About the Artists
Abby Kettner
Abby Kettner (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in downtown Tkaronto/Toronto. Abby is in her third year at OCAD University, approaching a BFA in Life Studies with a minor in Sculpture and Installation. Her artistic practice continues to evolve as she explores Object-Oriented Ontologies and people's relationships with things through her unique visual language.
Sasha Shevchenko
Sasha Shevchenko is a Ukrainian, Tkaronto/Toronto and Mississauga based interdisciplinary artist, whose practice bridges interests in sculpture, drawing, archaeology, and intimate ethnography. By combining contemporary and ancient story-telling methodologies, Shevchenko re-structures the definition of human-nature relationships through the re-discovery of ancestral knowledge and the body as an imprint maker. Her work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Small Arms Gallery, and VAM, along with international online exhibitions. Shevchenko is currently obtaining a BFA in Sculpture and Installation at OCAD University.
Evgenia Mikhaylova
Evgenia is a Russian/Canadian interdisciplinary artist working in installation, video, sound, drawing and performance. Her work examines the complexities of perception, communication systems, language and epistemology through interdisciplinary research-based practice that investigates parallels between the ways we experience the world through our senses, and the ways we interpret the knowledge we acquire. She is currently completing a BFA in Sculpture/Installation with minor in Integrated Media at OCADU, Tkaronto/Toronto.
Carla Sierra Suarez
Carla Sierra Suarez is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto, currently pursuing a BFA in Sculpture/Installation at OCAD University. In her practice, Carla explores themes of identity such as her dual identity as part of the Latin diaspora and being a Muslim convert, as well as identity with mental health and her experiences with Bipolar Disorder, ADHD, and PTSD.
Noor Kayed
Noor is an Art student based in Toronto. Her practice speaks to themes related to how she perceives the world around her by replicating her behaviors, feelings, and thoughts. Taking her metaphysical experiences, she recreates them into a physical form that helps her better understand their abstractness.
A significant part of Noor’s practice emanates from drawing intricate line work, usually layered on top of pieces of work, known as "Unspoken Thoughts". Drawn autonomously, these lines generate dialogue within the work she produces. They are a space that Noor has created for herself to insinuate her presence within pieces of work.
Ronald Lam
Ronald Lam is a Toronto based conceptual artist. He conducts research at the intersection of developmental psychology, social anthropology and existential philosophy, and applying that knowledge to design ephemeral installations across disciplines, media and scales — from the individual scale to the cultural scale. Ronald first started his academic career in physics then transitioning to architecture and environmental design, each coalescing to the foundation of his practice. He prescribes physical and intellectual engagement in his artwork to question our inherited mannerisms and belief structures as the world moves toward the realm of responsible creation.
Farzaneh Moallef
Farzaneh Moallef is a Toronto based interdisciplinary visual-artist. Having had the opportunity to attend Faculté de lettre, at Nancy, France, where her studies exposed her to a range of French painters and writers and visits to the Louvre and Musée d'Orsay in Paris; she studied works of Masters including French post-impressionists Henri Rousseau and Paul Gaugin. These were the artists who most impressed her on her artistic journey. She is currently studying Sculpture, Installation, and Photography at OCAD University in Toronto.
Harmony McNish
Harmony is a third-year Sculpture and Installation Student who resides in the City of Kawartha Lakes on her family’s intergeneration Homestead. She is focused on developing works that have functionality that shares stories and to create a notion of place-making.
Dylan Rutledge
Dylan Rutledgewould like to use his practice to encourage people to question modern ways of living and their reliance on mass produced objects and food to fulfill their desires. Presenting alternative methods of living, creating and consuming that may for some people offermore satisfaction. Working to raise questions within the viewer as to finding satisfaction through living a more sustainable lifestyle in unison with the land however that may be. These dominating values and ideals have led to the use of natural materials,including mainly found and harvested materials. For these reasons the use of power or electricity is predominantly absent throughout.