The Power Plant

Power Ball 2026 Major Artist Projects

This year’s Power Ball theme, The 7-Year Itch, embraces the thrill of what comes next. It marks a moment of reinvention, celebrating curiosity and creative energy. We invite you to move through participatory interventions, performances, and unexpected encounters that ignite the gallery for one night only.

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Rah Eleh

Iranian-Canadian multimedia artist Rah Eleh earned her doctoral degree from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Fiminco Foundation in Paris. She has exhibited her work at the National Museum of Oslo (Norway), Venice Biennale (Palazzo Mora), Art Basel (Switzerland), Cairotronica (Egypt), Kunsthalle Vienna, Vögele Kultur Zentrum (Switzerland), Cable Factory (Finland), Juno Awards, Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Williams College Museum of Art (Massachusetts), Onassis Cultural Center (Greece), amongst others. She has upcoming exhibitions at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Berlin and in Hong Kong. Rah Eleh is represented by de Montigny Contemporary and Vtape video distribution.

Ella Gonzales

Ella Gonzales is a Filipina Canadian artist working between painting and Computer-Aided Design programs. She has recently exhibited at YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto (2025); Mercer Union, Toronto (2025); Unit 17, Vancouver (2024); grunt gallery, Vancouver (2024); The Power Plant, Toronto (2023); and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2022). In 2025, she was a resident artist at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York City. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Western University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Guelph. Gonzales is represented by Unit 17, Vancouver.

Sami Tsang

Sami Tsang (b. 1997, Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is a Toronto-based ceramic and mixed-media artist whose practice explores hybrid figures, cultural inheritance, migration, and personal narratives shaped by the tensions between Chinese and Western cultural expectations. Tsang studied traditional Chinese painting for seven years in Hong Kong, a foundation that continues to inform her visual language and material approach. She earned a BA in Craft & Design from Sheridan College (2019) and an MFA in Ceramics from Alfred University (2021). From 2021 to 2025, she was an Artist-in-Residence in Ceramics at Harbourfront Centre in Toronto. Her practice has been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, the United States, and China, including Cooper Cole Gallery (Toronto), Claire Oliver Gallery (New York), AYE Gallery (Beijing), The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Gardiner Museum, Sculpture Space NYC, Art Toronto, Plural (Montreal), NADA Miami, and EXPO Chicago. Tsang is the recipient of the 25th Annual Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics, and her work is held in the collections of the Gardiner Museum, the North Dakota Museum of Art, Collection Majudia, and numerous private collections. She currently works from her independent studio in Toronto.