Rajni Perera

Rajni Perera is a multidisciplinary artist whose unique sci-fi vision explores ideas of the future, ancestorship and immigration, primarily through the media of painting and sculpture. Her work is collected by major institutions such as the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario, and has been exhibited internationally at notable venues including Jeffrey Deitch in L.A. and the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea.

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Max Dean

Max Dean is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes installation, performance, photography and kinetic sculpture. Dean is a winner of both the Gershon Iskowitz Prize and a Governor Generals Award in Visual and Media Arts, and his art has been featured in notable international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale and Ars Electronica.

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Jon Sasaki

Jon Sasaki is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes performance, video, installation, photography and objects. He has been called a romantic conceptualist, his projects often pursuing a clear task in surprising ways with comic and tragic results.

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Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber

Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber are multidisciplinary artists and co-founders of the influential drawing collective the Royal Art Lodge. Since the group disbanded, the pair have maintained a collaborative art practice noted for its humour, wit and pathos.

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Jessica Eaton

Jessica Eaton is an internationally acclaimed photographer known for her rigorous and experimental approach to image-making. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Muse dart contemporain de Montral. In 2019, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Camille Turner

Camille Turner is a scholar and artist working in media, performance and social practice. She won the 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art Artist Prize for her immersive multimedia installation Nave.

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Kelly Jazvac

Kelly Jazvac is an artist, scholar and a member of the interdisciplinary research group the Synthetic Collective. Shes best known for her art and research on waste, plastic pollution and sustainability, which have been featured in major international exhibitions as well as scholarly journals.

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Evan Penny

Evan Penny is a visual artist who is internationally renowned for his hyperreal sculptures. His work can be found in public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.

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Walter Scott

Walter Scott is a multidisciplinary artist working in illustration, video, performance and sculpture, as well as the creator of the critically acclaimed Wendy comic series.

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• Walter Scott's Wendy comics depict the hilarious and tender misadventures of an aspiring artist
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Kapwani Kiwanga

Kapwani Kiwanga is a multidisciplinary artist whose installation, performance, sculpture, video and sound works have won her some of the art worlds most prestigious accolades, including the Sobey Art Award, the Frieze Artist Award and the Prix Marcel Duchamp. She is representing Canada at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

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Iris Hussler

Iris Hussler is a conceptual artist whose work is collected and exhibited internationally. She is best known for her immersive installations involving elaborate fictitious narratives.

Micah Lexier

Micah Lexier is a multidisciplinary artist and curator known for his playful approach to formal and conceptual art. In 2015, he was awarded a Governor Generals Award in Visual and Media Arts.

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Christi Belcourt

Christi Belcourt is a Mtis visual artist, author and activist, who won a Governor Generals Innovation Award in 2016. Her painting The Wisdom of the Universe was voted visitors favourite artwork in the Art Gallery of Ontario collection in 2015.

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Luis Jacob

Luis Jacob is an internationally acclaimed artist, curator and writer whose work has been shown in notable exhibitions and venues including documenta 12, the Taipei Biennial and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Sandra Meigs

Sandra Meigs is a visual artist known primarily for her paintings. In 2015, she received both the Gershon Iskowitz Prize and a Governor Generals Award in Visual and Media Arts.

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Geoff McFetridge

Geoff McFetridge is an internationally recognized artist and designer whose work appears in galleries; brand collaborations with clients like Uniqlo, Nike and Apple; and the 2013 Spike Jonze film Her. His prolific and multi-faceted career is chronicled in the documentary Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life.

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FASTWRMS

Fastwrms is the art collective of Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse whose work includes video, photography, performance, painting, installation and public art. In 2023, Fastwrms won a Governor Generals Award in Visual and Media Arts.

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Bridget Moser

Bridget Moser is a video and performance artist whose work was recognized with the 2023 Hnatyshyn Foundation Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Visual Arts.

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Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynsky is a photographer who has documented the global impact of industrialization for more than 40 years. He was named an officer of the Order of Canada in 2006, and his large-format photographs are included in museum collections around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art.

