Project Artists

Bio Lauren Howes works as the Executive Director at CFMDC (www.cfmdc.org). Originally hailing from the unceded territory of Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, and is fifth generation settler on the matriarchal line. Howes has worked in an Executive Management capacity in the not-for-profit sector for the past twenty years. When not busy as an...

Bio Lauren Schaffer is a multidisciplinary artist living in Toronto. Inspired by the limits of perception and research around the intersection of human and non-human behavior, she works with sculpture, installation, audio and video. She has received her undergraduate degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and her Master of Fine Arts...

Bio Lee is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, drawing, sculpture, video, installation and text. His work has been exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally and can be found in both public and private collections. He lives and works in Toronto ON and lectures at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus in the Department of...

Bio Lesley Loksi Chan is a multidisciplinary artist. http://lesleyloksichan.com   #21 There are many… #22 They said there… #23 After much deliberation  

Bio Lewis Kaye is a Toronto-based sound artist, media studies researcher, and educator whose work explores the interplay of sound, technology and culture through both critical enquiry and creative practice. Kaye’s work finds expression in many forms, including media installation, video and live performance. Major recent works include Transposition (SFXSeoul Festival, 2019), the curatorial project...

Bio Hi, I’m Lou. I’m from Montreal and am currently a graduate student at Concordia University working on a podcast thesis project. Academically, my interests are piqued by questions involving sound production, affect theory, and soundscape recording as a form of ecosystem knowledges. I’m lucky to be researching in an area that I have been...

Bio Louise Noguchiis a visual artist based in Toronto. Her artwork has been exhibited in Canada and internationally, including exhibitions at The Power Plant, Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Centre A, Vancouver, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Prince Takamado Gallery, Embassy of Canada, Tokyo, and the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Noguchi is an artist...

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Bio Lynne Fernie is not a cinematographer, but had fun making images with her iPad while stuck in her apartment during the pandemic for EXC-19. She is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker active in Toronto’s art, feminist and queer cultural communities for 40 years. In the 1980s, she exhibited her visual art in artist-run galleries...

Bio Manolo Lugo is a Mexican born Toronto-based artist and educator working in performance, video, photography, and installation. His work speaks to the conditions of migrancy, precarity and queerness in advanced capitalism. He has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally in venues including the University of Toronto’s Art Centre, AGO’s First Thursdays, Sur Gallery, TRANSMUTED...

Bio Martha Davis has been involved in film and photography for more than 40 years.  In the 80s and 90s she made 12 films which have been screened nationally and internationally.  Two were nominated for Genies.  She taught Elementary students for 27 years in a career which allowed her to make videos and books of...

Bio Maya Gallus is an award-winning filmmaker whose most recent documentary, The Heat: A Kitchen (R)evolution, was opening night selection for the 2019 Berlinale Culinary Cinema and the 2018 Hot Docs Film Festival. Her early films, the docufiction Elizabeth Smart: On The Side of the Angels, and Erotica: A Journey into Female Sexuality, a pioneering...

Bio Marusya Bociurkiw is a filmmaker, author and academic who is obsessed with archives, memory, and food (which is also an archive). She is the director of 10 films, author of 6 books including, most recently, Food Was her Country: The Memoir of a Queer Daughter. Her most recent film, the award-winning doc “This Is...

Bio Matt Soar (he/his) is an intermedia artist, filmmaker, and scholar based at Concordia University in Tiohtiá:ke / Montréal. Soar’s creative work is usually located at the intersections of residual and emergent media forms and practices. His project Lost Leaders is an archival, aesthetic exploration of the histories of US/Canadian film leader standards. Screenings include...

Bio Matthew is a long time Creator, Teacher and Artist who has effectively worked in many different industries and used many different mediums of expression. #10 thinking, staring, breathing

Bio Maxwell Soar is an aspiring sound and visual artist from Montréal. He is currently focused on sound design & analogue photography, but his interests extend to interactive media, generative/glitch art, and visual coding. Soar taught himself acoustic guitar beginning at 14 years old. Since then, he has picked up electric guitar, bass, piano, drums...

Bio Dr. Mary Elizabeth (“M.E.”) Luka is Assistant Professor of Arts and Media Management, University of Toronto, where she examines modes of co-creative production, distribution and dissemination in the digital age for the arts, culture, media and civic sectors. Dr. Luka holds a Connaught New Researcher Fellowship analysing creative networks and partnerships in Canada, the...

