Artist Category: Exhibited

Curtiss Randolph (Toronto) is a lens-based artist working in photography and film. Having grown up in theatre environments, the elements of stage production are influential to his practice. Randolph uses traditional analogue photography to experiment with non-linear forms of personal storytelling. Randolph holds a Bachelor of Photography from Toronto Metropolitan University (2018).

Native Art Department International (NADI) is a collaborative long-term project created and administered by Maria Hupfield and Jason Lujan that began in Brooklyn in 2016 and is now based in Toronto. NADI seeks to circumvent easy categorization by comprising a diverse range of undertakings such as unannounced actions, curatorial projects, video screenings, paintings, collective art making, and mixed-use installations. All activities contain an undercurrent of cooperation and non-competition while at the same time functioning as emancipation from essentialism and identity-based artwork.

Oreka JamesOreka James (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a materials-based, multidisciplinary artist. Translating visions into sculpture, painting and sound, they explore material that has been obscured and transformed through space and time, land, love and ache, life and death. James’ practice bridges comparative ontology and metaphysics, speculative fiction and spirituality, traversing the intangible. They oscillate between play and devotion, often illuminating ancestral truths and personal tales. Fascinated by material and object alchemization, they continue their study into animism and object sentience.

James has completed a group residency at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto) and Bowling Green State University (Ohio). They have exhibited their work at Pangée (Montréal), NADA (New York), Cooper Cole (Toronto), Patel Brown Gallery (Toronto) and MOCA (Toronto) among others.

Sameer Farooq is a Toronto-based artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. Farooq has held exhibitions at institutions around the world including PRAx, Oregon (2026), the Jaou Photography Biennale, Tunis (2024). Toronto Biennial of Art (2024), Le 19, crac, Montbéliard, France (2024), Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (2023), Materia Abierta, Mexico City (2023), Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2023), Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax (2023), Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto (2023), Fonderie Darling, Montréal (2022); Susan Hobbs, Toronto (2022); Koffler Gallery, Toronto (2021); Patel Brown, Toronto (2021); Lilley Museum, Reno (2019); Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2017); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2016); The British Library, London (2015); Maquis Projects, Izmir (2015); Artellewa, Cairo (2014); and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2011).

Reviews dedicated to his work have been published by Art Forum, The Art Newspaper, La Presse, Canadian Art, The Washington Post, BBC Culture, Hyperallergic, Artnet, and C Magazine. He is an alumni of the Kohler Arts/Industry and Bemis Center residencies and has been longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s preeminent art award.

Chiedza Pasipanodya (b.1987, Harare, Zimbabwe) is a sculptor and writer whose practice investigates material culture, diasporic memory, and the transformative potential of ritual and form. Pasipanodya works through a post-minimalist lens, drawing from Afro-diasporic and speculative frameworks to explore how objects become vessels for lived histories, perceptual shifts, and cultural transmission. Their early life, shaped by migration and alternative spiritual traditions, cultivated a deep interest in the metaphysical and the unseen, informing a material practice attentive to the ways that time, matter, and meaning interrelate.

Pasipanodya is participating in the 2026 Toronto Biennial of Art, Things Fall Apart curated by Allison Glenn. Notable exhibitions include Have No Doubt of the Omnipotence of a Free People at Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, Bucharest (RO), Matter of Return, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo (ZW), Dura | a mechanism for recalling sensibilities of community care (from any and all satellite sites such as this) at BAND Gallery & Fort York Historic Site, Toronto (CA), Genealogies of Sustenance at The Gardiner Museum, Toronto (CA), Ndafunga Dande (Thoughts of Home) at Art Gallery of Burlington, Burlington (CA), 10 at Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto (CA), and New Forms: that which constitutes critical matter at Artspeak, Vancouver (CA).

Pasipanodya is a recipient of the Cranbrook Museum Purchase Award (US), Maxwell/ Hanrahan Foundation Materials Fund from Cranbrook Academy of Art (US) and received Honorable Mention for Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Centre (US). They have participated in international residencies including Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts (US), Dzimbanhete Arts and Cultural Interactions (ZW), and the Global Experience Project: Maria Thereza Alves (IT). Pasipanodya holds an MFA in Sculpture from Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Tushar Patel is an emerging artist working primarily in charcoal, exploring the relationship between landscape, architecture, and human presence. With a background in architecture, Patel approaches drawing as a way to investigate space beyond function—focusing instead on atmosphere, perception, and the emotional resonance of place.

