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Nadia Da Silva
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My work delves into themes of longing and otherness, navigating the intricate terrains of displacement, identi...Erica Gibbs
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Erica Gibbs (b.2002) is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator based in Toronto and Mississauga, graduati...
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Ruobing Liao
Ruobing Liao is a Toronto-based oil painter whose work explores female emotion, the subconscious, and the quie...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...Nadine Alexeev
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Nadine Alexeev is a Russian/Ukrainian contemporary painter and textiles artist based in Toronto. She is a fi...
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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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Heather Assaf
Heather Assaf, an artist located near Ottawa, Ontario, is known for her non-objective abstract and impressioni...
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Katherine McKay
Katherine McKay is a Collage / Photography based artist working out of Ottawa. She uses altered and deconstruc...
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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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Anika Becker
Anika Becker explores the intricate relationships between humans and animals, embracing Intertwingularity—th...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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Lindsay Smail
Lindsay’s oil paintings have been described as mysterious, sensual, and lit from within. She uses thin layer...
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Morgan Abenhaim
Morgan Abenhaim, born in 1989 in Toronto, Canada, is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in the same ci...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...
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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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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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Darlene Winfield
Darlene Winfield is an award winning artist whose art may be found in numerous private around the globe incl...
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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...
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Zana Wensel
Zana Wensel is a multidisciplinary artist, queer ecologist, and somatic practitioner, who lives and practices ...
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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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Francois Fournier
Nature varies itself relentlessly. It is my contact with this constantly changing environment that inspires my...
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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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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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Pamela Dodds
Pamela Dodds’ artwork in printmaking, painting and drawing is exhibited regularly in Canada, the USA and Eur...
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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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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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Mayra Majano
Mayra Majano is a visual artist living and working in Toronto. Majano’s work explores her personal relations...
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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 ...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...
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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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Spiritman Art (Jackie Gaistman)
I began my journey as an artist from the moment I could hold a crayon. Creating art has been like breathing ev...
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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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Catherine Mills
Catherine graduated with Honours from Guelph University with a degree in Bio.Sci. but couldn’t contain her ...
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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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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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Michael Lé
michael lé also known as @indolestic [identities as interesting] Indolestic´s artwork explores the intercon...
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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 ...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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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 ...
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Andria Keen
Andria Keen (she/her) is currently completing her MFA in Visual Art at York University. She received her BFA f...
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Jasper Urbina
OCAD U Feature Artist
Jasper Urbina is a Canadian born Filipino artist from Toronto, Ontario and is a 2019 Graduate of OCAD Universi...
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Marianne Sung
**Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (Nathan Philip Square): July 11-13 , Booth 542 (Zone E)** **New Website: mariannes...
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Genevieve Blais
Genevieve Blais is a lens-based artist earning great praise for her work involving art historical and theoreti...
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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...
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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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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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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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Jill Huang
Hailing from Vancouver, BC, Jill Huang graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a degree in...
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Maryam Ebrahimi
Artworks of Canadian-Iranian artist, Maryam Ebrahimi, are magnetic in their meditative flow. Her paintings hav...
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Pandora Owl
Pandora Owl was born and raised outside of Toronto, Ontario. Her art focuses on mental health & illness in ord...
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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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Suyin Wai
"Every artist was first an amateur" - Ralph Waldo Emerson Born in Montreal, Quebec but, now lives in Toronto....
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Ester Pugliese
Ester Pugliese's multilayered mixed media paintings utilize a coral reef aesthetic to reimagine Vanitas still ...
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Kyle Yip
Born in Scarborough in 1988, Kyle Yip is an acclaimed Toronto-based artist celebrated for his hypersurrealist ...
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Lulu H.
OCAD U Feature Artist
Lulu H. (she/her) is a visual artist practicing in Toronto, Ontario. Her works are usually intuitively abstrac...
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Melissa Patel
OCAD U Feature Artist
Melissa Patel is a Toronto based artist who works primarily in drawing, painting, and photography. She was bor...
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Diane Fine
I express my exuberance for life through art. Drawn to creating uplifting images, I invite my audience to be ...
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Harley Yang
Think of photography as a person. Then every photograph is a collaboration. But what the human embodiment se...
