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Category: All Years

Insoon-Ha

A portrait of a woman with dark hair is layered over a similar portrait, with the top image torn to reveal her face beneath, evoking shifting borders and creating a surreal, double-exposure effect. The edges of the tear are rough and uneven.

Artist Biography: Insoon Ha’s work explores colonialism, hybridity, and the abject through installations that invite reflection and challenge assumptions. Drawing on her own and shared histories, she examines how identity, power, and violence intertwine.  Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Art Gallery of Guelph; the Whanki Museum in Seoul, Korea; La Centrale […]

Tara Bursey

Portrait of Tara Bursey with dark hair and glasses wearing a denim jacket, standing beside a stone wall with a heritage plaque

Artist Biography: Tara Bursey is an interdisciplinary artist, self-publisher and arts worker. She has worked as Curatorial Assistant at the Textile Museum of Canada and Artscape Youngplace, and in a curatorial capacity for Hamilton Supercrawl, Craft Ontario, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Art Gallery of Burlington, and the Wychwood Barns Community Association. Her artwork has […]

Rebecca Casalino

Rebecca Casalino, with short curly hair, glasses, and over-ear headphones, sits at a desk with a microphone, computer, and lamp, smiling and waving at the camera in the Media Arts Studio.

Artist Biography: Rebecca Casalino is an artist, writer and curator based in Hamilton, Ontario. She is a queer Italian-Canadian settler, maintaining her practices through deeply personal collaborations in her community and sheer willpower. Using feminist, crip and queer sensibilities, Casalino’s work is semi-autobiographical, employing nostalgia and humour to describe the circumstances around her. Her writing […]

Brenda Mabel Reid

A Centre[3] resident artist in a blue jacket and grey cap uses a camera on a tripod to capture a photo in a snowy, open field beneath cloudy skies.

Artist Biography: Brenda Mabel Reid (they/she) is an emerging artist and designer based in Kitchener. Their practice includes textiles, sculpture, printmaking and installation. They currently work out of their studio at the KW Artist’s Co-op where Brenda’s practice explores ideas around care politics, community and architecture. They regularly engage textiles as a medium to explore […]

Ness Lee

Composite artwork of a photographic portrait of Ness Lee surrounded by illustrated figures, set against a surreal, colourful landscape background

Artist Biography: Ness Lee draws upon personal history and narratives of their diasporic cultural upbringing and identity to their body, language and sexuality. With these embodied experiences, Lee creates tender and surreal illustrations, paintings, sculptures and installations as a language of self-discovery and acceptance. Exploring various states of mind during intimate stages of vulnerability, Lee’s […]

Jill Letten

Textile artwork with layered orange, green, and cream fabrics framing a painted face looking forward

Artist Biography: Jill Letten is an artist from Hamilton, Ontario, accredited with a BFA from McMaster University’s Studio Arts program. She is a contemporary realist painter creating acrylic paintings that visualize realistic, and sometimes surrealistic, environments. The word ‘anemoia’ has become a term of interest, defined as “a nostalgic sense of longing for a past you […]

Emma Enright

Emma Enright in a white outfit walks through a softly lit room carrying two framed artworks, with light streaming across the floor

Artist Biography: Emma Enright is a textile artist and designer from Dundas, Ontario. Her current series of work investigates the materiality of textiles with a specific emphasis on weaving. Emma has received her Bachelor of Design, with a major in textiles from Ontario College of Art and Design University and has been exhibiting her work within […]

Black Artists Union Collective

Four people stand close together smiling at the camera with arms around each other against a plain wall

Artist Biographies: Black Artists Union Collective (BAU) is an artist collective supporting and facilitating the movement of Black artists and creatives. Jemini Baptiste is a multi medium experimental art maker based in Toronto. They create in many forms to satisfy the yearn of their energetic and emotional psyche. Their work explores themes of passion, curiosity, anger, […]

Aichoucha Haidara

Portrait of a person wearing a striped woven textile draped over her head and shoulders, holding the fabric close; soft lighting creates a faint double exposure effect against a pale background

Artist Biography: Aichoucha Haidara is a multidisciplinary artist from Timbuktu, currently based in Hamilton, ON. Through different mediums, she transports her inner worlds to the outside, with a primary focus on textile design and construction. She is inspired by African mythology and concepts to guide her work, conducting research that has allowed her to stay connected […]

Venus Underhill

Venus Underhill with short red hair wearing a face mask and a patchwork denim jacket sits against a plain background, looking upward

Artist Biography: A poet at their core, Venus Underhill is a multi disciplinary artist with a current fixation on thread bound zines and collage work as labours of love attune to the slow repetitions of learning to care for oneself. Utilizing creation as a form of transmutation to give their intense, often intangible emotions form; their work explores […]

Kareem-Anthony Ferreira

Artist Kareem-Anthony Ferreira stands at a work table holding a paintbrush, with large figurative paintings on fabric hanging behind them

Artist Biography: Kareem-Anthony Ferreira (b. 1989 in Hamilton, Ontario; lives and works in Hamilton, Ontario) completed his BFA at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 2012 and his MFA at the University of Arizona in 2020.  Ferreira recently had a solo exhibition at Nino Mier Gallery, Glassell Park and has exhibited works at Johannes Vogt Gallery, […]

Olivia Brouwer

Portrait of Olivia Brouwer holding a sculptural arrangement of white paper-like forms beside their face

Artist Biography: Olivia Brouwer is an interdisciplinary artist holding a BFA from the Art and Art History joint program at the University of Toronto and Sheridan College. As a partially blind artist, Brouwer explores the idea of blindness through painting, printmaking and sculpture, melding organic and geometric abstraction with scenes inspired by natural organisms and spiritual […]