Artist Bio - Tiffany Huta

Tiffany Huta is a Toronto-based designer who gravitates towards found objects, especially things made out of aged and distressed wood. Her talents stretch from interior design to the fine arts. Many refer to her as a jack of all trades and a individual who is a passionate supporter of emerging creative talent, where she often curates group art shows.

Artist Bio - Andrew Dunn Clarke

No one on earth consistently and effectively thinks outside the box like Andrew. He embodies the spirit of a Renaissance thinker; always bringing a fresh outlook, innovation, and creativity to his projects. His projects are earnest, inspired, and committed. He'll work tirelessly on self-constructed projects for days and week, actively seeking feedback from the community, never satisfied until a finished product is produced shiny and new and fresh. Anyone seeking an idea-generator with an ambition to succeed should look no further than Andrew Dunn Clarke.

Artist Bio - Orlando Grünewald

Orlando Grünewald is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Toronto. His work is often inspired by a cartoon aesthetic, as well as by the Cordel literature and naïve art of his native Brazil – whose simplistic themes and colourful nature challenge his hybrid identity as a Brazilian who’s also Canadian, a modern man who hasn’t forgotten the past. This focus on identity permeates all of his illustrations. An enthusiast of technology and innovation, Orlando is also concerned with notions of the self, gender, and sexuality – bold interests that defy our traditional understanding of the naïve art aesthetic. Ultimately, Orlando strives to reconcile the simplicity of cartoons and naïve art with the darker rhythms of the modern, technological world he inhabits.

Artist Bio - Emily Kouri

Emily Kouri is a designer and illustrator, where her work often explores visual contrast between free-flowing and hyper controlled forms. Much of her illustrations’ and artistic work has bizarre, dreamlike characters and enviroments. Emily’s approach to Guilt City will be illustrating the internal battle between instinctual, uncontrolled emotion vs. societal formed logic and behavior.

Check out her website!

www.emilykouri.com

Artist Bio - DRONE

DRONE is a Toronto based artist and illustrator, who's work is heavily influenced by comic and street art culture. With the spray can and marker being his weapons of choice, DRONE's art work of highly stylized, dynamic imagery can be found both on wall and paper.

Artist Bio - Robin Luoma

Native of Barrie and an original member of 36 Chambers Art Collective (1266 Queen St W Toronto), Robin Luoma rides the fence between the draw of the big city lights and the comfort of small town punks. She uses her unconventional silkscreen technique of blending modern pop colours with non objective patterns to create intricate yet random compositions. Each piece aims to capture a visual balance within a controlled chaos.

Artist Bio - Amanda Veselovsky

Amanda Veselovsky is an artist who gravitates towards graphic patterning. Through development of self, her work has evolved into 3D landscapes that explore the battle between the conscious and subconscious mind.

In ‘Guilt City’ Amanda’s surrealist interpretation will offer the bittersweet concept of what our minds can be capable of – if we are willing.

Artist Bio - Tosooni

Da Eun “Tosooni” Chung is an illustrator from South Korea. Her illustrations are greatly influenced by street art, toy design, and the 90’s pop culture. She often creates characters that are curious, sarcastic, and fun with simply using a piece of paper and a pen.
Through Guilt City, Tosooni illustrates the balance of bittersweet life and the act of escaping reality. She uses iconography to represent imaginary and nostalgic emotions through her designs.

Check out her work!
tosooni.tumblr.com
www.twitter.com/daeun21

Artist Bio - Richael Laking

At the tender age of 9 months, Richael Laking (Sisseton-Wahpeton of the Dakota Nation and Irish-Spanish-German mix) was given a pen, and what she did with that pen will forever influence her life's path. Yes, she began to scribble. And through the years the scribbles took shapes and those shapes began to communicate her dreams and visions. In the Guilt City Art Show Richael will communicate the contemporary issues faced by Aboriginal people on Turtle Island today.

Artist Bio - Tyler Tilley

Tyler Tilley is a Toronto based artist, where painting allows him to "run and fight at the same time". With bold colours and energetic mark making, Tyler's abstract work holds fierce energy and powerful action.