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Marcel Dzama

Marcel Dzama is a multidisciplinary artist who came to prominence as a co-founder of the influential drawing collective the Royal Art Lodge. His work can be found in major public collections around the globe, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou.

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Ken Lum

Ken Lum is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and academic who is the current chair of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvanias school of design. Exhibiting for more than 40 years, Lum has shown work at the Venice Biennale and Whitney Biennial, and he has produced public artworks for cities around the world. An officer of the Order of Canada, Lum received a Governor Generals Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2020.

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Elizabeth Zvonar

Elizabeth Zvonar is a multidisciplinary artist who often works in mixed-media collage and sculpture. Zvonar has had solo exhibitions at the Polygon Gallery and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, and her work is included in collections such as the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.

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Vikky Alexander

Vikky Alexander is an artist whose work spans installation, photography, video and sculpture. Often associated with the appropriation art movement and the Vancouver School of conceptual photography, Alexander has exhibited widely since the 1980s and her work can be found in public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

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Nep Sidhu

Nep Sidhu is a multidisciplinary artist who uses installation, textile, wearable sculpture, video and painting to explore history, myth, community and culture. His work has been recognized both nationally and internationally with solo exhibitions at Torontos Mercer Union as well as the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Glasgows Gallery of Modern Art.

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Alex McLeod

Alex McLeod is an internationally exhibited digital artist whose images and animations have been featured in public art installations, music videos and live visuals for large-scale concert productions.

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Janet Cardiff

Janet Cardiff is an artist renowned for her multimedia sound installations and audio/video walks. In 2001, she won the National Gallery of Canadas Millennium Prize for Forty-Part Motet, a sound installation that is now part of the museums permanent collection. Cardiff often collaborates with her husband, George Bures Miller, and the duo represented Canada at the 49th Venice Biennale, where they became the first Canadians to win a La Biennale di Venezia Special Award. In 2023, they opened the Cardiff Miller Art Warehouse in Enderby, B.C.

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Adrian Stimson

Adrian Stimson is a Siksika artist whose work, which includes performance, video, installation, painting and photography, has been recognized with a Governor Generals Award in Visual and Media Arts.

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Diane Borsato

Diane Borsato is a multidisciplinary artist, naturalist and educator whose work includes social and interventionist practices, performance, video, installation and photography.

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Dave Dyment

Dave Dyment is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and co-founder of Nothing Else Press, which publishes artists books and multiples. Using audio, video, photography, performance, installation and writing, his art practice explores how culture takes shape, transforms and reproduces.

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Roula Partheniou

Roula Partheniou is a visual artist known for her sculptural practice, which explores the formal qualities of familiar objects. She is also the co-founder of Nothing Else Press, a publisher of artists books and multiples.

Brendan Fernandes

Brendan Fernandes is an internationally recognized visual artist whose practice includes dance, installation, sculpture and video. His work was exhibited in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and has been presented at notable venues such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.

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Tarralik Duffy

Tarralik Duffy is an Inuk artist, writer and jewelry designer from Salliq (Coral Harbour), Nunavut. She was the recipient of the 2021 Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award, and her writing was featured in Best Canadian Essays 2019.

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Kim Adams

Kim Adams is an internationally recognized sculptor known for his assemblages incorporating ready-made materials, like model railroad parts and full-size vehicles. His work has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gershon Iskowitz Prize and a Governor Generals Award in Visual and Media Arts.

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Shelley Niro

Shelley Niro is a multidisciplinary artist and a member of the Turtle Clan of the Kanienkehaka Nation, from the Six Nations of the Grand River territory. Her work, which includes painting, photography, video, beadwork and installation, has been recognized with both a Governor Generals Award in Visual and Media Arts and the Scotiabank Photography Award.

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Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory

Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory is a Kalaaleq artist, poet, actor, curator and writer whos known for performing the Greenlandic mask dance uaajeerneq. Her work across disciplines has been recognized with the Sobey Art Award, a Dora Mavor Moore Award and the inaugural Kenojuak Ashevak Memorial Award.

