2025 Emerging Digital Artists Award Exhibition
2025 EDAA Exhibition
January 7 – 31, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 8, 6 – 9pm
Gallery TPW, Toronto
Featuring works by 2025 EDAA recipients:
Alex Gibson
Cadin Londono
Eva Grant
Kahani Ploessl
Laura Caraballo
The Emerging Digital Artists Award (EDAA) is an annual celebration of creativity and experimentation in digital media. Now in its 11th year, the prize recognizes the exceptional talents of emerging artists in Canada working at the forefront of the genre, highlighting the dynamic ways in which digital tools and technologies expand artistic practice.
This year’s exhibition presents the work of five remarkable artists that embrace the limitless nature of digital media, whether uncovering new possibilities for our physical bodies, revitalizing artforms that connect across cultures and geographies, honouring connections to “home” amidst feelings of dislocation, or employing glitch as a necessary tool for spiritual transformation. As recipients of the 2025 prize, each artist pushes the boundaries of their distinct medium, including still image, animation, game art, extended reality, and installation. Together, their works offer a snapshot of our current moment, including what to hold on to from the past and what to alter, shift, or destroy to move thoughtfully into the future.
2025 EDAA recipients Cadin Londono (Mariana Chajon Oliveros), Eva Grant, Alex Gibson (Jonah Bayley), Kahani (कहानी) Ploessl (Zoe Mar), and Laura Caraballo
Artist Biographies:
Alex Gibson is a Barbadian Canadian interdisciplinary artist based on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC). They use images and archives as sites to examine queer spaces, temporalities, and architectures. Gibson holds an MFA from UBC, and their work has been exhibited in Barbados, Canada, Italy, Poland, and the United States.
Cadin Londono is a Colombian game developer born in Medellin, Colombia and based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). His interest in coding began from a young age, watching his father code his own games in his free time. Cadin released his first video game at age eighteen and is now busy creating videogames that look at life through an anticolonial lens. He holds a BA from McGill University with a major in Computer Science and a minor in Philosophy.
Eva Grant is a St̓át̓imc-Eurasian filmmaker, writer and artist based in BC whose work is grounded in archive, interface, and ecology. She has held fellowships and residencies through the Sundance Institute, imagineNATIVE, Artengine, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. A technological Trickster of the Indigital realm, she prototypes near-worlds, capacious futures, and their imagined implements. She studied philosophy and literature at Stanford University and is the founder of Tooth & Nail Pictures.
Kahani (कहानी) Ploessl is a dimension-bending tech artist based in Markham, ON. Her work in generative, videogame, and installation art explores notions of the glitch and digital spiritualism. Guided by her Indian heritage, Kahani draws parallels between the cosmic philosophy of Hinduism and the pixelated manifestations of digital realms and avatar bodies. Her work considers the glitch as a purposeful gesture that can push our digital experiences away from their current structures and functions into experimental and transformative models for being.
Laura Caraballo is an interdisciplinary artist born in Bacatá (Bogotá) and based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Her work uses technology to reimagine and create interactive, sensorial physical and virtual spaces that revisit the past and question its role in shaping Latinx futurist aesthetics and narratives. Laura is particularly interested in how we shape, and are shaped by, the spaces we inhabit within a temporal context, while exploring themes of home, memory, and consciousness.
About EQ Bank:
EQ Bank is the digital banking platform launched in 2016 by Equitable Bank, Canada’s Challenger Bank™. As a future-ready financial institution, fostering innovation is at the heart of everything we do. We firmly believe in the benefits of open banking and continue to invest in technology to serve the changing financial needs of Canadians.
About Gallery TPW:
Gallery TPW is a leading artist-run centre dedicated to exhibiting underrepresented artistic and curatorial practices that push the boundaries of lens-based work. Since its formation in 1977, Gallery TPW (originally Toronto Photographers Workshop) has evolved alongside changes in the production, distribution and perception of photography, film and video. Our diverse roster of exhibitions, screenings, performances, commissioned writing, and public programs expands awareness of the vital role that images play in contemporary culture.
Gallery TPW
170 St. Helens Ave
Toronto, ON, M6H 4A1
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Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm
Gallery TPW is an accessible venue with ramp access, an accessible ground-floor washroom, and clear, unobstructed pathways within the gallery. Please note that there are no automatic doors at the entrance and no designated accessible parking nearby.
Contact: edaa@eqbank.ca
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