International Summer Art & Design Residency 2024

In July 2024, OCAD University's International Summer Art & Design Residency welcomed 14 emerging artists and designers worldwide for an immersive three-week hands-on studio experience at our main campus in downtown Toronto.

This year's residency theme, "Bodies in Space," invited the participants to consider the different ways we move through a new place and note their encounters with the city of Toronto through sense, play, and observation. Below are examples of their research and installation work in the form of a collaborative group exhibition at OCAD University's Open Space Gallery.

August Watson | Acrylic on canvas
Maya Mardini | Mixed media
Victoria Wojtowicz
Nina Campos Kato | Animation
Sean Wang
Zhiye Qu
Ashiana Gupta | Mixed media
Anasofia Emmond Pola | Collage, found frames
Oliver Huerta Shuman | Mixed media
Sienna Smith-Windsor | Mixed media
Raquel Martinez | Mixed media
Lena Epstein
Rita Carreira
Fubuki Eto | Mixed media