Featured GUM Artists

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 boundary between observation, memory, and interpretation. Examples of recent work: Public Art Projects: Clouds and Waves, 2020 – 2024: Phosphenes, 2018: Videos: MIKAEL SANDBLOM CV Public Art Commissions 2026 –…

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 commonly used and viewed. I explore ideas, concepts and problems from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Art and design engage with aspects of everyday life, often pointing to and questioning…

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 and have exhibited at Harbourfront, The Artist Project, Gallery 1313, and other galleries and exhibitions in Toronto. Over the years, I have been involved in several artist collectives. I am…

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 to paint!” That simple thought turned into an exploration of styles, textures, and happy accidents. Realism was never really my thing. I prefer the freedom of abstraction, with a nod to…

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 to minimal and mysterious compositions and try not to force images and instead prefer to let the images come to me.. Below are some examples of my work. Click on…

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 was an organizer and founder of the Impure artists collective in Toronto from 1994 to 1998. From 1999 to 2011, my partner Scott Carruthers and I ran Fly Gallery, a…

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 understanding of all persons as cyborgs: a person’s capacities are her tools: her tools must be given credit for her being. The mediums and interfaces with which a person interacts…

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 ink on paper and panel. My interest in emergence and in where randomness enters a system connects my practice to the 1960s computer art of Vera Molnár and Manfred Mohr,…

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 informed by my experience working with the same tools and materials used in the trades I have mastered: carpentry and cabinetmaking. These skills allow me to create precise wall-hung sculptures,…