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Predictions for 2026 Pantone Colour of the Year

Seven OCAD U faculty weigh in on which hue will be chosen as the Pantone Colour of the Year.

November 26, 2025

Associate professor’s film wins best documentary award

Min Sook Lee’s documentary, There Are No Words, won the Reel Asian-DOC Institute Best Documentary Award at the Reel Asian International Film Festival.

November 24, 2025

Alum’s film presents poignant portrait of OCA faculty member

The world premiere of Annette Mangaard’s film, I Am the Art: Nobuo Kubota, is Dec. 7 at Ted Rogers Hot Docs Cinema.

November 21, 2025

Celebrating employee excellence and long service

OCAD U presented its 2024-25 Employee Excellence Awards at its recent employee appreciation event, which also recognized employees for their long service and those who are retiring.

November 20, 2025

Jailbreaking Canada: imagining the future through play

Three-day interactive playshop uses games to explore equitable and sustainable technological futures.

November 18, 2025

Research advances sustainable home retrofits

OCAD U Associate Professor Dr. Bill Leeming is collaborating on a research project with the Toronto Home Energy Network to create sustainable communities.

November 17, 2025

Events and exhibitions happening at OCAD U

Artwork by Rosalie Favell: Left: Rosalie Favell, Terri, Facing the Cameria, NIGIG Residency Toronto, 2016, photograph, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist. Right: Rosalie Favell, Tom, Facing the Cameria, NIGIG Residency Toronto, 2016, photograph, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist.

Rosalie Favell: Facing the Camera: TSÍ TKARÒN:TO

May 1, 2025 12 a.m. - November 30, 2025 11:59 p.m.

Onsite Gallery (RHD)

Facing the Camera: TSÍ TKARÒN:TO is presented in conjunction with Onsite Gallery’s touring exhibition Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982–2024) and is a 2025 Core Program with the CONTACT Photography Festival.

Exhibition

Call for participants - Creative Contrasts: From Contrast to Creation in Mexico City

November 4, 2025 11:51 a.m. - December 1, 2025 11:59 p.m.

OCAD University’s International Programs & Collaborations Office, in partnership with Mexico City–based Culturans, invites students to participate in Creative Contrasts — a weeklong international workshop exploring the inter

Event

Artwork by Rosalie Favell: Rosalie Favell, My first day of assimulation, 1996 (remastered 2024) from the series From An Early Age. Image courtesy of the artist.

Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982-2024)

June 18, 2025 12 a.m. - December 6, 2025 11:59 p.m.

Onsite Gallery (RHD)

Belonging is the first retrospective of renowned Red River Metis artist Rosalie Favell, showcasing a powerful curated selection of her lens-based works from 1982 to 2024.

Exhibition

Highlighting the Overlooked

July 18, 2025 12 a.m. - December 31, 2025 11:59 p.m.

Online-Only

An online exhibition featuring work from students and instructors in Continuing Studies at OCAD U.

Exhibition

"The Shared Flight" 2025 mural by Diego Santamaría (HIDROCK). An ear of corn in the centre, with Two eagles, white trilliums and orange marigolds, on a black background.

The Shared Flight, Diego Santamaría (HIDROCK)

December 8, 2025 12 a.m. - April 30, 2026 11:59 p.m.

Onsite Gallery (RHD)

In collaboration with Culturans, a Mexico City–based NGO dedicated to reimagining cities as vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable spaces, Onsite Gallery presents a new digital mural by Mexican artist Diego Santamaría (HIDROCK).

Exhibition

Artwork: Maria Simmons, Membranous Boundaries (detail), 2025. Image by Sasha Azanova. Red, Pink, Black and Dark Blue sculpture on blue and green background.

Metabolic Loop. The Delaney Family Emerging Curator's Prize.

January 21, 2026 12 a.m. - May 16, 2026 11:59 p.m.

Metabolic Loop is an exhibition exploring the in-betweenness of natural and artificial environments through the concept of metabolism.

Exhibition

Alex McLeod, 333 (detail), 2025. Image courtesy of the artist in collaboration with his PC.

Becoming (in the light of the miracle)

January 21, 2026 12 a.m. - May 16, 2026 11:59 p.m.

Onsite Gallery (RHD)

Becoming (in the light of the miracle) explores emergent phenomena, spanning deep time to AI revealing how complexity occurs from simple rule-based interactions to create a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.

Exhibition