SHARON NORWOOD Sharon Norwood is a Jamaican born, Canadian artist from Toronto Canada. Her work spans several media to include painting and ceramic. Norwood received a BFA in Painting from the University of South Florida and an MFA in studio Art from Florida State University. Sharon has exhibited in Canada, the United States, Jamaica, Korea …
NUVEEN BARWARI Nuveen Barwari was born in Nashville, TN and spent her adolescent years living and attending school in Duhok, Kurdistan. Barwari received a Bachelor of Science in Studio Art from Tennessee State University in 2019 and a Master’s in Fine Arts from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2022. Barwari’s expansive practice includes installations; …
NILOOFAR KASBI Niloofar Kasbi born in 1987, lives and works in Tehran, Iran.Kasbi is an artist and educator whose impressive, elaborate drawing practice represents humanity’s fragile relationship between man and his surroundings. Mainly she uses a traditional Iranian art form of monochromatic ink drawing called Siyäh-Qalam, meaning “black pen” in delicately rendered landscapes, Kasbi research …
NATIA LEMAY Natia Lemay (b. 1985 in Toronto, Ontario) is an Afro-indigenous artist and curator of Black, Mi’kmaw, and French descent. Raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in government housing by her mother Louise Lemay, she spent time between her mother and her Father, Albert Carty. He was a black Mi’kmaw Soap Stone sculpture from New Brunswick, …
NADINE FARAJ Nadine Faraj’s watercolours reveal raw humor, tenderness and soul. She paints portraits and sexualized figures in varying degrees of abstraction. Her fluid style allows her figures to emerge as intensely psychological and emotional beings, with a full sense of their humanity. In 2015-16 she interrupted work on her typically oneiric series to focus …
MALLORY LOWE MPOKA Mallory Lowe Mpoka is a Cameroonian Belgian visual artist who works between Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal) and Douala. Her practice draws on archival photographs and personal experiences and examines how individuals navigate places, continually reconsidering the nature of identity and belonging. Her use of photography, textile, collage,s and screen printing refers to reality between …
SUKAINA KUBBA Sukaina Kubba is a Toronto-based artist with a multi-disciplinary and material-based practice. Her work is strongly rooted in material and cultural research, story-telling, drawing and drawing connections.She works with industrial materials in their capacity as signifiers and concrete indices, and investigates their place in painting, drawing, architecture, craft and digital practices. Kubba has …
DIYAR MAYIL Diyar Mayil is an artist working in sculpture, installation and performance. Comfort, discomfort, adaptation, and the acceptance of different bodies in both public and private are recurring subjects in her practice. Her work has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts de Montréal and has recently been shown at …
MAHSA MERCI Mahsa Merci, born in 1990 in Tehran, Iran, holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from Tehran University of Art and a Master of Painting from Azad University in Iran. She recently graduated from the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Merci has exhibited her works …
ALIZE ZORLUTUNA WORKS Alize Zorlutuna is a queer interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator whose work explores relationships to land, culture and the more-than-human, while thinking through history, ancestral wisdom and healing. Having moved between Tkarón:to and Anatolia (present-day Turkey) both physically and culturally throughout their life has informed Alize’s practice—making them attentive to spaces of …
