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Alex Hall

Artist member since 2025
Toronto, Ontario

Alex Hall is a lens-based Chinese Canadian artist working in Toronto, Canada. She specializes in analog photography and alternative processes. She holds a BFA in photography from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U) and a minor in English Literature. Her work has been exhibited in the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Atelier Next Door, and the Ada Slaight Gallery.

Working with themes of the past and the unknown, Alex is drawn to material driven explorations. She thinks about how the presentation of her work is heightened by the experimental materiality. Wanting the viewer to leave her work with more questions and curiosity about the world she documents around us.


Q+A

Describe your home in 3 words

At home darkroom

Favourite book

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Coffees per day and from where

Thai Iced Coffee from Ka Nom

Favourite artist(s) right now

Francesca Woodman, Daido Moriyama, Wong Kar-wai

Upcoming Exhibitions

Youngplace, Toronto, ON.
TBA

Select Past Exhibitions
2025


Toronto Outdoor Art Fair

2025

OCAD U, Toronto, ON.
GradEx 110

2025

Atelier Next Door, Toronto, ON.
Work Identified

2024

Ada Slaight Gallery
Global Design and Archives

2024

St. Benilde, Manila, Philippines
Experimental Photography

2023

Great Hall, OCAD U, Toronto, ON.
Resolution

Accolades
2025

Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
Best of Student Award

2025

OCAD U
Photography Department of Excellence Award

2025

Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
Juror's Pick

2023

OCAD U
1st Place, OCAD U Photography Contest

Residencies
2026

Toronto Island
Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts

2025


Gallery 44 Micro-residency

Education
2025

Ontario College of Art and Design University
Photography

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