Grace Vali is a multidisciplinary illustrator based in Toronto and Mississauga. She recently graduated from OCAD University with a BDes in Illustration. She conjures images and stories that carry socio political themes that are synthesized with humour and surrealist aesthetics. Grace primarily uses analogue media as she enjoys the challenge of working with a variety of materials to create complex visual narratives. She has a passion for constructing quality artworks and continues to pursue thought-provoking messages about human existence and societal topics.
Grace welcomes personal commissions, freelance, commercial, editorial, and publishing work.
Selected Exhibitions and Events
Group Exhibitions
2025 Small Pleasures: A Show of Small Works, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Weeks of Vengeance: Ethereal Doom , Youthful Vengeance Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Flora & Fauna, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2024 Why do you Create? VAM’s juried exhibition, White Studio gallery at Visual Arts Mississauga, ON.
New Vista's Echoes of Home (Pg. 21), Etobicoke Civic Centre Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Between Ashes and Dreams (Pg. 39 - 40), Great Hall at OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
GradEx 109 , annual graduate exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto.
Major Works: OCADU Illustrative Painting Exhibition, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto.
2016 - 2020 Springfest Visual Arts Showcase, Cawthra Park S.S., Mississauga, ON.
Markets and Fairs
2025 OCADU Spring Artist Alley, OCAD University, Toronto, ON.
2024 City of Craft's Zine Market, The BMO Incubator Theatre at The Theatre Centre, Toronto, ON.
Critical Distance’s Turning Tables: Art Book and Publication Fair, 401 Richmond, Toronto, ON.
Conduction: GradEx 109 x Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON.
Toronto Comic Arts Festival, Table Participant, Reference Library, Toronto.
Press
2024 Artoronto , GradEx109 at OCAD U
Artist Talks/Speaking Engagements
2025 Small Pleasures Artist Talk, Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, ON.