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Beverly Glenn-Copeland is a singer and composer best known for his album Keyboard Fantasies, which was awarded the 2020 Polaris Heritage Prize.

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Peaches

Peaches is a feminist musician, producer, director and multidisciplinary artist. In music, she has collaborated with artists including Iggy Pop, Kim Gordon and Daft Punk. Her breakthrough album, The Teaches of Peaches, won the Polaris Music Prize Heritage Award in 2015.

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Lido Pimienta

Lido Pimienta is a Colombian Canadian musician and visual artist. Her album La Papessa won the 2017 Polaris Music Prize, and she is the creator and host of the CBC Gem variety series Lido TV.

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Haviah Mighty

Haviah Mighty is a performer, songwriter and producer who won the 2019 Polaris Music Prize for her debut studio album, 13th Floor, making her the first hip-hop artist to receive the honour. In 2022, she also became the first woman to win a Juno Award for rap album/EP of the year with her mixtape Stock Exchange.

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Owen Pallett

Owen Pallett is a violinist, composer and vocalist who won the inaugural Polaris Music Prize for their album He Poos Clouds. Pallett has contributed string arrangements for recording artists from Frank Ocean and Taylor Swift to R.E.M. and the Pet Shop Boys. They won a Grammy for their work on Arcade Fires The Suburbs and an Emmy for Fourteen Actors Acting, and were nominated for an Oscar for the score of Spike Jonzes Her.

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Shad

Shad is a rapper and a broadcaster whose 2010 album, TSOL, won the Juno for rap recording of the year. CBC Music has named him the second-greatest Canadian rapper of all time. As a broadcaster, he has hosted CBCs Q as well as the International Emmy and Peabody Awardwinning docuseries Hip-Hop Evolution.

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Jay Baruchel

Jay Baruchel is a screenwriter, producer, director and actor. Since beginning his career at the age of 12, Baruchel has worked extensively in Canada and Hollywood, appearing in projects including Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Knocked Up, This is the End and How to Train Your Dragon. He starred as Mike Lazaridis in BlackBerry, the most-nominated film in the history of the Canadian Screen Awards.

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Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley is an acclaimed writer, director and actor best known for her work on Stories We Tell, Away from Her and 2022s Women Talking, for which she won her first Academy Award. Recognized as a passionate advocate for Canadian drama, she has been appointed an officer of the Order of Canada.

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Chase Joynt

Chase Joynt is a writer and filmmaker best known for directing Framing Agnes, which won the Audience Award: NEXT and the NEXT Innovator Award when it premiered at Sundance. He also co-directed the documentary No Ordinary Man alongside Aisling Chin-Yee.

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Jasmeet Raina

Jasmeet Raina is a comedian, writer and actor. Hes the creator and star of Craves critically acclaimed series Late Bloomer.

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Jennifer Baichwal

Jennifer Baichwal is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has focused on both environmentalism and the lives of other artists. She is perhaps best known for the trilogy of documentaries she made in collaboration with photographer Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured Landscapes, Watermark and Anthropocene: The Human Epoch.

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Omar El Akkad

Omar El Akkad is an author and journalist best known for his novels American War and the 2021 Giller Prize winner What Strange Paradise.

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Billy-Ray Belcourt

Billy-Ray Belcourt is a scholar, poet and author from Driftpile Cree Nation whos best known for the books This Wound is a World, A History of My Brief Body and A Minor Chorus. His work has earned widespread recognition, winning a Griffin Poetry Prize, and he is the recipient of a Rhodes Scholarship.

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Sam Maggs

Sam Maggs is a journalist and a bestselling author of fiction, non-fiction, comics and video games. Shes perhaps best known for her The Fangirls Guide books and her work on Marvel Action: Captain Marvel.

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Pasha Malla

Pasha Malla is an educator and the author of seven books of poetry and fiction. His short story collection The Withdrawal Method won a Trillium Book Award in 2009.

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Joshua Whitehead

Joshua Whitehead is an Oji-Cree poet, author and academic from Peguis First Nation. His debut novel, Jonny Appleseed, won CBCs Canada Reads competition in 2021.

