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Nadia Da Silva
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My work delves into themes of longing and otherness, navigating the intricate terrains of displacement, identi...
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Reeves Lu
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Reeves Lu is an illustrator and oil painter based in Oakville, Ontario. They currently attend OCADu, pursuing ...
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Tia Babbar
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Tia Babbar (b. 2003) is a Toronto-based contemporary oil painter whose practice investigates themes of collect...
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Connor Garito
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Connor Garito is a multidisciplinary artist born in Mississauga, Canada currently a fourth year student at OCA...
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Alana D'Agostino
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Alana D'Agostino is a Toronto-based figurative painter. Working primarily with oil and watercolour paint, her ...
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Abigail D'Mello
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Abigail D’Mello is a Canadian-born Indian fine artist who lives and works in Toronto. She holds a BFA in Dra...
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Nadine Alexeev
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Nadine Alexeev is a Russian/Ukrainian contemporary painter and textiles artist based in Toronto. She is a fi...
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Kiran Senthilnathan
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Kiran Senthilnathan is an emerging south Indian artist who recently graduated from OCAD University and current...
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Maariyah Mohiuddin
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Maariyah Mohiuddin is an emerging artist based in the GTA. Much of her practice involves depicting her Indian ...
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Fabrizio Sclocco
Born in Pescara, Italy, 1989. Dropped out of Architecture college, I moved across the pond, Toronto, in 2012. ...
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Edith Kernerman
Edith Kernerman (she/her) is a Canadian-born artist working in sculpture installation, painting, photography, ...
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Jarrod Bai
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Jarrod Bai is a Toronto-based visual artist pursuing his BFA at OCAD University. His work has been featured i...
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Carmen Alonso
Carmen Marie Alonso is a self-taught artist with a primary focus on oil painting. She was born in 1997 and rai...
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Cassandra Cunningham
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Cassandra Cunningham was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and has been creating art since her childhood. Ca...
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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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Juliana Montes de Oca
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Juliana Montes de Oca (2001) is a Costa Rican fine artist and illustrator living in Toronto, Canada. She speci...
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Elspeth Sparling
A girl in a red swimsuit; a snow-covered alley; a potted geranium. Elspeth Sparling invites viewers into her...
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Hana Hozhabr Pour
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Hana Hozhabr Pour is a visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. In her painting practice, she creates abstract ...
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Gabriel Arrache
Gabriel Arrache (Mexico City 1982) is a Mexican artist based in Toronto. His art focuses on identity and the e...
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Morris Wazney
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While studying at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU), I found my passion for bronze cast...
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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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Isabelle Halmos
OCAD U Feature Artist
Isabelle Halmos is a 2021 graduate of Drawing and Painting from OCAD University, completing her Bachelor degre...
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Erica Gibbs
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Erica Gibbs (b.2002) is a multidisciplinary artist and illustrator based in Toronto and Mississauga. She recen...
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Ksenia Danilova
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Ksenia Danilova is a mixed-media artist living and working in Toronto. She’s currently studying at OCAD Univ...
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Alannah Tassone
My name is Alannah Tassone and I am an abstract/contemporary artist living in Toronto, Canada. I started exper...
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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...
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Rashvena Khosa
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Rashvena Khosa is an Indian/Malaysian interdisciplinary artist in Brampton and Tkaronto/Toronto with a Bachelo...
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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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Lynn Spencer
Inspire Your Soul! We all need to feel a moment of inspiration. Enhance your life with art that brings light...
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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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Freda Tan
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Freda Tan is a multimedia artist based in Toronto. Her work centers on the concept of flux sentience — the f...
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Emmette Lewis
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Emmette, b. 1997, is a South African and Canadian multidisciplinary artist, now based in Toronto, Ontario. Gro...
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Cherie Leung
Cherie is a third career emerging contemporary artist from Toronto. Her body of work is a journey of self-exp...
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Haley Meyer
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Haley Meyer (b. 2000) is an emerging oil painter based in Toronto. Her work explores the connection between me...
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Serge V Richard
Serge Gilles Richard is a Canadian artist who currently resides in Kedgwick, New Brunswick. He received his de...
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Tyler Burey
Tyler Burey (b. 1992, Timmins, ON) is a multidisciplinary queer Indigenous artist from Northern Ontario, curre...