Bio Michael Trommer is a Toronto-based sound and video artist; his practice has been focused primarily on psychogeographical and acoustemological explorations of anthropocentric space via the use of VR, ambisonic and tactile sound, field recordings, immersive installation and expanded cinema. He has exhibited and performed his work at galleries and festivals throughout the world. In addition to teaching graduate sound...

Bio Midi is a Toronto-based moving image artist who likes to keep busy. Obsessively driven to make work, she likes to infect others with her passion. As a small child she imagined herself in her own movie by rapidly blinking her eyes to re-create the motion picture flicker of the big screen. Websites: midionodera.com Vidoodles.com...

Bio Naomi Fraser is going into her fourth year at UTSC, majoring in mental health studies and minoring in studio and women and gender studies. She had experience in doing video editing as a hobby whether it was small fan edits, to motion graphics and minor animation. She loves video editing and have not been...

Bio Natasha Malik is a Master of Information Candidate at the University of Toronto studying both user experience design and critical information policy studies. Through combining these concentrations of study, she engages critically at the intersection of technological design practice and its diverse impacts on human lives and the collective human experience. Natasha is also...

Bio Nicole Kozak primarily spent her young twenty-one years doing all things creative and art related. She has gone to school for art, as was an apprentice for a sculptor a few years back. During that apprenticeship she met many of her colleagues and once said to one of them that she does art as...

Bio Noah Hanyue Qin is a 4th-year student at the University of Toronto Scarborough campus (UTSC) who is taking a double major in Studio Art and Mental Health Studies.  As a feminist Chinese international student who is also a member of the LGBTQ+ community, she employs this foundation for inspiration to express her thoughts through...

Bio Sara Majid is a 23-year-old living in Kitchener, Ontario. She recently graduated from the University of Waterloo where she studied psychology and human resources management. She is currently attending her second year of Master of Information studies, focusing on Information Systems Design and User Experience. Due to her multidisciplinary background and work experiences, she...

Bio Paul Shepherd is a composer and improviser specializing in the relationship between tape loops, sequencers and modular synthesis. Trained in composition and jazz drumming at Capilano University in Vancouver, Paul has continued his studies at Berklee College of Music online. He has scored music for dance with commissions from Toronto Dance Theatre, Ryerson University,...

Bio Paul Wong is a media-maestro making art for site-specific spaces and screens of all sizes. He is an award winning artist and curator who is known for pioneering early visual and media art in Canada, founding several artist-run groups, leading public arts policy, and organizing events, festivals, conferences and public interventions since the 1970s. Writing, publishing...

Bio Paulette Phillips is an artist who makes time-based work and sculpture. Her work can be found in online exhibitions at Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London. She recently completed the digital film The Quoddy Fold, exhibited in the 2019 Bonavista Biennale, Nfld., DOKFest, Kassel, Germany and upcoming in early 2021 at the MSVU Art Gallery,...

Bio I am a first-year graduate student pursuing a MASc in Industrial Engineering. I am specializing in human factors and knowledge media design. I am very interested in user experience research and human-computer interaction. The focus of my thesis project is healthcare data visualization. I’ll be working with healthcare providers to gain their feedback and...

Bio Reem Alasadi is currently doing her master's in User Experience Design (UXD) at University of Toronto. She did her undergrad in Management Information Systems at Prince Mohammed bin Fahd University in Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia. She worked in HR in the oil and gas industry for about 5 years. Aside from this, she is interested...

Bio Reem Al-Wakeal is a Toronto based multidisciplinary creative of Egyptian and Lebanese descent. She works with different mediums including video, photography, design and occasionally artist multiples. Her works explore themes of nature and identity such as culture and religion. As an emerging artist, she continues to explore different topics and mediums of work through...

Bio Richard Fung is a video artist, cultural critic and Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University. Richardfung.ca #23 After much deliberation

Bio Ronna Bloom is a poet and teacher. Her most recent book, The More (Pedlar Press, 2017) was longlisted for the City of Toronto Book Award. Her poems have been recorded by the CNIB, are featured on Toronto Public Library's interactive Poetry Map, and have been translated into Spanish, Bangla, and Chinese. She has collaborated with health...

