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“My practice centers lived experience and community-based storytelling as sites of knowledge, with particular attention to underrepresented and diasporic identities. Grounded in my own intersectional experiences, my work engages questions of... More”

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“The Earth is a square, and the universe is a circle. The death of a cow is a loss of life, a source of protein, one blip in the cycle, or a hassle to clean. The car is a Benz, a metal machine, a home, or a companion. Although our bodies literally... More”

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“Traces of Us is a body of work in which Ava Tsoutsos investigates what remains of memory as it is retold, archived, and transmitted over time. The project examines how familial narratives shift through repetition and reinterpretation, positioning... More”

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“The Feminist Avant-Garde and Surrealist art movements heavily influence this body of work. By creating centaur-women, I dissect the identity of horses and women in relation to both being’s power and prey-ness. Emphasizing the colour purple through... More”

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“I explore the rejection of the Cartesian notion of “fixed identities" — the idea that the self is pure, unchanging, and unitary. Instead, I present identity as complex, layered and ever-evolving, through the use of overlapping portraiture. More”

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“I paint the unstable identities that surface in fleeting moments — the state of existing without fully belonging anywhere.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ More”

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“"Speak to the rocks," my father once told me, as if they could answer back. More”

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“My work explores childhood, memory, and the tender, nature-filled scenes that make up so much of life. My process is a natural response to the softness of light, the stillness of a landscape, or the intimacy of a remembered place. My practice often... More”

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“Kiss. Dance! is a series of small scale abstracted oil paintings exploring the effects of perception on the self. Depicting light and shadow, the work interprets light as a form of contactless touch and shadow as the performance of self. Using the... More”

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“//Be Fox, Act Fox, Live Fox// I paint my style in a foxy way, so does my life. <3 ”

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“My work begins from the understanding that land is shaped by layered and ongoing histories, not neutrality. Based in Toronto on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the... More”

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“Where Everything Comes to Rest and Where Everything Begins utilizes painting and image transfers on 16mm film to negotiate conceptions of the family structure and formative relations. I intended to simultaneously reproduce and deconstruct the... More”

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“My current practice revolves around the everyday lives of young boys living within Scarborough Ontario and the trajectory at which they become involved in unlawful activity. My work uses the innocence of butterflies as a tool to encourage nuanced... More”

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“Heavy Metal explores painting and the parasocial, by using images as a mediator between myself and the work. Images are blurred and cropped as a way to abstract detail, isolating how colour, values and light interact with the surface(s). The... More”

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“The self does not split cleanly; it replicates with the quiet distortion of each iteration. What remains of the original is only the ghost of a signal, flickering beneath a version that has already taken its place. I am searching for the source,... More”

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““Fuzz” is a collection of Acrylic paintings on velvet with the goal of capturing the underlying sexual connotations within the broad spectrum of the nightlife scene within Toronto. Through academic research and personal experience the narrative of... More”

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“My work is focused on acknowledging the shared anatomy and dependency across species borders to create pieces that display an equal relationship within the natural world. Dismantling a human-centered view of the world to promote the interconnected... More”

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“There are hidden systems all around us, social, physical, and abstract. Still Life Arranged by a Demolition Squad aims to position abstract painting as a tool used to explore the bland, mundane, and temporal nature of everyday aesthetics. These... More”

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“'Between Being Seen and Seeing: More”

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“My practice is rooted in the intersection of control and spontaneity, where materials drive process. I work intuitively with paint, translucent substrates, and surface treatments, allowing materials to guide the evolution of each piece. Layering,... More”

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“ My body of work revolves around memory and memorializing natural beings through acrylic paintings and drawings. Using blurred backgrounds to portray the loss of memory, I create new and “impossible” spaces for these beings to exists. Within each... More”

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“Intimacy is horrifying, and horror is perverted. More”

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“My practice engages the “third space” of diasporic experience through material systems that traverse geographic and metaphysical distances. ”

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“On the Hook is a body of work composed of four oil paintings. These works use the symbology of fish as a metaphor for the feminine experience with gender and sexual violence. Our containment, commodification, inhumane treatment and mass hunting is... More”

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“I am a multi-media, fantasy-inspired artist exploring the dark or uncomfortable aspects of identity, emotion, and experience. I create a safe space for people to recognize and connect with the parts of themselves that bring shame, fear, or... More”