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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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Marc Thivierge
Born in Ottawa in 1953 - Franco-Ontarian Mentor/friend: Bernard Poulin High school diploma in 1973 Algonquin C...
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Gülay Alpay
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Gülay Alpay is a Turkish- Canadian interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. She completed both her BFA and ...
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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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Emily King Simpson
Emily King Simpson is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in oil painting and textile based sculptura...
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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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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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steven sabados
After completing an education in Fine Art Steven moved to Toronto where he excelled as the in-store Creative ...
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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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Saruye s
OCAD U Feature Artist
I, an Iranian-Canadian woman, explore identity, diaspora, and duality through the tension between precision an...
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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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Ayan Melikli
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Ayan Melikli is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist working across painting, textiles, murals, and instal...
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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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Sandrine Dickel
Sandrine Dickel's work explores human existence with a focus on femininity. She draw and paint situations of h...
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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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Nadiya Svirsky
Nadiya Svirsky is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in printmaking, painting and sculpture. Born i...
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Blaine White
Blaine is a Toronto based interdisciplinary artist. He grew up on the Canada/US border and his racial backgrou...
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Alessandra Singh
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Alessandra Singh is a recently graduated Thesis student and Drawing and Painting major at OCAD University. Gro...
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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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Clare McIntyre
I am an artist and designer who lives in Toronto. I spent my early childhood in St. John’s, Newfoundland, su...
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Catherine Mills
Catherine graduated with Honours from Guelph University with a degree in Bio.Sci. but couldn’t contain her ...
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Valerie Carew
Valerie Carew (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores human relationships with land using body b...
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Elizabeth Forrest
A graduate in printmaking from the Ontario College of Art and Design, Elizabeth Forrest later travelled to Ky...
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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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Bree Jiang
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Bree Jiang (they/she) is a queer trans multi-disciplinary artist of Chinese-descent based in Tkaronto. Her pra...
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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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Melissa Fice
Melissa Fice attended Fleming College in Haliburton, Ontario, where she studied general arts. After graduating...
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Sarah Arsenault
Sarah Arsenault is a British-Canadian artist based in Ontario, Canada. She is a semi-abstract painter who expl...
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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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Andria Keen
Andria Keen (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Toronto who holds an MFA from York ...
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Tatiana Nikolaeva
Hi, my name is Tatiana and I am an emerging artist with a passion for creating art that captures the beauty an...
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Desiree Rose
OCAD U Feature Artist
Desiree's painting practice uses the traditional means of oil paint on canvas and panel to investigate univers...
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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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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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Carolanne MacLean
Carolanne MacLean, A.O.C.A 1996, B.A., University of Toronto,1972, abstract and figurative work. I am interes...
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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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Julien Poublanc
Julien Poublanc is a self taught artist who grew up in France and moved to Toronto in 2003. The inspiration...
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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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Tania Costa
OCAD U Feature Artist
Tania Costa is a Toronto-based Portuguese-Canadian artist whose paintings have been shown at Toronto Outdoor 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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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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Jennie Lau
OCAD U Feature Artist
Jennie Lau is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. Her art work consist of paintings, collages, time-...
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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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Drea Cohane
Drea is a visual artist who draws and paints from the city of Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. Her works have been ...
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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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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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Gillian Toliver
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Gillian Toliver is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Toronto. Recently graduating from OCAD Univer...
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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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Nancy Bennett
Nancy Bennett is primarily a landscape artist who was cracked open by the pandemic and now paints everything....
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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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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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Amada Estabillo
Amada Estabillo is a Canadian-born artist of mixed Filipino heritage. She lives in the Brockton Village area ...
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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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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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Corynn Kokolakis
OCAD U Feature Artist
Corynn Kokolakis is a Toronto-based painter working at the intersection of painting and caregiving. Her painti...
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Ian McLean
Ian McLean is a visual artist dedicated to capturing the intersection of memory and place. Known for his evoca...
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Kyle Yip
Kyle Yip is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist of mixed race whose thirty-year trajectory traverses visu...
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Melissa Patel
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Melissa Patel is a Toronto based artist who works primarily in drawing, painting, and photography. She was bor...
