Artist Category: Exhibited

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.

KENT MONKMAN is an interdisciplinary Cree visual artist. A member of ocêkwi sîpiy (Fisher River Cree Nation) in Treaty 5 Territory (Manitoba), he lives and works between New York City and Toronto.

Monkman’s gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle often appears in his work as a time-travelling, shape-shifting, supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze to challenge received notions of history and Indigenous peoples. His artworks are held in the permanent collections of public institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Denver Art Museum; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Hirshhorn Museum; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; the National Gallery of Canada; and macLYON. Private foundations that house his works include Art Bridges; the Gochman Family Collection; the Sobey Art Foundation; and the Walker Youngbird Foundation. His works have been exhibited at institutions such as Louvre-Lens; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Palais de Tokyo; and the Royal Ontario Museum.

In 2019, Monkman was commissioned as the inaugural artist to make two monumental paintings for The Met’s Great Hall Commission project. In 2023, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada—Canada’s highest civilian honour—and in 2025, he received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.

June Clark has earned national and international recognition for her photo-based image works, installations and interventions. She holds a BFA and MFA from York University. Clark has had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Calgary (2025); Power Plant, Toronto (2024); the Art Gallery of Ontario (2024; 2018); the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota (2022); the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1997); the Koffler Gallery, Toronto (1994); and Mercer Union, Toronto (1990), and was shortlisted for the 2024 Sobey Art Awards.

Clark’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York(2025; 1997); the National Gallery of Art, Washington (2025); the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2025; 2024; 2004), Ottawa; MOCA, Toronto (2024); Saatchi Gallery, London (2024); Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax (2024); Peabody Essex Museum, Salem(2023); the Polygon Gallery, Vancouver (2023); the University of Toronto Art Museum, Toronto (2023); the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2021; 2016), Agnès b., Paris (1994); and Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York (1997). She has completed residencies at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Ontario College of Art and Design. Her work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington; the National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; the Wedge Collection, Toronto; the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, New York;the James Van Der Zee Institute, New York; and La galerie du jour agnès b., Paris; among others

Winsom is a Canadian-Maroon multi-media artist whose instinctive works explore themes of freedom, survivance, resilience, renewal, and African spirituality within the context of the Black Atlantic experience. Winsom is currently included in the Contemporary Native Art Biennial in Montreal until June 21st. Frieze Magazine named her 2024 solo exhibition at Clint Roenisch Gallery, Bridging Time, a Must-See. Her work was prominently featured in the 2024 Toronto Biennial and was included in Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys at MuseumLondon. A two-person show with her daughter Tara was mounted in 2025 at the Art Gallery of Mississauga . In 2019 the Art Gallery of Ontario mounted two installations of Winsom’s work, one of which was subsequently acquired by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University. In 2024 the Agnes also commissioned a short documentary, Winsom. She is also the central figure in a monumental mural, Echoes of Devotion, by artist Anthony Gebrehiwot that presides over the Queen’s campus until late 2026. Winsom is included in Statues Never Die at the Mackenzie Art Gallery (Regina, SK) in 2027.

Bushra Junaid (she/her) is a visual artist, author, and curator working between Toronto and Newfoundland and Labrador. Born in Montreal to Jamaican and Nigerian parents and raised in St. John’s, her work explores history, cultural memory, and placemaking, with a focus on the Black diasporic histories of Atlantic Canada. Through archival research and storytelling, she brings overlooked histories and narratives into view.

Junaid has exhibited nationally and in the United States and has curated landmark exhibitions centered on Black and Caribbean diasporic experience. In 2020, she curated What Carries Us: Newfoundland and Labrador in the Black Atlantic at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in St. John’s. The exhibition traced the province’s historical, economic, and cultural ties to Africa and the Caribbean through the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its afterlives, bringing together contemporary artworks and rare historical materials.

During her research, she uncovered the story of a 19th-century Black sailor buried on the Labrador coast, whose remains had been held in The Rooms’ collection since the late 1980s. This discovery led her to write and illustrate The Possible Lives of W.H., Sailor (2022), a poetic, research-based children’s book that reimagines the life of this unknown figure and has sparked renewed scientific investigation into and scholarly engagement with this little-known chapter of Canadian history.