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Annette Courtemanche
I love the spontaneous playful feeling when I paint, combining painting with gestural marks, movement, texture...
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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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Leone McComas
Leone McComas is a Canadian-Nigerian Artist, Muralist, and Designer. She is Toronto-based, London (UK) born, a...
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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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Helena Wehrstein
Discarded, outmoded, unwanted stuff….my passion is to breathe new life into these by-products of our society...
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Laurie Skantzos
Laurie’s contemporary, process driven painting is largely inspired by the interactions of colour, shape and...
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Parastoo Mahmoudi
Artist Bio Parastoo Mahmoudi is a Canadian-Iranian artist who lives in Toronto. She started practicing her ...
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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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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Roshni Wijayasinha
Roshni Wijayasinha is a Toronto based visual artist who specializes in large abstract expressionist paintings ...
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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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Lynne Saintonge
A connection to nature and love of the evocative, expressive qualities of colour and light are the foundation ...
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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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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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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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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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Ester Pugliese
Ester Pugliese's multilayered mixed media paintings utilize a coral reef aesthetic to reimagine Vanitas still ...
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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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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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karen klucowicz
Karen Klucowicz is a Canadian artist creating concept-driven, bold, figurative abstract art. Her art focuses 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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Jason Zante
OCAD U Feature Artist
Jason Zante is a Filipino-Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada. With a multidisciplinary background rangin...
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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Mary McLorn Valle
Flowers are symbols of renewal, endurance, beauty and energy unfolding. Mary McLorn Valle’s graphic oil pai...
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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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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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Firouzeh Saremi Far
OCAD U Feature Artist
Firouzeh Saremi Far, a Painting and Sculpture major at OCAD University, is a Toronto-based artist. She is infl...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Nancy Bennett
Nancy Bennett is primarily a landscape artist who was cracked open by the pandemic and now paints everything....
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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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Clare McIntyre
Clare McIntyre is a classically-trained artist and designer who lives in Toronto. The daughter of a professio...
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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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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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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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Drea Cohane
Drea is a visual artist who draws and paints from the city of Toronto. Due to an mTBI, Drea was inspired and m...
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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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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 painter whose practice merges the disparate roles of mother and artist. Influ...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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...
Matthew Ferguson
I am a Barrie-based multidisciplinary artist who combines traditional realism painting with digital media and ...
Tanya Atkinson
I am a mixed media/ceramic artist based in Toronto. My formal education is in Geography/Geomorphology, however...
Janet Taylor
On Making Art I am obsessed with those extraordinary moments that surface within the mundane. Maybe it’s a ...
Susan Szenes
Been busy exploring with my NEW POPart series. Striving to minimize my carbon footprint. While on my daily wal...
ievgeniia cherednikova
Ievgeniia is a painter born in Kyiv, Ukraine and working and living in Tkaronto/Toronto. Studying at OCAD Univ...
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...
Chanel DesRoches
Chanel works in the moment. Surrendering feelings onto a surface is her way of suggesting that there is a pers...
Ruth Lane
I am a Toronto born painter, currently residing in Elora, ON. I attended York University, where I studied Soci...
Kristen Elizabeth Donoghue-Stanford
Kristen Elizabeth Donoghue-Stanford (she/her) is a Canadian artist currently residing in Caledon, ON. She is p...
Alanna Peters
Alanna Peters was born in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto. She earned an Honours BA for Fine Arts from M...
Lubov Soltan
Lubov is a Belarusian-born student of Fine Art, who favours the versatile nature of oil painting. Drawing insp...
Laura Thipphawong
Laura Thipphawong is a Canadian artist, writer, and historian, and has exhibited art and presented her researc...
Lauren Pirie
Lauren Pirie is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, art director and curator. She works in a range of me...
Anna Snyder
Stemming from a longing for sensorial experiences with nature in contemporary culture, my photo-based practice...
Alison Boyack
Alison was born in Montreal in 1969. She grew up in Ontario, living in Niagara Falls, Pembroke and North Bay,...
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...
MAXIME COURVAL
Ma démarche artistique Depuis quelques années, j’ai décidé de m’affranchir du figuratif pour aller v...
Sasha Q
Hello! My name is Sasha Q (real name Oleksandra Stepanenko) and I'm an artist born in Kyiv, Ukraine. I was f...
Daniel St-Amant
Daniel graduated from NSCAD in 2005 with a major in painting and drawing. He also holds a graduate degree...
Meena Chopra
About Meena Chopra: Artist and Author Meena Chopra is an internationally known award winning visual artist &...
samuel Kasirer
My Name is Sam Kasirer-Smibert. I had my first solo show in November of 2015 entitled Atro Versiamo at the Vic...
Janice Kovar
Janice Kovar is a visual artist from Dundas, Ontario who attended McMaster University 1982-86 and graduated wi...
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...
Samantha Hazard
Samantha Hazard is a practicing artist who is based primarily in Hamilton, Ontario. She has graduated from the...
julia ismambetova
I paint on silk. For more than 20 years, from the very first time I was introduced to it during my university...
Keith Eager
Keith studied fine arts in high school at Central Technical School, animation at Max The Mutt Animation School...
Luke Labelle-Stackhouse
Luke Labelle-Stackhouse is a hard-edge abstraction artist based in Toronto. Turning towards painting as a pref...
Julie Gladstone
Julie Gladstone is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist. Gladstone's paintings reveal hidden facets of the lan...
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...
Anastasia Tarkhanova
OCAD U Feature Artist
Anastasia is a Russian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist currently working and living in Toronto. In 2020 she ...
Cissy Shi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cissy Ruoyao Shi is a Toronto-based contemporary artist specializing in drawing and acrylic painting. She grad...
Ketty Haolin Zhang
Ketty Haolin Zhang (b. Chaoyang, China) is a visual artist currently based in so-called Vancouver, Canada. Inf...
Alessandra Singh
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alessandra Singh is a recently graduated Thesis student and Drawing and Painting major at OCAD University. Gro...
Agent X
Agent X, cultural explorer and agent of the unknown, creates experimental, multimedia collages, paintings, and...
Melissa Neil
Melissa Neil is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design (2002). Recent exhibition history includes...
Tal Paz-Fridman
My name is Tal Paz-Fridman, I am a photographer specializing in creative + documentary photography. To paraphr...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...
Alejandro Rizzo Nervo
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alejandro Rizzo Nervo (b. 1993, Caracas, VE), is an interdisciplinary artist and performer that lives and work...