Ali Sheikh is a multidisciplinary artist and designer currently working in Toronto. His work considers the mark-making of existence and seeks to express the intensities of life through paint, ink, pencil, sound, and found object.
Inquiries/collaborations/commissions:
aaaalisheikh@gmail.com
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Education
2024 BFA in Drawing & Painting, OCAD University
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Grotto, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 Food For Thought & select works, OCAD University Library, Toronto, ON
Group Exhibitions
2024 NATIVITY zine launch, Youthful Vengeance, Toronto, ON
2024 In the Church of My Heart, the Choir is in Flames, Remote Gallery, Toronto, ON
2024 And I Meant It When I Said You’re My Favourite Son, Youthful Vengeance, Toronto, ON
2024 Chosen Family, Bevy, 738 Dundas St E, Toronto, ON
2023 Lithify, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, ON
2023 Powerhouse, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, ON
2023 Tonic, Nuit Blanche TO, 401 Richmond St W, Toronto, ON
2023 SEVEN Magazine Launch, 68 Abell St, Toronto, ON
2023 Refiguring, Clark Centre for the Arts, Toronto, ON
2023 Paraline, Midnight Arcade, Toronto, ON
2022 Gathering Divergence, Cultural Pluralism in the Arts Movement Ontario (CPAMO), Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, ON
2022 Blueprint for a Collective Home, Great Hall Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2021 Juried Show of Fine Arts, Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON
2021 ABRACADABRA!, Gobstopper Gallery (Virtual)
2020 Under the Radar, 1444 Dupont St #10, Toronto, ON
2019 First Year Drawing group show, Ada Slaight Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Publications & Freelance work
2024 SEVEN NATIVITY zine
2024 Assorted Goods vol. 4 (self-published)
2023 Design for MARE Interpose Collection
2023 SEVEN Magazine vol. 1
2022 Assorted Goods vol. 3 (self-published)
2021 Assorted Goods vol. 2 (self-published)
2021 Illustrations for Girlfriend’s Girlfriend
2020 Illustration for Canadian Art Magazine, Winter 2021
2020 Custom rugs for Family Fortune Studios
2020 Assorted Goods vol. 1 (self-published)