Alastair is an artist and designer whose practice moves fluidly across sculpture, photography, and design. Trained in furniture and fabrication at Sheridan College before completing his BFA in Sculpture and Installation at OCAD University, Martin approaches artmaking intuitively through materiality and process. His work explores the space between documentation and intervention, where photographs and found objects that begin as records of the landscape evolve into constructed forms.
Select works available through Ninth Editions. Martin has also worked with Doner Turrin, Studio Little Red, Lio Projects, and Studio Alvo.
Alastair Martin
(b.1988) Bangkok, Thailand
Working in Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada
Email: alastairfmartin@gmail.com
Instagram: @alastair_martin
Education
2017 - BFA - Sculpture & Installation: Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto
2011 - Advanced Diploma: Furniture Craft & Design, Sheridan College, Oakville
Solo Exhibitions
2025 - Caesura, Hunt Gallery, Toronto
2021 - Old Forms / New Designs, Made Design, DesignTO, Toronto
2017 - Tacit Bodies, Abbozzo Gallery, 401 Richmond, Toronto
Group Exhibitions
2024 - Double Entendre, Montreal
2024 - Face/Waste, Steelcase Art Projects, Toronto
2022 - Libations for Liberated Living, The Plumb, Toronto
2020 - Themselves, Stackt Market, DesignTO, curated by Thethethe, Toronto
2019 - The Yard, Private exhibition curated by Thethethe, Toronto
2017 - Peinture Fraîche et Nouvelle Construction (13e édition), Art Mur, Montreal
2017 - OCADU Graduate Exhibition (102nd), Toronto
2017 - 50th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Sheridan College, Oakville
2017 - Art and Martinis, private exhibition curated for Gowling WLG, Toronto
2016 - Tables, Chairs, and Other Unrelated Objects 5, OCADU Student Gallery, Toronto
2015 - 30 Under 30, Curated by Gary Michael Dault, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2015 - Exhibit A (Life), OCADU Student Gallery, Toronto
2011 - The Shape of Things, Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto
Awards
2017 - Haydn Davies Memorial Award
2015 - Sully Corth Memorial Fund Sculpture Scholarship
2011 - Betty Kantor Silent Night Award for Excellence in Furniture Design
Press
2017 - Designlinesmagazine.com - Eric Mutrie
2016 - Metalmagazine.eu - Adriana Barreno
Select works available through Ninth Editions. Martin has also worked with Doner Turrin, Studio Little Red, Lio Projects, and Studio Alvo.
CV
(b.1988) Bangkok, Thailand
Working in Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada
Email: alastairfmartin@gmail.com
Instagram: @alastair_martin
Education
2017 - BFA - Sculpture & Installation: Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto
2011 - Advanced Diploma: Furniture Craft & Design, Sheridan College, Oakville
Solo Exhibitions
2025 - Caesura, Hunt Gallery, Toronto
2021 - Old Forms / New Designs, Made Design, DesignTO, Toronto
2017 - Tacit Bodies, Abbozzo Gallery, 401 Richmond, Toronto
Group Exhibitions
2024 - Double Entendre, Montreal
2024 - Face/Waste, Steelcase Art Projects, Toronto
2022 - Libations for Liberated Living, The Plumb, Toronto
2020 - Themselves, Stackt Market, DesignTO, curated by Thethethe, Toronto
2019 - The Yard, Private exhibition curated by Thethethe, Toronto
2017 - Peinture Fraîche et Nouvelle Construction (13e édition), Art Mur, Montreal
2017 - OCADU Graduate Exhibition (102nd), Toronto
2017 - 50th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Sheridan College, Oakville
2017 - Art and Martinis, private exhibition curated for Gowling WLG, Toronto
2016 - Tables, Chairs, and Other Unrelated Objects 5, OCADU Student Gallery, Toronto
2015 - 30 Under 30, Curated by Gary Michael Dault, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2015 - Exhibit A (Life), OCADU Student Gallery, Toronto
2011 - The Shape of Things, Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto
Awards
2017 - Haydn Davies Memorial Award
2015 - Sully Corth Memorial Fund Sculpture Scholarship
2011 - Betty Kantor Silent Night Award for Excellence in Furniture Design
Press
2017 - Designlinesmagazine.com - Eric Mutrie
2016 - Metalmagazine.eu - Adriana Barreno