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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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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...Mirena Lopez Corvetto
Mirena has a BFA from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, Lima, where she was born. She moved to Toront...Matthew Ferguson
I am a Barrie-based multidisciplinary artist who combines traditional realism painting with digital media and ...
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Kayla Ferreira
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Kayla Ferreira is a Toronto-based artist and a graduate of OCAD University with a BFA in Drawing and Painting....Yi Ming Li
Born in Hefei, Anhui, China, Yiming lives in Toronto, Canada throughout his life. Yi Ming is a mixed-media art...Franziska Barczyk
Franziska Barczyk is a multi-disciplinary artist working in collage, acrylic, sculpture and works on paper. Sh...Arman Arun
Arman Arun is an Iranian-Canadian visual artist based in Toronto who began drawing and painting around the age...Kate Rogers
Kate Rogers mixed-media art practice uses collage, drawing, painting, photography and video, to address the cu...Morgan Booth
Morgan Booth is an artist and arts administrator based in Toronto, Canada. Her oil paintings use female figure...Kevin Matheson
I’m an artist and graphic designer based in Toronto, Canada. I’ve been working in the field of graphic des...Eva Lewarne
I was born in Poland and have lived half my life here, in Toronto. Both countries have influenced and shaped m...Eri Ishii
I was born in Japan, and now works in Vancouver, BC. My work is best known for evocative images with soft colo...Jordyn Buckle
Jordyn was born in Humboldt, SK in 1991. She currently lives & works in Paradise Hill, SK. Buckle works in m...Marina FAW
Marina FAW is a Takronto (Toronto) based emerging mixed media artist. Born in Takronto and raised in Brasilia,...René Lemay
A pluridisciplinary and self-taught artist, René Lemay (1934-2015) has made his mark in contemporary realist ...Mikena Kuzmienska
Mikena Kuzmienska is a traditional and contemporary artist working in acrylic paint and coloured pencil. She r...Emily Zdunich
Emily Zdunich is a Saskatoon based interdisciplinary artist who has developed a figurative practice in paintin...Szonja Vucsetics
Szonja Vucsetics is a Hungarian - Canadian artist based in Toronto, working primarily in oil paint and mixed m...Laura Thipphawong
Laura Thipphawong is a Canadian artist, writer, and historian, and has exhibited art and presented her researc...Tessa Alexander
Tessa creates visual images which explore themes surrounding identity and heritage. Her compositions whether ...Patrick Nunziata
Patrick is a visual artist and designer based in Toronto, he has a BFA (2015) from Western University. The pra...Rachael Speirs
Rachael Speirs was born in Oakville, Ontario and raised in Toronto and Cambridge, Ontario. As a child Rachael ...Maryam Astaneh
Mainly a photographer & videographer who does paintings on the side. My focus is figurative painting that deal...Jane Dickson
Jane Dickson, was born in the sixties and raised on a farm in Southern Ontario. She loved to colour and draw a...Bianca Roco
Bianca Roco is an artist living in Toronto, Canada. After moving from the Philippines to study illustration, s...Lubov Soltan
Lubov is a Belarusian-born student of Fine Art, who favours the versatile nature of oil painting. Drawing insp...Irfan Ajvazi
Irfan Ajvazi (born 2001) is a Kosovan painter he received a Diploma in Graphic Design from Great Learning Acad...(Jayne) Libby Sims
My name is Libby (Jayne) Sims and I have been an artist for 20 years. Ten of those as a resident artist at Ar...Hamid Mohammadi
Hamid Mohammadi has studied architecture at Dalhousie University, figurative painting at NSCAD and industrial ...Kurt Rostek
Born in Toronto Canada and raised in what was rural Ontario my aspirations as a creative person dawned as soon...Suzette Terry
Suzette Terry is an accomplished painter who has been working primarily with acrylics and mixed media/collage ...Alli van Gruen
Alli van Gruen is a contemporary Canadian artist with a multifaceted mixed portfolio. From her animal portra...Hakan Kamasik
Hakan Kamasik was a modern expressionist artist who was born in Turkey in 1992. He had a degree on Bachelor of...Celeste Cares
Artist living in Guelph, ON. Guelph MFA 2026. My work is engaged with desire, fantasy, and the aesthetics of g...leon zheng
Leon ( Longxuan Zheng) is a contemporary artist based in Toronto, Canada, with a diverse artistic journey spa...Samy Sabani
Samy Sabani is an Ontario-based artist exploring modern existence through playful experimentation of materials...
