2026 Exhibitors
51 Personae (CN)
51 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, believing that publishing is both an urgent and valid artistic practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of "realism" in art as expressive actions.
@51personaeproject
51 Personae is a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, believing that publishing is both an urgent and valid artistic practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression, exploring the contemporary forms, possibilities and potential of "realism" in art as expressive actions.
@51personaeproject
Alicia’s Klassic Kool Shoppe (CA)
Alicia's Klassic Kool Shoppe is an artist publisher based in Toronto. She creates screenprinted and risographed prints, books, textiles, and other multiples. Much of her work begins with collages made from an evolving archive of photocopied images. These collages draw on the natural world, dreams, myth, ancient history, and science fiction. The disparate sources combine to form speculative worlds outside linear time, where the familiar and the imagined intersect.
@klassic_kool_shoppe
Alicia's Klassic Kool Shoppe is an artist publisher based in Toronto. She creates screenprinted and risographed prints, books, textiles, and other multiples. Much of her work begins with collages made from an evolving archive of photocopied images. These collages draw on the natural world, dreams, myth, ancient history, and science fiction. The disparate sources combine to form speculative worlds outside linear time, where the familiar and the imagined intersect.
@klassic_kool_shoppe
Alt Text Selfies (CA)
Alt Text Selfies is a collaborative online repository and artist publication edited by Bojana Coklyat, Finnegan Shannon, and Olivia Dreisinger. We’re excited about the possibilities of description that are pleasurable and make the Internet, in particular, a more engaging and connective place for disabled people.
@bojana_coklyat/
@finneganshann0n
Alt Text Selfies is a collaborative online repository and artist publication edited by Bojana Coklyat, Finnegan Shannon, and Olivia Dreisinger. We’re excited about the possibilities of description that are pleasurable and make the Internet, in particular, a more engaging and connective place for disabled people.
@bojana_coklyat/
@finneganshann0n
Atelier Retailles (CA)
Atelier Retailles is an experimental papermaking studio located in the Mile-End in Montreal. We specialize in upcycling fabric offcuts from the local clothing designers to make high quality handmade rag paper. The studio hosts workshops, accompanies artists and constantly pushes the limits of the contemporary approach to papermaking as an art form.
@atelierretailles
Atelier Retailles is an experimental papermaking studio located in the Mile-End in Montreal. We specialize in upcycling fabric offcuts from the local clothing designers to make high quality handmade rag paper. The studio hosts workshops, accompanies artists and constantly pushes the limits of the contemporary approach to papermaking as an art form.
@atelierretailles
Atelier Parcoeur (CA)
🎨 I’m a graphic designer and traditional screen printer.
🖌️ I work on paper and textile in large-scale formats with a bold, pop art style.
💻+✋ I blend analog and digital processes.
🎨 I create limited editions where color, contrast, and materiality shine.
✨ Each piece is crafted with care, precision, and a love for the tactile beauty of ink.
🏠 Atelier Parcoeur is my individual project, a space for artistic experimentation and screen printing
@atelierparcoeur
🎨 I’m a graphic designer and traditional screen printer.
🖌️ I work on paper and textile in large-scale formats with a bold, pop art style.
💻+✋ I blend analog and digital processes.
🎨 I create limited editions where color, contrast, and materiality shine.
✨ Each piece is crafted with care, precision, and a love for the tactile beauty of ink.
🏠 Atelier Parcoeur is my individual project, a space for artistic experimentation and screen printing
@atelierparcoeur
B&D Press (CA)
B&D Press is a micropress based in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, run by artists Eloisa Aquino and Jenny Lin, focusing on experimental queer art zines, prints and installations, operating as an art project with a strong presence in the zine and small press community.
@banddpress
B&D Press is a micropress based in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, run by artists Eloisa Aquino and Jenny Lin, focusing on experimental queer art zines, prints and installations, operating as an art project with a strong presence in the zine and small press community.
@banddpress
Basic Income Youth Collective (CA)
The Basic Income Youth Collective (BIYC) is a national network of young people who are passionate about basic income. BIYC promotes economic justice in Canada by organizing and equipping young people to advocate for transformative policies like a guaranteed livable basic income. Our collective is non-hierarchical and voluntary, and everything we do is non-partisan and grassroots.
@basicincomeyouthca
The Basic Income Youth Collective (BIYC) is a national network of young people who are passionate about basic income. BIYC promotes economic justice in Canada by organizing and equipping young people to advocate for transformative policies like a guaranteed livable basic income. Our collective is non-hierarchical and voluntary, and everything we do is non-partisan and grassroots.
