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Maggie Shepherd
I love using light and line to create landscapes and still life paintings. The forgiving and dramatic oil med...
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Hanna Bordewijk
Hanna has made over 150 commissions and artworks to date and enjoys making portraits of people and animals in ...
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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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Anson Ng
Hello! I am Anson Ng — I am a landscape painter and painting instructor born in Thailand and raised in Toron...
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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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Shawn Goldberg
Shawn Goldberg was born and raised in Toronto. His photography covers a wide range; Movie sets, Editorial, B...
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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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Agnes Bellegris
Agnes is an artist who cherishes the interplay of light and dark and the colourful spaces we occupy. Her goal...
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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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Sara Purves
Sara Purves is an artist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was a fine art major at the Claude Watson School o...
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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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Alice Jennex
Alice Jennex is a Canadian visual artist working in watercolour, and living in Nova Scotia. Alice’s work exp...
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Trinley Dorje
Trinley Dorje is a Toronto based mixed media/collage artist whose artworks are visual anthropological explorat...
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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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Carrie Chisholm
Carrie Chisholm, AOCAD, MFA is an award-winning artist/designer and marketing/ business development profession...
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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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Helena Wehrstein
Discarded, outmoded, unwanted stuff….my passion is to breathe new life into these by-products of our society...
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Ronald Nygren
Ronald E Nygren is an artist based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada “He who works with his hands and his head a...
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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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Roshni Wijayasinha
Roshni Wijayasinha is a Toronto based visual artist who specializes in large abstract expressionist paintings ...
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Sarah Arsenault
Sarah Arsenault is a British-Canadian artist based in London, UK. She is a semi-abstract painter who explores ...
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Ana Luisa Bernardez
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Ana Luisa Bernárdez is a Venezuelan emerging artist based in Toronto. She holds a BFA with Distinction from O...
Isabella Nicastro
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Isabella Nicastro is a contemporary Canadian painter based in Toronto, Ontario. Working primarily in painting,...
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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...
Isabelle Halmos
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Isabelle Halmos is a 2021 graduate of Drawing and Painting from OCAD University, completing her Bachelor degre...
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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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Denys Golden
Denys Golden (FKA Golemenkov) is a Ukrainian-born, Toronto-based visual artist. Denys specializes in bright, a...
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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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Brian Jiang
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Brian Jiang (they/she) is a queer trans multi-disciplinary artist of Chinese-descent based in Tkaronto. Their ...
Shinae Kim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Shinae Kim is a Canadian painter of Korean descent. She creates work that moves between figuration and abstrac...
Jenny Tchen
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Jenny Tchen is a Chinese Vietnamese artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, currently in her final year at OCAD Univ...
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Reisha Felix
Reisha Felix is a Toronto based fine arts artist who was born and raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica. ...
Raha Fard
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Raha Fard is an Iranian-Canadian artist, based in GTA, Canada. She is currently studying MFA, IAMD at OCAD U, ...
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Sara Abulkarim
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Sara Abulkarim is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. She studied at Cégep Marie-Victorin in Montrea...
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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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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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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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Kim Gullion Stewart
Kim Gullion Stewart has been a visual artist for more than 30 years. She’s a member of the Métis Nation wit...
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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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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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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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Sue Ennis
I'm a Toronto based painter, and a graduate of University of Toronto (B.A,B.Ed) and the Toronto School of Art...
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Jason Zante
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Jason Zante is a Filipino-Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada. With a multidisciplinary background rangin...
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Ahlena Sultana-McGarry
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Ahlena Sultana-McGarry is a Pakistani-Canadian cross-disciplinary artist who visually explores diaspora and he...
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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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Corinne Lawless
Corinne Lawless is a full time ceramic artist based in Pickering, Ontario who rediscovered her artistic self a...
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Farzaneh Alihosseini
I was born and raised in Iran. I was drawn to art and painting from a young age. The culture I grew up in did ...
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Amber Ozols
Amber Ozols is a multidisciplinary artist who creates paintings, murals, and paper products. Her most recent o...
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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Olivier Salvas
Olivier Salvas is a queer artist, educator, media personality and curator specializing in arts education and s...
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Firouzeh Saremi Far
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Firouzeh Saremi Far, a Painting and Sculpture major at OCAD University, is a Toronto-based artist. She is infl...
