Diploma in Graphic Design from Great Learning Acad...
Jordyn Sweezey
Jordyn was born in Humboldt, SK in 1991. She currently lives & works in Paradise Hill, SK. Sweezey works in ...
Chad Burton & Elijah Yutuc
Elijah Yutuc is a queer, left-handed immigrant. He specializes in photography and uses his technical skills to...
leon zheng
Leon ( Longxuan Zheng) is a contemporary artist based in Toronto, Canada, with a diverse artistic journey spa...
Maureen Bradshaw
Maureen Bradshaw, is a Toronto based artist. Her work is primarily oil on canvas. She layers lively brush stro...
Alison Boyack
Alison was born in Montreal in 1969. She grew up in Ontario, living in Niagara Falls, Pembroke and North Bay,...
Brittany/Andrew Forrest
Brittany/Andrew Forrest (she/her or he/him) is a queer Ontario-based surrealist artist and author. She focuses...
Tessa Alexander
Tessa creates visual images which explore themes surrounding identity and heritage. Her compositions whether ...
Ovase .
I am an emerging multidisciplinary artist that often conceptualizes work around the human figure or condition,...
Jes Thomas
Jes Bonnie is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist currently studying Sculpture & Installation at OCAD Uni...
Luke Labelle-Stackhouse
Luke Labelle-Stackhouse is a hard-edge abstraction artist based in Toronto. Turning towards painting as his pr...
frances ferdinands
Born in Colombo Sri Lanka, Canadian artist Frances Ferdinands is based in Toronto. She holds a B.F.A.from York...
Nancy Newton
Nancy Newton is a Toronto based artist and has been exhibiting her mixed media drawing and paintings over the ...
MAXIME COURVAL
Ma démarche artistique Depuis quelques années, j’ai décidé de m’affranchir du figuratif pour aller v...
Pat Cantin
Bachelor in visual and media arts, Pat Cantin approaches as subject, abstract portrait, semi-figurative or, "...
Torin Craig
Torin’s practice centers around the exploration of his subjective reactions to experiences as a neurodiverge...
Simone Guimaraes
Passionate about the conservation of life, Brazilian born / Canadian mixed media artist Simone Guimaraes explo...
Emerald Repard-Denniston
OCAD U Feature Artist
Emerald Repard-Denniston is a queer Chinese-Canadian contemporary artist based in Squamish, Tsleil-waututh and...
Kanchan Quinlan
Kanchan Quinlan is a Canadian-Indian visual artist and an architectural designer. Born in Toronto and raised i...
James Legaspi
James Legaspi is an emerging Filipino Canadian multimedia artist living and working in Brampton, Ontario. Thro...
Brubey Hu
Brubey (Wanzhi) Hu (b. 1994) is an artist, graphic designer, and educator living in Toronto. Brubey works most...
Anna Snyder
Stemming from a longing for sensorial experiences with nature in contemporary culture, my photo-based practice...
Lauren Pirie
Lauren Pirie is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, art director and curator. She works in a range of me...
Cissy Shi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cissy Ruoyao Shi is a Toronto-based contemporary artist specializing in drawing and acrylic painting. She grad...
Gina Jacklin
My work strives to bridge the gap between the immaterial and material world to manifest a sense of the etherea...
Huaijun Wen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Huaijun Wen is a Chinese Canadian artist who specializes in fine art photography. His work is primarily figura...
Paulina Padilla
Multidisciplinary artist based in Mexico-Canada, I went to Emily Carr U and OCAD University. I am interested i...
Kristina Pavao
OCAD U Feature Artist
Kristina Pavao is a Filipino-Portuguese designer and illustrator based in Toronto. She is attending OCAD Unive...
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...
Jieun June Kim
Jieun June Kim is a Korean born painter, muralist, and art producer based in North York, Toronto. She has exh...
Daniel St-Amant
Daniel graduated from NSCAD in 2005 with a major in painting and drawing. He also holds a graduate degree...
Darcy Roop
OCAD U Feature Artist
Darcy was born in Montreal and studied Illustration in Toronto at OCADU. She is a multidisciplinary artist wit...
Sheldon Goldman
I am primarily self-taught and over the years I have sold my art into collections in Canada and the US. I have...
Tash Damjanovic
Artist Statement My work celebrates beauty, hidden in all the usual and sometimes unusual places. Inspiration...
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 ...
Julie Gladstone
Julie Gladstone is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist. Gladstone's paintings reveal hidden facets of the lan...
Nicole Moss
Nicole Moss is an award winning collage artist currently living and working in Toronto. She studied drawing an...
Refaya Turshin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Refaya Turshin (c.1994) is a Bangladeshi-Canadian fine artist, and photographer. Turshin is the founder and de...
Moira Ness
Moira Ness is an interdisciplinary visual artist specializing in contemporary photo-based landscapes and algor...
Erica Campitelli
Erica is an abstract artist born in Toronto, Canada. Painting is her way of being present. It allows her to sh...
Emal de Lanerolle
Emal Joseph de Lanerolle is a Toronto-based Artist. He works in the mediums of paint, print- making, sculpture...
Cody Greco
Cody is an award-winning photographer who finds the beauty in simplicity and the artistic in the everyday. He ...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...