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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
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Nadine Alexeev is a Russian/Ukrainian contemporary painter and textiles artist based in Toronto. She is a fi...
Zhuyu Li
OCAD U Feature Artist
Zhuyu is a Toronto-based artist who merges traditional Chinese aesthetics with contemporary approaches. Workin...
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Sheryl Keen
Sheryl works mainly with acrylic mixed media. Using a technique that layers modeling paste, she creates 3D eff...
Vismay Sanghavi
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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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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 ...
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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...
Mahir Siraj
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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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Morgan Abenhaim
Morgan Abenhaim, born in 1989 in Toronto, Canada, is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in the same ci...
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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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Kelly Harper Morehouse
A Newfoundlander by birth, and having lived in various places across Canada and the U.S., Kelly now lives with...
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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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Shimoni Bhattee
Hi I'm Shimoni, a self-taught artist based in Toronto, Ontario. Its my love for creativity and colours inspire...
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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...
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 ...
Dilshad Kanji
OCAD U Feature Artist
“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it...
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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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Daniel Maluka
Daniel, a writer and self-taught visual artist from Toronto, has a deep passion for storytelling, which he exp...
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Reisha Felix
Reisha Felix is an award-winning Toronto based fine arts and multi-media artist who was born and raised on the...
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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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Marjolyn Vanderhart
Inspire your Life with images from the Past! For many of us, our identity is tied to memories from our child...
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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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Melissa Beaulieu
Born in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada, in 1982. She is a Canadian abstract painter who is now based in Drummon...
Raha Fard
OCAD U Feature Artist
BIO Raha Fard is an Iranian Canadian multidisciplinary artist, holding an MFA and BFA from OCAD University. Sh...
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Jeff Riffle
"The octopus saved me. Weird statement I know. During the Covid lockdowns I found myself struggling artistical...
Leilah Dhoré
OCAD U Feature Artist
Based in Toronto, Leilah Dhoré an artist whose multidisciplinary work encompasses photography, digital collag...
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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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Taruna Singh
Born in India and educated in a Middle Eastern convent, my formative years unfolded amid the vibrant neighbour...
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Garth Eley
Garth has deep roots on Manitoulin Island, and although a seasonal resident now, still has family living there...
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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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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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Michael Lé
michael lé also known as @indolestic [identities as interesting] Indolestic´s artwork explores the intercon...
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Parastoo Mahmoudi
Artist Bio Parastoo Mahmoudi is a Canadian-Iranian artist who lives in Toronto. She started practicing her ...
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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Margie Kelk
MARGIE KELK Toronto-based multi-media artist Margie Kelk takes an exploratory and experimental approach as she...
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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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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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Anne-Marie Olczak
"The endless possibilities of the grid." The grid is a way to filter the many ideas and inspirations in my...
Shahrzad Amin
OCAD U Feature Artist
Shahrzad Amin is an Iranian-Canadian award-winning interdisciplinary artist with more than twelve years of div...
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Nick Zhurid
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a modern calligraphy artist from Kiev, currently based in Toronto. My way started back in 2012 with stre...
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Olivier Salvas
Olivier Salvas is a distinguished artist, educator, media personality, and curator whose practice intersects a...
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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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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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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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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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June Tenzin
June Tenzin is a visual artist based in Toronto. After graduating from the Stroganov Academy of Applied Arts, ...
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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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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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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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Susan Ross
A graduate of the Alberta College of Art, Susan Ross has exhibited in many juried shows, commercial and public...
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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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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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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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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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Sobo Artz
b. Georgetown, Guyana, South America- Lives and works in Toronto, Canada As a child, Sobo lived steps from th...
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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...
Tiffany Duong
Tiffany Duong (b. 2002) is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator based in Toronto and Mississauga. She g...
Snehal Mahajan
I’m a mixed media and resin artist based in Mississauga, Canada. My work is deeply inspired by nature—its ...
CLAUDIO PARENTELA
Born in Catanzaro(1962-Italy) where he lives and works…Claudio Parentela is an illustrator,painter,digital p...
Joshua hyman
Josh Hy The Dezinr is a mixed-media digital artist based in Toronto and a descendant of Jamaican and Panamania...
Val P
I’m an illustrator and designer. Moving between places during my early childhood, image-making became my f...
Kim Ricalton
Kim Ricalton is an abstract expressionist who creates heavily textured and multi layered paintings. She is a N...
Le K (Krish Liang)
Le K (Krish Liang) is an multidisciplinary artist and curator based in Toronto, CA and Guangzhou, CHN. She ...
Chanel DesRoches
Chanel works in the moment. Surrendering feelings onto a surface is her way of suggesting that there is a pers...
Mary Pal
Mary Pal is a Canadian fibre artist best known for her cheesecloth portraiture, artworks that are made with sc...
Pamela Schaefer
Pamela Anne, born in 1995, was raised in Victoria, British Columbia and currently lives and works in Toronto, ...
