Staff, Board & Volunteers
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Staff

Pat (Patrick) Macaulay
Executive Director
Patrick (Pat) Macaulay, originally from Vancouver, has been the Executive Director of Open Studio since December 2017. He holds an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from NSCAD University. With experience across museums, galleries, and art centres in Canada and the U.S., Pat brings deep expertise in contemporary art, craft, design, and architecture.
Previously, he served as Director of Visual Arts at Harbourfront Centre for 26 years, where he curated hundreds of exhibitions, led major public projects, and built national and international partnerships. A dedicated supporter of Toronto’s arts community, Pat is committed to raising Open Studio’s profile and fostering meaningful opportunities for its artists.

Laura Bydlowska
Programming and Collections Manager
Laura Bydlowska holds a Master’s in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto and a BA Honours from the University of Guelph. At Open Studio, Laura oversees curatorial and collections initiatives, alongside programs, communications, and community outreach.
As an artist, she works in etching and pyrography (wood burning), creating abstract, geology-inspired compositions.

Pudy Tong
Studio and Education Manager
Pudy Tong’s memories of his immigrant Canadian childhood are punctuated by the images of large stacks of Chinese newspapers landing on his family’s doorstep every two weeks, air-freighted in from Hong Kong to a small rural town in British Columbia.
His print-based art practice draws on elements from journalism as the subject through which our experience of contemporary, media-saturated society is refracted, reinterpreted and reimagined. He received his BFA from the University of British Columbia Okanagan and an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking and exploring the city’s various enclaves of regional cuisine.