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Jasper Urbina
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Jasper Urbina is a Canadian born Filipino artist from Toronto, Ontario and is a 2019 Graduate of OCAD Universi...
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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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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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Jordan Nahmias
Jordan Nahmias is a photographer living and working in Toronto, Canada. Traditionally capturing images of plac...
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Patrick Skals
Patrick Skals is a working artist residing in his hometown of Toronto, Canada. In 2019, after 10 years employe...
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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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Clare McIntyre
Clare McIntyre is a classically-trained artist and designer who lives in Toronto. The daughter of a professio...
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Lori Ryerson
I am a Toronto-based contemporary art photographer. In our increasingly noisy world I look to capture the sile...
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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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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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Nancy Bennett
Nancy Bennett is primarily a landscape artist who was cracked open by the pandemic and now paints everything....
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Anam Feerasta
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Anam Feerasta is a Pakistani-Canadian artist based in Toronto. She works primarily with acrylic and oil paints...
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Juliet Sekandi
Juliet Sekandi is a Ugandan-Canadian Toronto-based artist working primarily in acrylic on canvas. Juliet is a ...
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Nick Zhurid
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I am a modern calligraphy artist from Kiev, currently based in Toronto. My way started back in 2012 with stre...
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Sophia Kim
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Sophia Kyungwon Kim is a Toronto-based visual artist and mother of four, is currently pursuing an MFA at OCAD ...
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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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Audrey Feltham
I am a professional artist working both in traditional print practise and in fibre art. I have been creating ...
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Avery Gibbes
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There are many different "worlds" that exist within our perception. These worlds exist physically, figurativel...
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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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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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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.
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Lulu H. (she/her) is a visual artist practicing in Toronto, Ontario. Her works are usually intuitively abstrac...
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Jennie Lau
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Jennie Lau is an emerging artist based in Toronto. Her art work consist of paintings, collages, time-based med...
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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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Maryam Ebrahimi
Artworks of Canadian-Iranian artist, Maryam Ebrahimi, are magnetic in their meditative flow. Her paintings hav...
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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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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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Mekayla Dionne
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Mekayla Dionne is an emerging Métis abstract painter. She was born in 1997 and spent her childhood in a small...
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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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Nat Timokhin
Nat Timokhin is a visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. With her art she explores the concept of freedom and...
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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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Ian McLean
In his oil paintings, Ian presents otherworldly depictions of imagined residential environments – both inter...
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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 mixed media paintings have been collected in more than 40 countries worldwide, including Canada, USA...
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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...
Sara Lamond
Sara Lamond, a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist born in Nova Scotia, has cultivated an eclectic and emotiona...
Isobel Hamilton
Originally from Scotland, I emigrated to Nova Scotia with my husband in 2013, looking to escape city life and ...
Megan Berardelli
My name is Megan Berardelli, and I'm a fine art photographer based in Ottawa, Canada. My photography seeks to ...
Kevin Matheson
I’m an artist and graphic designer based in Toronto, Canada. I’ve been working in the field of graphic des...
Gina Jacklin
My work strives to bridge the gap between the immaterial and material world to manifest a sense of the etherea...
Sasha Jimenez French
The work of Cuban American artist Sasha Jimenez French can be found throughout Canada and across the United St...
Claire Anderson
Claire Anderson is a graduate of the Sheridan College Crafts and Design Glass Program where she discovered her...
Natalie Goulet
Natalie Michelle Goulet is a Canadian artist working within expanded realms of photography and image making. O...
ievgeniia cherednikova
Ievgeniia is a painter born in Kyiv, Ukraine and working and living in Tkaronto/Toronto. Studying at OCAD Univ...
Marina FAW
Marina FAW is a Takronto (Toronto) based emerging mixed media artist. Born in Takronto and raised in Brasilia,...
Jill McNair
Jill McNair is an artist and an educator. Her background as an Art Therapist and Art Instructor has expressed ...
Honeylyn Romales-Amaga
I am a self taught artist with naturalistic approach in painting. Generally I prefer painting with acrylics, c...
Annette Sicotte
Annette Sicotte is a painter working from her studio in BC and her home in Alberta. The western Canadian lands...
