April Hickox

Our next Artist You Need To Know is April Hickox. Hickox is a Canadian lens-based artist, teacher and independent curator who has lived on the Toronto Islands since childhood and much of her practice is informed and shaped by her immediate environment. Over nearly...

Hannah Höch

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Hannah Höch (1889 – 1978). Höch is arguably one of the best known of the German Dada artists of the early twentieth century, and specifically the Weimar period (1919–1933) in Germany. She developed the process of photomontage...

Elaine Ling

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Elaine Ling (1946-2016). Ling was a traveler and photographer, whose camera acted as a documentary tool of her life and experiences. She was born in Hong Kong but emigrated to Canada when she was nine. The wide open spaces and...

Joan Frick

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Joan Frick. Frick (1942 – 2011) was born in Toronto and the majority of her artistic career took place within that cultural community. She was a graduate of École des Beaux-Arts de l’Université de Montréal with a Master of...

Graciela Iturbide

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Graciela Iturbide. A prolific photographer perhaps best known for her black-and-white images of local people in her native Mexico, Iturbide frequently makes women the subject of her photographs, as she feels that they most perfectly...