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“I paint and embellish childhood photographs through layered glazes and interlaced mark-making, producing an illuminated aesthetic of dislocation and protection. More”

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“"My work comes from a place of looking to the future with hope for the Earth and for the resilience of nature, but also an understanding of just how deep of a mess we're in. I approach each piece with curiosity and wonder, as well as a deep desire... More”

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“A dissection of the process of perception. Alternating between geometrically logical analysis and spontaneous free verse that tears an organic pattern into the seams of the once perfect symmetry. Allowing for my madness to be the catalyst in this... More”

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“I use digital collage to entangle images of my body with nature, the Western art canon, and the internet, generating an ambiguous tableau of fleeting figures and ambivalent spectacles. I then paint these charged associations onto slanted wood... More”

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“Painting as research by exploration. Pareidolia and marginalia; movement, colour, mark making, and mapping, figures and entities populate the work. I like not knowing what I’ll find. I follow my curiosity, working from notes, sketches, and... More”

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“My body of work analyzes the lifespan of interpersonal relationships. I use paintings to depict the ephemerality of formative moments and accompanying concrete sculpture grounds the concepts in my paintings with physicality and permanence. My work... More”

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“My work is an extension of how I see my life - and as such, all lives. It questions viewers about how they see their lives, how they are going to unfold. Such questions, that is, self-reflection, are induced through interaction with the work by... More”

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“My home is where I fall asleep and where I wake; not defined by place, but my being. I’m always where I need to be with what I need to thrive. “Snail’s Home”, or 「蝸居」, explores and celebrates this relationship with the self that gives me a feeling... More”

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“Through my art, I aim to share the peace and stillness that I have found in the patterns of nature. My paintings are not just images of landscapes, but portals to meditative spaces that offer a break from the noise and chaos of modern life. More”

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“I ask now, how can I represent my chronically ill future as a desirable one? Through the lenses of crip time and my experience as a disabled/chronically ill woman, I invite my viewers to consider a world where temporalities are multiplicitous and... More”

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“The heart of Lahore lies not in its physical location, but in the souls of those who call it home. Evading its grasp is futile, for Lahore has a way of permeating one's existence. More”

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“Susana Mingram's work focuses on empowering the female body through the symbiotic relationship of horses and women as the quest to find one’s power. The intensity of movement and clear gesture of the brushwork reflects the movement of her own body,... More”

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“My practice is constantly in flux and largely intuitive. I enjoy combining mediums to create intimate, poetic imagery as a means of filling the gaps between the past and the present, the said and the unsaid, and the public and private self. ”

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“My work has always been inspired by nature because I appreciate its beauty and value its therapeutic qualities. However, when I think of paintings of nature, and the Canadian landscape tradition in particular, I picture something that has been... More”

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“I deconstruct discourses of time, space, memory, and colour perception by constructing temporal voids of floating tonal vibrations in flux parallel to emotional tones. The idea behind the question: what if we could perceive transmissions of colour... More”

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“These heroic-sized expressionism paintings are celebrations of varied perception, and the narration of one's innermost thoughts. Relying on pareidolia, I identified and built upon recognizable painterly elements during the creation process to be... More”

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“As an alternative to obsessive answer-seeking, my work embraces the gentle exploration of life’s greatest mysteries through contemplating the observable world, and graciously accepting the incomplete nature of the answers. My work seeks to capture... More”

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“My work explores the intersection of digital technology and physical art. Using node-based visual programming software and audio injection to create generative art that develops visually in relation to its inputs. I aim to push the boundaries of... More”

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“Using methods of painting, sculpture and digital media, my art is a means to share my experiences and anxieties about the world we live in. My work tackles themes of the body as an exploited object, a keeper of personal history, the growing pains... More”

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“A being in a state of flux is always becoming, never fully arrived. Am I reaching for a state of perfection or just a state of understanding? More”

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“Considering the contemporary cyber modes of existence, my paintings challenge boundaries of the physical and digital human. I utilize a hybrid approach to painting through digital simulations that inform my reflective, figurative oil paintings to... More”

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“Working from memory, I take landscape scenes and transform them from their original form to a fluid place that is completely constructed from the positive recollections. Within my landscapes I aim to capture the light all around me and how the... More”

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“I’m interested in the investigation of migration - to wit, my family’s history with its sensations of deracination and tragedy. In the migration series, I have painted Asian migrants and migrant families: They’re leaving home and headed somewhere... More”

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“We can search through our past and attempt to discover the lost memories held within us but just as I scrape the henna off the board, I see the stains left behind, knowing it is not possible to go back to the original memory. That does not entirely... More”

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“Lee Reid aka Bernobayobaylee is a artist who makes art that not only creates art to stimulate , emphasize and explore but develops conversations of internal psychological , anthropological, struggles of "the human enigma". Forever exploring and... More”

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“I see painting as an escape from the real world. Allowing myself to listen to my emotions and feelings, and releasing that energy into my work has greatly shaped my practice as a whole. With the mindset of endless possibilities there is never a... More”