@basicincomeyouthca
béances éditions (CA)
béances éditions est né du constat que les écrits trans*, lesbiens et queer sont peu traduits en français, et que, lorsqu’ils le sont, ils sont souvent sortis de leur contexte de production par des géants de l’édition française.
béances est né d’un besoin de nous réapproprier nos histoires, en tant que personnes trans*, lesbiennes, gouines, dykes, bisexuelles francophones basées sur l’Ile de la Tortue (Amérique du Nord) et ailleurs, et d’honorer nos aîné·es LBT qui, de par leurs luttes et leurs prises de parole, nous permettent aujourd’hui d’exister.
@beances.editions
béances éditions est né du constat que les écrits trans*, lesbiens et queer sont peu traduits en français, et que, lorsqu’ils le sont, ils sont souvent sortis de leur contexte de production par des géants de l’édition française.
béances est né d’un besoin de nous réapproprier nos histoires, en tant que personnes trans*, lesbiennes, gouines, dykes, bisexuelles francophones basées sur l’Ile de la Tortue (Amérique du Nord) et ailleurs, et d’honorer nos aîné·es LBT qui, de par leurs luttes et leurs prises de parole, nous permettent aujourd’hui d’exister.
@beances.editions
Beccs Champagne practices hand crafted zine making with a focus on interesting forms, particularly seeking to expand interaction beyond a standard page flip. Her narratives pull from speculative fiction, melancholic horror and autobiographical genres.
@beccschampagne
Beth Shepherd is an Ottawa-based artist working in printmaking, photography, video, and text. She conducts multi-year art-research projects in which she explores the non-human world and humanity’s impacts on it. In recent years, Beth has been making artist books as a way to share her work and research in a more accessible, hands-on format. At Object//Project, she will be showing objects connected to her Plot 46 project, which looks at regenerative agriculture, along with a new book available for purchase.
bocchi projects is a Canada-based self-publishing project that encourages and endorses small run book projects by independent artists, especially for those that take an experimental approach. Our mission is to promote a wide range of book works and inspire others to create their own. We collaborate and exhibit with others who are passionate about artist’s books and independent publication. Each year, bocchi exhibits at local and international art book and zine fairs, featuring self-published works by collaborators and independent book artists from Canada.
@heilum.bocchi
Philippe Shewchenko & Jacob Doyon are experimental cartoonists that explore the limits of paper as a vehicle for sequential stories. Both members of a local comic collective (Le Mange Papier), they founded the sub-branch of Bonkle Press one dreary winter night as a vessel for their collaborative efforts & an output for their love for strange, underground zines. Through self-published micro-editions, they aim to investigate the vast potential of the visual language of comics and how it can manifest innovative book design.
@philippeshewchenko
@_jacobdoyon
Carleton University Art Gallery
(CUAG) strives to be a vibrant, inclusive space where art, communities, learning and experimentation converge to challenge the status quo and foster transformative dialogue, toward a more just and sustainable society.
@cuartgallery
Christine Walde (she/her) is an artist, poet, and academic librarian whose work combines library and archival research with interests in artists' books and multiples, experimental poetry, visual poetry, performance, book arts and the visual arts. She has been published in print and online journals in Canada, the US, the UK and Germany and her work is held in the collections of the AGO, the Banff Centre, the University of Buffalo, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Walde lives and works on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen/Songhees nations in the Cascadia Bioregion of the Pacific Northwest.
@du_champagne
City Pigeon Press is an indie micropress producing zines, linocut prints and patches, hand bound notebooks, and other queer creations.
@citypigeonpress
Concordia University Press is an award-winning non-profit publisher of books in the subjects of art, architecture, media studies, and design history. Concordia University Press is committed to barrier-free scholarship and our titles are available as free, open-access e-books, as well as for sale in thoughtfully designed print editions to support a thriving print culture.
@concordiapress
Established in 2022, CONTACT Photobook Lab is a shop, reading room, and community meeting place for photobook makers, collectors, and enthusiasts. Located in downtown Toronto, Canada, the Lab is managed by the CONTACT Photography Festival. The Photobook Lab is Toronto's only bookstore that specializes exclusively in photobooks, stocking over 200 titles by Toronto-based, Canadian, and international artists and publishers.
