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Shamika Pierre
OCAD U Feature Artist
My name is Shamika Pierre, and I am an illustrator based in Toronto. My work primarily utilizes inks, watercol...
Mariam Fahmy
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am an Egyptian-Canadian artist currently based in Japan. I graduated from OCAD university in 2024. My work s...
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Jody Clement
jody clement coloured pencil artist The notion of “Colouring outside the lines” allows us to break free o...
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...
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Tanya Keigan
My name is Tanya Keigan, and I’m a multidisciplinary artist and designer living in Nova Scotia, Canada. I’...
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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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Arif Bahaduri
Arif Bahaduri was born in 1992 in Afghanistan, where he began his artistic journey in 2007, studying in a priv...
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Judith Leidl
Short Biography Judith J. Leidl, MFA Judith Leidl received both her BFA and MFA from NSCAD University wher...
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Alice Jennex
After becoming a mother, the capacity for growth and change of the body resulted in new explorations of contem...
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...
Deepikah bhardwaj
OCAD U Feature Artist
Deepikah(Born in 1985) is an Indian interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, who graduated with an MFA in In...
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Lynne Saintonge
A connection to nature and love of the evocative, expressive qualities of colour and light are the foundation ...
Anoosh Mubashar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Anoosh is a Toronto-based artist who enjoys working in many mediums, especially paint and printmaking. She is ...
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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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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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Michelle Kast
It can be incredibly daunting and difficult to write about yourself, so lets start with a few descriptive word...
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Jeanie Lui
I am a visual art artist based in Toronto, Ontario, graduated from Ontario College of Art and Design (OCADU) i...
Sue-Ann Brereton
OCAD U Feature Artist
Sue-Ann Kathleen Brereton, is a Toronto based visual artist working mainly with acrylic, watercolour and digit...
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Barb Symons
Barb Symons is a Toronto-based artist whose work ranges from monoprints, life drawings and other works on pap...
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Mayra Majano
Mayra Majano is a visual artist living and working in Toronto. Majano’s work explores her personal relations...
Emma Enright
OCAD U Feature Artist
Emma Enright is a textile artist and designer from Hamilton, Ontario. Her series of work investigates the mat...
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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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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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Nadiya Svirsky
Nadiya Svirsky is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in printmaking, painting and sculpture. Born i...
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Paulette Melanson
Paulette Melanson is an artist who paints abstracts and landcapes. She lives in Lunenburg, a UNESCO World Heri...
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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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Clare McIntyre
Clare is a formally-trained artist and designer who lives in Toronto. She spent her early childhood in St. Joh...
Suhmer Hyatt
OCAD U Feature Artist
Suhmer Hyatt (pronounced like the season) is an illustrator from Toronto. She is an OCAD University Bachelor ...
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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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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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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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Jennie Lau
OCAD U Feature Artist
Jennie Lau is an emerging artist based in Toronto. Her art work consist of paintings, collages, time-based med...
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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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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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Suzanne Tevlin
Suzanne Tevlin is a well known artist and lecturer in Toronto. Author of “The Conspiracy of Silence; Gerica...
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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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Montina Hussey
Montina (b.1989) graduated with a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University. She currently resides in T...
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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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Elena Gorlenko
Elena, a printmaker based in Toronto, divides her time between her homes in Canada and Berlin, Germany. She is...
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Donny Nie
OCAD U Feature Artist
Donny Nie is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist. She received a BFA from OCAD University, and an MFA fro...
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Ian McLean
In his oil paintings, Ian presents otherworldly depictions of imagined residential environments – both inter...
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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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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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Ally Zlatar
Ally Zlatar is an artist, scholar and activist. She is the founder of The Starving Artist; an artist initiativ...
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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...
Rebecca Bender
Rebecca is fascinated by the connection between emotion and art. While she greatly values aesthetics in her wo...
Matthew Ferguson
I am a Barrie-based multidisciplinary artist who combines traditional realism painting with digital media and ...
Ingrid Repic
Ingrid Repic is an emerging canadian artist who draws from the abundant supply of images provided by social me...
