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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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Katya Garipova
Russian-born Katya Garipova is a Toronto-based artist and illustrator. After completing her BA in Graphic Arts...
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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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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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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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Laura Heaney
Laura Heaney is a contemporary portrait artist and creator of the Observing Green project, based in Toronto, C...
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John Ford
ARTIST STATEMENT My latest work continues an exploration of a kind of everyday, active remembrance, building ...
Elyse Ricketts
OCAD U Feature Artist
Elyse Skye Ricketts is a multidisciplinary artist in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. She is currently on her artisti...
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Amanda Amour-Lynx
Amanda Amour Lynx (they/them/nekm) is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent, urban L’nu (Mi’kmaw)-Scottish interdis...
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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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Adam Gourlay
Adam Gourlay is an interdisciplinary artist that focuses on painting, drawing, and performance. His most rece...
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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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Valerie Carew
Valerie Carew (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores human relationships with land using body b...
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sujesh Chitty V
Chennai born artist; Sujesh Chitty brings contemporary reflections of his eastern influences to life through t...
Michael Highway
OCAD U Feature Artist
Colour blocks are for sparkling moments of slow nights lines to recall the smell of here and that All these ...
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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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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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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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Rexhep Bucinca
Rexhep Buçinca is a master of abstract expressionism, breathing life into his canvases with fiery brushstroke...
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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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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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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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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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Montina Hussey
Montina (b.1989) graduated with a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University. . She currently resides i...
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April Pyne
April is a visual artist living in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her work explores simplified shapes and fragmented ...
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Rita Vindedzis
"These new mixed media abstract paintings are optimistic. They are a journey into my imagination. As an introv...
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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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Jose F Jimenez
Jose F Jimenez was born in Venezuela in 1986. Having grown up close to the sea and surrounded by mountains, hi...
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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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Amada Estabillo
Amada Estabillo is a Canadian-born artist of mixed Filipino-Irish heritage. Amada attended York University an...
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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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Kyle Yip
Born in Scarborough in 1988, Kyle Yip is an acclaimed Toronto-based artist celebrated for his hypersurrealist ...
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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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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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Harley Yang
Think of photography as a person. Then every photograph is a collaboration. But what the human embodiment se...
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Ally Zlatar
Ally Zlatar is an artist and activist. She is the founder of The Starving Artist; an artist initiative that ut...
Jasmine Cardenas
Jasmine Cardenas is an Ecuadorian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist working with sculptural paintings, collag...
Maggie Chow
My background as an art education consultant and a pedagogy researcher in Early Childhood Education. The Reggi...
Lana Yuan
Yuan is a BA. graduated from the Studio Art program at University of Toronto Scarborough. Through her art prac...
Val P
I’m an illustrator and designer. Moving between places during my early childhood, image-making became my f...
Nasim Esmailpoor
I paint since 1995,I think creation is something that astonish me more than every thing in the world,in my p...
Nathalie Girard
A JOURNEY OFF THE BEATEN TRACKS... A shepherd in the Alps once said to me: “But you have lived the life of ...
René Lemay
A pluridisciplinary and self-taught artist, René Lemay (1934-2015) has made his mark in contemporary realist ...
Becks .
Hi there, my name is Becks! I am a self-taught abstract artist. Abstract art is something that I’ve always...
Angelica Candido
Angelica Candido is a contemporary artist specializing in impressionistic paintings of Canadian landscapes and...
Donna Chudnow
The memories and feelings of childhood camping and canoe trips in parts of northern Ontario are essential to ...
Rachael Speirs
Rachael Speirs was born in Oakville, Ontario and raised in Toronto and Cambridge, Ontario. As a child Rachael ...
Patricia Lourenco
Residing in Toronto, Patricia was born in a small coastal fishing town in Portugal. Her creative spark was ign...
Gregory Geipel
Gregory Geipel s a fine art photographer whose work reflects the experience of growing up in post-Expo 86 Vanc...
Cristina Getson
Cristina Getson is an abstract expressionist painter based in Toronto, Canada. With a degree in Biomedical Eng...
Erika Li
Erika Li is a contemporary calligraphy artist who began studying classical Chinese calligraphy at the age of f...
Deniz Yilmaz
Deniz is a Toronto-based artist of Mongolian and Turkish ancestry. Her art explores human-land relations and i...
Miré Albornoz
ARTIST’S BIO Miré Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...
Phyllis Schwartz
Phyllis Schwartz is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in photography, ceramics and publishing. She is an E...
Ellie Hsu
OCAD U Feature Artist
Ellie Hsu is a Taiwanese-Canadian illustrator based in Toronto. She values living in true essence and finds in...
Kelsea chatburn
Kelsea Chatburn is a Toronto-based watercolour artist, known for her vibrant paintings of Los Angeles and Asia...
bhavya dixit
Bhavya Dixit is a self-taught fine artist based in Montreal, Canada. Originally from India, she creates intric...
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...
Kanchan Quinlan
Kanchan Quinlan is a Canadian-Indian visual artist and an architectural designer. Born in Toronto and raised i...
Brubey Hu
Brubey (Wanzhi) Hu (b. 1994) is an artist, graphic designer, and educator living in Toronto. Brubey works most...
Qudsia Hussain
OCAD U Feature Artist
My name is Qudsia Hussain. I am a Pakistani Canadian Muslim woman. I have attended Ocad University and recentl...
Jeanmarie Weatherhead
CJ Weatherhead, is an emerging multidisciplinary artist based in T’karonto and born in Guatemala. My artisti...
Maryam Astaneh
Mainly a photographer & videographer who does paintings on the side. My focus is figurative painting that deal...
Janet Read
Janet Read is a painter, musician, and poet, whose childhood was spent near Lake Simcoe. The artist has sought...
Vani V
Vani, is an abstract artist from Toronto, Ontario. Since her childhood, Vani has nurtured her passion for art,...
Susana Mingram
Susana Mingram is an acrylic and Photoshop artist who was raised in Mexico City and resides in Ajax, ON. She e...
Callie DeWees
Multimedia feminist illuminations through self-portraiture and parody or re-contextualization of religious art...
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...
Emily Zou
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a Toronto-based Canadian-Chinese multimedia artist, sculptor, illustrator, painter, and maker of earrings...
Olivia Aguiar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Aguiar is an emerging artist born, raised and working in Tkaronto. Olivia's practice is interdisciplin...
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...
JIHU KIM
I am a Korean artist based in Vancouver, BC. I graduated from Emily Carr University of Art+Design in 2022, an...
Michèle White
Michèle White’s work explores – often through sources in literature – manifestations of the unconscious...
Cissy Shi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cissy Ruoyao Shi is a Toronto-based contemporary artist specializing in drawing and acrylic painting. She grad...
Nicole Moss
Nicole Moss is an award winning collage artist currently living and working in Toronto. She studied drawing an...
Candice Grant
Bio Hi! My name is Candice Grant and I’m deeply passionate about colors. I first discovered my love for col...
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...
Suhmer Hyatt
OCAD U Feature Artist
Suhmer Hyatt (pronounced like the season) is an illustrator from Toronto. She is an OCAD University Bachelor ...