@contact_pbl
Copy Shop Books publishes, designs, and produces publications and other printed matter in close collaboration with creative people, making engaging, unique, tactile objects on the south shore of rural Nova Scotia/Mi'kma'ki.
@copyshopbooks
Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) is a not-for-profit project space, publisher, and professional network devoted to the support and advancement of curatorial inquiry and practices in Toronto, Canada, and beyond. With a focus on critically-engaged, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary curatorial practices, experimental and underrepresented perspectives and approaches, and wider public outreach and education on curating and exhibition-making, Critical Distance is an open platform for diverse curatorial perspectives, and a forum for ideas on curating as a way to foster meaningful connections across cultures, disciplines, geographies, and generations.
@critical.distance
Dada Issues [collective press] is an independent publishing house based out of Kjupuktuk (Halifax), Nova Scotia with a focus on creating affordable, limited-run art books, alongside 1/1 art objects that subvert and pervert publishing. We publish artist books, runs of experimental fiction, multiples, ephemera, pamphlets, and propaganda. We are interested in the dissemination of local knowledge and committed to publishing text and image based works that have roots in art, critical theory, and experimental poetics. We are run from a queer, feminist, environmentalist, anti-capitalist, and anti-colonialist perspective, and prioritize thinking through these theories within our publications.
David is a queer visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. Working with found-imagery and photographs, they utilize the mediums of analog collage and drawing to find relationships between seemingly disparate visuals, with the aim of depicting everyday subjects that belie more complex understandings of the exterior world. Using imagery gleaned from used books about the environment, astronomy, horticulture and design, their work reflects a composite visual landscape of objects, figures and situations built from anachronistic fragments of the past. David’s practice also involves zine, artist-book and printmaking.
@david_woodward
My day job involves working with kids and a lot of the art I make is made on the clock! I like making comics and I'm also a watercolour artist. Being queer and autistic influences my art a lot too. I just love being silly and making cool art! I make my zines by photocopying them in the office at my work.
@radiomountain
Dennis Moran is a fantasy artist and animator based in Ottawa. He writes and draws The Skyward Isles, an adventure story that he is also developing into a new Tabletop RPG system. He is currently animating on X-Men '97.
@capricorpse
Motivated by environmental and societal issues, by ethical reflections and the major changes that result from them, Esse defines itself as a socially engaged magazine that values critical thinking and favours analyses that address art in relation to the context in which it takes place. Each issue features a theme analyzed through critical texts and portfolios of works. The regular participation of new authors multiplies and decompartmentalizes points of view, giving the magazine an international and human face.
@revueesse
An independent book publisher based in Montréal, Final Form produces handmade, small-edition photography books with a focus on design, materials, and detail.
Friend of a Friend Co. is an Ottawa/Gatineau based artist collective, committed to making the arts community accessible to everyone, no matter their experience.
@sophderouin
@madeleinemerritt
@mckeybigg
My practice centers on the production of multiples and the tactile qualities of printed objects. I work with photo-based booklets, small editions and handmade artist books, exploring natural forms through visual interpretation rather than literal narrative.
@gabiobeni
Galerie UQO is a university art gallery committed to the development and promotion of contemporary artistic and museum practices in Quebec, Canada, and internationally through research, creation, education, and exhibition.
@galerieuqo
Laura Blanchette is an independent journalist, artist, and founder of Good Golly Zines. She loves exploring how zines can be used in community and in conversation other art forms, like filmmaking and music. Through her ongoing zine series Mid City, Laura reports on Ottawa’s city hall using printed zines as a platform for sharing news to further engage and empower residents. Good Golly Zines is based on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation in Ottawa, ON.
@goodgollyzines
I founded Greyweathers Press in 2003 on a love of beautifully designed type on a well-proportioned page, using hand-set movable type and a vintage printing press to produce books, broadsides, linocuts and wood engravings.
@cubookartslab
Jenn Woodall is a cartoonist and illustrator who dwells in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently working on a graphic novel about her personal experience with mental illness. She is a risograph enthusiast as well as an editor for Pulping, an anthology that publishes the work of Toronto and Ontario based cartoonists.
@funeralbeat
Jessica Bebenek is an interdisciplinary poet creating art at the intersections of language, book objects, and textiles. She likes things you can touch and things you can feel.
@notyrmuse
I bridge digital and print through zines, posters, cover designs, and visual narratives, exploring personal stories with playful experimentation. My work invites audiences to experience art publishing in unexpected and immersive ways.
