OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce Laiken Breau, Jordyn Hendricks, Kenzie Littlelight, Kay Nadjiwon, Emilia Nahdee, Errol Ricard, Liv Sydney as the recipients of the 2025 TO Live Call for Indigenous Artists Career Launchers! Their works will be on dispaly at Meridian Arts Centre, Lower Gallery throughout the month of December 2025.
Laiken Breau is a Metis, T’karonto (Toronto) - based interdisciplinary artist and designer. He holds a Bachelor's of Design (Hons) with a minor in Printmaking from OCAD University. Laiken’s practice explores themes of mass media, the impermeability of the built environment and the resilience of urban indigeneity. He examines the overlooked traces of human intervention on urban surfaces and their ability to denote passage of time and forgotten histories. Through digital manipulation of photographs and fine art printmaking, he calls attention to these minute, often ignored elements of our shared public spaces. By use of stencil and aerosol he designs wearable protest art, to reconnect with his Cree heritage and also reconcile with his settler ancestry; with a larger goal of educating other settlers living within Turtle Island about the shared burden of Truth and Reconciliation. Within his practice, he utilizes screenprint, relief printing, lithography, aerosol and stencil.
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Jordyn Hendricks is a two-spirited Michif artist with familial and ancestral ties to the Red River region. Currently they live in Tkaronto, pursuing their BFA in OCAD University’s Indigenous Visual Cultures program. Their practice is multidisciplinary, engaging with themes of spirituality, the land-self relationship, and questions regarding human existence.
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Kenzie Littlelight is a Dìne and Blackfoot multidisciplinary artist and curator from Treaty 7 territory, now based in Tkaronto. She is currently pursuing a BFA in Sculpture and Installation program at OCAD University and works as the art curator for an upcoming Indigenous supportive housing project in East Vancouver. Her art draws on her connection to her culture, infusing traditional knowledge with elements of pop culture to create a visual dialogue between tradition and contemporary Indigeneity.
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Kay Nadjiwon (they/them) is a queer interdisciplinary Anishinaabe artist and member of Batchewana First Nation currently working on Williams Treaty territory. Their practice spans photography, video, beadwork, sculpture, and installation. Nadjiwon embraces ambiguity as they address the multiplicities of identity, trauma, and desire. Grounded in autoethnography and storytelling, their work situates grief as a site for political engagement and spiritual connection.
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Emilia Nahdee is an interdisciplinary artist and curator of Shawnee Anishinaabe (member of Walpole Island First Nation, Bkejwanong Territory) and of Portuguese descent. In her work she engages Anishinaabe pedagogies, epistemologies and ontologies in relation to material research, contemporary art, and public Indigenous art and design.
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Errol Ricard (he/him) is a 2S Black- Métis artist working and living in Tkaronto while pursuing a BFA, specializing in Drawing and Painting at OCAD University. His interdisciplinary practice explores identity and relationality, its effect on how we occupy spaces; and the multitude of networks that connect life. Through the language of abstraction, expressive and experimental techniques, the work is an expression of feelings and perspective of a racialized queer man.
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Liv Sydney is an Nunataagmuit and Gwich’in artist from Inuvik, NT. Practicing in printmaking, painting, and textile arts. Liv explores themes of love, beauty, familial connection, and navigating the world as a carrier of generational trauma caused by the systemic oppression of Inuit and First Nations. Currently based out of Toronto, Liv is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Art at OCAD University.
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