Bio Ruba AlWakeal is an American born artist raised in the Middle East and Canada. She has a degree from the University of Toronto in Studio art. Key themes she has worked with include womanhood, identity, and Islam. Through video, performance, and occasionally sculpture she explored these concepts. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubaaa/ #14 stigma, policy, lockdown

Bio Ruth Adler is a multidisciplinary artist who divides her time between Toronto and Tel Aviv. Ruth paints and employs a digital medium, collage and sewing to create her artworks. She has presented numerous solo exhibitions including, Jim Kemper Fine Art (New York), Lonsdale Gallery (Toronto) and Lorber Gallery (Tel Aviv). Ruth has received awards and grants for her...

Bio Scott Miller Berry is a cisgendered, able-bodied, white, queer, Jewish settler with lived mental health experiences. A full-time cultural worker and part-time filmmaker, currently Managing Director at Workman Arts, an arts + mental health organization and previously Director at the Images Festival and proud recipient of the 2015 Rita Davies Margo Bindhardt Award for cultural...

Bio Shahbaz Khayambashi is an academic, curator, artist and educator based in Toronto. He is currently working toward a PhD at York University in the department of communications. His research is focused on the representations of death and protests in the media. His research has been published in a variety of places including Omega: The...

Bio Shani Khoo Parsons (Canada/US, b.1970, Philadelphia) is an independent curator, exhibition designer, and founding director of Critical Distance Centre for Curators, a not-for-profit project space, publisher, and professional network in Toronto. Since the mid-1990s she has pursued a multidisciplinary, research-based practice within independent and institutional contexts and produced an eclectic body of work ranging...

Bio soJin Chun is an artist and community collaborator in Toronto, Canada. Through personal art projects, programming, and curatorial projects, she collaborates with diverse underrepresented communities to rethink the process of artmaking. Human connection, active listening, and dialogue are key to decolonizing the arts. Collaboration is essential to dismantling hierarchical methodologies that perpetuate oppressive systems....

Bio Hi, I'm Sylvia. I like to think, read, write, and sometimes communicate my ideas visually. Connect with me on Instagram @sylviamohanraj! Website: https://sylviamohanraj.myportfolio.com/ #5 Breathe in… out #6 What happened?

Bio Taien Ng-Chan is a writer and media artist whose interests include space, place, and alternative practices of mapping, which she brings into her work as a founding member of the artist-research collective Hamilton Perambulatory Unit (HPU), and as Chair of the Commission for Art and Cartography at the International Cartographers Association. In addition to essays in...

Bio I am an experimental filmmaker and a multimedia artist, based in Toronto. I have studied filmmaking practices at Sheridan College. Earned my Bachelor’s and Master’s of Fine Arts from York University. I am the co-founder of KAJART, a multimedia studio that focuses on animation and visual arts. Our Animations and my films have won...

Bio Tanya Mars is a feminist performance artist who has been actively involved in the Canadian art scene since 1973. She was a founding member and director of Powerhouse Gallery (La Centrale) in Montreal (the first women’s art gallery in Canada), editor of Parallelogramme magazine for 13 years, and very active in ANNPAC (the Association of...

Bio Vid Ingelevics is an educator, visual artist, independent curator and writer. His artwork has followed several threads - issues related to commemoration, memory and the representation of the past (in particular, the role of the museum and archive) as well as our experience of urbanity. Often working in an installation format that has included...

Bio I recently graduated from the Master’s of Information program at the University of Toronto, where I studied user experience design/human-computer interaction. I have spent the last year working as an intern service designer at CIBC and Capital One. Before that, I was an university professional who advised international exchange students. ‍ In my design...

Bio Vivian Li was born in Guangzhou, Southeast China in 1998. She moved to Toronto in 2014. She studied various media, including video, photography and graphic design. At university, her research and practice focused on Chinese traditional culture and the relationship between self-awareness and new media trends. Vivian is motivated to learn and develop her...

Bio Wakana Tsuji is a Master of Arts student in Curriculum and Pedagogy program at University of Toronto (OISE), photographer, and graphic designer. She is also working as a graduate research assistant for Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology. Her research interest is centered on digital media and technology for collaborative learning, second language learning,...

Bio Wei Li is a full-time master student in Education at OISE, University of Toronto. He is also a dancer, choreographer, and educator who currently lives in Toronto. With years of experience working in the educational field as an ESL instructor, coordinator, as well as a performance artist and choreographer in China, his study interest...

Bio Windy Tan is a student at the University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus, specializing in studio. She always had a strong interest in the film industry and making and telling stories through moving images. The first memory she had when she was young was recording videos of herself when she was gifted a digital camera....