@joella.designs
Jonathan Rotsztain is an artist, writer and dreamer based in Toronto. His autobiographical and fiction comics and zines deal with class, identity and self-esteem while using the power of drawing to conjure the fantastic. Rotsztain is one of the co-editors of Pulping, an Ontario comics anthology spanning two volumes. Pulping v1 won Outstanding Anthology and Outstanding Story at the 2024 SPX Ignatz Awards. Rotsztain is a co-founder and organizer of Zine Dump, a new Toronto zine fair.
@sadvember
My zines and printed work explore Black identity, emotional awareness, and authentic solidarity. I turn personal experiences into zines that are easy to engage with and highlight Black and Muslim perspectives. My goal is to spark reflection, conversation, and joy through a clear and purposeful approach.
@khuluwddesigns
I consider myself a contemporary folk artist, and am particularly interested in zines, self-published works, and other multiples as a means to break out of traditional literary or arts spaces. As a primarily self-taught artist, I like to bring together a more playful, crafty, 'amateur' style with larger philosophical and theoretical ideas and critiques. Alongside my own work, I run a platform in Hamilton called Odder Seeds, where I not only create spaces for working artists to share their work, but also create public engagement and opportunities for members of the public to collaborate in communal art and revisit art as a source of play and connection.
@kit.schh
Maura Doyle is a visual artist with 30+ years of self-publishing experience. Her work includes formats such as zines, artist books, mail art, maps, envelopes, posters, giant letters; and projects such as self published zine The Mail Order Catalogue (1994-2004) with Annie Dunning or recent artist book Beaver Baffler: Architecture of a Universe published by Gibson Museum (2025).
@maura.doyle
I am a second-generation Lebanese Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose work explores intergenerational trauma, emotional inheritance, and diasporic identity. Working primarily in ink, my practice is rooted in reclaiming voice, self-expression, and the freedom to exist outside inherited expectations.
@mellinamallah
Mitch Lohmeier is a musician and award-winning cartoonist based out of Toronto. His humorous, cartoony drawing style often juxtaposes his more serious themes of identity and learning to cope with living in a bizarre world. In 2020, Mitch serialized a daily comic on Instagram titled Michael Mouse which quickly achieved viral success. In 2023, he released a self-published version of the comic which debuted at TCAF's digital marketplace, shattering all marketplace records. Shortly after, he partnered with Floating World Comics to release a new print edition. Lohmeier is also co-editor of the celebrated Ignatz award winning comic anthology, Pulping.
@houseycult
Nina is a Montreal based non binary illustrator who makes art and comics largely based off of their own lived experience. They primarily work with watercolour, gouache and colour pencils but have also been known to make digital art.
@nina_drewww
O Underworld! Press is the private press of Bennett Bedoukian, focused on printing short run books and ephemera.
All of the work is letterpress printed, with the text set using hand-set movable metal and/or wooden type, combined with the odd lino-cut.
@o.underworld
Oscar Dennis is an Ottawa-based cartoonist. His work includes the essay-comics collection How to Apologize for Existing without Being Annoying About It and the humour strip Things Jesus (Probably) Didn’t Do. His fixations include genre fiction, fine art, and sensible urban planning. He publishes his comics in the weekly newsletter Humour Risk (odennis.substack.com).
@o_dennis25
Omíkhlē Bookshop is an independent bookshop based in Toronto, focusing on independent publishing and indie comics, Asian photography and cinema. We work closely with independent publishers across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan, and beyond, and engage with Toronto’s local art scene through pop-ups, exhibitions, and zine exchanges.
@omikhlebookshop
I create research-based artist books rooted in nature and Mexico's food culture. Opuntia Visual publications combine science and cultural history, using innovative folds that allow each book to be read in multiple forms.
@opuntiavisual
Ottawa Design Club produces collaborative zines, exhibitions, and community events that highlight the voices of local (and beyond) artists and designers. Our work creates moments for people to meet, share ideas, and feel connected through creativity.
@ottdesignclub
The Ottawa Trans Library houses a collection of books by trans authors, as well as historical, important and interesting works on trans issues and people. We are a social space in addition to being a library. You don’t need to borrow a book. Oppressed people have always needed spaces where they can be safe, gather, meet new people and talk. We have reading stations and tables for studying or socializing. Come enjoy a free coffee, browse the collection, or just swing by to say hello!
@ottawatranslibrary
photoED magazines celebrates photography in a brand new light.
