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Dorota Dziong
Dorota graduated from the Studio program at the University of Toronto and her exhibition history includes invi...
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Heejung Shin
Heejung Shin is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Korea, working primarily in installation, drawi...
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Srini Balram
I went for the uncommon. Forever on the prowl. With a camera and a diligent scowl. On one of those trudges cam...
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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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Julea Boswell
My art is sparked by movement and beauty. Primary influences stem from my involvement in art, dance music and ...
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Maya Skarzenski
OCAD U Feature Artist
Maya Skarzenski is a multidisciplinary artist fusing together painting, textiles, and photography. She graduat...
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Forbes Sang
Forbes Sang is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Tkaronto (Toronto). Sang received his BFA from OCAD Univer...
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Elizabeth Morales
Elizabeth is a self-taught abstract artist who’s work has been featured across three exhibitions, including;...
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Sheryl Keen
Sheryl works mainly with acrylic mixed media. Using a technique that layers modeling paste, she creates 3D eff...
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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...
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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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Jason Balducci
Jason Balducci is a contemporary figurative painter who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Originally from I...
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Han Liu
Han Liu is a lens-based artist who lives in Toronto, Canada. He has a vast interest in discussing the indexica...
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Norman Burnham White
Norman Burnham White is a Calgary based artist working primarily in acrylic on canvas. His work features a sin...
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Penny Lam
Penny Lam is a modern abstract artist based in Toronto. Her vision is to create original pieces of art that re...
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Parastoo Mahmoudi
Artist Bio Parastoo Mahmoudi is a Canadian-Iranian artist who lives in Toronto. She started practicing her ...
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Kristen Stephen
Kristen Stephen was born in Amherst, New York, and moved to Canada when she was six years old. Kristen spent h...
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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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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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Melissa Fice
Melissa Fice attended Fleming College in Haliburton, Ontario, where she studied general arts. After graduating...
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Reisha Felix
Reisha Felix is a Toronto based fine arts artist who was born and raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica. ...
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Kim Gullion Stewart
Kim Gullion Stewart has been a visual artist for more than 30 years. She’s a member of the Métis Nation wit...
Sarah Young
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sarah Young is a fourth-year student studying at OCAD University in the Drawing and Painting program with a mi...
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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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Jason Zante
OCAD U Feature Artist
Jason Zante is a Filipino-Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada. With a multidisciplinary background rangin...
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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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Nadiya Svirsky
Nadiya Svirsky is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in printmaking, painting and sculpture. Born i...
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Kim Foster Yardley
As a painter working primarily in oil and acrylic, I make both figurative and abstract work. Currently my focu...
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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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Katarina Holbrough
OCAD U Feature Artist
Katarina Holbrough (she/her) Currently living and working in Tkaronto, Ontario. A mixed-media artist, working...
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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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Taruna Singh
Born in India and educated in a Middle Eastern convent, my formative years unfolded amid the vibrant neighbour...
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Della Hunter
Della Hunter who has painted under the name (Joye) and more recently DHunter, is a multimedia artist who once ...
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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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Clare McIntyre
Clare McIntyre is a classically-trained artist and designer who lives in Toronto. The daughter of a professio...
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Sherry Dube
Sherry Dube is a self taught traditional artist who creates acrylic works with a highly detailed and realistic...
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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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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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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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April Pyne
April is a visual artist living in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her work explores simplified shapes and fragmented ...
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Avery Gibbes
OCAD U Feature Artist
There are many different "worlds" that exist within our perception. These worlds exist physically, figurativel...
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Rick Palidwor
After completing a masters degree in sociology at York University Rick Palidwor was a member of the comedy tro...
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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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Jordan Clayton
Jordan clayton is an award-winning artist who specializes in painting and drawing. His work has been exhibite...
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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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Rita Vindedzis
"These new mixed media abstract paintings are optimistic. They are a journey into my imagination. As an introv...
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Corynn Kokolakis
OCAD U Feature Artist
Corynn Kokolakis is a figurative painter whose practice merges the disparate roles of mother and artist. Influ...
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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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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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Nat Timokhin
Nat Timokhin is a visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. With her art she explores the concept of freedom and...
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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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Ian McLean
In his oil paintings, Ian presents otherworldly depictions of imagined residential environments – both inter...
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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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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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Lorette C Luzajic
Lorette's mixed media paintings have been collected in more than 40 countries worldwide, including Canada, USA...
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Diana Rosa
As a visual artist, Diana Rosa takes inspirations from an alternative upbringing where she closely connected w...
