A Black Art Fair

Alicia Reid is a Jamaican-Canadian photographer, journalist, and filmmaker from Scarborough. Her work captures vibrant moments that celebrate Black and Caribbean culture, with a mission to reshape Toronto’s narrative and uplift marginalized communities through her lens.
Instagram: @lensoflicia

Nigerian-born, Toronto-based artist who blends ancestral traditions with contemporary innovation in ceramics, painting, and virtual reality. Her work preserves Black cultural narratives while amplifying dialogues on Black identity and heritage.
Instagram: @asabe_mamza
Website: asabemamza.com

London-based Nigerian artist Bernice Udeogu merges painting and sculpture to create bold, three-dimensional works with Themes of strength, beauty, joy, faith, and power. Her art invites audiences to explore the “curves” of life—its complexity, brilliance, and quiet force.
Instagram: @berniceu.art

Toronto-based visual artist and muralist Bolebi draws from Nigeria’s vibrant cultural and social landscapes. With the belief that art can inspire, transform, and communicate the complexities of shared human experience, his work reflects themes of identity, community, and resilience.
Instagram: @the_flying_bushman
Website: Kutt.it/bushman

Afro-Caribbean and Persian artist Brandon Baghaee creates surreal oil paintings blending personal memory and fantasy. A graduate of OCAD University, his award-winning work explores belonging, cultural inheritance, and the diasporic experience.
Instagram: @brandonbaghaee
Website: https://www.brandonbaghaee.com/

Chawntay Barrett is an emerging artist, facilitator, and arts professional based in the Greater Toronto Area. Working primarily in oil and acrylic on canvas, Chawntay explores themes of Afro-Caribbean culture and contemporary Black experiences. Her work reflects a dialogue between identity, culture, and the evolving narratives of the African diaspora.
Instagram: @chawny_

Zimbabwean-Canadian sculptor, writer, and curator Chiedza Pasipanodya challenges notions of subjectivity through a post-minimalist lens. Their work draws from African diasporic aesthetics and metaphysical inquiry, exploring how objects are vessels for lived histories, perceptual shifts, and cultural transmission.
Instagram: @thechiedza

Nigerian artist Chisom Chiwete paints expressive portraits that mix r semi-realism with playful, cartoon-like motifs. Through bold colors, distorted features, and layered textures, she creates a visual language that balances irony with sincerity while reflecting on themes of vulnerability, nostalgia, black femininity, and cultural memory.
Instagram: @chisomchiwete

Sudanese artist Dahlia Baasher uses layered symbolism, architecture, and figure to confront identity, resistance, and erasure. Her work challenges normalized systems of power while amplifying voices often marginalized within collective memory and justice.
Instagram: @dahliabaasher

Daniel Maluka is a South African-Canadian visual artist and writer based in Toronto. His multidisciplinary practice explores memory, diasporic identity, and the politics of erasure through painting, collage, and text.
Instagram: @whatdanieldrew
Web: http://danielmaluka.net/

Destinie Adélakun is a Nigerian–Indian multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Working across photography, sculpture, textiles, performance, and film, her practice engages cultural reclamation, matriarchal histories, and diasporic storytelling.
Instagram: @destinieadelakun
Web: www.destinieadelakun.com

Eelise Ndri is an illustrator and artist drawn to bold ideas, vibrant colours, and layered meaning. Her work often appears playful, but a closer look reveals hidden details, quiet messages, and a rhythm of curiosity.
Instagram: @eelise_ndri
Web: http://eelisendri.com/

Elicser Elliott is a Toronto-based multimedia artist who has been making his mark in building Toronto’s street art scene. He explores narrative structures, new surfaces, and new sensations through the lens of more than a decade spent in the global street art community. He describes his work as highly improvised collages of soft characters and organic shapes, layered and blended through transparencies.
Instagram: @elicserelliott

Nigerian artist Emmanuel Udeh works with charcoal, graphite, and colored pencil to create realistic works that center on stillness and observation. His drawings often capture the quiet intensity of the human gaze, inviting viewers to pause and reflect on what exists beneath the surface of silence. Z
Instagram:@Chukwuemeka.x
Web: http://www.emmanueludeh.com/

Eric Opoku is a multidisciplinary artist whose work merges creativity with impactful design, rooted in his Asante heritage and a strong commitment to social justice. His practice spans ink, digital art, photography, and mixed media, exploring themes of cultural identity, resilience, and ancestral narratives.
Instagram: @eskopoku
Web: http://ricopoku.com/

