OCAD U 150. Growing with Canada since 1876.

For over 150 years, OCAD University has grown alongside Canada, both shaping the country’s evolution and being shaped by it. Since opening as the Ontario School of Art in 1876, just nine years after Confederation, our artists, designers and innovators have helped define how the nation sees itself and how the world sees Canada. From the Group of Seven to pioneers of digital art and the technologies reshaping our future, this is the story of a school and a country evolving together—and of the people who have helped shape what comes next. Explore 150 years of OCAD U.