@photoedmagazine
Polly Fossey is a multidisciplinary artist with a practice that explores color theory, labor rights, and three-dimensional form. She works primarily in risography and intaglio. Her most recent book 7 Color Contrasts with Risography is collected at the Harvard Houghton Library and the Cooper Hewitt.
@pollyfossey
Possible Worlds is a community-driven, independent project space specializing in graphic art, electronic music and publishing. Based in Ottawa, we present and produce works and programming that amplify the voices of underrepresented, emerging and experimental artists from Canada and internationally. Through our outreach arm, we operate a physical project space and shop, design art and music programming, and present Object//Project Art Book Fair.
@possibleworldsshop
Raven and Ram is a zine duo using their writing, photography and illustration skills to make zines and associated wears about bugs, decay, transgenderisms and the chaos of life.
@ravenandram
Reflex Editions is a Toronto-based DIY publishing collective that functions as a creative space for exploring the collaborative and experimental potential of handmade, small-edition publications and ephemera. Our mandate is to blur the boundaries between art and the everyday through artists’ books and printed matter.
@reflex.editions
Remaining Foreign is a project brought into fruition by two amateur 1st Gen Afro-Caribbean cooks of Jamaican and Haitian descent. Invested in preservation of cultural dishes and ritualistic gatherings, They’ve decided to cultivate their own space where the children of immigrants can find home in joint confusion, curiosity and culinary explorations. They produce recipe booklets, printed artwork and small batch treats.
@remaining.foreign
Sebastien Sunstrum makes social SF comics and artwork, with a focus on the clothing and machinery of the future working class.
@ssunstrum
Based in Tiohtià:ke // Montréal, “Canada”, Sheer Spite is a transsexual-run, anti-ableist, pro-Palestine very small press and zine distro, with a focus on publishing and distributing beautiful, affordable, useful, generous, political, funny, heart-filled books + zines. You can expect to see work on friendship, grief, activism, sex, mental illness, and staying creative and caring in a world on fire.
@sheerspite
Small Sword Press are a fly-by-night Toronto thieve's guild, sneaking riso studio access to make books off-the-books. Our desperate missives are pure play. Formal/Poet/Ambience. Life force is in the hand.
@coldnachos
Some Print Studio is a printing and design studio specializing in Risograph printing and small-scale publishing services. Run by artists Howsem Huang and Kori Zhang, Some Print serves the local community and supports those interested in Risograph and self-publishing. Our expertise includes Riso photo prints, zines, and artists' book design.
@someprintstudio
Le Lin is a trans Teochew-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and researcher based in Tiohtià:ke, Montréal. Most of their recent works have been silk-screen or risograph-printed artist books, always pushing the boundaries of traditional books. Le Lin is a firm believer in mobilizing art as a tool of resistance, instigating acts of vulnerability, and channels to uplift one another. He currently resides in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal and is the Risograph Coordinator at Atelier Circulaire, where he teaches risograph and bookbinding classes.
@spicybaby.jpg
Susan Mills is a conceptual artist and poet working in book form. Her books are small editions of 1-100, made without the use of a printing press and often incorporating her own paper, paint, ink and dye.The books are closer to chapbooks than zines and are presented in galleries as well as on book shelves. Her work often addresses the natural world and climate change.
@minettaln
Teh Studio, an interdisciplinary production space with a particular love for craft and form, collaboration and dialogue. Teh Studio moves in the spirit of slowness and stillness, exploring bodied processes of art-making through iterative and durational creation.
@tehstudio.byj
Vide Press is a Risograph print studio located in downtown Toronto, owned and operated by musician and designer Quentin Mitchell. We specialize in producing publications and zines, posters and promotional materials, and work with some incredible artists, illustrators, designers, musicians, students, small press publishers, galleries and independent businesses across Canada. Through Vide Press, Quentin has established himself as a vital member of the independent publishing and Risograph community and is proud to work closely with other Canadian Riso studios.
@videpress
Through a multi-disciplinary practice of image-making, installation, and written word, Yuki Kéké Tam (she/they) examines everyday tasks and objects, proposing that even the most ordinary rituals can tell profound stories of resilience. Using printmaking, painting, ceramics, and artist books, they employ play, pastiche, and vulnerability to stage interventions and express acts of care in spite of social precarity. They are drawn towards depicting domestic spaces, using charms, games, plants, and food to speak to their lived experience in the Cantonese diaspora.
@yukitam_