Greater Toronto Art 2024: Richard Fung
Richard Fung (born. Port of Spain, Trinidad) moved to Toronto in 1973, and much of his work explores the overlaps between Canada and the Caribbean through film. These include investigations into the dynamics of his fourth-generation Chinese Trinidadian family, such as My Mother’s Place (1990), Nang by Nang (2018), Out of the Blue (1991), which revisits the false arrest […]
Greater Toronto Art 2024: P.Mansaram
P.Mansaram (b. 1934 Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, Western India, d. 2020 in Burlington, Ontario) studied at the Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai, and later at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. In 1966, he migrated to Canada with his wife, artist Tarunika, and three-month-old daughter, Mila. He formed a friendship with Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan that would […]
Greater Toronto Art 2024: Oreka James
Oreka James (b. Toronto, Ontario) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work makes references to excavated and recovered articles from our collective history through world-building, and the transmutation of repurposed objects and materials. Their work explores the beauty and mystery of oralities, traditions, practices, mythologies, the mundane, and the fantastical, both cross-culturally and specifically within the […]
Greater Toronto Art 2024: Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger
Oliver Husain (b. Frankfurt, Germany) is an artist and filmmaker. His projects are often collaborations with other artists and friends, and often begin with a fragment of history, a rumour, a personal encounter, or a distant memory. He uses a wide range of cinematic languages, technical experiments, and visual pleasures—such as dance, puppetry, costumes, special […]
Greater Toronto Art 2024: Nobuo Kubota
Nobuo Kubota (b. Vancouver, British Columbia) left his career as an architect in 1969, shifting fields to eventually become one of Canada’s preeminent intermedia artists. For the past seven decades, he has produced an array of disciplinary hybrid projects, including sound sculptures, performances, videos, installations, three-dimensional poems, and improvisational music. In 1962, he and the […]
Greater Toronto Art 2024: Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson (b. London, Ontario) is a painter living and working in Toronto. Thompson’s practice investigates the translation of photographic images into paintings and is often informed broadly by conceptions of history. His recent work examines the documentary nature of photography and employs painting as a space to traverse uncertain and complicated grounds. In 2019, […]
Greater Toronto Art 2024: Matthew Wong
Matthew Wong (born 1984 in Toronto, Ontario; died 2019 in Edmonton, Alberta) was a self-taught painter whose poetic and surreal compositions often depict lone figures in imaginary landscapes, or emotional interiors painted from memory. His paintings, rendered alternatively in gouache, watercolours, and oils, are an effervescent blend of shape, history, and sentiment. He conceived of […]
Greater Toronto Art 2024: Lisa Myers
Lisa Myers (b. Oakville, Ontario) is a curator and artist with a keen interest in interdisciplinary collaboration. Her research focuses on contemporary Indigenous art and considers the varied values and functions of elements such as medicine plants and language, sound, and knowledge. Through many media and materials, and by incorporating socially engaged art approaches, her […]
Greater Toronto Art 2024: Jes Fan
Jes Fan (b. Scarborough, Ontario) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Hong Kong and Brooklyn. Originally trained in glassmaking, Fan has expanded his practice to encompass diverse mediums and approaches. Spanning video and sculpture, his transdisciplinary practice speculates on the intersection of biology and identity in relation to the materiality of the gendered and racialized […]
Greater Toronto Art 2024: Jean-Paul Kelly
Jean-Paul Kelly (b. London, Ontario) makes videos and exhibitions that pose questions about the limits of representation by examining complex associations in the production, reception, and circulation of documentary material. His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at VOX Centre de l’image contemporaine (Montréal), Plug In ICA (Winnipeg), Delfina Foundation (London), Wexner Center for […]