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Alex Hall

Artist member since 2025
Toronto, Ontario

Alex Hall is a lens-based Chinese Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada. She specializes in analog photography and alternative processes. She holds a BFA in photography and a minor in English literature from the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U). Her work has been featured in the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, CONTACT Photography Festival, and CF Toronto Eaton Centre.

Alex plays with using documentary photography based in personal experiences as well as material driven explorations. She thinks about how the presentation of her work is heightened by paper choice, composition, and experimental materiality. Wanting the viewer to leave her work with more curiosity and connection.


Q+A

Describe your home in 3 words

At home darkroom

Favourite book

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Coffees per day and from where

One, Thai Iced Coffee from Ka Nom or I'll make a matcha latte

Favourite artist(s) right now

Francesca Woodman, Daido Moriyama, Wong Kar-wai

Upcoming Exhibitions
2026-09-11

Youngplace, Toronto
Suburbia in the Air

Select Past Exhibitions
2026

The New Other, 918 Bathurst, CONTACT Photography Festival
Spirit Keepers

2026

Gladstone House, CONTACT Photography Festival
Disconnected Connections

2026

CF Toronto Eaton Centre
Next Generation Artists of Canada

2025

Nathan Philips Square
Toronto Outdoor Art Fair

2025

OCAD U, Toronto
GradEx 110

2024

St. Benilde, Manila, Philippines
Experimental Photography

2023

Great Hall, OCAD U, Toronto
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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