Evergon

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Evergon. A Canadian artist, teacher and activist, he has also created bodies of work using the alter-egos Celluloso Evergoni, Egon Brut, and Eve R. Gonzales. Born in Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, Evergon went to Mount Allison...

Vincent Barré

Our next Artist You Need To Know is sculptor, architect and filmmaker Vincent Barré. His career has spanned over half a century, primarily in France. Vincent Barré studied with American architect Louis Khan in Philadelphia and then worked with the architecture firm...

Xiaojing Yan

Our latest Artist You Need To Know is Xiaojing Yan  闫晓静. She is a Chinese-Canadian artist whose “work embraces her sense of having a hybrid identity.” (from her site) Curator and critic Suzanne Luke offers the following about Yan’s art : “Yan’s...

Tien Chang

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Tien Chang 章天柱. Chang, originally from Taiwan, now works and resides in Toronto. He is the vice-chairman of the Chinese Association and a member of the Ontario Chinese Artists Association. Tien Chang paints horses almost...

Fiona Smyth

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Fiona Smyth. For almost four decades, Smyth has made work in the intersecting spheres of art, comics and murals. Educated at the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD U) from which she graduated in 1986, Smyth’s “comics have...