2025 University of Toronto MVS Studio Program Graduating Exhibition

The Art Museum, in partnership with the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, is pleased to exhibit the graduating projects of the 2025 Master of Visual Studies graduate students Justyna Janik, Lauren Warrington, and Lina Wu.

This exhibition is produced as part of the requirements for the MVS Studio degree in Visual Studies at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto.

Please note: This exhibit contains lighting contrasts that may affect visitors with photosensitivity, epilepsy, or other light-triggered conditions. Viewer discretion may be advised. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to connect with us at [email protected] or call 416-978-8398.

Justyna Janik is a cross-disciplinary artist based in Toronto. Her practice, spanning painting, sculpture, and video, explores the human body in relation to historical, social, and political contexts. Through the integration of disparate imagery and materials, she relies on randomness and chance to underscore the body’s vulnerability and fluidity. A current Master of Visual Studies candidate at the University of Toronto, she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science from the University of Toronto.

Lauren Warrington is an artist from Saskatoon who works with sculpture and digital space. Her work is grounded in her experiences as a “mixed race” Chinese Canadian on the prairies and involves recontextualizing inherited histories into digital and physical forms. Through her practice, she reflects on embodied memory, oral histories, and ancestor rituals to consider what exists between assimilation and diaspora, between forgetting and remembering.

Lina Wu is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. Currently she works in figurative drawing, zines, and cartooning. Lina is invested in finding and unravelling the paradoxes inherent in constructions of sexuality, desire, and identity.