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Featuring six Remix alumni artists, the exhibition celebrates creativity, identity, and community.
Yorkdale’s partnership with The Remix Project for this special Pride Month public art installation celebrates creativity, identity, and community. Featuring the work of six talented Remix alumni artists, the exhibition highlights diverse perspectives that reflect the richness of Toronto’s creative culture.
Throughout the month, we’ll be sharing weekly artist spotlights on Yorkdale’s Instagram, offering a closer look at each artist’s story, inspiration, and creative practice. We’re proud to showcase these works as a platform for visibility, connection, and the amplification of emerging artistic voices.
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Amaiah Alexis
Absolute Prismatic Melodies Capered in Harmony
My art embodies the inner radiance within our souls. I inhabit queer identity through self-expression by using vibrant colours and patterns to depict evolving emotions. I illustrate to speak on our community, valuing every milestone and accomplishment made along the way. I strive to prioritize resistance for LGBTQIA2S+ folks and encapsulate the fluidity of art. It’s an honour to hold space among fellow artists with pride.
Amaiah Alexis is a 20-year-old Toronto-born and raised artist whose practice focuses on heritage, working across traditional and digital media, textiles, and music to explore creative freedom within communities.
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Ísa Rocha
You, In Every Lifetime.
Inspired by a conversation, this piece recreates a moment where the weight of the love I feel for my partner enveloped me completely. The wedding ring depicts a wish for a forever where her hand remains on my thigh, providing the steadiness that has become the norm in my life since we’ve been together. The Persian rug, identical to the one in our shared home, represents E’s Iranian roots and is used to weave her into the worlds that I create.
This artwork is “A love letter to E.”
Ísa is a 3D artist and designer with an insatiable sense of curiousity. She aims to create work that lets people into her world— one where nature, tradition and technology co-exist.
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Jada Peters
Lost In The Hour
Lost in the Hour is a visual reflection on curiosity, identity, and experiencing Pride for the first time. The artwork captures the feeling of stepping into a new space, and mirrors the internal shift from quiet curiosity to full visibility. It is about new beginnings, exploring your sexuality, and finding yourself completely immersed in a new community on your own terms.
Jada is a multidisciplinary designer behind January Hours, her own independent design studio. Inspired by fashion, pop culture, and community storytelling, she blends narrative with aesthetics through branding and websites. Her work focuses entirely on building connection, creating meaningful visuals that uplift and resonate with her community.
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Lakia Sage
How To Be Bi
How To Be Bi explores the pressure placed on bisexual people to prove or perform their identity for others. Using humour and exaggerated instructional language, the illustration eflects on the experience of being seen as “not queer enough” based on appearance, relationships, or self-expression. The work rejects rigid expectations around sexuality and identity, reminding viewers that there is no correct way to be bisexual — you are already enough as you are.
Lakia Sage is a Toronto-based illustrator and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores girlhood, intimacy, identity, and internet culture through comics, animation, and installation. Blending humour with emotionally driven storytelling, her practice draws inspiration from beauty culture, romance, and contemporary youth experiences. Her work has included collaborations with Amazon Music and ArtworxTO, alongside independent comic and gallery projects throughout Toronto.
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Mark Emery
Overgrown
Outside of the confines of others, without being required to define yourself in language or in context, how whole can you be? The land doesn’t respond to gender or bar access to those who move outside of its confines, it holds space without asking questions, and without demanding answers. Respect does not require understanding, just acceptance.
Mark is a Scarborough-born visual artist, designer, and yoga instructor whose work moves between creation, direction, reflection, and instruction. A common thread is the pace, which follows slow, deliberate movement and dwells in memories, appreciates the inevitable decay, and explores time outside of linear constraints.
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Micah Domingo
TAKE OFF / 333
The work reflects the act of taking a leap of faith despite not knowing where you will land. Captures the feeling of giving yourself fully to a connection while accepting the possibility of loss. “333” is about forward movement and a reminder that even through uncertainty, you are still moving in alignment.
Micah Domingo is a designer who creates neo-futuristic inspired environments, abstract forms, and ethereal human-like figures that blend beauty with unease. She explores the contrast between the organic and the mechanical. Her work often reflects themes of transformation, emotion, and the balance between fragility and power.
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