Elif Giray
Elif Giray is a Turkish/Canadian, Toronto-based, self-taught abstract painter and collage artist. Over the y...
Paul Nabuurs
Paul was born in Newmarket, ON and was lucky enough to meet his high school art teacher who transformed his li...
Gina Alpous
Gina Alpous is an artist with work recently exhibited at Studio M. Gallery, Etobicoke Civic Centre, Neilson Pa...
Kate Rogers
Kate Rogers mixed-media art practice uses collage, drawing, painting, photography and video, to address the cu...
Janie Dugan
As a visual artist my world is full of colours, reflections and filled with visions and dreams. As a self taug...
Lucy Cariou
I attended Concordia University (Montréal) and the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts), graduating with d...
Jim Alpous
Jim Alpous is a Toronto based artist working predominantly in acrylic and watercolour who is drawn to the “r...
Deniz Yilmaz
Deniz is a Toronto-based artist of Mongolian and Turkish ancestry. Her art explores human-land relations and i...
René Lemay
A pluridisciplinary and self-taught artist, René Lemay (1934-2015) has made his mark in contemporary realist ...
Yasir Hameed
Yasir Hameed has been painting since 2010. He is a representational artist, and his current work explores urba...
Tiffany Blaise
Vancouver-based artist Tiffany Blaise creates expressionistic paintings of land and sea with a dream-like qual...
vridhhi chaudhry
OCAD U Feature Artist
Vridhhi is an interdisciplinary artist from India based in Toronto. She completed her MFA from OCAD University...
Aiesha Baig
Aiesha Baig is a Toronto based emerging artist who completed her BFA at OCAD University. Working as a pleinair...
Kelsea chatburn
Kelsea Chatburn is a Toronto-based watercolour artist, known for her vibrant paintings of Los Angeles and Asia...
Becks .
Hi there, my name is Becks! I am a self-taught abstract artist. Abstract art is something that I’ve always...
Tina Seifpour
OCAD U Feature Artist
Tina Seifpour is a Toronto based Iranian Canadian artist interested in themes that revolve around the natural ...
Tessa Alexander
Tessa creates visual images which explore themes surrounding identity and heritage. Her compositions whether ...
Pinar Giray
Pinar Giray is a skilled ink and watercolour artist. She paints scenes of nature and creates intricate ink des...
Kurt Rostek
Born in Toronto Canada and raised in what was rural Ontario my aspirations as a creative person dawned as soon...
Jeanmarie Weatherhead
CJ Weatherhead, is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in T’karonto and born in Guatemala. My artisti...
Jenny Chen
I continuously explore different mediums but at the core, I am a painter. I feel most comfortable with waterco...
Karin McLean
Karin is a self-taught artist who began painting ten years ago. Initially working in acrylics, she has expand...
Lauren Pirie
Lauren Pirie is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, art director and curator. She works in a range of me...
Wandy Cheng
I am a multidisciplinary illustrator from Hong Kong currently based in Toronto, Canada. My work embodies contr...
Camilla Teodoro
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hello! My name is Camilla Teodoro and I am a Filipina-born illustrator based in Toronto, Ontario. My art is of...
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...
Larissa Mattwich
My inspiration flows from moments in everyday life. In practice, this means my paintings are based on my own p...
Sheldon Goldman
I am primarily self-taught and over the years I have sold my art into collections in Canada and the US. I have...
Tash Damjanovic
Artist Statement My work celebrates beauty, hidden in all the usual and sometimes unusual places. Inspiration...
Lilian Sim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Lilian Sim is an artist from Toronto who primarily works in watercolour, inks, and printmaking. They graduated...
Dana McCool
OCAD U Feature Artist
Dana McCool is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and anarchist. Using symbolism, colour harmonies ...
frances hahn
Frances studied English Literature and Art History before teaching for a year in Italy where she fell in love ...
Erica Campitelli
Erica is an abstract artist born in Toronto, Canada. Painting is her way of being present. It allows her to sh...
Ritu G
My love for painting started as a preschooler when I was gifted my first box of wax crayons, it turned into my...
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.
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...