2024 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
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RECIPIENTS
Since 1961, TOAF has been instrumental in launching artists’ careers and bringing art into people’s everyday lives. TOAF is passionate about supporting artists and exceptional talents through awards, special programs and opportunities. With 150,000 annual visitors to Nathan Phillips Square, 100,000 website visitors, and 1 million annual page views, TOAF’s loyal community of art lovers continues to grow. Congratulations to our 2024 recipients who will be at this year's fair from July 12-14 at Nathan Phillips Square.
Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
Danielle Vincent
Danielle Vincent is aToronto-based artist specializing in oil painting. Her practice concerns the search for certainty and stability in the unknown of transitional periods. With her realistic renderings of familiar domestic spaces, she creates an entrance and exit to the in-between spaces found in everyday life that invite the viewer to create personal narratives and reflect on their thoughts and feelings about change and transition. Vincent has exhibited herwork across shows in Ontario and has been awarded first place in multiple juried exhibitions. She is completing her BFA in Drawing and Painting at OCADUniversity.
Website: www.daniellevincent.format.com
Instagram: @dee.vee.art
Hyesoo Kim
Hyesoo Kim is an illustrator based in Toronto and Newmarket. Inspired by nature, the cosmos, and reflections from her personal experiences, her work focuses on capturing warmth and serenity in everyday and imagined environments. Using digital paintings and mixed media works on paper with a passion for storytelling, she employs emotions and imagery that carries narratives about belonging and embracing a sense of self. She will be graduating in the spring of 2024 from OCAD University’s Illustration program and has previously received a BA from University of Toronto.
Website: www.hyesooart.com
Instagram: @hyesooart
Lulin Ye
My name is Lulin Ye, and I'm an emerging illustrator based in Toronto. I am excellent at experimenting with vibrant colours and adding a variety of colours to my pieces to give them energy and dynamism. Every artwork I make is a representation of my life journey, inspired by emotions and the natural world, with the intention of connecting with those who have gone through similar experiences. I aim to spread positivity and joy through the use of artistic language, and I desire viewers to discover their own experiences within the interaction of colours and abstract shapes in my works.
Instagram: @isssliart
Maariyah Mohiuddin
Maariyah Mohiuddin is an emerging artist based in the GTA. Much of her practice involves depicting her Indian culture while also commenting on the intersectionality between her layered identities that overlap through the context of living in the west during a contemporary age. Her work combines different aspects of culture, religion, and modernity in a way that serves as a source of representation. Maariyah is a recent graduate from OCAD University and has acquired her BFA in Drawing and Painting.
Website: www.maariyahmohiuddin.format.com
instagram @maariyah991
Mariam Fahmy
Hello! I'm Mariam! I am a Toronto-based artist. I studied illustration atOCAD U. In the future I am hoping to explore the angst and innocence of girlhood in my work. I am inspired by weird alien-like plants and bugs. I like working with a candy-like pastel palette and subverting that with violent or odd subject matter. I enjoy working with watercolor, mixed media, and digital media.
Website: www.mariamfahmy.format.com
instagram @jelliscope
Mark Krzepis
Mark Krzepis is a Toronto illustrator whose work muddies the line between high and low subject matter. Inspired by literature, music, art history, and the absurd, he draws upon themes of human nature relevant in both fine art and lowbrow illustration. Through a colourful complementary palette and animated shapes, Mark taps into the rich knowledge of traditional illustration. He has illustrated cover art for Toronto artists such as BADBADNOTGOOD and Charlotte Day Wilson, conducted interviews with creatives like Wolfgang Tillmans, and exhibited in art galleries in both Canada and the United States.
Instagram: @krzepism
Merna Schumann
Merna Schumann is an emerging Illustrator deeply interested in folktales, mythology, and symbology as she is fascinated by their ability to unveil histories and shed light on universal experiences. Her work intricately weaves rich narratives with naturalistic elements such as botanicals and wildlife, juxtaposed against found objects, structural landscapes, and figures. Merna employs a range of mediums in her artistic practice, with gouache, graphite, and pencil crayon as her tools of choice.
Website: www.mernaschumann.format.com
Instagram: @petalsofperil
Paige Bowen
Paige Bowen is a multidisciplinary artist, student, and creative fromSouth Africa. She graduated from George Brown College’s Foundational ArtCertificate in 2021 and OCAD University’s BFA in Drawing And Painting in 2024.She draws on her experience as an international nomad to study ideas of home, and connection - to both family and nature and isolation. Paige works in many mediums including but not limited to Woodcarving, Embroidery, and Painting. Most recently Paige has been featured in the 2024 Awenda Inspired Exhibit at the Ada Sleight Gallery at OCAD University as well as the2024 Inspiration Studios Art Auction.
