2025 University of Toronto Shelley Peterson Student Art Exhibition

The University of Toronto Shelley Peterson Student Art Exhibition is an annual exhibition celebrating the diverse artistic excellence of undergraduate students enrolled in visual studies programs from across the University of Toronto’s three campuses. The exhibition offers current students the opportunity to present their work in a curated exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.

The ten students included in the 2025 Shelley Peterson Student Art Exhibition were selected from over 200 applications. The works are diverse in media and approach, though certain themes emerge from the constellation of selected works. In particular, the majority of the works in this exhibition employ an element of fabulation and fictive strategies. Some works use digital strategies of modelling and design to recreate familiar spaces with uncanny perspectives, while others use narrative to create impressions of spaces that do not yet exist.

Three students have been awarded by our external juror, independent curator Kate Wong. She has selected Leo Dong Yiliang, Alice Niu, and Abdal-Rahman Mohammed on the basis of their artistic excellence. We warmly congratulate these three students on their achievements.

The exhibition is guest curated by Kate Whiteway, Assistant Curator at The Vega Foundation and Associate Director of Franz Kaka.