Congolese-Canadian artist Heritier Bilaka creates dynamic paintings exploring identity, culture, and equity. With exhibitions across North America and Europe, he’s received numerous awards, including the Congo Excellence Award and Ontario Arts Foundation’s Laura Ciruls Painting Award.
Instagram: @heritier_bilaka

Fashion designer and artist Jair Castillo fuses sustainability with timeless design. His conceptual garments and photography challenge fast fashion, blending craftsmanship and storytelling to create intentional pieces that inspire reflection.
Instagram: @j.castillo_____

Toronto-born artist Jamera DaCosta uses bold colours and organic shapes to explore stories in a new light. Her inspirations are nature, music, culture, and her spiritual journey. As she’s grown into her artistic journey, she’s transformed ideologies into visual poetry.
Web: http://www.justj.art

Born in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo and based in Montreal, Joel Lukombo is a visual artist whose practice celebrates expression, perseverance, and creativity. His journey from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa to international exhibitions reflects dedication and a global perspective.
Instagram: @joellukomboart

Montreal-based artist Julien Kandolo explores memory, identity, and the beauty within chaos through painting, collage, and installation. Through his work, he interrogates the tensions between fragility and resilience.
Instagram: @kandoforart_studio

Residing in Toronto, Kalmplex captures the soul of Black culture through portraiture and archival photography. For over two decades, their art has celebrated community and identity, featured everywhere from the Art Gallery of Ontario’s The Culture exhibit to the Art Gallery of Mississauga
Instagram: @kalmplex.

Nigerian artist and photographer Kamorudeen Aruna creates vivid Afro-surrealist works exploring innocence, joy, and resilience. Based in Toronto, he uses colour, form and shape to vividly capture everyday emotions while blending cultural heritage with contemporary aesthetics.
Instagram: @kamorudeenaruna
Web: www.lookitskam.com

Multidisciplinary artist Kioni Sasaki-Picou examines memory, identity, and intergenerational dialogue within diasporic Black and Caribbean communities. Through photography, archival material, and storytelling, her work navigates the emotional terrain of familial relationships, exploring both connection and conflict across generations.
Instagram: babyfaceyons

French-Beninese artist Lana Denina Cohen who draws from her diverse heritage to create work that transcends borders and resonates globally. At the heart of her practice is a surrealist exploration of women’s experiences, technology, love, and mental health.
Instagram: @lanadenina__
Web: https://www.lanadenina.com/

Mark Stoddart is a Toronto-based visual storyteller whose work bridges activism, athletics, and art. Guided by his mantra “Saving lives one mark at a time,” his portraits honour Black resilience, legacy, and empowerment.
Instagram: @mstoddart68
Web: http://artwithmark.com/

Clarke Miles is a queer Afro-Caribbean ceramicist who crafts sculptures exploring identity, land, and belonging. Currently studying at Sheridan College, his award-winning works reflect both personal and collective histories through clay’s transformative possibilities.
Instagram: clarkemilesart

Painter, illustrator, and movement artist Odera Igbokw is located on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Their vibrant artwork explores intersectional cosmologies through Afro-diasporic spiritualism, Black resilience, embodied transformations, and redefining the archetypal hero’s journey.
Instagram: @oderaigbokwe
Web: www.odera.net

Oluseye Ogunlesi is a Nigerian Canadian artist.  Using “diasporic debris” — a term used to describe the artifacts collected on his trans-Atlantic travels — Oluseye traces Blackness through its multifaceted migrations and manifestations. These transformational objects are recast into sculpture, performance, and photography, invoking his personal narratives within a broader examination of Black Diasporic culture and African spiritual traditions.
Instagram: @olu.seye

Pixel Heller is a multidisciplinary artist and international performer based in Toronto. Her work spans photography, textiles, ceramics, and painting. Influenced by her Afro-Canadian heritage, her practice engages with themes of Black identity, cultural preservation, and carnival masquerade.
Instagram: @100mega_pixel
Web: www.artsbypixel.com

Shope is a Toronto based visual artist renowned for his intricate mixed-media works combining expressive pen-marking scribbles with layers of acrylic washes. His practice delves into the complexities of human connection, self-awareness, and the shared human condition.
Web: https://www.shopeawarun.com/gallery

Brampton artist Tone Bailey combines photography and digital illustration to create nostalgic, futuristic scenes inspired by 1970s album covers. His dreamlike works explore everyday stories, color, and sustainable futures.
Instagram: _seeyoutmrw
Web: https://seeyoutmrw.net/