Website: www.paige-bowen.format.com
Instagram: @butterflypaige
Sarah Young
SarahYoung is an emerging artist born and based in Toronto making paintings primarily in oil. After completing her BFA at OCAD University Sarah is going onto study at NSCAD University in Halifax to complete her MFA in studio art. She is interested in exploring family history, memory, and feminine identity using re-contextualized imagery. Creating sensitive aesthetic experiences through painting, Sarah works with a wide range of visual language and draws inspiration from lived experiences and urban culture.
Website: www.sarahyoung.partial.gallery
Instagram: @sarahyoung_art
Stella Obdei
Stella is a TanzanianCanadian mixed media artist based in Toronto. Working with traditional mediums which she combines with digital collages, and African wax fabrics. She creates works looking at themes of diaspora, identity, memory loss, language, and displacement. In her pieces she is negotiating the ideas of diaspora, and her own identity as a settler in Canada. As she feels displaced and disconnected with her home country and where she currently lives. Through creating her workStella hopes to create feelings of empathy, familiarity, and connect with herviewers.
Website: www.stellaobedi.com
Instagram: @artist._.stella
OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION
The Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce the return of our partnership with Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (TOAF), Canada’s leading contemporary outdoor & online art fair. The TOAF Career Launcher is for students in the Illustration, Material Art & Design, Photography, Integrated Media, Sculpture and Installation, Drawing and Painting, Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design, Digital Futures, Indigenous Visual Culture and Printmaking/Publications programs. The selected students will have a free opportunity at the 63rd TOAF to showcase their artworks in-person and online at TOAF.ca.
Since 1961, TOAF has been instrumental in launching artists’ careers and bringing art into people’s everyday lives. TOAF is passionate about supporting artists and exceptional talents through awards, special programs and opportunities. With 165,000 annual visitors to Nathan Phillips Square, 100,000 website visitors, and 1 million annual page views, TOAF’s loyal community of art lovers continues to grow.
TOAF has always reserved a portion of the Fair to emerging and student artists, and has hosted many well-known Canadian artists early in their careers including: Barbara Astman, Edward Burtynsky and many others. This is an amazing opportunity to get yourself out there, nurture an audience, and sell your work! Student applications will be reviewed by the TOAF jury for final selection.
CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS
3D Works: Three-dimensional artworks, using additive or reductive techniques, including freestanding sculptures, reliefs, assemblages etc. created using either traditional or experimental materials.
2D Works: Two-dimensional, created using one or more physical material, including Drawing, Printmaking, Illustration, Collage, and Mixed Media works, etc.
Craft & Design: Hand-crafted objects (functional or decorative) created using fine craft and/or industrial design practices including, Ceramics, Glass, Jewellery, Textile, Wood/Furniture, etc. Exclude machine-screen patterns or other forms of mass production, and factory-produced wearable items regardless of additional modification.
Painting: Oil, acrylic, encaustic, watercolour, inks, etc.
Photography & Digital Media: Photographic prints made from the artist’s original image, and/or digitally manipulated images created from original artist images, and/or other sourced material.
APPLICATION SUPPORT
The OCAD U RBC CEAD is committed to promoting substantive equality for equity-seeking groups that are under-represented in the creative sector. We encourage applications from first-time applicants to the program and graduates of equity-seeking communities including racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and gender identities / expressions. Applicants are welcome to advise the CEAD of any accommodations needed to ensure you have access to a fair and equitable process.
Applicants who need assistance with their submissions are invited to connect with the RBC CEAD for Advising support. Click here to learn more about how to book an advising appointment.
ACCESSIBILITY
Applicants who have concerns about meeting a Career Launcher application deadline are invited to connect with the CEAD in order to discuss possible alternatives. We encourage all who might require assistance with the application process to reach out to determine available support. Outreach of this nature should be undertaken at least one week prior to the published application deadline.
QUESTIONS?
Contact Subin Ee
Artist Relations Coordinator
subin@TOAF.ca
PARTNER
Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
TOAF.ca/call-for-artists
@torontooutdoorart
Date: July 12-14, 2024
Location: In-person at Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen Street W, Toronto, ON & Online at TOAF.ca.
QUALIFICATIONS
- ILLU, MAAD, PHOTO, INTM, SCIN, DRPT, IAMD, DF, INVC or PRNT/PUBL students in their graduating year (2024)
- Multidisciplinary artists can submit up to 3 different applications in 3 different categories
- You must apply individually under your own name
- Priority will be given to applicants who have not previously received a Career Launcher opportunity.
DEADLINE
Thursday, March 7, 2024 (11:59 PM)
INFO SESSION (TOAF Career Launcher)
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
Click here to RSVP
Join our upcoming info session to learn more about Toronto Outdoor Art Fair and resources for putting together a strong application.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- 6 images of your artwork (a consistent portfolio of work)
- 1 Installation, grouping or booth image (your work in context)
- Artist statement (500 characters max)
- A short description of your process, your medium/method (200 characters)
- Copy of timetable and student card
SUBMISSION LINK
Click here to Apply
FREE to apply
Use the discount code ‘TOAF63-CL-Student’ during checkout
Contact
Shellie Zhang
Special Projects Coordinator
E: szhang@ocadu.ca