His recent works depict imagined environments where dense forests, shifting structures, and solitary figures coexist in ambiguous terrain. Through layered tonal studies and careful attention to light, Patel is developing a visual language that reflects uncertainty, transition, and quiet human endurance.

At this early stage of his practice, Patel is particularly interested in how drawing can bridge observation and imagination—using charcoal to construct spaces that feel both familiar and unresolved.

Patel is in the process of building a body of work that merges architectural thinking with intuitive, atmospheric image-making.

Jorian Charlton (b.Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a photographer specializing in portraiture. With a deep-rooted passion for capturing the essence of Black culture, Jorian’s work is a reflection of their personal experiences and the vibrant tapestry of their community. Driven by a desire to explore themes of family, intimacy, community, and love, Charlton’s photography delves into the depths of human connections. Through careful attention to lighting, atmosphere, fashion, and pose, they construct visual compositions that transcend mere imagery, revealing profound stories and capturing the raw emotions of their models. Jorian’s portraits serve as visual narratives, illuminating the rich diasporic stories while simultaneously challenging prevailing norms of contemporary Black representation.

Charlton earned a Bachelor of Photography at Sheridan College, and has had solo exhibitions at the Gallery TPW, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cooper Cole, Toronto; and the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga. She has participated in group exhibitions at Doris McCarthy Gallery at University of Toronto, Scarborough; and at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Her work is included in the traveling exhibition The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion which was first curated for the 2021 edition of Arles Les Recontres de la Photographie, and As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, Selections from the Wedge Collection. Charlton has created a number of public art projects in Toronto in collaboration with Toronto’s Year of Public Art, and Contact Photography Festival. Jorian Charlton currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Isabel Okoro is a Nigerian visual artist based in Toronto. From photography and film to printmaking, Okoro engages her multi-disciplinary practice to explore the interactions and experiences between the motherland and contemporary diaspora of African community members. Her coined term ‘normatopia’ describes a space between the tensions of a harsh reality and a utopia, while also referencing her aspirations to create images that feel ‘normal’ rather than perfect.

Recent exhibition of her work in Canada have included presentations with Smokestack Gallery, Patel Brown, Olga Korper Gallery, Gallery TPW, Nuit Blanche, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto, ON and the Black Arts Centre in Surrey, BC. Her work has been internationally exhibited in Mexico and the UK

Delali Cofie is a Ghanaian-Nigerian photographer and visual artist currently living in Toronto, Canada. Through storytelling, he engages in multiple genres of photography such as fine art, documentary, and fashion. His personal work presents subtle beauty whilst exploring themes of self-formation and the process of becoming. Frequently creating work between his native city Accra and current city Toronto, his work tells a tale of two cities, linked by a diasporic thread.

Recently, his practice has expanded to explore materiality, focusing on how materials carry histories and narratives that can be reimagined in physical form. Using textiles and objects, he engages with their connection to the body and identity to create layered works that reflect growth, selfhood, and the passage of time.

Recent exhibitions include A Place of Ours, United Contemporary (2026),…The Candle Whispered Them Here, C2 Art Program, CIBC Square (2025), The Great Unseen, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton (2025), Tree of Life, PhotoVogue Festival, Italy (2025) and REVIVE, DesignTO Festival, Toronto (2025), where he was the recipient of the emerging artist/designer award; It comes to me in waves, Patel Brown Gallery (2024). In 2022 his work was featured in legendary Ghanaian photographer James Barnor’s exhibition catalogue at the Arles Photography Festival.

He is a recent graduate of OCAD University, where he was the recipient of multiple program awards and the OCAD U Medal for Photography.

Adewole Louis was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. He completed Art and Design Fundamentals at Centennial College and a BFA in Sculpture and Installation at OCAD University, where He was the recipient of the Ignite Gallery installation award. His practice is based in sculpture, and his work focuses on the human relationship to materiality within the urban context. Most recently, his work has been featured in the Ignite Gallery installation award exhibition and “I thought I could come too” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Toronto.