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“I am extremely interested in the individual memory of childhood that an adult carries with them and how childhood images can have such immense emotional value. Each one of my portraits captures an image of people that I love and a window into their... More”

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“My multidisciplinary approach is rooted in the practice of decreation. I burn documents and materials that are representative of homophobic ideologies and use the resulting ashes as pigment for oil paintings. The final compositions often contain... More”

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“My artworks explore the interconnectedness between us and the earth, the cycle of life, and my dreams. I’ve always had a strong connection to nature, always wanting to be outside, curious about the animals and plant life around me; a source of... More”

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“My practice is about presenting materials as a means of contemplation. ”

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“Multimedia Artist ”

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“My artistic practice started from personal conflict experiences. It centers on an exploration of both my personal identity and the flaws of human nature. Since then, my works have been focused on depicting explosive and mysterious nature, such as... More”

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“My practice utilizes painting, digital collage, film and performance to explore themes related to trauma, healing and self-love, representation, intimacy, male-gaze, identity, and decolonial perspectives ”

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“35 is a digital and traditional watercolour series that describes an open-ended dream. Inspired by Surrealism and German Expressionism, 35 centres the conflicts between two characters, Haruka, the blonde, and Nameless, the raven-haired, and... More”

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“I am not only a painter, I am a dream maker. ”

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“Through the bold use of contrast in colour, material, form and texture, my work explores the undeniable connection between spending time in nature and caring for one’s mental health, as well as the complexity of human emotion and how we are... More”

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“My paintings consider grief through an investigation of the body as a tangible site of stability. Exploring figurative form in a gestural manner, I return to personal narratives of grief and the experience of life after loss. My work’s diffusive... More”

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“As an artist, I am deeply interested in exploring the insidious nature of the human psyche, particularly when it comes to self-sabotage and the ways in which it can slowly creep into our lives, undermining our dreams and aspirations. In my work, I... More”

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“I am a multi-disciplinary artist working in both painting as well as textiles and wearable artworks. My work in this years Grad Ex focuses on monsters and the alteration and disruption of the body through clothing. ”

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“In an 'auto-archeological' pursuit of identity, I began collecting my late grandfather's digital archives, downloading information from the library of floppy disks he left behind. The sloppily re-formatted Word documents and low-quality imagery... More”

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“I explore the tactile process of staining fabric to create self-portraits which take on delicate abstract forms. Influenced by soak-stain painting, I strive to create a balance between controlling the paint and allowing it to flow freely, mirroring... More”

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“In my practice I engage with the ‘vital materiality’ of the inanimate world, and the porous intersection between living and non-living. In doing so I ask: “how do you find meaning in precariousness, dissolution and decay?” or, put another way,... More”

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“Set within the dwellings that make tangible the ephemeral qualities of intimacy, my work references personal reflections on desire and moments of belonging/non-belonging. Oscillating between a combination of painting, drawing and assemblage, the... More”

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“My work is centred around parts of my identity that are more taboo, especially queerness and mental illness. Using hyper-feminine colour pallets, tactility, horror, and glitter, I want to draw people into the circus of my installations and create... More”

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“A longing to relate to something tangible, to reduce and simmer onself until it is nothing but a symbol, to reduce life experience to totems that represent that specific time in my life. I am collector of toys and hoarder of unassuming items with... More”

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“By re-interpreting and abstracting experiences from within the Western hegemonic framework I was raised in, the conflict I feel internally becomes tangible and identifiable. Cultivating methods to witness self-hood through ways that I was taught... More”

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“The perspective of indigo travelling across the world and ending up in Toronto is fascinating. More”

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“I aim forefront the dialougue on afro-centric queries, the ideas of beauty and strength, the contradictions of female cultural identity, and by extension colonialism, race, spirituality and more. ”

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“The stories my parents tell of immigration and loss are both familial links and a form of preservation. Through the repetition of my mark-making, these lines mimics storytelling, becoming morphing reiterations of heard stories. ”

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“Developing my Filipino culture, I’ve learned that it’s a process that continues. I present imagery that gives me a sense of comfort through nostalgia in my choices of subjects and colours. I share them hoping to invite conversations of both... More”

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“My work aims to communicate the experience of living in the city of Toronto. I try to replicate the look and feel of the spaces I pass through by pulling from the materials and colour palette of urban motifs such as graffiti, advertisements,... More”

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“I think I do a lot but one thing I'll never stop doing is practicing fluidity. ”

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“In this body of work, I choose to examine my inner voice, that I view as a giant mosquito, buzzing negative intrusive thoughts in my ear constantly. My expressive brushstrokes in acrylic paint symbolize this mosquito in action, draining the... More”

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“My art focuses on healing as an experience, more recently stemming from the realization of generational trauma. Through my work I explore my personal journey with self-development. I use art as a form of therapy; it's about addressing trauma,... More”

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“Zhuang Zi once dreamed he was a butterfly, flitting and fluttering around happily and freely. As a butterfly, he did not know he was Zhuang Zi. Suddenly, he awoke and realized he was Zhuang Zi, solid and unmistakably human. Then he asked himself... More”

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