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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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Barbara Chapman
Born on the eastern edge of Canada, Barbara is influenced by the world we live in; coast-lines, plant-life, th...
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Genevieve Blais
Genevieve Blais is a lens-based artist earning great praise for her work involving art historical and theoreti...
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Katrina Ewanchuk
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look down into your own heart.” Carl Jung As a child gro...
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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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Ayan Melikli
OCAD U Feature Artist
My work on Partial is predominantly a mix of traditional and digital painting, but I aim to constantly evolve ...
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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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Laurie Skantzos
Laurie’s contemporary, process driven painting is largely inspired by the interactions of colour, shape and...
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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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Laura Fedorowicz
I am a wife, mom of 2 girls, lover of pugs, pizza and all things buffalo chicken. My house plants are taking o...
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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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Sepi Borhani
Sepi is a self-taught artist based in Toronto, Ontario with a background in Engineering; however, her lifelong...
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Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson is a multi-media artist who studied illustration at OCADU and graduated in 2021. He also cr...
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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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Alysha Rocca
OCAD U Feature Artist
HELLO!! My name is ALYSHA, I am a Vaughan-born artist, who studied in Toronto at OCAD University, earning a BF...
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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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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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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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Mary McLorn Valle
Flowers are symbols of renewal, endurance, beauty and energy unfolding. Mary McLorn Valle’s graphic oil pai...
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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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Kaitlin Johnson
Kaitlin works in acrylics on canvas, creating dramatic abstract paintings inspired by nature. After completi...
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Laura Kay Keeling
Laura Kay Keeling (she/her/they) is a visual artist living whose work encompasses analog photography, video, c...
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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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Amber Ozols
Amber Ozols is a multidisciplinary artist who creates paintings, murals, and paper products. Her most recent o...
Stacy Athena May
OCAD U Feature Artist
Stacy Athena May is an abstract painter and classically trained draughtswoman working out of Toronto. She earn...
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Olivier Salvas
Olivier Salvas is a queer artist, educator, media personality and curator specializing in arts education and s...
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Matthew Catalano
Matthew Catalano was born in Oshawa Ontario and received his BFA from the University of Waterloo. He currentl...
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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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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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Clare McIntyre
Clare McIntyre is a classically-trained artist and designer who lives in Toronto. The daughter of a professio...
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Marianne Sung
Marianne is an emerging and self-taught Korean-Canadian artist. Radiating warmth and light, her art is inte...
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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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Sherry Dube
Sherry Dube is a self taught traditional artist who creates acrylic works with a highly detailed and realistic...
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Sunny Nestler
~welcome to my happy place~ I am a multi-disciplinary artist working on unceded Coast Salish territories belo...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Maryam Ebrahimi
Artworks of Canadian-Iranian artist, Maryam Ebrahimi, are magnetic in their meditative flow. Her paintings hav...
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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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ESTHER DOË KIM
OCAD U Feature Artist
Esther Kim (b. 1995, South Korea), also known by her artistic moniker DOË, is a Korean-Canadian artist curren...
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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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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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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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Gordon Sellen
Born in the Yukon Territory, back when car's had wooden wheels. Currently resides in Collingwood Ontario Canad...
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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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Harley Yang
Think of photography as a person. Then every photograph is a collaboration. But what the human embodiment se...
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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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Diana Rosa
As a visual artist, Diana Rosa takes inspirations from an alternative upbringing where she closely connected w...
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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...
Tanya Atkinson
I am a mixed media/ceramic artist based in Toronto. My formal education is in Geography/Geomorphology, however...
Terence Reeves
A master at falling on his face, Terence Reeves is learning to fly through sheer force of will.
Mike Lau
Mike Lau (b. 1996) is a Hong Kong-born photo artist based in Toronto. He is a graduate of OCAU University with...
Marijke Bouchier
Marijke Bouchier is an illustrator and interdisciplinary artist, originally from New Zealand, now based in Tor...
Patrick Nunziata
Patrick is a visual artist and designer based in Toronto, he has a BFA (2015) from Western University. The pra...
Sakina Ali
Through the meticulous fusion of mediums, Sakina creates a harmonious balance between strength and delicacy, c...