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“I witness my audience as the trees, the wind, the birds, and to be in unison with everything around them. ”

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“I am exploring the cross of my work in the Royal Canadian Navy and my painting practice. Through the documentation of seascapes, I share my experience at sea on a Halifax-class frigate within the West Coast fleet, aboard the HMCS Regina. ”

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“잘 놀다 갑니다 ”

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“Ana Lochness had her first solo show called Morphobia, November 2024. The main focus was a seven-piece body of work called the Decay Series, the rest of her work being plein air landscapes. This series is a mystical depiction of anthropomorphic... More”

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“Do what you're doing, and you will find yourself where you're meant to be. ”

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“These paintings are my way of remembering my deepest desires. I am afraid that if I do not make painted physical representations of how I think and feel and dream, I will forget everything that made them feel important and real to me. These are not... More”

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“Ecotone explores dreams through the lens of Anishinaabe cosmologies. Heavily influenced by the feeling right before you enter a dream. This installation will engage many senses. ”

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“Contemporary painter working between abstraction and figuration, exploring memory, tension, and layered surfaces through repetition and line. ”

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“I want to build community; More”

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“A storm is but a thousand winds. Such moments pass by fleetingly and yet we often find ourselves embedded in our own reluctance. With this body of work, “fear” no longer arises because of uncertainty – rather, disquietude becomes a catalyst for... More”

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“My practice examines the relationship between material and metaphysical worlds, using painting and installation to explore how space, form, and symbolism shape human experience. Drawing on Persian visual traditions, Islamic architecture, and... More”

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“The past is irrevocable, forever surviving in our minds through our memories. Memory can take shape in flashes of images that provoke nostalgia, despite feeling unfamiliar or unclear. The invasive and uncontrollable nature of these moments of... More”

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“My work explores how Eritrean identity continues and evolves within the diaspora through material and making. Working across sculpture, painting, and mixed media, I draw from personal experience and cultural practices to reflect on how heritage is... More”

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“Through observing and translating natural beauty, I engage with painting as a way of responding to fleeting moments and their emotional resonance. My process primarily begins with the brush, allowing imagery to unfold organically rather than... More”

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“What remains when appearances prove deceptive? 'The Church of Capital' investigates the performativity of status and the moral decay inherent in its pursuit. ”

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“Cybernetics, the study of systems that are structured utilizing feedback and continuous communication, provides a framework within video games to dissect how female characters are constructed and circulated. Examining video games from 1990 to... More”

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“The ambition for bodily autonomy can take on many forms. The feeling of complete ownership over how your body moves and detachment of its societal expectations. As an avoidance of critique, and response to a lack of physical control regarding the... More”

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“My work constructs abstract landscapes from fragmented photographs, exploring insomnia and the tension between control, perception, and uncertainty. ”

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“My body of work explores the Igbo concept of time through a four-painting installation that moves through stages of decolonization, progressing from pre-colonial understandings of time, to colonial disruption, resistance, and a re-centering of Igbo... More”

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“Divinity is everywhere, More”

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“Building off of modes of visual storytelling such as comics, this body of work examines the creation of narratives, questioning the construction, presentation, and interpretations of storytelling. Combining personal experiences and memories with... More”

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“My relationship to abstraction is fuelled by patterns, colours and textures of the natural and spiritual realm which I distill into my work. I draw from landscapes, biological, and cellular references. My painting process is intuitive, each work... More”

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“Questions to answer, answers to question ”

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“Through my medium of soft pastel pencils, I create highly detailed portrait drawings, most recently working from family archival photographs that span multiple generations. My process is slow and intentional, reflecting the care I have for... More”

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“Appropriating commercial photographs from the 1950s-1970s, my work explores ideas surrounding gender, power, violence and desire. My work aims to question these highly constructed photographs, beginning to dismantle the harmful systems subliminally... More”

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“Historically, women and animals have been bound together through metaphor in ways that flatten both. My work examines the animalization of women and the humanization of animals as shaped through patriarchal metaphor. More”

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““will all this leave a stain?” is a three-part mixed-media series that explores the grotesque and seductive culture of consumerism. More”

