Project Artists

Aeyliya Husain #42 Everything I’m feeling

Bio Agnes Zeng was born in Tianjin, China. She studied for her bachelor’s degree in New Media and Studio Arts at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She started her art path by taking portraits of her Chinese friends sharing their stories as international students in Canada and documenting their awkward moments when they arrived to...

Bio Ahmed is a Language Teacher and curriculum and course designer. His interests in media come from a desire to understand how learning can be accelerated and enhanced through different tools. Some of these tools include, WordPress, Learning Management Systems (LMS), storyboarding, and others. Beyond everything, he emphasizes his teaching practice to be centered around...

Bio Alan Peng is a video maker and photographer in Toronto. His work mainly focuses on telling stories surrounding cultural events. https://www.instagram.com/hellomynameisalan/ Claudia Wong is a nail artist in Toronto. Her designs utilize negative space and three dimensional shapes to create intricate but simplistic designs. https://www.instagram.com/wmc_nail/ #10 thinking, staring, breathing

Bio Alisha (Yuhong) Yang, a research-based master student at the University of Toronto, Industrial Engineering discipline, a UI designer and Data Visualization Analyst for SunLife Financial, the Performance Director/Vice President of ZigZag Dance Crew and a professional Urban dance instructor at Z5 Dance Studio. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisha-yang-07a002163/   #34 ask the water #53 long-distance relationship #65 Meditation...

Bio Amelia is a multidisciplinary designer who works primarily in the areas of graphics and web design. She has carried out a broad and colourful spectrum of projects, from marketing and branding assets, to the design and development of custom web tools. Amelia has enjoyed a career that has gradually evolved from an engagement with...

Bio Andrea Zittlau is a poet and performance artist based in Rostock, Germany.   #30 Sorry I suck #34 ask the water

Bio Andrei Pora is an artist and filmmaker from Mississauga, ON. As a recent grad of York University’s film production program, Andrei makes work that deals with industrial design, pop culture, and historiographic metafiction. #14 stigma, policy, lockdown #21 There are many… #33 escape #36 Dennis Oppenheim: “It … #56 Sun, warmth, and… #59 In dire need

Bio Andrew James Paterson is an interdisciplinary artist living in Toronto, Ontario. His work engages in a playful questioning of language, philosophy, community and capitalism in a wide range of disciplines, including video, performance, writing, film and music. Now a senior artist, Paterson has contributed to artist-run discourse for nearly four decades- serving on the...

Bio Angela Tran is the Communications Coordinator at the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC). She is a graduate of UTSC with an Honours Bachelor’s in Science with majors in Integrative Biology and Music and Culture. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Ontario Band...

Bio B. Wijshijer is a research-based artist working within digital media and video installation. Wijshijer utilizes online trends and subcultures to deconstruct mediated intimacies and personas on digital platforms. Informed by acceleration aesthetics, their work plays with excess and artifice to interrogate the ways in which late capitalism affects our digital lives. Wijshijer received their...

Bio Barbara Astman belongs to a visionary group of artists who have continued to radicalize visual culture since the early 1970s by defining new ways of seeing. Over four decades, she has explored a wide range of photo-based media and produced work, which has received national and international recognition. She is represented in important public,...

Bio Barbara Sternberg has been making experimental films and videos since the mid 1970s. She lives in Toronto. www.barbarasternberg.com #22 They said there… #41 Spring has sprung #47 I saw you  

Bio Bella (Yigong) Zhang is a first-year M.A.Sc student in Industrial Engineering student at the University of Toronto. She specializes in human factors evaluation, UX design and research, and product management. She holds a B.A.Sc degree in Industrial Engineering and a certificate in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Small Business from the University of Toronto. She is...

Bio I am Bob Ottaway, I graduated in 2018 from YorkU with a MA in Cinema and Media Studies and will be attending again for a PhD in Humanities. #32 Sunrise on a…

Bio Brit Kewin is a Toronto-based filmmaker who directs, shoots, and edits documentary and narrative fiction. With her brother, Nick, she comprises one half of a sibling team who are interested in creating mutually concocted realities that veer just south of normality. Their films concern families, couples, and communities on the edge of dark truths...

