Category: Artist

Dominica/Canada

Aisha Sasha John is the only daughter and youngest child of the late Catherine Iris (John) Callender, the sixth of seven children born in La Plaine, Dominica to Ignatia John (Mama Babe) and Ludovic John (Papa Joe). Aisha is a dance artist and a poet. The Pool (Toronto Dance Theatre 2025) is her most recent choreographic work, and total (McClelland & Stewart 2025) is her most recent poetry collection.

I am a multi-disciplinary artist, living in Etobicoke for over 15 years. I facilitate art workshops that engage the whole community. My art is inspired by nature and the people around me. I am also a digital creator. I love going for walks and visiting landmarks in this neighbourhood. I plan to keep working here and contribute to developing a rich artistic community.

© Roxy Menzies, 2026. Photo Djenabeě.

Canada

Roxy is an artist with two decades of experience who seamlessly blends dance, writing, and healing arts in her multifaceted practice. With a deep curiosity about the human body, mind, and spirit, she advocates for optimal health and holistic well-being. She has taught online Chair Fitness for New York City employees, movement and dance through community arts for seniors, in the Canadian educational system, pre/post natal bodies and Cirque du Soleil artists.

Roxy has performed, guest-taught, or presented around the world, with her interests predominantly related to forms within the African diaspora. As a published author you can find her musings online, spot her on television dancing on furniture or in a stadium, reading poetry or just plain old creating.

India

Ranganathan Rajan (He/Him) is originally from India and is currently based in Tkaronto. He is an artist with performance art and contemporary dance, working with stress and strength in the body; Ranganathan is finding ways to work by creating a split in the images as they relate to him. Ranganathan graduated from the Professional Training Program at Dance Arts Institute Canada (2025) and has completed a Diploma in Movement Art and Mixed Media from Attakkalari Center of Movement Arts in Bangalore, India (2021). Ranganathan believes in socially engaged acts, focusing on participation and collaboration through his initiative Aspect_P.O.D.

Canada

Nyda Kwasowsky A multi-disciplinary artist/maker of mixed heritage situated in Tkaronto. She orients towards abolitionist approaches rooted in experimentation, improvisation and community. Her work centers around grief, hybridity and belonging in racialized diasporic experience. Studied in somatics and trauma informed practices, a practitioner in TCM cupping and Auricular Acupuncture and training in Harm Reduction, Restorative Justice, Polyvagal Certified, craftworks, Earthwork and studying as a Birth Doula. Her most recent explorations look at the intersections of cultural materiality and the moving dancing performing body.

Canada

H(annah) Kryworuchko (they/she/he) is an emerging textile artist/designer and facilitator completing their BDes at OCAD University in Material Art and Design. H’s practice is grounded in making with others, in their body, with land, and in water through quilting, weaving, printing, and dyeing. They develop relational and community-engaged work aligning with their values in abolition, solidarity, and care. H has over 15 years of experience in competitive artistic swimming and longer as a water lover.

Singapore/Canada

Aysia Tse (she/her) is a Singaporean-born visual artist, facilitator and arts worker based in Toronto. Her practice involves movement-based work, video, and multimedia installations that engage themes relating to madness, queerness, and her mixed diasporic identity. Her background as a professional coach and competitive artistic swimming athlete informs her interests in bodily inquiry and embodied performance.

© Hannah Palmer, Summer’s Over, 2026.

USA

Hannah S. Palmer is an American writer and artist from the Southside of Atlanta.

Through her essays, lectures, and collaborative projects, Palmer reconsiders urban rivers, neglected spaces, public swimming pools, environmental justice, and the forms of nature that persist within urban environments. Among these projects is Finding the Flint, an investigation into the headwaters of the river flowing underneath Atlanta’s mega-airport. In 2024, she published The Pool Is Closed: Segregation, Summertime, and the Search for a Place to Swim, which examines the social, racial, and political dimensions of access to water in the United States.

Her work is distinguished by its attention to the stories embedded within urban landscapes and by a nuanced reflection on the ways infrastructure, water, memory, and the living world shape our everyday experience of the city.

Christopher Petersen is a dancer and performance artist. Their work focuses on the physical body in space and attempts to allow an audience to stare into bones and flesh, the exertion of bodies, and the bodies of stillness. Christopher is unsure of most things but cannot stop.

© Gwen MacGregor. Photo Johannes Zits.

