Congratulations to our Career Launchers recipient Alex Hall for receiving the "Best of Student Award" in the 2025 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair! Through this well-deserved award she has received a cash prize of $1,000 supported by the Marie Collins Memorial Award & ArtHubs Toronto Inc. Opportunity Award which includes a residency at Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts and a solo exhibition at Youngplace. Stay tuned for this exhibition!
Alex Hall is a lens-based Chinese Canadian artist working in Toronto, Canada. She specializes in photography and alternative processes. She holds a BFA in photography from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU) and is a former dancer with the National Ballet of Canada.
Through the parallel stories of two Chinatowns, her series Disconnected Connections is an exploration of immigration, displacement, and the ties of her family history with her mixed heritage. The small mining town of Barkerville, British Columbia is home to the second oldest Chinatown in Canada. In the 1840’s the people there immigrated from the Guangdong Province. In the 20th century, her grandparents immigrated from Guangzhou, Guangdong Province to Toronto.
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