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Will Kwan is a Hong Kong-born, Toronto-based artist and educator. In 2018, he completed a half-kilometre long public mural along Toronto’s lower Don River valley for Evergreen’s public art program.

Nicole “Nico” Taylor is the Executive Director of Governance & Communications for the BSAM Canada Institute. Nicole is a writer, scholar, dancer, cosplayer and activist who uses feminism and critical race theory to dissect social constructions surrounding race and representation, especially as they pertain to how we make sense of the images that surround us.

Peter Morin is a grandson of Tahltan Nation ancestor artists. Throughout his artistic practice, Morin investigates the impact zones that occur when Indigenous practices collide with Western-settler colonialism.

Anahita Dehbonehie is an Iranian performance designer, creator and installation artist. Currently based in Toronto, her practice is founded on the principle that truths are communicated most powerfully through evocative sensory experiences. She is drawn specifically to work that questions form and content while creating space for contemporary conversation. The evolving relationship between participant, creator and the exchange of ideas is what draws her to the art of live performance.

For the past 10 years Malcolm-Emilio has consistently created work that inspires new perspectives on how to communicate and navigate in diverse cultural landscapes.

Deeply rooted in a socially engaged ethos, Hiba Abdallah’s work examines and responds to issues directly experienced in diverse communities. Her practice aims to re-imagine the cities and places that we encounter by using locality, civic narratives and political structures as tools for fostering collective agency. She has created work across media – from public interventions to community projects, gallery exhibitions, civic think-tanks, and publications.

Canadian artist Bruce Horak lost 90% of his eyesight to cancer as a baby and identifies as Legally Blind. His work seeks to explore the unique way he sees the world, experimenting in visual art, performance, storytelling, and music/sound design. He delights in shifting perspectives and inspiring others to do the same.

Ness Lee draws upon history and personal narratives to create tender and surreal illustrations, paintings, sculptures and installations. Exploring states of mind during intimate stages of vulnerability, Lee’s work takes form as an effort in seeking comfort, forgiveness and desire for an end of a self-perpetuated state. Based in Toronto, their work has been featured at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Agnes Etherington, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Toronto, as well as galleries in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Montreal and Toronto. They are currently represented by Patel Gallery.

Sean Martindale is an internationally recognized and award-winning interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Toronto, Canada. His interventions activate public spaces to encourage engagement and often focus on ecological and social issues. His playful works suggest alternate possibilities for existing spaces, infrastructures and materials found in urban environments. Frequently, Martindale uses salvaged goods and live plants in unexpected ways that prompt conversation.

Max Dean is working and staying at home where he continues to ponder how to make and exhibit his large scale sculptural installations and photographs. Andrew Savery-Whiteway was born and raised in Trenton, ON. After extensively studying Jazz performance through his adolescence, Andrew enrolled in the Ryerson School of Image Arts and pursued a photography degree.

Levyi-Alexander Love is an Artist born in Toronto, Ontario. He is passionate about forwarding those of African descent in the Queer and Trans community by creating spaces for folx to be free. As a man of trans experience, he holds to the strength of those in the Black and Queer community who have paved the way for him to continue to advocate in the loud and bold ways he does. His art has touched many lives and continues to do so until this day. Currently, he runs an open mic called UnObscured which is dedicated to the BIPOC Queer and Trans community. Levyi is a firm believer in love and how everyone should be able to live freely and speak their truths.

Hazel Meyer is an artist who works with installation, performance, and text to investigate the relationships between sexuality, feminism, and material culture. Her work aims to recover the queer aesthetics, politics, and bodies often effaced within histories of infrastructure, athletics and illness.  

Hazel Meyer is an artist who works with installation, performance, and text to investigate the relationships between sexuality, feminism, and material culture. Her work aims to recover the queer aesthetics, politics, and bodies often effaced within histories of infrastructure, athletics and illness.