Gwen MacGregor is a Tkaronto based artist, geographic scholar, teacher and community organizer who identifies as an “unsettler.” They work in installation, video, photography and drawing. MacGregor has received awards such as the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist of the Year and the Canada Council International Studio in New York. Her work is in a number of collections including the Nickle Galleries in Calgary, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Oakville Galleries, Artbank, and the Royal Bank Collection.  MacGregor has a PhD in Cultural Geography from The University of Toronto and an Honours BA in Art Hsitory from York University. 

© Fan Wu. Photo Hamish Ballantyne.

Fan Wu is a poet, performer, and pedagogue. His current research revolves around Daoist sound and spiritual practice and its concepts of subtlety and effortlessness. His performance work has been shown at Art Metropole, Buddies in Bad Times, the plumb, and SummerWorks. He collaborates with artists of many disciplines, including Thom Gill, Evan Webber, Phil Hamilton, and Kieran Adams.

© Quan Steele. Photo Bob Steele.

Quan Steele is a multidisciplinary Vietnamese artist based in Toronto whose practice spans painting, sculpture, performance, ephemeral land art, and site-specific installations. Over the past two decades, she has presented her work in solo, group, collective, and juried exhibitions across Canada and has participated in residencies in White Bear (Temagami, 2022 and 2024); Sooke, Vancouver Island (2024); and Mountain Island Arts in Wells, BC (2025). A member of the Ontario Society of Artists, Broken Forests Collective and Etobicoke Art Group, her work explores environmentalism, the human–nature relationship, and the passage of time, using art as a catalyst for curiosity, awareness, and meaningful change. is a Toronto based dancer and performance artist. Their work focuses on the physical body in space and attempts to allow an audience to stare into bones and flesh, the exertion of bodies, and the bodies of stillness.

© Dermot Wilson. Photo Lisa Murzin.

b. Dublin, Eire

Artist and curator Dermot Wilson lives in northern Ontario. He works in various media including video, audio, time-based installation, digital imaging and performance to create works that include meditations upon his relationships with the community and the environment. Dermot has performed in galleries, bars, artist-run centres and on various outdoor sites in many communities across Canada, South America, Asia, USA and Europe. His noise/spoken word performances challenge institutional conventions and promotes dialogues about ownership and environmental abuses.

Recent installations include: Escarpment Erasure Mega-horn (Escarpment Corridor Alliance); Iterations/Emanations (KINO Gallery and Wroclaw University Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland); and Random Acts of Joy (TOTE Gallery, Campinas, Brazil). Hyperboreal is his ambient sound/spoken word performance collective. He has performed spoken word rants in urban sites across Canada since 1996 and is currently performing site-specific sound art works in clearcut or endangered forest sites.

© Marilyn Yogarajah. Photo Alex Herrera.

Marilyn Yogarajah (they/any) is an artist whose practice centers on rhythm, specifically sound and poetry. They have a background in teaching music, and an education in sociology and gender studies. Marilyn plays in multiple bands across the city, including but not limited to not a band, martian crisis unit, output 1:1:1, and teething. They also founded spectrum soundbath in 2020 which is a collaborative community based sound meditation practice. They write poetry under the moniker queertamil and can be found on bandcamp under threesixmarilyn. Land back always and death to empire.

Canada
https://clintenns.ca/

Clint Enns is a visual artist, writer, and curator living in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal.. His post-cinematic practice consists of reworking existing films, disrupting their conventional narratives and forms. His interventions destabilize the cinematic image, turning familiar works into sites of critical play and reinterpretation. By appropriating and manipulating filmic material, Enns challenges the permanence of cinema as a fixed cultural object, presenting it as malleable, thinking though the ways moving images persist, mutate, and circulate in a post-cinematic landscape shaped by digital technologies and remix culture.

His work has been exhibited and screened internationally, including solo shows such as Lo-fi Visions: The Selected Work of Clint Enns (Keiller Centre, Scotland, 2023), Internet Vernacular // Conspiracies in Isolation (PAVED Arts, Saskatoon 2021), Internet Vernacular (VU Photo, Québec, 2019), and The Lo-Fi Mixtape: A Selection of Works by Clint Enns (la lumière collective, Montréal, 2017). Earlier solo presentations include Visual Errata + Other Bent Forms (Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 2013) and Prepare to Qualify (Gallery 1C03, Winnipeg, 2010). His films nationally and internationally including: Anthology Film Archives (New York), Image Forum (Tokyo), Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris), International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Other Cinema (San Francisco), and Images Festival (Toronto). Enns is the editor of several volumes, including Scrapbook: From the Archives of Dave Barber (Winnipeg Film Group, 2025), Mike Hoolboom: Work (CONVERsalón / Canadian Film Institute, 2025), Imprints: The Films of Louise Bourque (Canadian Film Institute, 2021), and Shock, Fear, and Belief: The Films and Videos of Madi Piller (Pleasure Dome, 2016) and John Porter’s CineScenes: Documentary Portraits of Film Scenes, Toronto and Beyond, 1978–2015 (the8fest, 2015).

© Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge, It’s Still Privileged Art, 2016.

Canada
https://condebeveridge.ca/

Carol Condé, 1940–2024

Canadian artists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge moved to New York City in 1969, and soon were at the centre of the burgeoning conceptual art movement. In 1975, they joined the Art & Language journal The Fox (with Joseph Kosuth and Ian Burn) and picketed the Museum of Modern Art to protest its lack of inclusion of women artists, while critiquing the apolitical minimalism of Donald Judd. This ferment culminated in a major museum show, It’s Still Privileged Art, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1976, just prior to the artists’ return to Toronto in 1977.

By the late 1970s, Condé and Beveridge  drew a focus on various issues that were urgent within the trade  union movement. Their method of working dialogically with their subjects was invented for the landmark 1981 project Standing Up, and has been refined in numerous subsequent collaborations. In the past three decades, over fifty solo exhibitions of Condé and Beveridge’s work have been presented at major museums  and art spaces on four continents, including: the Institute of Contemporary Art (London, UK); Museum Folkswang (Germany); George Meany Centre (Washington); Dazibao Gallery (Montreal); Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires); Art Gallery of Edmonton; and the Australian Centre for Photography (Sydney).

Equally, and congruent with the artists’ commitment to accessibility, their work has been displayed in a host of non-art and public settings, such as union halls, billboards, bus shelters and bookworks.

Kiera Boult is an interdisciplinary artist and performer from Hamilton, ON. Her work uses comedy and camp aesthetics to critically explore race, identity, gentrification, and the pageantry of popular culture. Her performance persona, Kiki, reigns as the ultimate Art/Reality Star, equal parts theory and hot mess. She is the celebrity you deserve: guilt-free, high-glam, and critically unhinged, inviting audiences to explore the artist’s role in society skeptically. Boult’s recent work, Hamilton’s My Lady (2022), was presented at the 7A*11D performance art festival and Hamilton’s Supercrawl. In 2019, she received the City of Hamilton Arts Award for Emerging Visual Artist, with exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and Artcite Inc. Windsor. When not delivering hot takes and even colder reads, Boult manages Outreach & Public Programming at Vtape.

© lwrds duniam, Pachamama Triptych Spell, 2023.

b. 1984, Perú
www.lwrds.ca

lwrds duniam (they) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, researcher, educator, and 2019 OCAD University graduate (BFA Integrated Media) living and creating in Tkaronto. Born in Callao, Perú in 1984, lwrds has been calling Turtle Island home since 2002. With a studio practice guided by Afrodiasporic and Indigenous Cosmologies, their ARTivism is grounded in disability justice, Decolonial Critical Theory, and is anti-racist, anti-oppressive, sex-positive, and trauma-informed. 

lwrds has presented work nationally and internationally, and attended international residencies in Brazil, Czechia, Ireland, Mexico, South Africa, and the US. In 2024 they won the Transformative Territories award of the COAL Prize—Creative Europe Programme and were invited to produce site-specific work at ArtMill in Czechia (2025). They are a founding member of the Trans Africa Collective and recently joined the international action group Broken Forests—Fireweed.

© Isaak Fong. not an agent provocateur (still), 2025. 

Canada

Isaak Fong (b.1999) from the prairies and foothills of Alberta, explores familial relationships and instances of the imprecise. 

Canada
https://wildernessadventureride.bandcamp.com/

Colin Cudmore is a Toronto-based experimental percussionist, improviser, and performance artist. He is one half of the Ministry of Phonic Services, a music label and events organizer creating a platform for local experimental artists. His antics have led to numerous improvised collaborations under the pseudonym %%30%30, and solo performances as _53d8ZxP. His works have appeared at Electric Eclectics, The Music Gallery, Citadel & Compagnie, the docks of Trillium Park, the forests of Riverdale Park, and the Yorkville Rock.

