Alize Zorlutuna

Alize Zorlutuna

Hexagon Mid-Career Artist Residency Recipient Alize Zorlutuna is a queer interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator whose work explores relationships to land, culture and the more-than-human, while thinking through history, ancestral wisdom and healing. Having moved between Tkarón:to and Anatolia (present-day Turkey) both physically and culturally throughout their life has informed Alize’s practice—making them attentive to…

Sylvat Aziz

Sylvat Aziz

Nick Novak Mid-Career Printmaker Residency Recipient Sylvat Aziz trained at universities in Lahore, Pakistan; Pratt Institute NYC, USA and Concordia, Montreal, Quebec, where she earned undergraduate degrees in the sciences and graduate degrees in comparative literature and visual art. She was awarded the full-year residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts and has held several funded…

Joy Wong

Joy Wong

Hexagon Mid-Career Artist Member Residency Recipient& Atelier Circulaire Artist Exchange Joy Wong is an interdisciplinary artist with immigrant settler heritage in Tkaronto/Toronto. Their practice connects material investigations with the shifting physicality of a racialized and queer body. Lately, their work about mutable surfaces has focused on the metaphors of fermentation, disorientation, and the corporeality of…

Francisco-Fernando Granados

Nick Novak Mid-Career Printmaker Residency Recipient Francisco-Fernando Granados (he/him) was born in Guatemala and lives in Toronto, traditional Anishnabeg and Haudenosaunee territory. He uses abstraction as a queer conceptual strategy to create multidisciplinary projects that range from installation and performance to drawing and bookmaking. This practice of minor abstraction has developed from the intersection of…

K. MacNeil

Hexagon Mid-Career Artist Member Residency Recipient K. MacNeil (they/them) is a genderqueer/trans artist who was born and raised in the US, currently living in St. Catharines. They completed their BA in Studio Art from the College of Charleston (2011), and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Buffalo (2018). MacNeil maintains an interdisciplinary…

Loree Ovens

Loree Ovens

Hexagon Special Projects Fellowship Residency Recipient Loree Ovens specializes in intaglio techniques: especially copper etching, aquatint, drypoint and collagraph. Primarily working with Japanese Washi paper and often combining the use of surface design techniques for textiles, Ovens’ fascination with line, pattern, and architecture continues to inspire her work. Ovens studied Fashion Technique and Design at…

Michelle Forsyth

Michelle Forsyth

Nick Novak Fellowship Residency Recipient While not technically considered a printmaker, Michelle Forsyth employs a wide range of copying in her practice and calls attention to the nature of the multiple. Her current work consists of photographic prints depicting hand-crafted items such as screenprints, lithographs, paintings, weavings, and sculptures. These items are copies of things…

Alison Judd

Alison Judd.

Hexagon Special Projects Fellowship Residency Recipient Alison Judd’s practice is rooted in printmaking at the intersection of print, sculpture and language. She uses earthly phenomena to ruminate on transience, impermanence, and loss, as well as the slow accumulation and distillation of knowledge. A ‘fact’ is a thing that is known, or proved to be true,a…

Agata Derda

Agata Derda

Nick Novak Mid-Career Printmaker Residency Recipient Agata Derda was born in Poland to a working-class family. She began her art education at a local youth centre and later studied at the high school of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. In 2010 Derda completed a BFA with Honours in Printmaking at the Galway Mayo Institute of…