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.
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
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Accolades
2022
2020
2025
Education
2022
2008
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