© Colin Cudmore, 2025. Photo Alexander Arvelo McQuaig.

Canada
www.sashasingerwilson.com

Sasha Singer-Wilson (she/her) is a Tkaronto based multidisciplinary artist of Lithuanian, Italian, Irish and British ancestry who works in performance, theatre-making, research, writing, music, and facilitation. With a practice rooted in the project-specific exploration of creative form and process and the tensions and play between them, Sasha’s work explores climate justice, place, intergenerational relationships, caregiving, ritual, and the voice. She has co-created performances in basements, alleyways, bathrooms, lofts, schools, theatres and online. Together with Lou Jurgens, Sasha co-ran the artist-driven performance company the blood projects, co-creating immersive and site-specific performances in intimate spaces. With a BFA in Acting from York and an MFA in Theatre and Creative Writing from UBC, Sasha is a research-creation PhD student in Theatre & Performance Studies at York. Her research explores relationality, ancestral and land connection, and decolonization in scholarship, creation and performance. Sasha teaches voice and speech at the Centre for Indigenous Theatre and York, and she has facilitated workshops in theatre, creative writing, and voice across Turtle Island.

© Sasha Singer-Wilson. Photo Khanya Alexis.

Canada

Amy Hull is a Toronto-based dance artist, scholar, and death doula. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Communication and Culture. She holds a MA in Dance and BFA spec. Hons. in Dance, Choreography and Performance. Hull has worked internationally with AVA Dance Company and locally in Toronto with Balancing on the Edge, with which she choreographed A Study in Exile/Home is not a place on a map, with mentor Rebecca Leonard and composer Juro Kim Feliz. Her recent work includes a music video for Buffy Sainte-Marie through the Virtual Creative Native project, an original work choreographed and performed in collaboration with Shannon Pybus for Free Flow Dance Theatre’s International Dance Week, and modelling for Kent Monkman.

© Amy Hull. Photo Marlowe Porter.

Canada

Trish Lanns is a sound bath meditation facilitator, restorative yoga guide, and EFT practitioner in training who creates nurturing spaces that invite deep rest, balance, and clarity. Her gentle approach supports nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and relaxation, supporting individuals to navigate life’s challenges with greater ease. Guiding with love and compassion, Trish believes in the profound healing power of movement, breath, and stillness. Known for her calming presence and inclusive spirit, she fosters a soothing environment where all are welcome to slow down, reset, and reconnect with themselves.

© Trish Lanns. Photo Tyrone Warner.

Canada
https://vanessagodden.com

Vanessa Godden (they, them) is a queer Indo-Caribbean and Euro-Canadian artist, educator, and curator. They are based in Tsí Tkarón:to/Toronto, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, including Mississaugas of the Credit, Chippewa, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat peoples. Godden’s transdisciplinary practice explores how personal histories and the body in relation to geographic space can be conveyed through oral and somatic storytelling in art. They draw from their multi-ethnic diasporic experiences to build multi-sensory performances, videos, sound installations, book art pieces, and net-art that unfurl the impacts of trauma on the body, connections to community, and tethers to culture.

Canada

Brigita Gedgaudas is an emerging, interdisciplinary, trans*, and diasporic-Lithuanian artist working in so-called Toronto. Coalescing from a life-long practice of Lithuanian folk dance, a recent involvement in the Punking/Whacking/Waacking community, and training in new media art and vertical dance techniques—Brigita amalgamates these histories into one human shell. Finding home in a glitch’s persistent ability to reconfigure and reframe a person’s approach to digital systems, Brigita extends this into explorations of the queer body in heteronormative reality. Their work is in constant conversation with trans*mutation, translating the body between physical and digital/human and alien through interactive and immersive installations. 

Canada

Camille Kiku Belair (they/them) is a composer, classical guitarist and interdisciplinary artist. They are interested in working with field recordings, creating handmade artist books, and exploring connections between music and art making. A graduate of OCAD University’s Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design MFA program, they previously completed a BMus specializing in composition at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music, and studied at California Institute of the Arts in both the Performer-Composer and Experimental Sound Practices MFA programs. Current work involves developing handmade book-objects that function as compositional tools and generating grid-based visual patterns from melodies. 

Canada

甄念菻 / Kendell Yan (she/they) is a multifaceted and multidisciplinary trans girl artist on the precipice of tomorrow. In one hand she holds grace and in the other she holds steadfastness. Emotive, sure and firm, Kendell sings to the tomorrow we all deserve. Combining intergenerational culture and liberationist dreams, Yan strives for a collective future. Take her hand and trust the journey, this is an epic created together.

