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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 ...
Nadia Da Silva
OCAD U Feature Artist
My work delves into themes of longing and otherness, navigating the intricate terrains of displacement, identi...
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Ruobing Liao
Ruobing Liao is a Toronto-based oil painter whose work explores female emotion, the subconscious, and the quie...
Nadine Alexeev
OCAD U Feature Artist
Nadine Alexeev is a Russian/Ukrainian contemporary painter and textiles artist based in Toronto. She is a fi...
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...
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Annette Courtemanche
Artist Statement: I am a Toronto-based artist, and my love of drawing and painting started at an early age. I ...
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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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Janice Kovar
I am a Dundas based contemporary painter exploring the possibilities of both painting and sculptural assembl...
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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Lynne Saintonge
A connection to nature and love of the evocative, expressive qualities of colour and light are the foundation ...
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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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Eddie Li
Eddie Li is a 23-year old artist with Autism Spectrum Disorder who lives in Toronto. He has studied art under...
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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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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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karen klucowicz
Karen Klucowicz is a Canadian artist creating concept-driven, bold, figurative abstract art. Her art focuses o...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Blaine White
Blaine White is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist. His racial background is black, white and some indig...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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Amber Ozols
Amber Ozols is a multidisciplinary artist who creates paintings, murals, and paper products. Her most recent o...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Drea Cohane
Drea is a visual artist who draws and paints from the city of Toronto. Due to a brain injury, Drea was inspire...
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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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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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Nancy Bennett
Nancy Bennett is primarily a landscape artist who was cracked open by the pandemic and now paints everything....
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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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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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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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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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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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Mary McLorn Valle
Flowers are symbols of renewal, endurance, beauty and energy unfolding. Mary McLorn Valle’s graphic oil pai...
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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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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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Lorette C Luzajic
Lorette's award-winning mixed media paintings have been collected in more than 40 countries worldwide, includi...
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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...
Snehal Mahajan
I’m a mixed media and resin artist based in Mississauga, Canada. My work is deeply inspired by nature—its ...
Matthew Ferguson
I am a Barrie-based multidisciplinary artist who combines traditional realism painting with digital media and ...
Susan Szenes
Been busy exploring with my NEW POPart series. Striving to minimize my carbon footprint. While on my daily wal...
CLAUDIO PARENTELA
Born in Catanzaro(1962-Italy) where he lives and works…Claudio Parentela is an illustrator,painter,digital p...
Kelly-Marie Murtha
I've been an artist all my life, in one form or another. An actor, A filmmaker. A singer, A musician. A painte...
ievgeniia cherednikova
Ievgeniia is a painter born in Kyiv, Ukraine and working and living in Tkaronto/Toronto. Studying at OCAD Univ...
Hugo Cantin
Hugo Cantin is a Montreal-based artist, designer and film collector. Inspired by mid-century art movements and...
Janet Taylor
On Making Art I am obsessed with those extraordinary moments that surface within the mundane. Maybe it’s a ...
Ruth Lane
I am a Toronto born painter, currently residing in Elora, ON. I attended York University, where I studied Soci...
Chanel DesRoches
Chanel works in the moment. Surrendering feelings onto a surface is her way of suggesting that there is a pers...
Laura Thipphawong
Laura Thipphawong is a Canadian artist, writer, and historian, and has exhibited art and presented her researc...
Kristen Elizabeth Donoghue-Stanford
Kristen Elizabeth Donoghue-Stanford (she/her) is a Canadian artist currently residing in Caledon, ON. She is p...
Marc-Etienne Des Rosiers
Marc E. Des Rosiers is a contemporary self-taught multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting, music, ph...
manuela moldovan
Romanian-born Manuela Moldovan lives and works from her home studio in Toronto. She is a self-taught mixed med...
Sakina Ali
Through the meticulous fusion of mediums, Sakina creates a harmonious balance between strength and delicacy, c...
Harold Sikkema
My work investigates intersections of form and habit, revealing patterns latent in everyday journeys. With dig...
Samantha-Jane Ince
Samantha-Jane Ince (S J Ince) is an emerging mixed media artist and designer, based in Toronto, originally fro...
Irfan Ajvazi
Irfan Ajvazi (born 2001) is a Kosovan painter he received a Diploma in Graphic Design from Great Learning Acad...
Lubov Soltan
Lubov is a Belarusian-born student of Fine Art, who favours the versatile nature of oil painting. Drawing insp...
Sasha Q
My name is Sasha Q (real name Oleksandra Stepanenko) and I'm an artist born in Kyiv, Ukraine. Graduate of Mykh...
Alison Boyack
Alison was born in Montreal in 1969. She grew up in Ontario, living in Niagara Falls, Pembroke and North Bay,...
Luke Labelle-Stackhouse
Luke Labelle-Stackhouse is a hard-edge abstraction artist based in Toronto. Turning towards painting as his pr...
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...
MAXIME COURVAL
Ma démarche artistique Depuis quelques années, j’ai décidé de m’affranchir du figuratif pour aller v...
SHU LI
Art is not just a visual experience, but an emotional journey. In my oil paintings, I strive to capture the fl...
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...
Anna Snyder
Stemming from a longing for sensorial experiences with nature in contemporary culture, my photo-based practice...
Alanna Peters
Alanna Peters was born in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto. She earned an Honours BA for Fine Arts from M...
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...
samuel Kasirer
My Name is Sam Kasirer-Smibert. I had my first solo show in November of 2015 entitled Atro Versiamo at the Vic...
Samantha Hazard
Samantha Hazard is a practicing artist who is based primarily in Hamilton, Ontario. She has graduated from the...
Alessandra Singh
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alessandra Singh is a recently graduated Thesis student and Drawing and Painting major at OCAD University. Gro...
Daniel St-Amant
Daniel graduated from NSCAD in 2005 with a major in painting and drawing. He also holds a graduate degree...
Keith Eager
Keith studied fine arts in high school at Central Technical School, animation at Max The Mutt Animation School...
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...
Meena Chopra
About Meena Chopra: Artist and Author Meena Chopra is an internationally known award winning visual artist &...
Anastasia Tarkhanova
OCAD U Feature Artist
Anastasia is a Russian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist currently working and living in Toronto. In 2020 she ...
Agent X
Agent X, cultural explorer and agent of the unknown, creates experimental, multimedia collages, paintings, and...
Julie Gladstone
Julie Gladstone is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist. Gladstone's paintings reveal hidden facets of the lan...
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.
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...