In the TD Vitrine
April 10 - May 31, 2025
Marzieh Miri
Present Elsewhere
Polaroid emulsion lift on acrylic sheet, wood base
2017-2024
Marzieh Miri
Marzieh Miri is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Toronto. Her research and creative practice explore the concepts of place, land, and environment using photographic media. She is particularly interested in experimental and alternative approaches that examine the relationship between humans and their environment. Marzieh holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University. She has received grants from the Ontario Art Council and has exhibited her art projects in Iran, France, Austria, and Canada. She has also worked as an architect, professor, writer, and critic. Marzieh has published book chapters and articles in international journals and presented at conferences and courses in Canada, England, and Iran.
TD Vitrine | 2025-27
We're excited to announce the 8 artists selected for Gallery TPW's Vitrine Window Space.
Artists working in Toronto to Berlin, from Mexico, Nigeria, Iran to Greece, their lens-based works will be shown in Gallery TPW's public-facing window vitrine, accessible to the public 365 days a year.
Keep an eye out for exhibition and programming launch dates, beginning in Spring 2025 and learn more about each of the artists below:
Clare Samuel
Clare Samuel is a visual artist originally from Northern Ireland, now living in Toronto. She holds a BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University and an MFA from Concordia University. Her work focuses on connection and distances between the self and other, as well as notions of social division, borders, and belonging. Spanning mediums such as photography, video, text, and installation, her projects are often a dialogue with the idea of portraiture. She has exhibited internationally, most recently at Public Space One,
Belfast Exposed, and VU Photo. Her practice has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. Clare is a co-founder and co-director of Feminist Photography Network, a nexus for research on the relationship between feminism and lens-based media.
Cynthia Anyadi
Cynthia Nkiruka Anyadi (she/her) is a cultural geographer based across Enugu, Berlin, and London, where she works at the junction between spatial science and the visual arts. Her practice draws on multi-sensory methods to explore the affective potential of everyday objects, with a focus on understanding how these objects may repair connections fractured by migration.
Cynthia is currently completing a doctoral thesis which traces identity, migration and loss through Igbo Nigerian memorial souvenirs. Her work draws primarily on collaborative explorations into photography, photogrammetry, and film, as a route towards community storytelling.
Ernesto Cabral de Luna
Ernesto Cabral de Luna is a Mexican lens-based artist working in Toronto. His work explores the fragmentary nature of memory—individual and collective—by manipulating alternative histories and printing onto found scrap materials through digital and analog experimental processes. Interested in narratives of migration, his practice examines the interplay between memory, dislocation, and displacement, particularly in the context of exile. His work centres around altering perception – providing new ways to experience recognizable imagery in unconventional manners and outside of their intended purpose. Ernesto received his Honours BFA in Photography from OCAD University in 2024.
Hannah Somers
Hannah Somers is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based artist and curator. She has a BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University in Image Arts Photography Studies. Being a biracial woman of colour with unidentified parts pertaining to her heritage influences her investigations. Her work centers around the exploration and discovery of time, joy, identity, ethnicity and race. Understanding the different relationships and histories of these themes is important to her process. She creates narratives within her fine art practice using photography, video, collage, and audio.
Somers has exhibited at Stephen Bulger Gallery, the Alliance Française Gallery and curated a group exhibition at Artspace Gallery. She recently exhibited The Music Sang 'Lean On Me' at The Image Centre Student Gallery. Her work has been featured in publications such as Filling Station Magazine and Public Parking Journal and published in Booooooom's photobook Care.
Kakia Konstantinaki
Kakia is an artist based in Athens. She studied architecture in Greece and holds an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins. Using 3D rendering software and video, Konstantinaki constructs complex CGI environments that resemble augmented reality environments, testing the horizon between the physical and the digital. In her short films, she examines the human condition in relation to themes like technology, memory, time, consciousness. She has taken part in group shows, short film festivals, online exhibitions and public projections in various cities around the world. Currently, she is a fellow at the Onassis Air Artistic Residency in Athens.
Marzieh Miri
Marzieh Miri is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Toronto. Her research and creative practice explore the concepts of place, land, and environment using photographic media. She is particularly interested in experimental and alternative approaches that examine the relationship between humans and their environment. Marzieh holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University. She has received grants from the Ontario Art Council and has exhibited her art projects in Iran, France, Austria, and Canada. She has also worked as an architect, professor, writer, and critic. Marzieh has published book chapters and articles in international journals and presented at conferences and courses in Canada, England, and Iran.
Sai Bagni
Sai Bagni is a lens-based Filipino-Canadian artist and photographer who lives and works in Tkaronto, Ontario. Sai's work responds to notions of images as vessels for truth-telling and history-keeping, analyzing how they inform one’s identity formation and relationship to collectivity as a queer Filipino. They’re interested in photography as an expression of subjective interpretation rather than an objective document of the world, challenging ideas of representation and memory. They use the materiality of the photographic object to extend an image’s expression and disrupt hegemonic spaces. Their work investigates themes relating to queerness, banal spaces, the natural world, and collective memory.
Sylvia Matas
Sylvia Matas is an artist living on Treaty 1 Territory in Winnipeg. She works with images and language resulting in videos, books, texts, and drawings. Recent work was made using found photographs from the internet including sources like surveillance cameras, satellite photos, and online archives.
Her work has been exhibited at Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Gallery 44, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Mercer Union (Toronto), The Maclaren Art Centre (Barrie, ON), The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Plug In ICA, School of Art Gallery (Winnipeg), Truck Contemporary Art (Calgary), and the Art Gallery of Regina.