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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...
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Srini Balram
I went for the uncommon. Forever on the prowl. With a camera and a diligent scowl. On one of those trudges cam...
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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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Maya Skarzenski
OCAD U Feature Artist
Maya Skarzenski is a multidisciplinary artist fusing together painting, textiles, and photography. She graduat...
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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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Parveen Dhatt
I create artwork from post consumer ‘waste’, remnants of everyday life; newspapers, food packaging, fast f...
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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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Heather Assaf
Heather Assaf, an artist located near Ottawa, Ontario, is known for her non-objective abstract and impressioni...
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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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Leigh Nelson
I studied at the Toronto School of Art where I focused on abstract painting and received my Fine Arts Diploma ...
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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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Laurie Skantzos
Laurie’s contemporary, process driven painting is largely inspired by the interactions of colour, shape and...
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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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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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Melissa Fice
Melissa Fice attended Fleming College in Haliburton, Ontario, where she studied general arts. After graduating...
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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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Nelson Cheng
Nelson Cheng is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. He holds a Bachelor of Honors from York University/Sherida...
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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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Mary McLorn Valle
Flowers are symbols of renewal, endurance, beauty and energy unfolding. Mary McLorn Valle’s graphic oil pai...
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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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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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Loretta Kaltenhauser
As a contemporary, award-winning artist, Loretta expresses her visions in a spontaneous and direct fashion. Ac...
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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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Emma Ducharme
OCAD U Feature Artist
An emerging artist based in Tkarón:to/Toronto, Emma Ducharme’s work is an investigation into the absurd. He...
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Melanie Day
I am a Canadian artist, originally from the uk. Settled in Toronto for 40 years, recently opened up a Studio i...
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Ruth Thorogood
For over a decade, Ruth ran a brand and marketing company but pivoted to abstract art during COVID. Having pro...
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Valerie Carew
Valerie Carew (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who explores human relationships with land using body b...
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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Taruna Singh
Born in India and educated in a Middle Eastern convent, my formative years unfolded amid the vibrant neighbour...
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Ivy Tang
Zishan(Ivy) Tang is an artist who specializes in painting and drawing. Her focus is on capturing the intricate...
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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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Natalia Ackers
Natalia is a late-blooming, emerging Toronto-based abstract painter. As a teenager, Natalia’s bedroom walls...
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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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Clare McIntyre
Clare McIntyre is a classically-trained artist and designer who lives in Toronto. The daughter of a professio...
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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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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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Drea Cohane
Drea is a visual artist who draws and paints from the city of Toronto. Due to an mTBI, Drea was inspired and m...
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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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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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Jill Huang
Hailing from Vancouver, BC, Jill Huang graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a degree in...
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Nick Zhurid
OCAD U Feature Artist
I am a modern calligraphy artist from Kiev, currently based in Toronto. My way started back in 2012 with stre...
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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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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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April Pyne
April is a visual artist living in Moncton, New Brunswick. Her work explores simplified shapes and fragmented ...
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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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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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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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Linds Miyo
Linds Miyo is a self-taught, intuitive painter, known for process-based works that drift between abstraction, ...
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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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Maryam Ebrahimi
Artworks of Canadian-Iranian artist, Maryam Ebrahimi, are magnetic in their meditative flow. Her paintings hav...
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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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Rita Vindedzis
"These new mixed media abstract paintings are optimistic. They are a journey into my imagination. As an introv...
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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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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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Kyle Yip
Born in Scarborough in 1988, Kyle Yip is an acclaimed Toronto-based artist celebrated for his hypersurrealist ...
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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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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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Ian McLean
In his oil paintings, Ian presents otherworldly depictions of imagined residential environments – both inter...
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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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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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Ally Zlatar
Ally Zlatar is an artist and activist. She is the founder of The Starving Artist; an artist initiative that ut...
Rakesh Malik
I am an avid hiker and backpacker, and love to photograph the beauty of the environments where I am trekking. ...
Jane Forrest
Jane Forrest is currently studying contemporary art at the Etobicoke School of the Arts. She primarily works w...
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...
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...
Sakina Ali
Through the meticulous fusion of mediums, Sakina creates a harmonious balance between strength and delicacy, c...
James Okore
My name is James Okore, and I am a contemporary interdisciplinary artist, specializing in portrait paintings e...
Phyllis Schwartz
Phyllis Schwartz is a multi-disciplinary artist who works in photography, ceramics and publishing. She is an E...
Brittany/Andrew Forrest
Brittany/Andrew Forrest (she/her or he/him) is a queer Ontario-based surrealist artist and author. She focuses...
Mike Chmil
Mike Chmil is a mixed media artist from Toronto, Ontario. He explores the superfluous aspects of luxurious obj...
Tiffany Tremaine
Tiffany Tremaine is an artist located in Toronto Ontario, whose work focus's on life and all of it's little th...
Kurt Rostek
Born in Toronto Canada and raised in what was rural Ontario my aspirations as a creative person dawned as soon...
Brubey Hu
Brubey (Wanzhi) Hu (b. 1994) is an artist, graphic designer, and educator living in Toronto. Brubey works most...
frances ferdinands
Born in Colombo Sri Lanka, Canadian artist Frances Ferdinands is based in Toronto. She holds a B.F.A.from York...
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...
Janice Kovar
Janice Kovar is a visual artist from Dundas, Ontario who attended McMaster University 1982-86 and graduated wi...
julia ismambetova
I paint on silk. For more than 20 years, from the very first time I was introduced to it during my university...
Dominique Czerednikow
Dominique Czerednikow is self-taught digital and visual artist. Freely developing her passion and artist educa...
Julia Mathew
OCAD U Feature Artist
Julia Mathew is a Toronto based artist who graduated from Illustration at OCAD University. Julia first started...
Danielle Coleman
OCAD U Feature Artist
Danielle Coleman is a multidisciplinary artist who holds a BFA with distinction in Drawing & Painting from OCA...
Kate Civiero
As a glassblower and metalsmith, I make objects through deliberate design and thoughtful creation. Motivated ...
Claudia Menecola
OCAD U Feature Artist
Claudia Menecola is a Toronto-based artist and graduate of OCAD University where she received a BFA in Drawing...
Moira Ness
Moira Ness is an interdisciplinary visual artist specializing in contemporary photo-based landscapes and algor...
Michèle White
Michèle White’s work explores – often through sources in literature – manifestations of the unconscious...
Erica Campitelli
Erica is an abstract artist born in Toronto, Canada. Painting is her way of being present. It allows her to sh...
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 ...