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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...Matthew Ferguson
I am a Barrie-based multidisciplinary artist who combines traditional realism painting with digital media and ...Jen Lipski
Jen Lipski is a Canadian Artist, born and raised in southern Ontario and currently working from her studio-gal...Hannah Somers
Hannah Somers is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based artist and curator. She has a completed BFA at Toronto Metropolitan...Vidhya Srijesh
Vidhya Srijesh, based in Oshawa is a Visual artist who specializes in nature/wildlife art. Her passion for art...Patti Agapi
Patti Agapi is an Orillia, Ontario based abstract artist who works across the mediums of paint and collage. Sh...Ashley Snook
Informed by biology, scientific research and socio-cultural dynamics, Ashley Snook explores the complexities o...Meera Dinh
I am captivated by the intricate relationship between the hidden sanctum of the soul and the psychological con...Emily Jung
Emily is an artist/artsworker working in Toronto with a focus on the Canadian nonprofit arts sector. Her works...Elif Giray
Elif Giray is a Turkish/Canadian, Toronto-based, self-taught abstract painter and collage artist. Over the y...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 ...Kevin Matheson
I’m an artist and graphic designer based in Toronto, Canada. I’ve been working in the field of graphic des...Zoey Zoric
In my artistic practice, I explore the interplay between technology, human connection, and the transient natur...Azadeh Razzagh
Azadeh Razzagh is an artist, designer and art curator based in Toronto. Liberty, freedom, rights and identity ...Odette Valero
OV artisticdrive The name “OV” is an abbreviation of the artist´s name Odette Valero, while the name “a...Miré Albornoz
ARTIST’S BIO Miré Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...Deniz Yilmaz
Deniz is a Toronto-based artist of Mongolian and Turkish ancestry. Her art explores human-land relations and i...Kristen Elizabeth Donoghue-Stanford
Kristen Elizabeth Donoghue-Stanford (she/her) is a Canadian artist currently residing in Caledon, ON. She is p...Emily Zdunich
Emily Zdunich is a Saskatoon based interdisciplinary artist who has developed a figurative practice in paintin...LOANNE TRAN
OCAD U Feature Artist
Loanne II Tran is a photographer filled with curiosity. They explore the grounds of fashion editorial while ex...Madeline Brimble
Madeline Brimble is a Toronto based new media artist who primarily works with sheet acrylic. With a process th...Brittany/Andrew Forrest
Brittany/Andrew Forrest (she/her or he/him) is a queer Ontario-based surrealist artist and author. She focuses...Alli van Gruen
Alli van Gruen is a contemporary Canadian artist with a multifaceted mixed portfolio. From her animal portra...Xinming Yi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Xinming Yi is a Shanghai-based illustrator currently working in Toronto, working preliminarily in digital pai...Sarah Graeme
Sarah Graeme is an emerging ceramic artist currently based on T’Sou-ke and Pacheedaht Territory on Vancouve...Akash Inbakumar
Akash Inbakumar’s practice, based in Tkaronto / Toronto, explores the queering of the human body in relation...Rae White
Rae White lives and works in Toronto, Canada on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, t...Emmette Lewis
I am a Canadian and South African artist who is now based in Toronto, Ontario. I understand art as an unparall...Callie DeWees
Multimedia feminist illuminations through self-portraiture and parody or re-contextualization of religious art...Emily Zou
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I am a queer Canadian-Chinese multimedia artist. My art practice explores the intersection of climate awarenes...Ketty Haolin Zhang
Ketty Haolin Zhang (b. Chaoyang, China) is a visual artist currently based in so-called Vancouver, Canada. Inf...Anna Snyder
Stemming from a longing for sensorial experiences with nature in contemporary culture, my photo-based practice...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...Sarah Fuller
Sarah Fuller is a white settler Canadian artist of Icelandic and British descent who works across the mediums ...Huaijun Wen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Huaijun Wen is a Chinese Canadian artist who specializes in fine art photography. His work is primarily figura...Zoey Lin
Zoey Lin is a Toronto-based artist. Graduating from OCAD University in 2020 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dr...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...Yuan Wen
Yuan Wen is a printmaker and visual artist based in Vancouver. Wen’s practice focuses on printmaking, drawin...Katrina Jurjans
Katrina graduated from Concordia University in 2014 with a BFA in Studio Art and Art History. In her last year...Tiffany Tremaine
Tiffany Tremaine is an artist located in Toronto Ontario, whose work focus's on life and all of it's little th...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...jackie besteman
I have been painting birds for 3 years ( having worked as an illustrator for most of my career) Birds inspire ...Danielle Coleman
OCAD U Feature Artist
Danielle Coleman is a multidisciplinary artist who holds a BFA with distinction in Drawing & Painting from OCA...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...Hana Elmasry
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hana Elmisry is a painter, educator and counsellor. Hana's praxis engages with concepts in cognitive science a...dori vanderheyden
Dori Vanderheyden is an interdisciplinary artist-teacher-researcher living and working in Toronto. Diverse int...Emal de Lanerolle
Emal Joseph de Lanerolle is a Toronto-based Artist. He works in the mediums of paint, print- making, sculpture...Christina Essue
Christina is an artist and creative strategist, interested in the worlds of art, design and commerce, and the ...Discover collector-worthy artwork by outstanding OCAD University alumni and students.