Brittany Starkman #8 Of, or relating to, the mind. #51 same morning coffee

Bio Celio is a graduate student at the University of Toronto at the Master of Information Human-Centred Data Science with a collaborative specialization in Knowledge Media Design. As a Data Scientist he created a Percentile Error Mapping technique for bias calibration at the National Research Council Canada in 2020 and in 2019 he was nominated...

Charlene Wei Ling Tan #17 I’m not afraid to shoot this. #49 Mother’s Day 2020

Bio Christopher Dela Cruz is a Filipino-Canadian artist whose works investigate the relationships of objects and technology, to interculturalism and individuality. His primary media of works revolve around sound, sculpture, installation, and digital media. His works have been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Doris McCarthy Gallery, and in various public...

Bio Christian Yves Jones is a Philippine-born, New Zealand raised video artist. He graduated from the Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand) on a Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship. He has experience working in live television broadcast, music video, and corporate video productions. Christian has also shot several short films, with work making official selection in the...

Bio Chris Gehman is a filmmaker, curator, educator and critic. His films have screened at venues around the world, including Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Canadian Film Institute, EXiS (Seoul), TIFF, and Experimenta (Bangalore); Dark Adaptation (2016) premiered at TIFF and screened at the 2017 Berlinale. Chris was Artistic Director of the Images Festival (2000 to...

Bio Christine Wu is a Hong Kong-born filmmaker and media artist learning to embrace her own voice and story. She is exploring practical ways of creating work that humanizes folks with marginalized identities, encourages generative introspection, and invites compassionate conversation. Her work bridges gaps between immigrant-settler communities through film and media, and her approach is...

Bio Cloris Chen is a Chinese artist who currently lives in Toronto. She has recently graduated from University of Toronto Scarborough, double majoring in Studio and New Media. Her recent work has engaged subjects as diverse as identity, as well as social, political and cultural issues, often referencing her Chinese background. Her work explores the...

Cody Zhang #3 Dreamer

Bio A recluse; no personal or biographical info available.   #60 I think this,

Bio Dani Dilkes is currently a PhD student at the University of Toronto, enrolled in the Knowledge Media Design Collaborative Specialization and focusing on studying digital pedagogy, learning communities and the social nature of knowledge. She is also currently the eLearning Specialist in Medical Education at Western University and is an advocate for student-centred learning...

Bio Dylan Kok is a 1st year international student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), pursuing a Masters of Education with a collaborative specialization in Knowledge Media Design. Prior to his studies in OISE, he graduated with a business degree from the National University of Singapore, and spent the bulk of his professional...

Bio EDIE STEINER is a Toronto filmmaker, photographer, and teacher of media art in Toronto colleges. She holds a PhD in Environmental Studies (York University) and makes projects about intersections of environment and culture, memory and place. Among her published works are several book reviews and lens-based visual essays in the online ecocritical journal The...

Bio Emiliano Leonardi is an Italian photographer and videographer based in Rostock, Germany. He is a family enthusiast and loves capturing moments precious to one's life. But he is also very engaged with the photographic community worldwide. He has cooperated with several Universities in Germany in producing academic book covers, specialized in family portraits, weddings and worked with other professionals in...

Bio Erna Kucanin is currently undertaking the Master of Arts in Curriculum and Pedagogy at OISE with a collaborative specialization in Knowledge Media Design.  Being a student in the CTL department, over the past year, has most certainly provided her with the opportunity to dig deeper into her research interest (immersive technologies and second language...

Bio Francisca Duran is a Chilean-Canadian experimental media artist who creates films, video installation, and 2D, photo-based, mixed-media works about history, memory and violence. Duran has exhibited internationally at film festivals and venues including Edinburgh International Film Festival, International Film Festival at Rotterdam, HotDocs, Arkipel, Anthology Film Archives, Los Angeles Film Forum, John Hansard Gallery...

Bio Greg Woodbury has worked in media arts since the 1980s, in production and post-production, as an administrator and in his own art practice. He has produced several single channel videos and installations and fostered the work of independent film/video/media artists through teaching, advocacy, technical support and creative collaboration. He is currently Operations Director at...

