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Canadian BIPOC Artists

Macha Abdallah: Multidisciplinary Canadian artist of African descent, based in Edmonton, Alberta

Nura Ali:  Visual artist, writer and curator, living and working in Calgary, Alberta

Brian Amadi: Born in Nigeria, he is a painter and tatoo artist.

Benny Bing: Nigerian-Canadian contemporary artist who explores themes of identity, gender, and Blackness.

Cobie Cruz: Born in Manila, Philippines.

Laurena FineĢus: Caribbean-Canadian visual artist who specializes in painting dense landscapes with vibrant, layered colours.

Odera Igbokwe: illustrator and painter who explores storytelling through Afro-diasporic mythologies, Black resilience and magical girl transformation sequences.

Kaya Joan: Afro-Indigenous (Vincentian, Kanienkéha:ka, Irish, Jamaican) artist.

Anique Jordan: Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, writer, curator and entrepreneur known for her work in photography, sculpture, and performance. 

Amy Lai: Based in Toronto, she graduated from OCAD with a Bachelor of Arts in design.

Sylvia Lee: Toronto-based interdisciplinary designer who specializes in glass design.

Aleya Michaud:  New Brunswick-based emerging black visual artist.

Kosisochukwu Nnebe: Nigerian-Canadian conceptual artist, curator and writer whose practice draws inspiration from postcolonial and Black feminist thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Edouard Glissant, bell hooks, and Sylvia Wynter.

Emmanuel Nwogbo: Nigerian-born artist pays tribute to his hometown of Lagos through his visual works.

Isabel Okoro: Nigerian-born, Toronto-based photographer whose work explores the idea of a Black utopia.

Komi Olaf: Visual artist and Poet, his art has been shaped by a cultural and artistic movement known as Afrofuturism, which explores African and African diasporic cultures in intersection with technology.

Preston Pavlis: Painter and textile artist currently based in Edmonton, AB

Rajni Perera: Born in Sri Lanka,she lives in Toronto and explores issues of hybridity, futurity, ancestorship, migrant and marginalized identities/cultures, monsters and dream worlds.

Diana Rosa: Born and raised in Cuba, she uses a Folk-Art style.

Denyse Thomasos (AGO exhibition); Denyse Thomasos: Odyssey (exhibition catalogue)

Stanley Wany: Multidisciplinary artist whose focus is writing and drawing graphic novels.

Winsom Winsom: Maroon Canadian artist with a prolific career spanning over several decades.  

Jason Zante: Filipino-Canadian multidisciplinary artist.  

 

Canadian BIPOC Projects

Canadian BIPOC Art ProjectRihab Essay tracks emerging or mid-career visual artists who’ve had a solo show/presentation in the past 4 years. She invites artist additions to her site.

Art Canada Institute: 7 Black artists to watch

Canadian BIPOC Artists' Rolodex: Launched 2024. " is an open-source digital platform, and is a consultative system of gathering, presenting, and using knowledge concerning Canadian BIPOC artists. This information system makes a fundamental contribution to decolonizing pedagogy and research in the Fine Arts."

History of Black Canadian Artists