About the Artists
John Delante
John Delante is a visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. His work explores themes of home, belonging, and identity through image-making. He creates a visual language that blends memory, temporality and shared experiences to examine the ways of understanding the self and envisioning a reimagined future informed by these influences. John graduated with a BFA in Photography Studies from Toronto Metropolitan University in 2022.
Freida Wang
Freida Wang is a Chinese-born Canadian visual artist based in Toronto and Edmonton who works in multidisciplinary visual arts, photography, video and performance. Her work explores concepts of identity—and lack thereof—found in intersectionality and existentialism. Through a merging of the absurd and uncanny, she attempts to depict an understanding of existence from her own perspective as a queer immigrant woman. She draws inspiration from film and movement-based performance, hoping to be able to capture the moments in between that accentuate the impermanent state of being that is existence..
Alex Nguyen
Alex Nguyen is an emerging photographer, and a current student in Toronto Metropolitan University’s Image Arts program in Toronto, where he focuses on exploring the past through Photography. His projects focus on capturing the past with a nostalgic lens and seeing how these settings have changed.
IJ Osita
Ijeoma “IJ” Osita is a visual artist based in Ontario. She’s known for her use of bright and vibrant colours; she wants her art to be somewhat of an escape from the somewhat mundane parts of life. Art has always been a constant in her life; originally creating through traditional mediums, IJ transitioned to creating digitally in 2021. Her transition gave her a new avenue to express herself and further her range of talent.
Madison Chow
Madison Chow is a visual artist and photographer whose work primarily focuses on the natural world around us and our connections to it. Working in digital, analogue, and alternative processes, Madison’s work takes on a variety of forms, emphasizing the tangibility of photographic objects. As an artist, she seeks to use both lens-based and cameraless mediums as a conduit for thorough reflection, healing, and empowerment
Joon-Young Lee
Joon-Young Lee (they/them) is a queer Asian artist based in Toronto, Canada. Lee works primarily in the medium of contemporary photography, with their works reflecting on fashion, identity and anti-establishment. Lee approaches their work with the mindset of exploring and addressing the social and cultural issues in their precipitation of life.
Chip Lei
Chip Lei is a Canadian-born Chinese artist from Vancouver who fell in love with photography in high school. Since moving to Toronto to study at Toronto Metropolitan University, they have found a passion for conceptual and artistic photography, as well in cinematography in both film and photographic mediums. Outside of lens-based art, they spend a good chunk of their time drawing, laying in bed, playing Fortnite and kissing their cat, Miko.
Eufemae Menendez
Eufemae Menendez, a creative 3rd year student at Toronto Metropolitan University, specializes in editorial and portraiture photography. She is a Filipino artist who explores innovative concepts resulting in captivating photographs that evoke an emotional response in her audience.
Eufemae works on solo and collaborative projects. She finds inspiration everywhere–from the novels she reads, movies she watches, or social media. Through the BFA program, Eufemae has learned how to develop her creative concepts, refine her studio lighting skills, and master post-production using Adobe. While Eufemae is a detail-oriented artist, she’s also an artist who loves to have fun.
Miki Diamond Perry
Miki Diamond Perry is a New York born, Scarborough raised/based multi-disciplinary artist, whose practice encompasses creative styling and lens based media . Perry has been styling since 2019, and has been featured on SSENSE, the Art Gallery of Ontario, The FADER, Soho House, & ELLE Canada.
Perry’s creative inspirations are drawn from her strong imagination, and sense of intuition and impulsivity. Known for her dynamic, weird, sexy, and sometimes revealing styling, Perry explores her Jamaican roots through intertwining fashion with folklore, gothicism, queerness, sexuality, and Caribbean spirituality. She intends to push the boundaries of fashion and clothing and how it is worn, as well as pay homage to her ancestors and heritage. Perry Is an alchemist and turns anything to gold. She does not only create ‘looks’, she also considers styling to be a valid and overlooked medium of fine arts. Perry is currently expanding her practice and venturing into exhibitions and showcasing her work in gallery settings.
Sophia Tran
Sophia Tran is a 4th-year photography student based in Toronto. Her practice focuses on documentary, landscape photography, and the family archive to explore the complexities and relationships between self, others, and the passage of time. Working in both digital and analog, her approach to photography is rooted in exploration and curiosity.