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Mike Longley

Artist member since 2023
Toronto, ON

My photographic work centres on street and environmental portraiture. Inspired by Edward Hopper and Harold Feinstein, I think through the lens of a cinematographer, and work with minimal colour palettes, or black and white.

The work plays with patterns, stories, and the timeless nature of metropolitan life.

My abstract pieces merge mixed-media and portraiture, fragmented and anonymized through distortion and pixellation layered with the visual language of lines, patterns, fissures and textures, before being reconstructed into new forms.

Prints are generally available in three different sizes, with open and limited editions.

Limited editions run between three and fifteen, and are numbered and signed on border, unless otherwise requested.

Please inquire about unlisted sizes and/or custom.

All limited editions are printed on Hahnemüehle FineArt Baryta Satin.

Metal Prints are on Chromaluxe HD

Open Editions (unless otherwise mentioned) are printed on matte fineart paper.


Work


Q+A

Best season of the year in Toronto

Fall

I'm really good at making (a) ...

Confused faces...

Favourite artist(s) right now

Hopper

How long have you been creating art?

15 years

Favourite medium

Photography

Coffees per day and from where

Three, at home, to cope with reading the news...

Upcoming Exhibitions
2025-01-08

Leslie Grove Gallery, Toronto
Big Holiday Smalls Show

Select Past Exhibitions

Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga
Juried Show of Visual Arts

Aird Gallery, Toronto
Collage Group Show

Aird Gallery, Toronto
Rainbow Cinematic Group Show

Accolades
2022

LensCulture.com
Editor's Pick

2020

LensCulture.com
Editor's Pick

2025

Minimalist Photography Awards
Honourable Mention

Education
2022

OCADu
Portrait Photography

2008

George Brown
Digital Photography

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