Brian Jiang is a queer trans multi-disciplinary artist of Chinese-descent based in Tkaronto. As an artist collaborator working within the cultural sector, their arts-practice is informed by their love for the communities that they belong to.
Mahir Siraj is an Eritrean-born artist who lives and works in Toronto. Mahir’s works employ the use of symbols and metaphors to investigate the relationship between memory and meaning in the context of personal and social identity formations.
Qudsia Hussain is a Pakistani Canadian Muslim woman and recent graduate of OCAD University's Drawing and Painting program. Her work weaves personal narratives, media references, cultural motifs, and childhood nostalgia into a compelling tapestry of the human experience.
Elizabeth Forrest, a printmaking graduate of the OCA, mastered traditional Japanese woodblock printing in Kyoto during the 90s. Her internationally showcased mixed-media art, known for exploring social behaviours and natural phenomena, features Japanese paper ("washi") as a defining element.
Of the hundreds of artists on Partial, meet the ten most viewed artists of 2022.
Sophia K. Kim is a visual artist and illustrator based in Toronto. Through her experience as a police officer in Korea and as a mother of three, her love and communication to ignored and devalued beings are constantly reflected in her art. Informed by her love of nature, she discovers unnoticed beauty, and dreams of a sustainable world.
Donny Nie is a Toronto-based interdisciplinary artist with a BFA from OCAD University, and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. From large-scale oil painting, monotype, digital projection, to small-scale ceramic and glass form, her interdisciplinary abstractions coalesce to manifest an intuitive, gestalt experience.
OCAD University’s 106th Annual Graduate Exhibition is upon us again, inviting us to explore the work of hundreds of Canada’s best emerging creatives and a chance for for art collectors to support these artists through the OCAD U x Partial Artist Showcase.
Recent OCAD University graduates and upper year student artists applied to an open call announced in October 2020 and were selected through a juried process. To celebrate the new year, an initial round of eight new artists have launched their profiles on Partial’s platform with original artwork for purchase and rent.
Partial partners with OCAD University, Canada's largest and oldest educational institution for art and design, for an exciting pilot project.