Featured GUM Artists


These artists reflect the spirit of GUM

Their work connects with our love of curiosity, experimentation, and ideas that stick with you. We feature them because they invite conversation and encourage you to slow down, spend time, think, and enjoy, not simply purchase.

  • Mikael Sandblom

    Mikael Sandblom

    I create photographic and mixed-media works that explore perception through the reinterpretation of landscape. Using layered imagery and shifting visual structures, I investigate the unstable…

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  • Viz Saraby

    Viz Saraby

    Bio: As a design professor, photographer and artist, I enjoy experimenting with spaces and images and observing how they inform us about how they are…

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  • Hugh Alcock

    Hugh Alcock

    Bio: I studied fine art at the Ontario College of Art, including a year of independent study in Florence, Italy. I am a practising artist…

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  • Harry Wagter

    Harry Wagter

    Bio: A creative career in television promotion must have planted the seed, because one day in retirement I heard myself say, “I think I’ll try…

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  • Eric Busch

    Eric Busch

    Bio: I’ve been practicing photography since the late 80s when I photographed my friends skateboarding. These days, I’m mostly drawn to photographing landscapes. I’m drawn…

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  • Tanya Read

    Tanya Read

    Bio: I graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in 1995, and since then I’ve been active in the Toronto art community. I…

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  • Caleb Sandblom

    Caleb Sandblom

    Bio: At the core of my work is an exploration of the mutually constitutive functions of persons, technologies, and socies. This is premised on an…

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  • Stephen Boyd

    Stephen Boyd

    Bio: I am a Toronto-based generative artist working in code since 2003. I write rule-based code that produces hard-edged geometric abstraction, realised in cyanotype and…

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  • Rupen

    Rupen

    Bio: Other than several courses at OCAD and a printmaking summer session at Central Technical School, I am a self-taught visual artist. My practice is…

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