MULTITUDES

Sonny Assu (Ligwilda’xw of the Kwakwaka‘wakw Nations) is an artist based in Campbell River who is known for his mashups of Indigenous iconography and popular culture. Through a variety of mediums, including sculpture, textiles, painting, prints, large-scale installations and interventions, Assu’s work maintains a profound connection to past traditions while speaking to pertinent issues of our time.

Chun Hua Catherine Dong (she/they) is an artist residing in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). They use art to disrupt social expectations and create space for new visions of transcultural feminism. Through performance, lens-based media and augmented reality, Dong explores immigration, race and gender from their perspective as a Chinese Canadian.

Deborah Edmeades is a performance-based artist working across drawing, video, writing and the making of objects. Her work is informed by therapeutic and spiritual experiences, and she has recently been researching the history of New Age religion, especially through a feminist lens.

Odera Igbokwe (they/them) is a painter, illustrator and contemporary artist based in Vancouver. Their fantastical artworks blend stories of Black resilience, Afro-diasporic spiritualism, Queer joy, Afrofuturism and mythology to visualize new pathways of healing.

Cheyenne Rain LeGrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ (she/they) is a Nehiyaw Isko artist from Bigstone Cree Nation, currently residing in Amiskwaciy Waskahikan (Edmonton). LeGrande’s work is rooted in the strength to feel, express and heal. Bringing her Ancestors with her, she uses body and language to address the past, present and future through installation, photography, fashion, video, sound and performance.

Port Moody–based artist Tatjana Mirkov-Popovicki draws on disparate stories from her homeland of Serbia and her life in Canada as she seeks to reconcile her relationship to place. Her painting, mixed media and textile works are informed by ethnographic histories, Balkan folklore and empathetic observation.