Romania/Canada
https://laurataler.ca/

Romanian-born Canadian artist Laura Taler began her career as a contemporary dance choreographer before turning her attention to filmmaking and visual art.  Throughout her career Taler has explored the links between movement, voice, memory, and history by using cinematic and choreographic devices to articulate how the body is able to carry the past without being oppressed by it. Her work has been praised for its unique combination of emotional resonance, wit, and striking visuals. Awards include a Gold Hugo (Chicago International Film Festival), the Best Experimental Documentary award (Hot Docs!, Toronto), Best of the Festival (Dance on Camera, New York), and the Dennis Tourbin Prize for New Performance (SAW, Ottawa). Her new public art audio work MONAHAN was awarded the 2024 Creative City Network of Canada’s Public Art Legacy Award.

Canada
https://www.novadance.ca/nova-bhattacharya

Nova Bhattacharya is an award-winning artist, cultural innovator, and unapologetic trailblazer based in Tkaronto. A Bengali-Canadian and Scarborough rocker with a rebellious edge, she draws on a kaleidoscope of influences to create vivid, genre-defying works that fuse technical mastery with raw, emotional resonance. Fearlessly reinterpreting traditions and reinventing rituals, Nova’s creations challenge expectations and celebrate community.

In 2008, she founded Nova Dance, a diversiform company dedicated to transcending perceived boundaries of form, technique, and culture. From intimate solos to large-scale spectacle, her work reflects a deep commitment to experimentation and inclusivity. Her current explorations navigate the intersections of Bharatanatyam, Butoh, and Burlesque while cultivating her latest creative obsession: a rock opera.

The pandemic brought unexpected silver linings, inspiring Nova to rediscover the totality of her practice. This period saw her embrace visual art, beading and film, expanding her artistic language and reaffirming the power of multidisciplinary storytelling. With an unwavering belief in art’s potential to bridge divides, Nova continues to challenge conventions and reimagine what dance—and community—can be.

Canada
https://www.freyaolafson.com/

Freya Björg Olafson is an intermedia artist who works with video, audio, animation, motion capture, XR, painting, and performance. Olafson’s work has been exhibited and performed internationally at the Bauhaus Archiv (Berlin), SECCA – SouthEastern Center for Contemporary Art (North Carolina), LUDWIG museum (Budapest), and The National Arts Center (Ottawa). Olafson has benefitted from residencies, most notably through EMPAC – Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center (New York), Oboro (Montreal), and Counterpulse (San Francisco). In spring 2020 Olafson was one of the long-list Sobey Art Award recipients through a nomination by Video Pool Media Arts Center and in July 2021 Olafson’s work MÆ- Motion Aftereffect was selected for the Lumen Prize for Art & Technology long-list. Olafson holds an MFA in New Media from the Transart Institute / Donau Universität. From 2017–2021, Olafson was Assistant Professor in Screendance within the Department of Dance at York University. Beginning in July 2021, Olafson joined the University of Manitoba School of Art as an Assistant Professor in Digital Media.

Lee Su-Feh (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, performance-maker and teacher of voice and movement. She splits her time between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where she was born and raised; and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm(Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Territories, a.k.a. Vancouver, Canada, where she makes her home. Over the past 35 years, she has created a provocative body of award-winning trans-disciplinary work that interrogates the contemporary body as a site of intersecting and displaced histories and habits. As Artistic Director of battery opera performance, (“fearlessly iconoclastic”, “brainy and bawdy”), she has worked both alone and in collaboration with others. Alongside this trajectory in performance-making, she has pursued a lifelong study and practice of Chinese martial arts, Qigong and Daoism, all of which informs her approach to dance and movement. Since 2010, she has been a student and practitioner of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and is currently a certified Lead Trainer of the work. She is a member of the Advisory Group of the Fitzmaurice Institute and participates actively in the international community of Fitzmaurice Voicework® teachers. Some of her current preoccupations involve creating somatic algorithms, and exploring the relationship between voice and movement.

© Christina Anna Trutiak, Abrasive Butterfly, 2024. Photo Alexandra Hickox/April Hickox.

