KALMPLEX
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
www.kalmplex.com
@kalmplex
Email: dreadedstar@gmail.com
Multidisciplinary Visual Artist
Painting · Photography · Video · Archival Practice · Installation · Community Engaged Work
EDUCATION
Ontario College of Art and Design University OCADU, Toronto
Fine Arts Drawing and Painting, 1999 to 2001
York University, Toronto
Fine Arts Drawing and Painting, 1996 to 1998
ARTIST STATEMENT
Kalmplex is a Toronto based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, photography, and video. For more than two decades, the artist has documented Toronto’s cultural life, particularly its music, nightlife, and grassroots creative communities, building an expansive photographic and moving image archive that functions as an alternative urban history.
This long term archive informs a studio practice centered on large scale portraiture, lens based installation, and moving image works that expand archival material into immersive exhibition environments. Through painting and time based media, Kalmplex explores identity, memory, and cultural presence, positioning artist led archives as living forms of public memory.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Koffler 301, Toronto
2025
Toronto Time Capsule, Contact Photography Festival Open Call, Space Unltd, Toronto
A Kalmplex Ting, She Said Gallery, Toronto
2015 to 2019 Selected
Blacklisted, DBeatstro, Toronto
Solo exhibitions, Antikka Café, Toronto
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Elements of Freedom Our Choice of Weapon, Todmorden Mills Papermill Gallery, Toronto
In What We Carry We Become, The Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism presented by The 519, Toronto
Front Space, Toronto
2024
Contact Photography Festival, Goethe Institut, Toronto
Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
Emancipation, Worth Gallery, Toronto
Art Vessel Projects Residency Exhibition, Tru Tattoo Shop, Toronto
2023
Reminisce Over You, Contxt by Trane, Toronto
Present Senses, Of Sorts Studio, Toronto
Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto
RESIDENCIES
2026
Gladstone Hotel Artist Residency, Toronto
2023 to 2024
Inaugural Artist in Residence, Art Vessel Projects, Toronto
GRANTS
Ontario Arts Council
Exhibition Assistance
ARCHIVAL PROJECT
Toronto Time Capsule, 2000 to present
Long term photographic and video archive documenting Toronto’s arts, music, and community ecosystems
SELECTED RECOGNITION
Portrait by Zanele Muholi featured in The Culture, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2024 to 2025
