Meet our Alumni
Ambera Wellmann
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Wellmann graduated from UG’s MFA program in 2016.
In her work, she depicts human bodies in between play and violence, movement and dissolution.
She has exhibited internationally at venues including Lulu in Mexico City, the 16th Istanbul Biennale in 2019, MoMA Warsaw, and others.
Education
- 2016 – MFA, University of Guelph, ON
- 2011 – BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University, Halifax, NS
- 2010 – Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
37 3/4” x 39 1/2” oil and acrylic on linen
38” x 35” oil on wood
Azadeh Elmizadeh
Toronto, Ontario
Elmizadeh is a visual artist based in Toronto who works between painting and collage. Her work examines how contingency, uncertainty, and translation can be strategies used to undermine prescribed cultural boundaries.
Elmizadeh has exhibited at Birch Contemporary (Toronto, ON), Boarding House Gallery (Guelph, ON), Franz Kaka Gallery (Toronto, ON), and Kamloops Art Gallery (Kamloops, BC).
She was the 2020 recipient of the Joseph Plaskett Award for Painting.
Education
- 2020 – MFA, University of Guelph, Ontario
- 2016 – BFA, OCAD, Toronto, Ontario
- 2010 – BFA, University of Tehran, Iran
Oil on canvas, 52” x 72”
gouache on silk, 64” x 94”
Michael Thompson
Ontario
Thompson is a Canadian painter of Cree and British descent. His work focuses on the recycling and recontextualization of images, with the aim of destabilizing the iconography and histories by which they find their source.
He has been included in exhibitions in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Education
- 2022 – MFA, University of Guelph, ON
- 2019 – BFA, Western University, ON
Oil on Canvas 14″ x 16″
Oil on Canvas 30″ x 36″
Oil on Canvas 60″ x 60″ 2022