ART TORONTO 2026
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Tom Wilson Tehohàhake Tom Wilson Tehohàhake is a multidisciplinary artist working as a painter, writer, and musician who has received acclaim in all three of his artistic vocations. In 2015, Wilson had a life-changing encounter with a stranger that changed the course of his life and career. It was revealed to him that he was adopted and that his birth mother was Mohawk from the Kahnawà:ke reserve outside of Montreal. Since this discovery, Wilson has used painting and writing to reconnect with his identity and explore themes of resilience and survival, developing his own visual language.
John Hartman For the 2026 edition of Art Toronto, John Hartman returns to painting cities. John Hartman sees cities as pulsing bodies: the roads as arteries, the buildings as an armored skin, and the moving water and the sky as a breathing lung, an open space of intense light so different in feeling from the material density of the cities themselves. The city and rivers coexist, flowing in and around each other and the shorelines, buildings and roadways create interesting shapes and juxtapositions.
Jinny Yu In her latest body of work, Partial Order, Jinny Yu continues to embrace the language of abstraction as a means to investigate and understand the world around us. Working with watercolour on paper and oil on aluminum, Yu superposes shapes of colour, forming folds of three-dimensional forms while remaining just outside the realm of possibility. These shifting compositions serve as a metaphor for the spaces we inhabit and the fluid nature of identity.
Landon Mackenzie
Ben Reeves
Greg Hardy
Steve Driscoll Steve Driscoll creates vibrant depictions of the wilderness, expanding on the revered national tradition of landscape painting. He translates his encounters into paintings with a unique process of mixing oil pigments with an industrial material, urethane. He applies the liquid medium to panels laid on the floor and works Osahor contemplates how the sphere of your everyday life can provide a space for reflection and daydreaming.
Emmanuel Osahor In Emmanuel Osahor’s latest body of work, Things Once Seen, the artist contemplates how the sphere of your everyday life can provide a space for reflection and daydreaming. For Osahor, this space is realised in his garden and those of friends and neighbors. Osahor calls us to observe every corner: resident birds, the swirling pattern on fences, and plants being watered. In these most recent works, Osahor uses distemper, a combination of pigments mixed with glue, on linen. This imbues the surfaces of the paintings with an ethereal quality that seems to invite meditation.
Charles Bierk