Artists
— Meet our artists
Daniel Agdag is an artist and filmmaker based in Melbourne, Australia whose practice sits at the nexus of sculpture and motionography.
Hugo Alonso’s individual recent projects are November (Miquel Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, 2017), RAW (Galerie Youn, Montreal, 2017), Blonde (Pigment Gallery, Barcelona, 2016), Pendulum (CEART, 2016, Madrid), Believers (La Salina, 2015, Salamanca), How to resurrect a dead fly (Medina Film Fest, 2013), To my father and to the memory of my mother (Adora Calvo Gallery, 2011, Salamanca), Drop (Faquir Fest, DA2, Domus Artium 2002, 2010, Salamanca), Frederick Treves and the surgeon's room (Salvador Díaz Gallery, 2010, Madrid) or Paintingdrome (DA2, Domus Artium 2002, 2007, Salamanca).
Joey Bates was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He would love to identify as a child of the woods, but in fact he grew up just north of Seattle and is very much a city boy who can’t live far from bodies of water or wooded areas. He received his B.F.A. at Kendall College of Art and Design in painting in 2005. Post college, he has found his home in drawing and cut paper sculpture…
Eva Blue is a professional photographer by trade and a child at heart. She graduated in fine arts from Concordia University, specializing in studio arts. She fell into photography in later years and never looked back. As a predominantly self-taught photographer, she’s been documenting what she sees ever since, seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary, finding beauty in the unexpected, and truth through the lens. This is also reflected in her mixed-media art.
Jude Castel (Judikael Geleoc is his real name) was born in Brest, France in 1990. With a father working in the navy, Jude grew accustomed to moving often during his childhood and living in a variety of places such as the French Riviera, Comoro Islands, and Reunion Island. These early experiences continue to shape the artist’s deep interest in travel and strongly influence the focus of his work, exploring urban landscapes through his personal style of photo-realist drawing…
Peter Chan’s (b. 1985) currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada. He received his Bachelor of Applied Arts (BAA) from Sheridan College in 2008. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions worldwide including Hong Kong, New York, Montreal, and Toronto…
Jay Dart is an artist working primarily in drawing but has recently begun creating installation pieces based on his two-dimensional narrative works. He received a BA from the University of Guelph’s Fine Art programme.
His work has also been shown in numerous art fairs and exhibitions.
Melanie Garcia has been cutting and pasting for as long as she can remember, reveling in mixing of materials, images and textures. During her BFA in Film Production at Concordia University, she began her work in large-format collage, creating in a digital context…
Ian Healy’s depiction of the contemporary figure navigate a precarious line where meaning meets form. His work using a variety of mediums, whether it is pastels, oil paint, or watercolour, are often produced in quick bursts to portray a sense of urgency and tension.
Born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Melanie Janisse-Barlow (BA Communications ’92, Concordia University, Montreal; BFA ’00, ECAIDU, Vancouver; MFA ’14, OCADU, Toronto) has works in private collections around the world. Her works are in corporate collections in both the Fisher Building and Chroma in Detroit, Michigan.
Christine Kim is a Toronto-based artist who works primarily in cut paper art, carving away the boundaries between illustration, sculpture, and installation. She received a BFA at Queen’s University where she received the Margaret Craig Scholarship.
Yuriko started working on the On Earth series right after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. These works are a rethinking of the relationship between humans and natural forces, and the ways they exist within the same world and share its interrelated complexity…
Christopher Kuhn (born 1977, Chicago, IL) lives and paints in Los Angeles, CA. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions around the world including at the Ronchini Gallery, London; Gallery One Four, Seoul; Jacob’s, Los Angeles; Galerie Bessières, Paris; Geary Contemporary, New York; and Field Contemporary, Vancouver...
Born and raised in Toronto, Bernice Lum spread her wings ever so slightly and moved to Oakville to study graphic design at Sheridan College. After graduating in 1984, she freelanced for several companies including Citytv/Muchmusic's design department…
Taking inspiration from his surroundings, Paul is an avid bird watcher, musician and traveller with a special interest in Africa. Paul shows his work in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, and Portland, Oregon. His work belongs to private collections in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa…
Sean Mundy (Montréal, QC) creates conceptual imagery through photography and digital manipulation. Working through self-doubt and questions of identity, Sean constructs austere, yet neutral and distant scenes of palpable tension and uncertainty. With a subtle, minimal approach he aims to disrupt, select from, and delete classical narrative formula to form scenarios that are reliant on subjective associations.
Nachtigall’s work examines popular culture narratives that permeate the contemporary zeitgeist. Play is a cornerstone of his practice and often masks a subversive message that both mirrors and critiques the politics of our time.
Michael Scoggins was born in Washington D.C. in 1973 and gained an MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006. He has attended various prestigious residencies including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, and Fountainhead in Miami. Michael has gained international recognition and gallery representation in Atlanta, Miami, New York, Detroit, San Francisco, Seoul, Vienna and more…
Mark Liam Smith is an oil painter based in Toronto, Canada. He developed an interest in art at an early age and spent much of his childhood drawing obsessively. After completing three bachelor’s degrees (in Painting, Physiology and Linguistics) at the University of Saskatchewan, he spent many years working in Linguistics before returning to art…
My recent work examines gay male subjectivity through highly rendered, figurative paintings. More specifically, it explores the relationship between queer sensibility and gender. Why are certain traits, tendencies or objects socially coded as unmanly, effeminate or limp-wristed? How do traditional concepts of masculinity affect queer sensibilities like beauty, glamour and camp? How do these concepts contribute to homophobia, stereotyping, and the devaluation of these sensibilities?
My pictures are about the experiences I have with the subjects I photograph. Then thoseimages will be there for the eternity, to remember all those moments..In my heart, in my Soul,with all my love…
Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Shen Wei is based in New York City. He is known for his intimate portraits of others and himself, as well as his poetic landscape and still-life photography. His work has been exhibited internationally, with venues including the Museum of the City of New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Power Station of Art in Shanghai, China, the Hasselblad Foundation in Göteborg, Sweden, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.