Canada
www.xristiak.com

Christina Anna Trutiak is a Toronto-based performance artist and curator with an MFA from the University of Victoria. In addition to her studio practice, she has completed residencies and workshops nationally and internationally. She performed, Untitled (To Carry), at the Venice International Performance Art Week in 2019 with support from the Canada Council for the Arts. Trutiak was a selected participant for The Power Plant’s RBC Emerging Artist Network, 2022–2023. Survival and destruction, resilience and resistance are significant themes within Trutiak’s practice. Trutiak performs grotesque yet fragile interpretations of the uncanny. She creates psycho-spatial environments consisting of slightly skewed hyper-realistic images. Body parts, sounds, landscapes and objects feed her unusual assortment of counter-repressive gestures that revolve around permutations of psychic and social repressions.

The FADO website, created by the unique minds at I Know You Know, is guided by colour and scent.

Each of the categories on this website’s navigation menu—all the ways FADO presents our work—is colour-coded and contains a description of a unique fragrance, a kind of conceptual scent. Each scent illuminates the qualities of the various ways FADO works. You can read the description of the categories/colours/scents in the footer of each web page. The notes of each scent (top, middle, and base) conjure the elements, memories, and characteristics of our performances, artists, engagements, writing, e-bulletin, and the archive. 

The FADO fragrances are conceptual and actual. Some remain on the website as a description, in the form of a digital scratch n’ sniff that you imagine for yourself. Some have been formulated and are for experiencing via small editions of scented postcards mailed directly to your door (with the occasional collectible object).

We are excited to announce the third scent in the series—the most important one of all—is now available. ARTIST ORANGE is composed entirely of elements from the orange tree. The scent is the artist and the art. ARTIST ORANGE performs itself.

How does it do that, you might ask? By being worn by artists—by you! ARTIST ORANGE was formulated as a wearable scent. Sign up to receive a sample of ARTIST ORANGE in the mail today!

If you have already received the other scents on special limited edition postcards in the mail, then there is no need to do anything. ARTIST ORANGE will be coming to your mailbox this month. If you have yet to receive any of FADO’s signature scents, sign up to our mailing list with your address (or update your current profile) and start getting scented mail right away. DO THAT HERE.

USA
http://mark-so.com/

Mark So works at the cusp of experimental music and poetics. His work has been presented around the world in formal and informal contexts, with recent performances, installations, listening rooms, and streetwork in L.A., Portland, Marfa, and Mexico City, including ongoing collaborations with composer Manfred Werder and others. His work has recently appeared in print in Walking from Scores (edited by Elena Biserna), Peripheries Journal No. 5, The Open Space, and with poet Tim Johnson, Pathetic Literature (edited by Eileen Myles). Marfa Book Co. published A Box of Wind, collecting nearly 300 scores from his Ashbery series. Recordings have been released on caduc, editions wandelweiser, winds measure, The Open Space, and his own death-spiral. He lives in and out of Los Angeles.

© Cason Sharpe, 2024. Photo Luke Albert.

Canada
https://read.cv/casonsharpe

Cason Sharpe is a writer and artist based in Toronto. He has presented work in collaboration with various friends and institutions across the country, and his fiction and criticism have appeared in various places in print and online.

b. 1952, Canada
www.andrewjamespaterson.com

Andrew James Paterson is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. His work engages in a playful questioning of language, philosophy, ‘community and capitalism’ in a wide range of disciplines, including video, performance, writing, film, and music. He has exhibited nationally and internationally for over four decades. Paterson’s artist’s book Collection Correction was published by Kunstverein Toronto and Mousse of Milan in 2016. His novelette Not Joy Division was published by IMPULSE B in Toronto in 2018. Paterson was awarded a Governor General’s Award for his work in Visual and Media Arts in 2019.

© Heather Rule, Bonny Stern’s Spicy Tomato Penne, video still, 2024.

Canada
www.uselessceramics.com

Heather Rule is a ceramicist, animator, and ‘zine maker based in Toronto, Canada Her work explores self-narrativization, drawing on memoir and self-portraiture to explore how we create our personal histories. Heather has participated in ceramic residencies in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2018, 2019) and most recently in Skopelos, Greece (2023) where she continued to develop her particular approach to incorporating ceramics and animation.

© Amélie Laurence Fortin. Photo Peter Rosseman.