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gabbi culham putnoki
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Gabbi Maria is a young Canadian artist, born in the town of Perth, Ontario. She has spent the last three years...Simone Guimaraes
Passionate about the conservation of life, Brazilian born / Canadian mixed media artist Simone Guimaraes explo...Jill Letten
Jill Letten (@j.letten_art) is an artist based in Hamilton, Ontario, accredited with a BFA from McMaster Unive...Roderik Mayne
Roderik Mayne is a well-known art director and production designer in Canadian film and television. His many ...MAXIME COURVAL
Ma démarche artistique Depuis quelques années, j’ai décidé de m’affranchir du figuratif pour aller v...
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Emerald Repard-Denniston
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Emerald Repard-Denniston is a queer Chinese-Canadian contemporary artist based in Squamish, Tsleil-waututh and...Alanna Peters
Alanna Peters was born in Ottawa and currently lives in Toronto. She earned an Honours BA for Fine Arts from M...Reynold Thomas
Reynold Thomas is a Visual Artist whose work shows a perfect mix of exquisite beauty and raw strength. His art...Felicia Cirstea
Felicia Cirstea is a Romanian-Canadian contemporary visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. Born and raised in...Ariel Shea
A painting holds all that is human, past, present, and future. A painting also exists in a perpetual present. ...ROBIN JONES
born NEWMARKET 1978 moved to TORONTO in 1997 graduated in 2012 with B.F.A. in fine art in drawing and painting.Jasmin-Nicole A.
Jasmin-Nicole is a Ghanaian Canadian artist and art educator specializing in painting, drawing, relief printma...Martine Côté
Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, 1981. Martine seeks to capture quiet beauty found in the everyday light....
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Huaijun Wen
OCAD U Feature Artist
Huaijun Wen is a Chinese Canadian artist who specializes in fine art photography. His work is primarily figura...
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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...JIHU KIM
I am a Korean artist based in Seoul, Korea. I graduated from Emily Carr University of Art+Design in 2022, and...
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Olivia Aguiar
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Olivia Aguiar is an emerging artist born, raised and working in Tkaronto. Olivia's practice is interdisciplin...Paulina Padilla
Multidisciplinary artist based in Mexico-Canada, I went to Emily Carr U and OCAD University. I am interested i...Katrina Jurjans
Katrina graduated from Concordia University in 2014 with a BFA in Studio Art and Art History. In her last year...Adam Macciocchi- Lancia
Adam Macciocchi Lancia is a contemporary artist from Toronto, Canada. Accepted to the Art Gallery of Ontario'...
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Mikayla Lacey
OCAD U Feature Artist
Mikayla Lacey’s work explores the way vulnerability can be used as a tool for creation. She draws upon the i...Larissa Mattwich
My inspiration flows from moments in everyday life. In practice, this means my paintings are based on my own p...Miranda Crabtree
Miranda Crabtree is a Toronto-based artist who studied Interdisciplinary Fine Art at NSCAD University in Halif...Caroline Ji
Caroline Ji is a self-taught artist with a previous background in engineering. In 2014 she left her engineerin...
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Olivia Di Gregorio
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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...
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Dana McCool
OCAD U Feature Artist
Dana McCool is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and anarchist. Using symbolism, colour harmonies ...Sarah Van Dusen
Artist Statement Sarah Van Dusen is an artist from Toronto, Ontario. She graduated from Centennial College Fin...leah landau
Leah Landau was born in Poland in 1945, a child of holocaust survivors. As a child she lived in Israel and mov...Gwynne Giles
Gwynne Giles is an emerging artist whose work is in collections in both North America and Europe. His naive, t...frances hahn
Frances studied English Literature and Art History before teaching for a year in Italy where she fell in love ...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.
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Joyce Wang
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am an emerging artist and illustrator based in Toronto and a recent graduate of OCAD University. My practice...
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Hala Alsalman
OCAD U Feature Artist
Hala is an interdisciplinary artist with a strong background in journalism, which informs her research-creatio...
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