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Vivek Shraya

Vivek Shraya is a bestselling author, musician, filmmaker and the creator of the CBC Gem original series How to Fail as a Popstar. She is also the founder of VS. Books, an award-winning publishing imprint that supports emerging BIPOC writers.

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Christian Bk

Christian Bk is a poet known for his experimental works, like the Griffin Poetry Prizewinning Eunoia. Bks The Xenotext is a renowned work of bio-art that encodes a poem into the genome of a bacterium, which responds with a decipherable poem of its own.

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Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a bestselling science fiction writer, journalist and digital rights activist. His novels and short fiction have won numerous literary prizes, including a Locus Award, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award and an Inkpot Award.

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Mariko Tamaki

Mariko Tamaki is an artist and New York Timesbestselling writer. In addition to working for DC, Marvel and Archie Comics, she has authored award-winning graphic novels, including This One Summer, and Skim (both illustrated by her cousin Jillian Tamaki).

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Michael DeForge

Michael DeForge is the award-winning comic creator behind titles like Ant Colony, Leaving Richards Valley, Birds of Maine and the Lose series. For six seasons, he worked as a designer on the hit Cartoon Network show Adventure Time.

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Seth

Seth is an award-winning cartoonist best known for the series Palookaville. His distinctive retro style is influenced by classic New Yorker comics. In 2022, he was named a knight in Frances Order of Arts and Letters.

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Kate Beaton

Kate Beaton is a comic artist whose works include Hark! A Vagrant and the graphic novel Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, which won CBCs Canada Reads in 2023.

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Chip Zdarsky

Chip Zdarsky is an Eisner Awardwinning comic book illustrator and writer best known for Sex Criminals, Jughead and Marvels Daredevil. Since 2022, he has been the main writer of DC Comics Batman.

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Sweeney Boo

Sweeney Boo is a French-born, Montreal-based comic book writer and artist. Shes best known for her work on Captain Marvel and Harley Quinn, as well as her graphic novel Eat, and Love Yourself.

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david yee

David Yee is an actor, playwright and co-founder of the fu-GEN theatre company. In 2015, his play carried away on the crest of a wave won the Governor Generals Literary Award for English-language drama, and in 2023, he was named laureate of the Siminovitch Prize, Canadas richest theatre award.

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Omari Newton

Omari Newton is an award-winning actor, playwright and head of the Vancouver Film Schools acting for film and television program. He is perhaps best known for his role in the Showcase television series Continuum, but hes also written notable theatrical works, including Redbone Coonhound (which he co-wrote with Amy Lee Lavoie) and the critically acclaimed Sal Capone.

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Amy Lee Lavoie

Amy Lee Lavoie is an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced across North America. Her plays include Rabbit Rabbit, Redbone Coonhound (co-written with Omari Newton) and Cmon, Angie!, which the Georgia Straight called visceral, important, life-changing theatre.

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Megan Follows

Megan Follows is an award-winning actor and director who works in theatre, film and television. She came to prominence after starring in the 1985 miniseries Anne of Green Gables, one of the highest-rated dramas in Canadian TV history.

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Hannah Moscovitch

Hannah Moscovitch is a celebrated playwright and TV writer (Little Bird, Interview With the Vampire). In 2021, her play Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes won the Governor Generals Literary Award for English-language drama.

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Bruce Kuwabara

Bruce Kuwabara is one of Canadas most celebrated and influential architects. He has received a Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Gold Medal the countrys top honour in the field and was made an officer of the Order of Canada for shaping our built landscape in lasting ways.

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Sage Paul

Sage Paul is an award-winning Dene artist, fashion designer and co-founder of Indigenous Fashion Arts, which runs a biennial festival in Toronto.

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Nolan Pelletier

Nolan Pelletier is an illustrator and designer whose art has appeared in publications like The New Yorker, the New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek, as well as on products in collaboration with Target, Anna Sui, Penguin Random House and others. He's currently working on the fourth issue of his self-published illustrated newspaper, The Somnolent Garden Rambler.

See more of Nolan's work at his website.