Canada
www.amelielaurencefortin.com

For over a decade, Amélie Laurence Fortin’s artistry has been firmly rooted in the realms of exploration, territory, and time. Her fascination lies within the subtleties of the peripheral reality, unraveling the chaos in random and non-linear systems, and the sheer joy of serendipity. With a keen interest in bridging the pragmatic world with the richly expressive realm of art, Fortin brings forth models that translate complex information into visually engaging narratives. Her work embodies a symphony of immersive installations, each meticulously curated with elements of kinetic sculpture, resonating sounds, expressive photography, intricate light play, and thoughtfully placed objects. Through her creations, Fortin elucidates the profound relationships humans share with their surrounding spaces.

Currently, Amélie Laurence Fortin divides her time and artistic creativity between Québec City, Canada, and Warsaw, Poland. Her riveting body of work has graced numerous solo and group exhibitions, been part of artistic residencies and festivals, and is proudly displayed in both private and public collections across Québec and Europe.

© Christof Migone. Photo Marla Hlady.

Canada
www.christofmigone.com

Christof Migone‘s research delves into language & voice, bodies & performance, intimacy & complicity, sound & silence, rhythmics & kinetics, translation & referentiality, stillness & imperceptibility, structure & improvisation, play & pathos, pedagogy & unlearning, failure & endurance. Current and ongoing investigations: microphone hitting, book flipping, tongue extruding, record releasing, word hyphenating, para-pedagogical positioning, careless curating, noise-making, sequitur following, paper passing, interval counting, rhythm repeating, phone licking, machine fingering, playlist compiling, silence listening, dozens of dozens, strobosonoscopics and stroboscopsonics.

© Evamaria Schaller, IDYLL verwegt, 2022. Photo Almut Elhardt.

Belgium
https://www.efeumaria.com/

Evamaria Schaller’s work oscillates between performance art, film and installation.

I work with the media film as a documentary instrument. Film with its bodily materiality is a central theme. In my video performances I use the recordings to fragment the body into moving particles. I deal with social environment and liminal spaces and use my body as a measure. In my Live-Performances I work with daily actions and its absurdity. In this examinations I reflect and intervene with site-specific conditions and create actions or installations through simple, clear gestures. I am interested in this interaction with site-specific conditions which govern human behaviour and relationships. I transform and decontextualize daily materials or found footage and combine it. I always have to adjust my own borders—failure as a constant companion.

© Caroline Gagné. Photo Meriol Lehmann.

Canada
www.carolinegagne.ca

Caroline Gagné lives and works in Quebec City and Saint-Jean-Port-Joli. Her work reveals a profound commitment to her practice, where network art, media art, installations, and sound art forge a multiform artistic path. She has taken part in the Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine (Trois-Rivières), the Manif d’art Biennial and Mois Multi (Quebec City), the Temps d’images festival (Montreal), FIMAV (Victoriaville), and Instants fertiles (Saint-Nazaire, France); as well as in the events the Périphéries Québec-Zagreb-Sarajevo (Zagreb, Croatia), Cités invisibles (Montreal), and C’est arrivé près de chez vous : L’art actuel à Québec (Quebec City). Her works have also been shown at Occurrence and the UQAM gallery (Montreal), the Stewart Hall Art Gallery (Pointe-Claire), Sporobole (Sherbrooke), Stryx Gallery (Birmingham, England), as well as Lieu and VU (Quebec City). In 2011, she won a Prix d’excellence des arts et de la culture de la Ville de Québec for her sound installation CARGO. In 2020, the national collection of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal acquired her piece Le bruit des icebergs as part of its permanent collection. Gagné is an active member of the arts milieu, and between 2013 and 2019, was artistic director of artist-run centre Avatar.​

Canada/Germany
www.adrianadisman.com

Adriana Disman is a performance art maker, thinker, and writer. Since 2010, her solo work has been presented in numerous festivals and galleries across Canada, the United States, Europe, and India. Disman’s practice searches for minor modes of resistance as she seeks liberation—an interdependent and as yet un-imagined state—through refusing to adhere to the logics of power. Her writing on performance can be found in both academic and arts publications, with a special focus on the pathologization of self-wounding in performance and a forthcoming textbook for Routledge on performance art. She has also run performance art events and spaces for the work of others in Toronto, Montreal, New York, Berlin, and Chandigarh.

Canada
www.ronnieclarke.com

Ronnie Clarke is a movement and sound artist living and working in Toronto, Ontario. Her work blends elements of choreography, dance, movement, collaboration, video and installation. Clarke is interested in how language manifests, becomes translated and is mediated in the digital age. With an interest in the poetics of digital gestures, spaces and interfaces, she often uses movement to investigate how technology plays a role in our interactions with others. Recent projects include a commissioned public performance work for the Parkette Projects (Toronto, 2021) with Gallery TPW and a group exhibition at the University of Texas at Austin (2023/2024). She holds a BFA from The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.

