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Laleh is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores ancestral ritual, ecological grief, diasporic memory, and cultural resilience.she approaches art as a form of environmental stewardship and living cultural archive. She graduated with her MFA...
Asma Sultana is a Bangladeshi-British interdisciplinary artist and an MFA candidate at York University, where her research is supported by a SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship. Her practice employs hair and thumbprints as primary mediums to...
Bisma Jay is a queer Punjabi visual artist based in Toronto. Jay’s work delves into the intersection of identity, socio-economic issues, and cultural narratives. Through their art, Jay aims to elevate and create nuanced representation...
Elsa Hashemi is a Persian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Toronto. Her practice critically investigates the intersections of language, memory, and the physical body. Her "research-creation" methodology, which explores the complexities of dislocation and...
Jenny (Hyemin) Kim (she/her) is a mixed-media artist based in Tkaronto (Toronto, Canada). Born in Korea, raised in the Philippines, and now working in Canada, her practice explores diasporic identity, intersectionality, and critical race through...
Adriane Vant Erve (née Kozicki) is a fibre and mixed media artist from the Canadian prairies. Her work focuses on themes of the domestic, the body, emotion, and abstraction. She often makes use of repeating...
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Student Testimonials
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