Rosie Schinners
Rosie Schinners (b.1979) is a collage artist who resides on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. She ...
Miré Albornoz
ARTIST’S BIO Miré Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...
Patricia Lourenco
Residing in Toronto, Patricia was born in a small coastal fishing town in Portugal. Her creative spark was ign...
Laura Thipphawong
Laura Thipphawong is a Canadian artist, writer, and historian, and has exhibited art and presented her researc...
Tiffany Blaise
Vancouver-based artist Tiffany Blaise creates expressionistic paintings of land and sea with a dream-like qual...
Skylar Cheung
Skylar Cheung is an undergraduate studying political science at the University of Toronto. She turns to visual...
Rachael Speirs
Rachael Speirs was born in Oakville, Ontario and raised in Toronto and Cambridge, Ontario. As a child Rachael ...
Irfan Ajvazi
Irfan Ajvazi (born 2001) is a Kosovan painter he received a Diploma in Graphic Design from Great Learning Acad...
Maciej Dyszkiewicz
Maciej Dyszkiewicz was born In Warsaw (Poland) in 1959. His first experience with glass was through his fath...
Christian Redermayer
My name is Christian Redermayer and I'm a creative problem solver as architectural and fine art photographer f...
Brenna Tomas
Brenna Tomas is an interdisciplinary female artist, recreation therapist, writer and mother born and raised in...
Eric Mummery
Eric Mummery is a visual artist from London, Ontario working primarily in printmaking and drawing along with w...
Sharon Trickett
My name is Sharon Trickett and I am a self taught contemporaryt artist in Nova Scotia. I have been honing my s...
Brittany/Andrew Forrest
Brittany/Andrew Forrest (she/her or he/him) is a queer Ontario-based surrealist artist and author. She focuses...
Melissa Boodoo
Melissa Boodoo is a Chinese-Trinidadian fine artist and interior designer based in Toronto, Canada. As a daugh...
Hamid Mohammadi
Hamid Mohammadi has studied architecture at Dalhousie University, figurative painting at NSCAD and industrial ...
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I am an emerging multidisciplinary artist that often conceptualizes work around the human figure or condition,...
Hakan Kamasik
Hakan Kamasik was a modern expressionist artist who was born in Turkey in 1992. He had a degree on Bachelor of...
Erika Li
Erika Li is a contemporary calligraphy artist who began studying classical Chinese calligraphy at the age of f...
Jeanmarie Weatherhead
CJ Weatherhead, is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in T’karonto and born in Guatemala. My artisti...
Arlene John-Chuan
Arlene is a multidisplinary artist, designer and creator. Her current works were born out of a season of grief...
Rick Bogacz
For Toronto- based photographer Rick Bogacz, taking a minimalist approach has been key in developing his worki...
Ehsan Bayat
Ehsan Bayat From Isfahan , Iran Live in Istanbul Turkey born in 1989 graduated from Iran, Tehran fine art u...
SHU LI
Art is not just a visual experience, but an emotional journey. In my oil paintings, I strive to capture the fl...
Reynold Thomas
Reynold Thomas is a Visual Artist whose work shows a perfect mix of exquisite beauty and raw strength. His art...
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...
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...
Olivia Aguiar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Aguiar is an emerging artist born, raised and working in Tkaronto. Olivia's practice is interdisciplin...
Candice Grant
Candice is an abstract artist based in Surrey, BC. Her work is all about color—bold, vibrant, and expressive...
Cristina Getson
Cristina Getson is an abstract expressionist painter based in Toronto, Canada. With a degree in Biomedical Eng...
Varvara Nedilska
OCAD U Feature Artist
I’m a Toronto-based Ukrainian Canadian artist and a 2020 graduate of the OCADU illustration program. My prac...
Eduard Gurevich
Eduard was born in 1969 in Ukraine. In 1992, he immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto where he lives ...
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...
Maryam zaraimajin
Maryam Zaraimajin is Canadian- Persian artist. She migrated to Toronto in 2003, where she later completed her ...
Tiffany Tremaine
Tiffany Tremaine is an artist located in Toronto Ontario, whose work focus's on life and all of it's little th...
Stephen Perry
Stephen Perry’s paintings range from intimate to mythic. There is a story going on, but it’s not always ap...
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...
Agent X
Agent X, cultural explorer and agent of the unknown, creates experimental, multimedia collages, paintings, and...
Kate Civiero
As a glassblower and metalsmith, I make objects through deliberate design and thoughtful creation. Motivated ...
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...
Hana Elmasry
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hana Elmisry is a painter, educator and counsellor. Hana's praxis engages with concepts in cognitive science a...
Erica Campitelli
Erica is an abstract artist born in Toronto, Canada. Painting is her way of being present. It allows her to sh...
Cody Greco
Cody is an award-winning photographer who finds the beauty in simplicity and the artistic in the everyday. He ...
Ritu G
My love for painting started as a preschooler when I was gifted my first box of wax crayons, it turned into my...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...