The Art Museum, in partnership with the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, is pleased to present the graduating projects of the 2026 Master of Visual Studies graduate students Helio Eudoro, Rita Ferrando, Pamila Matharu, and Cullen Ritchie.

These exhibitions are 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.

Helio Eudoro (b. 1965) is a Brazilian-Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. Working across photography, sculpture, video, painting, installation, and performance, his practice employs discarded belongings to reimagine selfhood, queerness, illness, aging, diaspora, and spirituality. He holds a BFA with Honours from OCAD University and is currently a candidate for the Master of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto. Eudoro is the recipient of the 2022 Carmen Lamanna Award, the 2023 Toronto Arts Foundation Space Award, and the 2020 RBC Newcomer Arts Award, among other honours. His work is held in public and private collections and has been exhibited at major museums and international festivals across Canada, Brazil, and the United States, including the Museu Oscar Niemeyer, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and Luminato Festival.

Rita Ferrando is a Canadian-Argentinian writer and filmmaker whose work spans experimental and narrative forms. Central to her practice are explorations surrounding worldmaking, collective processes, and desire as a site of transformation. She holds a BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University and is a candidate in the Master of Visual Studies program at the University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty (2026). Her recent films have been presented internationally at film festivals and institutions, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Toronto International Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives (New York), the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, the Beijing International Film Festival, True/False (Columbia), the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal), 25 FPS (Zagreb), Centre A (Vancouver), the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (San Francisco) and the Clemente Center (New York).

Pamila Matharu is a visual artist, cultural producer and educator. A settler of Panjabi Sikh descent, they were born in Birmingham, England, and raised in Tkarón:to (Toronto) and they now live between Tkarón:to and London, England. Their practice explores a range of transdisciplinary feminist issues through a multimedia approach that combines object-based art installation, collage, analog & new media art, organizing, social practice, and, more recently, somatics. They hold a BA and a BEd from York University (2002) and are currently completing their Master of Visual Studies in Studio Art at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.

Cullen Ritchie is an artist from rural Ontario currently operating in Toronto. His work is influenced by experimental cinema and his own infatuation with technological archaeology, as well as, by extension, the preservation of technical histories. A key aspect of their commitment to analog film technologies is their belief in the importance of the right to repair and the renewal of skilled labour. He holds an honours BFA from Toronto Metropolitan University and is a Master of Visual Studies candidate at the University of Toronto.

Opening Reception

Thursday, April 30, 6pm–8pm
Architecture + Design Gallery
Daniels Building, 1 Spadina Crescent

Our Supporters

We gratefully acknowledge project support from The Valerie Jean Griffiths Student Exhibitions Fund in Memory of William, Elva, and Elizabeth.

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Images, clockwise from top left: Cullen Ritchie, Half Mile, 2026, video still, 16mm film print, digitized, 02:30 mins, looping, image courtesy of the artist; Pamila Matharu, Untitled 2, 2025, colour photograph, variable dimensions, image courtesy of the artist; Rita Ferrando, Modern Nature, 2026, film still, 1.33:1, colour, image courtesy of the artist; Helio Eudoro, Shrine, 2026, assemblage (detail), 30″ x 28″ x 24″, image courtesy of the artist.