Bio Guillermina Buzio is a Toronto-based artist, and holds a BFA from the National University of Fine Arts (Argentina), a Bachelor of Media Arts from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, and an MFA from the OCAD University. As a visual artist she has worked in a diverse range of media, including video...

Bio Huijia Feng is a Media Studies and Sociology student at University of Toronto Scarborough. She has always loved to draw, and she started to learn drawing when she was 7 years old. She also loves photography, sculpture and modern art. Yayoi Kusama is one of her favourite artist, she says: “Everyone loves Yayoi Kusama. People...

Bio Iori Matsushima is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. Born and raised in Gunma, Japan, she moved to Toronto for university. She majors in studio art at the University of Toronto, with minors in computer science and statistics. She works with various media, from 2D to 3D, but the main focus of her artwork...

Bio Jackie Gallant is a musician, video artist and composer who creates and performs for dance, video and film. She began her musical career as a drummer for several Montreal rock groups. Since then she’s toured nationally and internationally with everyone from La La La Human Steps to Lesbians on Ecstasy. As sound designer and...

Bio JL Whitecrow is a multi-disciplinary artist from Seine River First Nation, Treaty #3 and lives in Toronto. She’s created artistic works in film, visual art, music, and performance, most which have been showcased through LGBTQ2S and BIPOC circles and film festivals. JL is currently working on an MFA in Film Production at York University....

Bio Jason Soesilo is a Toronto based Chinese-Indonesian emerging artist whose works investigate cultural traditions, interculturalism, and individuality. His primary media of works revolve around photography and videography. His works has earned him the Photography Award at the Annual Arts, Culture, and Media Student Art Exhibition at the University of Toronto Scarborough, consecutively in 2019...

Bio Jens Hauggaard is a student of Communication Studies in Concordia University, Montreal. Predominantly, he works in a visual medium -- by trade, he draws. However, during his studies, he has branched out and tried his hand at animation and creative writing. In doing this, he feels like he have broadened his horizons on creativity...

Bio I am Joey Jiayi Luo. I graduated from University of Toronto in 2017. When I was an undergraduate, I completed psychology program for the first three years, and I focused on practice of contemporary arts, such as drawing, performance and photography in the last two years. Because of my studies in the studio art...

Bio JOHN GREYSON is a Toronto queer film/video artist whose features, installations, transmedia works and shorts include Last Car(20), Towel (17), Pink:Diss (17), Murder In Passing (13), 14.3 Seconds (10), Rex Vs. Singh (10), Fig Trees (09), Covered (09), Orange Clouds(07), Proteus (03), Un©ut (96), Lilies (96), Zero Patience (93), The Making of Monsters (91)...

Bio Katherine Ensslen has been working in the entertainment industry for over 30 years. From touring musicals, outdoor festivals, rock and roll tours, International fashion shows, charity fundraisers, art auctions, TV production to global retail events, she’s been part of world class projects. Katherine loves to continue to support artistic visions and play with innovative...

Bio Katharine Mussellam is a writer and cinephile from Markham, Ontario. She is excited to finally be involved in an actual form of the exquisite corpse game after years of listening to the song “Exquisite Corpse” from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, one of her favourite musicals. She has a BA in English from Bishop’s University...

Bio Kaythi is a Toronto-based textile artist working at the intersection of craft tradition, dissemination and pedagogy. Inheriting a practice that is matrilineal in nature, Kaythi draws from and expands on the teachings of family, friends, and lovers. Her practice explores everyday repetitive tasks and their relationships to larger power structures; by slowly rug hooking...

Bio Keith Lock’s high school film, "Flights of Frenzy", won the Best Super 8 award at the UNESCO 10th Muse International, Amsterdam,1969. His experimental feature, "Everything Everywhere Again Alive", 1975, screened in TIFF's Retrospective of Canadian Cinema,1984, "A Brighter Moon", was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Short Drama,1987, "The Road Chosen: The Lem...

Bio Kewen (Miko) Wang is a candidate of specialist in Studio at University of Toronto Scarborough(UTSC). She has displayed her enthusiasm towards filming and video editing. She documented several videos based on her journeys to Kenya in Africa, Australia, and several European countries. As a video editor in a club in UTSC, she collaborated with...