Ashley Snook
Informed by biology, scientific research and socio-cultural dynamics, Ashley Snook explores the complexities o...
Szonja Vucsetics
Szonja Vucsetics is a Hungarian - Canadian artist based in Toronto, working primarily in oil paint and mixed m...
Judith McKay
Judith McKay is a modern abstract artist based in the Toronto area. She is an intuitive and high energy painte...
Charlotte Healey
Charlotte Healey (Canadian b. 1989) is an emerging contemporary painter and printmaker living in Toronto. Alth...
Zach Warne
My artwork begins with a word or phrase, that I use as the title. As I write the given title onto the canvas I...
Simon Kim
My work is based on Figure Drawing. My free-spirited style is obtained by pursuing a variety of modalities: ch...
Jenny Chen
I continuously explore different mediums but at the core, I am a painter. I feel most comfortable with waterco...
Tessa Alexander
Tessa creates visual images which explore themes surrounding identity and heritage. Her compositions whether ...
Lucy Cariou
I attended Concordia University (Montréal) and the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts), graduating with d...
Ricardo Martinez
A former student of Architecture that create spaces and buildings of fantasy of what can be call emotional arc...
manuela moldovan
Romanian-born Manuela Moldovan lives and works from her home studio in Toronto. She is a self-taught mixed med...
Sharon Trickett
My name is Sharon Trickett and I am a self taught contemporaryt artist in Nova Scotia. I have been honing my s...
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...
Liz “Ela” Szymczak
Liz aka Ela, is a self taught abstract artist known for her vibrant & joyful paintings. After experiencing a h...
Christy Winegarden
Christy Winegarden is a photographer who lives and works in a rural community near Waterloo Ontario. Although ...
Tash Damjanovic
Artist Statement My work celebrates beauty, hidden in all the usual and sometimes unusual places. Inspiration...
Katrina Jurjans
Katrina graduated from Concordia University in 2014 with a BFA in Studio Art and Art History. In her last year...
Melissa Boodoo
Melissa Boodoo is a Chinese-Trinidadian fine artist and interior designer based in Toronto, Canada. As a daugh...
Liza Zawadzka
Liza is an artist and art teacher living in Toronto. She has a passion and love for the outdoors. Her art is...
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...
Hakan Kamasik
Hakan Kamasik was a modern expressionist artist who was born in Turkey in 1992. He had a degree on Bachelor of...
Christian Redermayer
My name is Christian Redermayer and I'm a creative problem solver as architectural and fine art photographer f...
SHU LI
The lockdown has shaped me as an artist. I work as a programmer. At the beginning of lockdown, I was depressed...
Suzette Terry
Suzette Terry is an accomplished painter who has been working primarily with acrylics and mixed media/collage ...
Gwynne Giles
Gwynne Giles is an emerging artist whose work is in collections in both North America and Europe. His naive, t...
Liang Wang
Liang Wang is a Vancouver-based painter. He is the product of a global upbringing. Wang was born in Taiwan, ho...
Dan Nuttall
Dan Nuttall has a professional background in the natural sciences and design. Much of his art practice is base...
Lulu Galway
Lulu works from her studio in Montreal absorbing the quotidian landscape and filtering it through drawing and ...
Julie Gladstone
Julie Gladstone is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist. Gladstone's paintings reveal hidden facets of the lan...
Ritu G
My love for painting started as a preschooler when I was gifted my first box of wax crayons, it turned into my...
Grace Hotchkiss
OCAD U Feature Artist
A multimedia artist and production designer, Grace graduated with a Bachelor's of Environmental Design from O...
Michèle White
Michèle White’s work explores – often through sources in literature – manifestations of the unconscious...
Larissa Mattwich
My inspiration flows from moments in everyday life. In practice, this means my paintings are based on my own p...
Helen Baker
Helen Baker is a Canadian abstract painter living in Kingston, Ontario. She is also a local activist that a...
Dana McCool
OCAD U Feature Artist
Dana McCool is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and anarchist. Using symbolism, colour harmonies ...
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...
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...
Alejandro Rizzo Nervo
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alejandro Rizzo Nervo (b. 1993, Caracas, VE), is an interdisciplinary artist and performer that lives and work...