Kevin Matheson
I’m an artist and graphic designer based in Toronto, Canada. I’ve been working in the field of graphic des...
Molly Berman
Molly Fletcher Berman is an emerging artist with a passion for colour and pattern. Growing up she could usuall...
Ruth Lane
I am a Toronto born painter, currently residing in Elora, ON. I attended York University, where I studied Soci...
Yasir Hameed
Yasir Hameed has been painting since 2010. He is a representational artist, and his current work explores urba...
Frances Sousa
Frances Sousa's practice explores combinations of paint, photography, collage and textiles. Her designs are co...
Szonja Vucsetics
Szonja Vucsetics is a Hungarian - Canadian artist based in Toronto, working primarily in oil paint and mixed m...
Maureen Bradshaw
Maureen Bradshaw, is a Toronto based artist. Her work is primarily oil on canvas. She layers lively brush stro...
Lauren Pirie
Lauren Pirie is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, art director and curator. She works in a range of me...
Sara Petroff
SARA PETROFF Born an artist, Sara has only recently given herself permission to self identify, allowing meanin...
Abuk Lual
I primarily work with oil paint to introduce new elements of abstraction infused with portraiture and landscap...
MARILU RIVERA
Marilu Rivera is a contemporary, self-taught artist born on August 24 th , 1991 in Oaxaca, Mexico. She started...
Brittany/Andrew Forrest
Brittany/Andrew Forrest (she/her or he/him) is a queer Ontario-based surrealist artist and author. She focuses...
Eric Daniels
Eric Daniels is a 2020 graduate of Drawing and Painting and Expanded Animation (DPXA) at OCADU. He is Guelph b...
ANN SAINT-GELAIS
I was born in 1950 in Saguenay in Quebec Canada and as far as I can remember I tell you about my journey... M...
samuel Kasirer
My Name is Sam Kasirer-Smibert. I had my first solo show in November of 2015 entitled Atro Versiamo at the Vic...
Shailaja Sajja
# APRIL UPDATE: Sometime in 2025, once I feel sufficient number of my artwork have found homes, I would be mov...
Ariel Shea
Born in 1994, Ariel Shea spent the first six years of her career as a self-taught artist. At twenty-six, she b...
Melissa Boodoo
Melissa Boodoo is a Chinese-Trinidadian fine artist and interior designer based in Toronto, Canada. As a daugh...
Hope Flynn
My name is Hope Flynn, and I specialize in pet and wildlife paintings. Ever since I was a child, I have admire...
julia ismambetova
I paint on silk. For more than 20 years, from the very first time I was introduced to it during my university...
Claire Heidinger
OCAD U Feature Artist
Claire Heidinger is a Toronto-based visual artist with a BFA from OCAD University, specializing in Drawing and...
Kirk Gower
Kirk Gower is a visual artist based in Vancouver, BC. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr Univers...
Danielle Coleman
OCAD U Feature Artist
Danielle Coleman is a multidisciplinary artist who holds a BFA with distinction in Drawing & Painting from OCA...
Huaijun Wen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Huaijun Wen is a Chinese Canadian artist who specializes in fine art photography. His work is primarily figura...
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...
Emily Zou
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a Toronto-based Canadian-Chinese multimedia artist, sculptor, illustrator, painter, and maker of earrings...
Refaya Turshin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Refaya Turshin (c.1994) is a Bangladeshi born, Toronto-based fine artist and photographer whose work focuses o...
Jane Dickson
Jane Dickson, was born in the sixties and raised on a farm in Southern Ontario. She loved to colour and draw a...
Cissy Shi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cissy Ruoyao Shi is a Toronto-based contemporary artist specializing in drawing and acrylic painting. She grad...
Olivia Aguiar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Aguiar is an emerging artist born, raised and working in Tkaronto. Olivia's practice is interdisciplin...
ROBIN JONES
born NEWMARKET 1978 moved to TORONTO in 1997 graduated in 2012 with B.F.A. in fine art in drawing and painting.
Caroline Ji
Caroline Ji is a self-taught artist with a previous background in engineering. In 2014 she left her engineerin...
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...
Melissa Neil
Melissa Neil is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design (2002). Recent exhibition history includes...Discover collector-worthy artwork by outstanding OCAD University alumni and students.
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...
Suhmer Hyatt
OCAD U Feature Artist
Suhmer Hyatt (pronounced like the season) is an illustrator from Toronto. She is an OCAD University Bachelor ...