Xi Jin Xi Jin (she/her) grew up in the heart of Beijing, China, and spent a decade in Canada studying and living. From an early age, she would experiment with different mediums, which would mold her interest in art as it was... Read Bio 2021/2022
Kev Liang Artist Biography Kev Liang is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Edmonton, AB, Treaty 6 territory, and is originally from secluded rural Alberta. After graduating in June 2021 with his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction in Intermedia and Printmaking... Read Bio 2021/2022
Nicholas Hertz Nicholas Hertz (he/they) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta. Through print media, performance and writing he explores the objectification of the queer body and the anthropomorphizing of environments. He engages with the liminal space between... Read Bio 2021/2022
Taryn Walker Taryn Walker is a queer, Indigenous artist of Salish (Nɬeʔképmx) ancestry whose work explores concepts of identity, tenderness, healing, utopia, cycles of life and death, and the supernatural through drawing, printmaking, installation, video, and sound. In 2018 Walker graduated from... Read Bio 2021/2022
Caitlin Bodewitz In Community Artist in Residence In spring/summer of 2021 Caitlin will collaborate with SNAP and other community members to help develop the outdoor space at the rear of SNAP’s new facility including a wall based work at the printshop /... Read Bio 2020/2021
Christina Battle In Community Artist in Residence These days, I’ve been thinking a lot about how it is that community might build and take shape across distance: about the tools that allow us to keep in touch, stay connected, and spread resources.... Read Bio 2020/2021
Riaz Mehmood In Community Artist in Residence Pakistan’s political history is largely known for both direct and indirect military rule and the subsequent decades long enforcement of martial law. Both trajectories often obscure the rich legacy of resistance, disobedience and protests for... Read Bio 2020/2021
Sergio Serrano In Community Artist in Residence Project Description During this time of physical distancing the majority of my social interactions have been mediated through digital interfaces. This felt like a propelled push towards a perceived and perhaps inevitable future of the... Read Bio 2020/2021
Kiona Ligtvoet In Community Artist in Residence Don’t look for this in the city archive. Overview I’d like to use the In Community residency as an opportunity for virtual, shared conversation centering (and sometimes critiquing) archives, enfranchisement, land acknowledgement, ghosts, nostalgia, and... Read Bio 2020/2021
Luke Johnson Luke Johnson is a Minnesota-born artist, researcher, and volunteer librarian based in Treaty 6 territory (Edmonton, Alberta). Working in print, photography, and durational engagements within collections, Johnson creates work that complicates notions of standardization and categorization within systems of knowledge.... Read Bio 2020/2021
Andrew Thorne I am an interdisciplinary artist and a recent NSCAD BFA graduate. I have lived in Halifax for the last five years, however, my home is Moncton, New Brunswick. During my time at NSCAD, I have become greatly invested in the... Read Bio 2020/2021
Agata Garbowska Agata Garbowska is an Edmonton based artist and a 2017 graduate of the University of Alberta Bachelor of Fine Arts program. Her work is informed by general unease and an appropriate fear of ecological disaster caused by climate change. In... Read Bio 2020/2021
Pauline Johnson Pauline Johnson was raised in Maskwacis territory bordered within Alberta. Growing up, Nehiyaw (Plains Cree), her art has always turned to visual and emotional artworks. Using comic and graphic storytelling to help create her art. Using the balance of visuals,... Read Bio 2020/2021
Haylee Fortin Haylee Fortin is an Edmonton based painter, new media artist and printmaker. Graduating with distinction from the University of Alberta’s Fine Art program in 2015, Haylee has since pursued an interest in art as a means of community engagement with... Read Bio 2019/2020
Brianna Tosswill Brianna Tosswill is an artist who expresses herself and others in print and book format. She explores the limits and unique opportunities of letterpress printmaking in her work, and is preoccupied with geometry and mathematics. She obtained her BFA in... Read Bio 2019/2020
Shivangi Ladha Shivangi is a practicing artist and has done her specialization in MA Printmaking from Royal College of Art, London in 2016. Prior to this, she did MFA (2012 – 14) in Fine Arts from Wimbledon College of Art, University of... Read Bio 2018/2019
LeeAnne Johnston LeeAnne Johnston is an artist living and creating in Edmonton, Alberta. Growing up in a smaller Albertan city they immersed themself in books about mythology and fantasy. These themes have evolved as they have grown, with images of monsters becoming the... Read Bio 2018/2019
Max Keene Max Keene is an artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. He is a recent graduate of the University of Alberta BFA program, with focus in printmaking and intermedia. Working primarily in installation and with a variety of photographic processes, Max's work deals with how... Read Bio 2018/2019