Nathalie Girard
A JOURNEY OFF THE BEATEN TRACKS... A shepherd in the Alps once said to me: “But you have lived the life of ...
Dorian Mindru
Hello my name is Dorian Jonathan Mindru and I am a visual artist specializing in the creation of nature landsc...
Jordyn Sweezey
Jordyn was born in Humboldt, SK in 1991. She currently lives & works in Paradise Hill, SK. Sweezey works in ...
Becks .
Hi there, my name is Becks! I am a self-taught abstract artist. Abstract art is something that I’ve always...
Erika Nielsen
ERIKA NIELSEN, CELLIST AND ARTIST Erika Nielsen's multi-faceted creative background as a cellist, artist, and ...
Marijke Bouchier
Marijke Bouchier is an illustrator and interdisciplinary artist, originally from New Zealand, now based in Tor...
Odette Valero
OV artisticdrive The name “OV” is an abbreviation of the artist´s name Odette Valero, while the name “a...
Jenny Zhang
Jenny Zhang is a Chinese-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. In 2022, she received h...
Eduard Gurevich
Eduard was born in 1969 in Ukraine. In 1992, he immigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto where he lives ...
Davinson Nunez Sanchez
CURRICULUM VITAE Davinson Nuñez Sanchez, Caibarién, 18 de marzo de 1989. Dirección particular: Call...
NARGIS NAQVI
My earliest memory of me paintings is of me as a four year old, using a red crayon on my neighbor's bedroom wa...
Simone Guimaraes
Passionate about the conservation of life, Brazilian born / Canadian mixed media artist Simone Guimaraes explo...
Mennen | Lure
I am an emerging multidisciplinary artist that often conceptualizes work around the human figure or condition,...
Sakina Ali
Through the meticulous fusion of mediums, Sakina creates a harmonious balance between strength and delicacy, c...
Lubov Soltan
Lubov is a Belarusian-born student of Fine Art, who favours the versatile nature of oil painting. Drawing insp...
Eric Sandstrom
Eric Sandstrom (b. 1997) is a Canadian street photographer, currently based in Barcelona, Spain. His work expl...
Eric Mummery
Eric Mummery is a visual artist from London, Ontario working primarily in printmaking and drawing along with w...
Lauren Pirie
Lauren Pirie is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, art director and curator. She works in a range of me...
Charlotte Healey
Charlotte Healey (Canadian b. 1989) is an emerging contemporary painter and printmaker living in Toronto. Alth...
vridhhi chaudhry
OCAD U Feature Artist
Vridhhi is an interdisciplinary artist from India based in Toronto. She completed her MFA from OCAD University...
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...
Erika Li
Erika Li is a contemporary calligraphy artist who began studying classical Chinese calligraphy at the age of f...
Megan Hazen
Born in Renfrew Ontario, Megan Hazen is a 2017 graduate of OCAD University in Toronto with a Bachelor of Fine ...
Miré Albornoz
ARTIST’S BIO Miré Albornoz (b. Paris, Fr) is best known for her vibrant geometric abstract collages and p...
manuela moldovan
Romanian-born Manuela Moldovan lives and works from her home studio in Toronto. She is a self-taught mixed med...
Irina Zlobina
Irina Zlobina is a Russian-born painter and printmaker with more than twenty years of artistic practice, and w...
Jordan Baraniecki
Artist Statement Jordan Baraniecki, is a renowned artist hailing from Saskatoon, Canada. His ink collage pain...
(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...
Alice Zilberberg
Alice Zilberberg is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist, recognized by curators, collectors,...
Assaad Elsibai
Lebanon is where my story began, with a nursing degree shaping the first chapters. For 16 years, I dedicated m...
Gillian Lahav
Gillian Lahav is a self-taught oil painter and gilder. Her paintings are inspired by nature's magic, featuring...
Pinar Giray
Pinar Giray is a skilled ink and watercolour artist. She paints scenes of nature and creates intricate ink des...
Nicole Mandelis
Nicole Mandelis began her art career in commercial art and graphic design, having graduated from Sheridan Coll...
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...
Kurt Rostek
Born in Toronto Canada and raised in what was rural Ontario my aspirations as a creative person dawned as soon...