Check out his work!
www.next-level-art.com

Jan Mazereeuw is a half Dutch, half Canadian art director. He graduated last year from OCAD University with a Bachelor degree in Advertising and is currently freelancing in Toronto. Jan believes that the finer details is what makes something special and unique and he takes this approach when painting his abstract acrylic artworks. He believes everything to ultimately be a bittersweet indulgence. Life is made of up negative and positive elements that juxtapose one and other. However, it is the intricate way these elements come together that dictates how we see and experience everything in life.

Check out his art direction work!
 www.janmaz.com

Artist Bio - Tyler Armstrong

From the controlled and quiet rationale of the Mississauga suburbs emerges the uncontrolled, passionate, vibrant and spirited artisit, Tyler Armstrong. A fairly new addition to the Toronto eye but has been fluent in the paints for years, in what started as a weekend hobby has transformed into a heated passion. A self taught artitist, Tyler daringly creates haunting images of a darker territory with wild lines and vibrant colour use that seem to balance in perfect harmony along side the disturbing imagery.  

Tyler Armstrong brings forth to Guilt City a wild insertion of creativity and passion.

Justin de Lima is a Toronto-based artist. He is currently a Drawing and Painting major at OCADU (Ontario College of Art and Design). Justin uses found material as a device to explore concepts of loss and home. The idea of utilizing raw material to create something fragile and elegant is an interest of his. The dialogue between the variety of mediums used in his work communicates a naivety which he embraces and explores.

Check out his website!

www.justindelima.com

Artist Bio - Vincent Luk

Vincent Luk had his birth into the world of photography through his Dad's Zeiss Ikon Contessa LKE and his Mom's Olympus Pen-EE. Influenced by the cameras that surrounded his childhood, it wasn't long until he picked one up for himself and starting snapping away. His work is often personal as it explores the essence of his own life experiences, through his travels, spirituality and everyday encounters. He plans on exploring the consumption of photography through materialisitic means for Guilt City.

Check out his website!

www.vincentluk.com

Artist Bio - L.E. Frost

Lisa Elaine Frost is a toronto-based artist and designer who is interested in experimental materials and emotionally-driven work. She mixes traditional media with graphic design concepts in order to explore and confront her personal anxieties. Her contribution to Guilt City is a vibrant series of letterpressed posters featuring thoughts and confessions from her personal diary. By combining these statements with bold colors, she investigates the idea of shame and honesty in society.

Artist Bio - Amelia Dolezal

Amelia Dolezal is both a traditional and digital Illustrator who currently studies at OCADU in Toronto.  She creates artwork that most often feature delicate feminine figures with a touch of whimsy, though can be seen creating different types of characters, for which she enjoys drawing the most.

Amelia's work featured in Guilt City explores the vulnerability and tenderness in the aftermaths of a departed love, expressed through delicate line work and a sensitive colour palette.

Website:
www.owltrinkets.com

Artist Bio - Rosena Fung

Rosena Fung is a comics artist and illustrator currently studying at OCAD University in Toronto. Her work is at once playful and melancholic with a penchant for details, patterns, and fanciful monsters.

Rosena’s Guilt City pieces explore flights of fancy as spaces that collapse distinctions between chaos and control. The images evoke transgression and loss inherent in the pursuit of imagination, through the juxtaposition of whimsy with aggressive spontaneity. 

Check out her work!
www.rosenafung.com

Artist Bio - Sylvia Waliczek

Sylvia Waliczek is Hamilton-based illustrator. Her works explore the mystery and isolation of youth. Her Guilt City drawings will focus on ambiguity.

Blog: http://sylviawaliczek.tumblr.com

Twitter: @sylviaski

Artist Bio - Hudson Christie

Hudson Christie is a 3^rd year OCAD illustration student who works alone. The theme suggested to him the sort of thrill that you get out of looking at things (people, animals) without being looked at. There’s something simultaneously exhilarating and illicit about looking without seeking consent.

Check out his work!

www.hudsonchristie.com

Artist Bio - Suharu Ogawa

Suharu Ogawa is a Toronto-based illustrator originally from Japan.  Her illustrations are often metaphorical, conceptual, and whimsical, and she finds herself painting animals and fish even though she is afraid of petting cats. Her work illustrates contemporary issues with a touch of nostalgic tenderness.

Suharu’s contributions for Guilt City will illustrate the bittersweet reality we see inside our modern world of luxury— a language of childhood joys forgotten for the syntax of industry and technology.

Check out her website!

suharuogawa.com