An Ottawa artist currently based in Toronto whose multidisciplinary practice explores themes of body, embodiment, identity, and auto-ethnography in a sustained critique of the Colonial paradigm. feldman-kiss holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. In 2011 feldman-kiss participated in the Canadian Forces Artists Program, for which they were embedded with the United Nations Mission in Sudan to shadow Canadian peacekeepers and international UN military observers. feldman-kiss’s work has been exhibited internationally.

An accomplished painter, Fisher received his formal training at the Vancouver School of Art (now the Emily Carr University of Art and Design) under the direction of Frederick Varley. As an official Canadian war artist during the Second World War, Fisher made 246 sketches that he later turned into watercolour and oil paintings. Prior to becoming a war artist, Fisher was known for a series of murals he painted for the British Columbia Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair in San Francisco. See artwork by this artist.

Enlisting with the Canadian Army at the outbreak of the First World War, Forbes became an official Canadian war artist in 1918. Subsequently known as a portrait and landscape painter and opposed to modern art and, in particular, abstraction, Forbes resigned his memberships in the Ontario Society of Arts and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, in 1953 and 1958 respectively. He then became a founding member of the short-lived Ontario Institute of Painters, an association that focused on realism in painting. See artwork by this artist.