Lauren Warrington is an artist and researcher from Saskatoon who works with sculpture, print media, and digital space. Her practice is grounded in her experiences as a "mixed race" Chinese Canadian on the prairies and explores the complexities of how cultural memory is created and stored, as well as the possibilities of its recontextualization through digital and physical forms. Her research on archives and materiality challenges pre-existing historical narratives as she reframes the significance of personal and collective memories that move through bodies, objects, and spaces as critical sites of knowledge production. Lauren holds a Master of Visual Studies in Studio Art from the University of Toronto, as well as a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art and a Bachelor of Science in Physiology and Pharmacology from the University of Saskatchewan. 

Yan Wen Chang (b. 1993) is a visual artist who received her MFA from the University of Guelph in 2022 and her BFA from the Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2015. Chang lives and works in Guelph, Canada, and is represented by Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto.

Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include "Gillian" at Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal (2026); "Gillian" at Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto (2025); "Jillian" at Hawkins Headquarters, Atlanta (2025); "Nympho" at A.D. NYC, New York (2024); "Auto Dealer Dream: Yan Wen Chang and Andrew Harding" at Weatherproof, Chicago (2024); "Odile’s Notorious Magnum Opus Of Thirty-Two Fouettés" at Susan Hobbs Gallery (2023); "Four Hollywood Paintings" at X in Residence, Toronto (2022); and "A. Dream" at General Hardware, Toronto (2022). Selected group exhibitions include presentations at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (2025), the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (2025), and Hearth, Toronto (2024).

"Nympho" and "Auto Dealer Dream" were both named 'Must See' exhibitions by Artforum. Chang’s exhibition "Gillian" was profiled by CBC Arts through a feature article and video. Her 33-foot public billboard, "same problem my father had and what he dreamed", was presented at Hamilton Artists’ Inc. (2022–23). Chang’s work is held in public collections including TD Bank, RBC, and the Art Gallery of Guelph, as well as numerous international private collections. She is a recipient of SSHRC funding and multiple grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, and was a 2022 resident of X in Residence, Toronto, in collaboration with Cooper Cole Gallery.

Alex Turgeon (b. Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia) is an artist whose practice investigates the structural relationships between language and architecture. Through interdisciplinary methods, his work braids images of architecture, infrastructure, and nature, to become uncanny translations of queer subjectivity, social class, and urban space under late capitalism. Turgeon's practice explores how poetic structures, in tandem with architectural methods, can interpret queer experience as a form of built environment situated within peripheral landscapes.

Turgeon situates his work within the radical ethos of printed matter, framed as a distributive tool and political method for making and occupying space. He employs architectural strategies of plan and elevation to shift between two and three dimensions, extending this logic to where the printed page informs sculptural installation as a form of speculative architecture. His current research investigates material and conceptual strategies for utopian futures, drawing from the historically queer impulse to erect space between lines of normativity and, as a result, construct visionary worlds.

As an artist, Turgeon's work has been presented and performed in part at the Tate (Liverpool); Akademie der Künste, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Ashley (Berlin); Kunsthalle Zürich; Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius); Sanatorium (Istanbul); FUTURA (Prague); Juf (Madrid); Cooper Cole, Franz Kaka (Toronto); Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge) and as part of “Poetry as Practice,” an online exhibition hosted by Rhizome and the New Museum (New York). Turgeon has held a Junge Akademie Fellowship at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2022–2023) and the Structurist Creative Research Fellowship at the University of Saskatchewan (2025-2026). He has participated as an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts (2011), Rupert (2015), Fondazione Antonio Ratti (2017), Autodesk Technology Center (2019), Treignac Projet (2022) and Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2024–25).

In addition to the University of Toronto, Turgeon has taught courses on expanded notions of digital media and installation, visual poetry and language arts, as well as aesthetic theory and strategies for design and visual composition at NSCAD University, OCAD University and Rutgers University. He has also provided workshops and lectures on his core research and artistic practice at Princeton University, Pennsylvania State University, Züricher Hochschule der Künste, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Sandberg Instituut, University of Lethbridge, University of Toronto, the Architecture Association Summer School, as well as at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and Wendy's Subway.

Turgeon maintains an active creative and critical writing practice with contributions to publications such as C Magazine, Canadian Art, frieze, Mousse, Texte zur Kunst, Public Parking, Border Crossings, Are.na Annual, F.R. David, amongst many others. His exhibition and research projects have been supported in part by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, The Canadian Council for the Arts and internationally by the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom, Embassy of Canada (Switzerland), and the Embassy of Canada to Germany (Berlin). Turgeon holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Emily Carr University and a Master of Fine Art from Rutgers University.

Ryan Ferko is an artist working predominantly in film and video. Between cinemas and galleries his projects question how history and power is narrated through landscapes, architecture, and images. Based in Toronto, this work is invested in collective ways of addressing place. Since 2013 he has worked frequently in collaboration with Parastoo Anoushahpour & Faraz Anoushahpour. Recent solo and collaborative work has been shown at Berlinale, Flaherty Seminar, MoMA, New York Film Festival, Sharjah Film Platform, Toronto International Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde, and Media City Film Festival. In addition to teaching and writing around moving image practices, he has worked as a film programmer for European Media Art Festival and Diffusion Festival.

SUSA is an architecture studio founded by sisters Suzan and Sara Ibrahim. The practice merges rigorous research with material experimentation, grounding complex forms in social, cultural, and ecological contexts. With roots in Malmö, Baghdad, and Toronto, SUSA embraces hybridity as both method and sensibility—drawing on multiple histories to create relational and evolving forms of care in the built environment.

SUSA foregrounds a contextual approach to design, working across architecture, exhibitions, publications, and public art. Research-led, iterative, and generative, the studio seeks adaptive and meaningful responses to the environments and communities it engages. The practice draws on experience spanning BIG, OMA, Adjaye Associates, and Lina Ghotmeh—Architecture. They lead a collaborative, research-driven, and materially experimental practice grounded in care, joy, and collective authorship.

Suzan Ibrahim is an architect whose work explores fabrication and material design as tools for spatial form-finding. She has over a decade of experience spanning design-to-construction and team leadership, including twelve years as a design lead at Partisans, OMA, and C.F. Møller Architects, alongside extensive experience in project and client management. Her work focuses on material experimentation, soft robotics, and systems-based design, integrating these approaches to develop innovative and adaptable architectural solutions.

Dedicated to teaching, Suzan has lectured and led studios at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, and the Architectural Association in London. She holds a Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association, where she studied in the Design Research Laboratory, focusing on material intelligence, full-scale prototyping, and feedback-driven design.