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The highest honour at TOAF Best of Art Fair goes to Cheryl Rock It is my absolute pleasure to reintroduce you to Cheryl Rock and highlight her artistic merit and highest achievement at TOAF. Cheryl is the 2023 recipient of […]

Margaret Gdyczynski Receives Best of Photography Award Congratulations! The recipients of TOAF’s Best of Photography & Digital Media and Honourable Mention have one thing in common: They push the boundaries of traditional photography. The results are dynamic works that span

Kulwant Singh Bhullar Wins Best of Painting. Hyper-realistic portraits of everyday life. Kulwant Singh Bhullar’s paintings are realistic and subtle portraits of the quiet moments of life: a toddler smiling for the first time, a loved one lying down to

Kevin MacLean Wins Best of 3D Works Excellence in Three-Dimensional Art Kevin MacLean uses a wide range of materials in his practice: oceanwood, wire, clock mechanisms, industrial surplus, and found objects. Engaging in a form of artistic archeology, MacLean has

Student Winners at TOAF62. Congratulations Firouzeh Saremi Far & Stephanie Camille. Student award recipients Firouzeh Saremi Far and Stephanie Camille create paintings that make way for deeper meaning. Pigmented colours and geographic forms bring in the viewers and lead them

The recipients of Best in 2D Works The works of Alex Thompson and Alan McIntosh Alex Thompson and Alan McIntosh’s works are different depictions of the same thing: the industrial landscape of cities. If Thompson’s prints are hyper-realistic greyscale cityscapes,

Get to know Lori Harrison. The recipient of the Gladstone House Award. Tatum here—I recently started at Toronto Outdoor Art Fair as Marketing & Communications Lead. I’m looking forward to connecting with more of you as we lead up to

Best of Craft & Design at TOAF. Craft artists you need to know about Happy 2024! As we gear up to discovering fresh talents and works through our Call for Artists for the New Year, we continue to highlight last

Worth Gallery Presents: Outdoor/IndoorAn art exhibit featuring TOAF award winners. Exhibition Dates: January 11th-January 28th, 2024 Reception: Thursday, January 11th, 2024. 6 PM-10 PM. Open to all. Address: 830 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M6J 1V3 Exhibition Text: Outdoor/Indoor, an

Help us keep the momentumwith a year-end gift Dear Friend of TOAF, Reflecting on this past year, we’re proud of what we have accomplished together. We have been telling you about TOAF’s extraordinary impact on our community over the past

Sparkly Spotlight The Recipients of 2023 Travel Bursary Get to know the seven artists who received TOAF’s inaugural Travel Bursary Hailing from Alberta, Nova Scotia, Vancouver, Québec and North West Territories! Get to know the seven artists who received TOAF’s

Application Support: Feedback Fridays and Application Information Session (January 10th, 2024 7:00 PM) Thinking about applying to our 63rd Toronto Outdoor Art Fair in July? You can book an appointment with us for a one-on-one phone consultation to get direct

Emily MacLennan, Hyun Young Yang, Josée Tellier, Margaret Gdyczynski, and Ross Bonfanti Recipients of 2023 Worth Gallery Award This year, our partners at Worth Gallery established a new award to provide an exhibition opportunity for artists in a space dedicated to urban and

Susan Gale, Henry Hao and Dinesh Subramanian Susan Gale, Henry Hao and Dinesh Subramanian Recipients of 2023 Mayor’s Purchase Award Three new works by Susan Gale, Henry Hao and Dinesh Subramanian were acquired for Toronto’s Municipal Art Collection through the Mayor’s

Get to know Erika Takacs, Stephen Perry & Pierre Demers Erika Takacs, Stephen Perry & Pierre Demers Recipients of 2023 Inaugural Online Fair Awards Here are the brilliant recipients of TOAF’s inaugural Online Fair awards.  Erika Takacs’s haunting sculptures and her triumphant mastery