June Clark
Photo: Dean Tomlinson
Toronto-based artist June Clark holds an MFA from York University. She has had solo exhibitions at venues including the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Ringling Museum of Art in Florida, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Clark will have a solo survey exhibition at Toronto’s Power Plant in 2024, and will be included in the GTA24 Triennial at MOCA Toronto. Clark has also completed residencies at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Ontario College of Art and Design, among others.
Sameer Farooq
Photo: Courtesy of the artist
Sameer Farooq is a Toronto-based artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. His interdisciplinary practice investigates strategies of representation, enlisting the tools of visual arts, documentary filmmaking, writing and anthropology to explore forms of collecting, interpreting and displaying. Often collaborative, his work counterbalances how dominant institutions speak about our lives.
Farooq’s work has been exhibited at Canadian and international venues including the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the British Library in London, the Institute of Islamic Cultures in Paris, Artellewa in Cairo, and Sanat Limani in Istanbul.
Timothy Yanick Hunter
Photo: Solana Cain
Timothy Yanick Hunter is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist and curator. He employs bricolage to explore non-neutral Black and Afro-diasporic experiences, intertwining decolonization strategies. His approach alternates between the exploratory and the didactic, focusing on the political, cultural, and social richness of the Black diaspora.
Hunter has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including COOPER COLE and A Space Gallery in Toronto, Centre CLARK in Montreal, 92NY in New York City, and ILY2 in Portland, Oregon. He has also been artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; PADA Studios in Barreiro, Portugal; and Black Rock Senegal in Dakar.
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Timothy Yanick Hunter, Untitled (Shimmering), 2022. Dye sublimation fabric SEG print in aluminum frame, 139.7 × 116.8 × 1.2 cm. © Timothy Yanick Hunter. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and COOPER COLE
Oluseye Ogunlesi
Photo: Josh Rille
In his practice, Nigerian-Canadian artist Oluseye uses “diasporic debris” — a term he coined to describe artifacts collected on trans-Atlantic travels. He recasts these objects into sculpture, performance and photography, evoking personal migratory narratives within a broader examination of Black and diasporic identity. Oluseye embraces Blackness as divine, fluid, and unfixed — unbound by time, space, and geographies, blending the ancestral with the contemporary, and the physical with the spiritual.
Oluseye has exhibited across Canada and internationally at venues including the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, Southern Guild in Cape Town, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and in Toronto at the Gardiner Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario. His first permanent public art commission will be installed in Toronto in 2026.
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Oluseye Ogunlesi, Good Luck Totem, 2024. Wood, vending machine, cowries, 228.6 × 33 × 33 cm. © Oluseye Ogunlesi. Photo: LF Documentation
Chrysanne Stathacos
Photo: Jacob Korczynski and Georgia Liapi
Chrysanne Stathacos is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist who works in printmaking, textile, painting, installation and conceptual art. During the AIDS crisis in the 1990s, her work became deeply engaged with body politics, and has since focused on issues of sexuality, spirituality, gender and practice. Through her work, she causally connects the intersecting political spheres of the body with the environment, and our shared, impending future.
Stathacos’ work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently at venues including the Gwangju Biennial in South Korea, the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Arts in New York, and the Public Programs of documenta 14 in Athens, Greece.
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Chrysanne Stathacos, Agamemnon's Rose, 2022. Oil and bleach on canvas with embroidered elements and collage image, 86.3 × 55.9 cm. © Chrysanne Stathacos. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and The Breeder, Athens
