Mark Bell (born Toronto 1964) completed his undergraduate studies at OCAD University in 1989, and in 2009 he received a master's degree from Chelsea College of Art in London, UK. A selection of his solo exhibitions in public galleries include the following: Detail, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto (2007); The Truth About Falling, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, Ontario (2006); History Painting, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario (2003), Information Passagegallerie, Künstlerhaus, Vienna (2001). Group exhibitions: More Sad Presentiments, Open Studio, Toronto (2012); Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, The Bear Gallery, London, UK (2009); Copycat, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon (1997). He has attended a number of artist residencies in Canada and Europe: Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Republic of Ireland (2006); Pouch Cove, Newfoundland (2002); Galichnick Art Colony, Macedonia. (2002); Atelierhaus des Bundes, Austria (2001). Bell is one of the founding members of the artist collective Painting Disorders. He lives in Toronto where he is represented by General Hardware Contemporary.

Pierre Dorion (born Ottawa 1959) completed his Bachelor in Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa in 1981. In 1983 he began his ongoing solo career, marked by an exhibition at the Yarlow-Salzman Gallery, Toronto in 1984. A selection of his solo exhibitions in public galleries include the following: Autoportraits 1990-1994, Centre international d’art contemporain (CIAC), Montreal (1994); Pierre Dorion, Art Gallery at York University, Toronto (1995, touring); Pierre Dorion : Peinture et photographie, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (2010); Pierre Dorion, Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal (2012, touring). Group exhibitions: Aurora Boréalis, CIAC, Montreal (1984); Anninovanta, Gallleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (1991); À ciel ouvert : Le Nouveau Pleinairisme, Musée National des beaux-arts du Québec (2012). In 1997, Dorion was awarded the prix Louis-Comtois from the City of Montreal in collaboration with AGAC (Association des galeries d’art contemporain). He lives in Montreal and is represented by Galerie René Blouin in Montreal, Diaz Contemporary in Toronto, and Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.

Dorian FitzGerald (born Toronto 1975) completed his Bachelor of Arts in Art and Art History at Sheridan/University of Toronto Mississauga in 2001. A selection of his exhibitions in public galleries include the following: The Painting Project – Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal (2013); Quebec and Canadian Art, 1980-2010: New Acquisitions, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (2011); Empire of Dreams: Phenomenology of the Built Environment, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2010); Carte Blanche: Volume 2 – Painting, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2008). FitzGerald lives in Toronto where he is represented by the Clint Roenisch Gallery.

Sara Hartland-Rowe (born Kampala, Uganda 1958) completed her Bachelor of Arts at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, in 1990 and her MFA at University of Illinois at Chicago in 1993. A selection of her solo exhibitions in public galleries include the following: Look to the Living, Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery (2012); Spin, Measure, Cut, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts (2008); All things good and pure, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2007); The Prince, Durham Art Gallery (2004); Last Judgement, Dalhousie University Art Gallery (2002); Days Are Where We Live, Museum London (2000). Hartland-Rowe has exhibited across Canada and abroad, and received grants from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism and Culture. She has recently completed a major commission for the Halifax Municipality: Travellers, Dartmouth Bridge Terminus (2014). Hartland-Rowe lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Maria Hupfield (she/her) is a transdisciplinary maker working at the intersection of performance art, design and sculpture. She is the 2022 ArtworxTO Artist in Residence with solo projects at Patel Brown, Toronto, and Nuit Blanche fall 2022. Hupfield is an Assistant Professor and Canadian Research Chair, cross-appointed to the Departments of Visual Studies and English and Drama at UTM, with a graduate appointment in the Daniels Faculty. Hupfield is lead artist at the Indigenous Creation Studio. She is Marten Clan and an off-rez member of the Anishinaabe Nation belonging to Wasauksing First Nation.

Denyse Thomasos (born Port of Spain, Trinidad 1964 – died New York City 2012) completed her Bachelor of Arts in Art and Art History at Sheridan/University of Toronto Mississauga in 1987 and her MFA at Yale University in 1989. A selection of her solo exhibitions in public galleries include the following: Kingdom Come, Oakville Galleries (2011); Epistrophe: Wall Paintings by Denyse Thomasos, Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke (2006, travelling); Hybrid Nations in Swing Space: Wallworks, Art Gallery of Ontario (2005). Group exhibitions: Bird Watching, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn (2006); Painters 15, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art North York (2003); Quiet as it’s Kept, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria (2002). Thomasos has won numerous awards and artist residencies including a New York Foundation for the Arts Award (2008), Bellagio Foundation Residency (2001), Yaddo Residency, Joan Mitchell Award (1998), Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1997), and a PEW Foundation Fellowship (1995). In 2007, she was named the first recipient of the McMillan/Stewart Award, recognizing unique and outstanding contributions made by women artists. Thomasos lived in the East Village, New York City; her estate is represented by Olga Korper Gallery.

Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, based in New York and Toronto respectively, have worked collaboratively since 2004. Their work has increasingly incorporated communal aspects of craft, such as DIY tutorial videos and virtual crafting bees. Their video project Crafts Abyss was hosted by the Museum of Arts & Design (New York City, 2021). Other recent activities include the Odette Sculpture Residency at York University (2022), OpenArt (Örebro, Sweden, 2022), as well as solo exhibitions at Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto, 2023), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Center (New York City, 2023), Owens Art Gallery (Sackville, 2024), and Esker Foundation (Calgary, 2024). Their work is represented in public collections including the Muse d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Vancouver Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Canada.

John Armstrong is a studio professor in Art and Art History, a joint Honours BA program between Sheridan and the University of Toronto Mississauga. Over the past ten years, he has frequently collaborated with Paris artist Paul Collins: their paintings on photographs, videos, and publications have been on view in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Canada and Europe. Armstrong has most recently written an essay for Oakville Galleries to accompany Art and Art History alumna Denyse Thomasos' September 2011 exhibition Kingdom Come.