© George Azzaria

Canada
www.georgesazzaria.com

Georges Azzaria became interested in radio experimentation and then devoted himself to the creation of sound objects. He was part of the Bruit TTV group, was active in the Avatar artist center, presented exhibitions of his instruments and sound performances, and produced records as well as soundtracks for films. His recent work touches more directly on the visual arts.

Russia/Finland
www.olgaprokhorova.fi

Olga Prokhorova is a performance artist living and working in Oulu, Finland. In her art she establishes presence at the place and works through the study of body, movement, and behavior, creating a visual phenomenon—alternative situations that people can observe. Prokhorova’s works have been presented internationally in Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Russia, and Mexico.

USA
www.anyaliftig.com

Anya Liftig is a performance artist and writer. Her works have been exhibited at TATE Modern, MOMA, Queens Museum, Movement Research, Performer Stammtisch Berlin, Performance Space London, and many other venues around the world. As a dancer and actress. Liftig’s work has been published and written about in theNew York Times Magazine,BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, PAJ, New York, Theater Magazine, and many others. Her experimental film and video work has been screened in festivals globally. Her essays have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and noted in Best American Non-Fiction. She is a Connecticut Council for the Arts Emerging Arts Fellow in Creative Writing, a recipient of a Franklin Furnace Award, and fellowships at MacDowell and Yaddo. 

© Andrea Nann, Transmitting Trio A (1966). 2015. Photo Erin Brubacher.

Canada
www.dreamwalkerdance.com

Andrea Nann is a Toronto based contemporary dance artist and artistic director of Dreamwalker Dance Company. She is a graduate of York University’s Fine Arts Program and is currently a Resident Artist at Soulpepper Theatre (Toronto), and Visiting Artist at River Run Centre (Guelph), The Grand Theatre (Kingston), Burlington Centre for the Arts and Brock Centre for the Arts (St. Catharines). As creator of The Whole Shebang, a multi-arts performance platform, Andrea has developed a unique collaborative interdisciplinary engagement process, the Shebang Process, that is being shared with artists across Southern Ontario. Andrea has created over 30 works for the stage, film and various outdoor sites. As an interpreter, Andrea was a member of Danny Grossman Dance Company from 1988-2003 where she created performed and taught major roles from the works of Mr. Grossman and guest choreographers. Andrea is currently a guest artist with Peggy Baker Dance Projects, Astrid Dance, Volcano Theatre and Modern Times Stage Company.

© Michelle Lacombe, 2022. Photo Henry Chan.

Canada

Michelle Lacombe lives and works in Montréal. Since obtaining her BFA from Concordia University in 2006 she has developed a unique body-based practice that is located at the intersection of visual arts and performance. Her work has been shown in Canada, the USA, and Europe in the context of performance events, exhibitions, and colloquiums. She is the recipient of the 2015 Bourse Plein Sud and exhibited her work in the 2017 edition of Art Encounters Contemporary Art Biennial.

Her practice as an artist is paralleled by a commitment to supporting action art and other undisciplined practices. She is currently the director of VIVA! Art Action.

NON GRATA, 2012. Photo Dean Goodwin.

Estonia
http://www.nongrata.ee/

NON GRATA is an international performance group from Estonia with a floating membership. In Non Grata there have been more than 300 members during the last 12 years from all over the world. The main characteristics is anonymity in group work, ignorance of the local art world and mass media. Group has performed in Asia, Europe, South and North America with street actions, chaotic space and context specific performances, and long lasting ghetto marathons.

© FADO, MONOMYTHS Stage 3: Meeting of the Mentor, 2016. Photo Henry Chan.

Canada

Johnson Ngo is a Toronto-based artist who works in performance and sculpture. Ngo’s research explores connections and disjunctions between his gaysian identity and Western queer culture. Recent exhibitions include Art Gallery of Windsor, Nuit Blanche, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Toronto Free Gallery/7a*11d, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Art Centre, Mississauga Living Arts Centre, and Hart House. Ngo completed a two year curatorial residency at the Blackwood Gallery. Currently, Ngo works in the Public Programming & Learning department at the Art Gallery of Ontario and is a board member of C Magazine.