Mike Chmil
Mike Chmil is a mixed media artist from Toronto, Ontario. He explores the superfluous aspects of luxurious obj...
Sasha Q
Hello! My name is Sasha Q (real name Oleksandra Stepanenko) and I'm an artist born in Kyiv, Ukraine. I was f...
frances ferdinands
Born in Colombo Sri Lanka, Canadian artist Frances Ferdinands is based in Toronto. She holds a B.F.A.from York...
leon zheng
Leon ( Longxuan Zheng) is a contemporary artist based in Toronto, Canada, with a diverse artistic journey spa...
Karin McLean
Karin is a self-taught artist who began painting ten years ago. Initially working in acrylics, she has expand...
Danielle Cole
Danielle Cole is a Toronto based artist who creates playful collages through an assembly of original vintage g...
Shailaja Sajja
# APRIL UPDATE: Sometime in 2025, once I feel sufficient number of my artwork have found homes, I would be mov...
Tash Damjanovic
Artist Statement My work celebrates beauty, hidden in all the usual and sometimes unusual places. Inspiration...
Liza Zawadzka
Liza is an artist and art teacher living in Toronto. She has a passion and love for the outdoors. Her art is...
Melissa Boodoo
Melissa Boodoo is a Chinese-Trinidadian fine artist and interior designer based in Toronto, Canada. As a daugh...
Adrian Howell
Adrian C. Howell is a native Torontonian, and a self taught photographer. When not working in his emergency se...
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...
Nancy M. Martini
Hello! I’m Nancy Martini, a self-taught artist living in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Painting colourful e...
Jieun June Kim
Jieun June Kim is a Korean born painter, muralist, and art producer based in North York, Toronto. She has exh...
Jasmin-Nicole A.
Jasmin-Nicole Amoako (she/her) is a Ghanaian-Canadian visual artist and community arts facilitator. She is a g...
leah landau
Leah Landau was born in Poland in 1945, a child of holocaust survivors. As a child she lived in Israel and mov...
SHU LI
The lockdown has shaped me as an artist. I work as a programmer. At the beginning of lockdown, I was depressed...
Lilian Sim
OCAD U Feature Artist
Lilian Sim was born and raised in Toronto. She works mainly in watercolour, ink, and gouache but also enjoys w...
Francois Fournier
Nature varies itself relentlessly. It is my contact with this constantly changing environment that inspires my...
Reynold Thomas
Reynold Thomas is a Visual Artist whose work shows a perfect mix of exquisite beauty and raw strength. His art...
Dan Nuttall
Dan Nuttall has a professional background in the natural sciences and design. Much of his art practice is base...
Julie Gladstone
Julie Gladstone is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist. Gladstone's paintings reveal hidden facets of the lan...
Tavi Weisz
I have completed my formal studies in Cluj, Romania and Budapest, Hungary and following 2002 I have establishe...
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...
Ritu G
My love for painting started as a preschooler when I was gifted my first box of wax crayons, it turned into my...
Olga Klosowski
Olga Klosowski is constantly searching for new ways of commemorating history. Her work uses found objects in ...
Olivia Aguiar
OCAD U Feature Artist
Olivia Aguiar is an emerging artist born, raised and working in Tkaronto. Olivia's practice is interdisciplin...
Cissy Shi
OCAD U Feature Artist
Cissy Ruoyao Shi is a Toronto-based contemporary artist specializing in drawing and acrylic painting. She grad...
Dana McCool
OCAD U Feature Artist
Dana McCool is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, writer and anarchist. Using symbolism, colour harmonies ...
Nicole Moss
Nicole Moss is an award winning collage artist currently living and working in Toronto. She studied drawing an...
Ketty Haolin Zhang
Ketty Haolin Zhang (b. Chaoyang, China) is a visual artist currently based in so-called Vancouver, Canada. Inf...
Alessandra Singh
OCAD U Feature Artist
Alessandra Singh is a recently graduated Thesis student and Drawing and Painting major at OCAD University. Gro...
Michaela Fernandes
Michaela Fernandes is a multi-faceted artist originally from Goderich, Ontario currently residing in Toronto. ...
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...
Tal Paz-Fridman
My name is Tal Paz-Fridman, I am a photographer specializing in creative + documentary photography. To paraphr...
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.
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 ...