Ontario College of Art & Design University, commonly known as OCAD University or OCAD U, is a public art university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its main campus is located within Toronto's Grange Park and Entertainment District neighbourhoods.
Kazuo Nakamura was a Japanese-Canadian painter and sculptor and a founding member of the Toronto-based Painters Eleven group in the 1950s. Among the first major Japanese Canadian artists to emerge in the twentieth century, Nakamura created innovative landscape paintings and abstract compositions inspired by nature, mathematics, and science. His painting is orderly and restrained in contrast to other members of Painters Eleven. His idealism about science echoed the beliefs of Lawren Harris and Jock Macdonald.
Barbara Anne Astman is a Canadian artist who has recruited instant camera technology, colour xerography, and digital scanners to explore her inner thoughts.
Andreas Christian Gottfried (André) Lapine was a Latvian-born Canadian painter noted for his accurate depictions of horses as well as landscapes and portraits.
Wendy Coburn (1963–2015) was a Canadian artist and professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. She is known for her sculptures and for her video-based show "Anatomy of a Protest" (2014).
Derek Sullivan is a contemporary visual artist from Toronto, Ontario. Sullivan’s multidisciplinary practice employs drawing, sculpture, book works, and installation to engage with the legacy of modernist art and design. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Sculpture/Installation at OCAD University.
Dorothy Haines Hoover (1904–1995), was a Canadian artist. She was born in Toronto, Ontario. Hoover earned a B.A. in Modern History at the University of Toronto in 1924 and began painting in the 1930s after learning from her father. She married G. L. J. Hoover in 1930. In 1947, she gave lectures in the Museum Research Studies at the Ontario College of Art (OCAD). From 1951 to 1969 she doubled as lecturer and head librarian at the college, and was also editor of the alumni newsletter. In 1987, as the first head librarian at OCAD, the Dorothy H. Hoover Library at the College was named in her honour.
Catherine Marie Daley was a Canadian visual artist and educator located in Toronto, Ontario.
Paul Sloggett is a Canadian abstract painter known for his use of geometric shapes and patterns in creating paintings and for his many teaching and administrative appointments at OCAD University, Toronto, where he served as a full professor since 2001 and as Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Art. He now teaches at Seneca Polytechnic.
Daniel Solomon is an abstract painter who uses intense, vibrant colour in his work, combined with complex, pictorial space, inspired by artists such as Jack Bush and is a painter and professor in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University.
John Scott was a Canadian multimedia painter, sculptor, and installation artist.
Julie Voyce is a Canadian multimedia artist, known for her imaginative imagery, and for printmaking.
Frederick Hagan was a Canadian lithographer, painter and art instructor.
Blake Fitzpatrick FRSC is a photographer, curator and writer, who is concerned with the photographic representation of the nuclear era, contemporary militarism and the Berlin Wall as a mobile ruin.
Robert Holmes, was a Canadian naturalist painter and artist-illustrator.
Frederick Henry (Fred) Brigden, also known as F. H. Brigden, was a landscape painter in oils and watercolour, illustrator, and commercial engraver.
Rowley Murphy was a marine painter, illustrator, and designer of stained glass. He was the first Official Canadian war artist of the Royal Canadian Navy.
William Daniel Blatchly who signed his name as W. D. Blatchly (1835–1903) was a British lithographer, painter and illustrator.
The Toronto Art Students' League (TASL) or the Toronto Art League as it was called from 1899 on was an association of artists that existed from 1886 to 1904 and advocated drawing from the antique, and drawing and painting from life as a key to making art. It was a way of circulating recent art developments such as the Arts & Crafts movement and Art Nouveau as well as serving as a training ground and as a way of providing encouragement and fellowship for younger artists. It met about once a week to produce drawings from life and its operative mottos were the disciplinary "Nulla Dies Sine Linea" and "Non Clamor Sed Amor".
Franklin Arbuckle was a Canadian illustrator, painter and educator who contributed more than 100 covers and many illustrations to Maclean's magazine in a 60-year career.
