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This year, Nelson Cheng’s rigorous architectural cityscape paintings earned him TOAF’s coveted Murray & Marvelle Koffler Founder’s award of $5,500. He was also shortlisted for this year’s Mayor’s Purc…

It is our great pleasure to introduce you to Amanda Arcuri, the winner of 2019 Best of Photography and Digital Media – a cash prize of $2,000 by our friends at Toronto Image Works (TIW).

We are happy to reconnect with you and start off our new season by taking you into the moody, vulnerable and fluid paintings of Steven Restagno, winner of the 2019 Best of Student Award. 

The 58th edition of Toronto Outdoor Art Fair was a smashing success – our heartfelt thanks to our artists, wonderful volunteers, donors, sponsors, media partners, programming partners, judges, jurors and 120,000 members of the public who all collaborate to put together this radically welcoming, engaging and un-walled art Fair. 

Get ready for StreetARToronto Live Painting, one of our special programming series over the art-filled weekend! TOAF collaborates this joint project with StreetARToronto (StART), Artusiasm and…

Thank you to all who came out to celebrate TOAF’s Launch last week! We took over Henderson Brewing Co’s warehouse and turned it into a real party complete with delicious cheeses and of course, a refre…

Dear Friends of TOAF,

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 58th edition of Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. Once again, we are celebrating the coming together of over 370 contemporary visual art…

It’s been a year since we announced our new brand identity Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (TOAF). We are very proud to let you know that our logo designed by Monnet Design has been chosen to be one …

Rapid Fire Round

Get acquainted with the team behind the 58th Toronto Outdoor Art Fair.

Left to right: Michelle Planche (Logistics), anahita azrahimi (Executive & Creative Director), Ani…

Our 2019 jury panel reviewed over 800 applications to bring a freshly curated mix of artists to the 58th TOAF. We’ve gathered a few of their favourites. 

This year’s event was held at Artscape Sandbox, and supported by our Major Sponsor, Higgins Event Rentals, who generously donated a stunning refreshment station for over 100 artist attendees, as well as provide an in-depth (and reassuring!) in-person tent demo.

Aaron Milrad, a prolific art collector and philanthropist, has been supporting the arts and the artists of TOAF for over forty years now – in particular, the Best of Ceramics award. In this interview,…

Don’t miss recent TOAF award winners Moira Ness and Sage Szkabarnicki-Stuart’s joint show at this year’s Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival.

Moira’s passion, enthusiasm and dedication to her work and our community is contagious and inspirational. Learn more about the winner of the Catherine Bratty Best of Art Fair Award