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Apply to be part of a new hands-on, group residency for emerging artists!
About the residency:
THIRDSPACE: Emerging Artist Summer Intensive Program is a month-long residency program at OCAD University that brings together a dynamic group of interdisciplinary emerging artists, including those in the early stages of their careers and those embarking on new directions in their creative practices.
Develop a new body of work, experiment with new techniques, expand your practice and showcase your work, guided by our summer artist and mentor-in-residence, Van Maltese.
About your mentor:
Van Maltese’s interdisciplinary practice employs trickery, illusion, and associative play to deconstruct the experience of perception. They are fascinated by pattern recognition, brain plasticity, and how conflicts in what we see, or hear, can reshape our thinking.
Maltese is based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada and is a graduate of OCAD University (Class of 2010). They were awarded the national prize of the 2012 RBC Canadian Painting Competition, and the Canadian prize of the 2018 Glenfiddich Artist-in Residence Program. Most recently, Van Maltese was in residence at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University as the 2023 International Randall Chair in Painting.
Maltese has participated in solo and group exhibitions across North America including, Mickey Gallery, Chicago; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; The Power Plant, Cooper Cole, Art Museum of the University of Toronto, Erin Stump Projects, Toronto; the National Gallery Library and Archives, Ottawa; Kate Werble Gallery, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, and Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, New York. 
Headshot by Brittany Carmichael
Residency Theme:
How do our perceptions shape the way we experience the world? “Hypothesizing How We See” is the theme of the residency, and it invites visual artists of all disciplines to explore this question through play, experimentation, and collaboration.
Residency Highlights