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“My work investigates the fluidity of memory through the intimate lens of my relationship with my sister. Using oil paint to capture both luminous detail and atmospheric blur, I reconstruct shared childhood scenes to explore how our personal history... More”

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“Memories bring us joy, but at the same time a sense of loss shaped by their inaccessibility. Reflecting on the connections I have gained or lost, I seek to understand how they shape me as an individual through narrative oil paintings. More”

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“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.(John 1:5) Am I in the light, in the darkness, or resisting the light while embracing the dark? ”

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“My work investigates how identity is shaped through everyday experiences within the home, understood as a kind of “third space” where cultural, personal, and familial influences intersect. I am particularly interested in how diasporic identity is... More”

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““I work with hybrids and dreamworlds to imagine a possible future beyond our own oppressive confines. Labyrinths suggests we face the darkest parts of ourselves in order to envision and embody the potential of queer other worlds.” More”

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“Much of my work revolves around the body, identity, sexuality, and psychology as a way to explore ones sense of self. To explore how our experiences in life have not only shaped us as people, but how these aspects have shaped the way we navigate... More”

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“I make paintings for the moment before recognition, when form is felt before it is fixed. In oil, images gather through glazing, abrasion, concealment, and revision, holding shells, seeds, vessels, currents, bodies, and landscapes in flux. My... More”

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“What does it mean to hold, and be held in return? More”

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“The overt use of expression is a cornerstone of my current work. Thus allowing a varying audience to conjure emotions that the I am representing. Keen to disrupt today's standards, I aim to decentralise and deinstitutionalize the way the audience... More”

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“Responding to current global crises and the violences of displacement, this body of work captures intentional moments of simultaneous presence and honours the expansive relationality that makes us whole. We are always everything at once — not... More”

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“I explore that in-between space where attraction and discomfort exist at the same time. Is it gross or is it beautiful? ”

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“I exist at the edge of disclosure—between longing and restraint, what is felt and withheld; a desire to be seen, and the instinct to retreat. I return to a hushed question: how much of myself can I offer without disappearing? What remains when I am... More”

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“My thesis work explores two material approaches to documenting my life and experiences as a way of understanding myself. Through visual reproductions of categorized memories and illustrations that transform reality into fantastical scenes, I... More”

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“I am a drawing and painting graduate working primarily with acrylic. More”

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“Through stories of endangered and vulnerable species in Pakistan, my thesis titled “امانت (Amaanat)” emphasizes the interconnectedness of nature and culture and how both are equally at risk of being forgotten or neglected. This collection of work... More”

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“Domestic and gastronomic motifs are centralized because of their capacity to delight in everyday, sensorial conditions. ”

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“Aaarora explores the complexity of the Human self by questioning her Hindu religious upbringing and the work of psychologists like Carl Jung. Her thesis reveals how memories and experiences shape our view of the world. In examining the spiritual... More”

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“My work considers identity as something assembled in the space between memory and absence. Working from gaps in biological knowledge, I attempt to construct the self through fragments. Images, materials, and gestures echo inherited narratives... More”

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“Imitation—to repeat or copy; to follow as a pattern, model or example. To trace and replicate, with slight adjustments. The process of imitation first requires an infrastructure to mirror. The selected ‘thing’ to imitate can be anything: an object,... More”

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“GEOME-MATRIX” is a reality that depicts the interpersonal relationships of colours, geomes (geometric-biomes), and tubes, which function as vessels for energy, light, and organized play. Using acrylic on canvas, visual hierarchy is told through... More”

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“Through graphite drawings, I explore how photography shapes the way we see and value everyday life, especially through the influence of staged imagery, flash photography, and nostalgic “vintage” aesthetics. My work focuses on emotions, mental... More”

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“When the body encompasses everything, it must eat itself. More”

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“Hör zu, ich erzähle dir was / “Listen, I’ll tell you something.” is a body of work dedicated to the stories rooted in my Central European ancestry. Through anthropomorphized animals, I pass on knowledge carried in the folklore of the lands my... More”

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“' i wanna feel you from the inside' is a body of work examining the self objectification and sexualization of the female body through the representation of horror and cake. Drawing from personal experiences, I integrated various stills from horror... More”

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“I’m a visual artist exploring identity, the body, and life cycles through painting and photography. ”

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