The Artists
Aldeneil Española
Aldeneil Española Jr. is an interdisciplinary artist based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with roots in Manila and Gravelbourg. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours in Studio Art at the University of Saskatchewan (2026). Española currently has an independent artist practice in Treaty 6, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Their practice moves between wearable art, visual and new media, tracing Filipino and queer diasporic identities through auto-ethnographic studies of dreams, memories and lived experience. Exhibitions include Paraluman, Bridges Art Movement, Saskatoon (2026, solo); TUTUBò, Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon (2025, solo)
Gabriela García-Luna
Gabriela’s experience-based and photo-based works explore the interconnections of the natural world in relation human experience though ideas related to the micro and macro-cosmos; unity and separation, fragility and resilience; presence and absence. Using methods of digital collage merged with analogy drawing and mix media processes, Gabriela explores the botanical life of the places she has called home in different parts of the world, for the construction of hybrid geographies that belong both to memory and imagination. Gabriela holds a BDes from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) in Mexico City and an MFA in Studio-Arts from the University of Saskatchewan. She has participated in numerous international residencies and been the recipient of numerous grants and awards. Her work has been exhibited in multiple group and solo exhibitions in Mexico, Canada, UK, and India and it is part of public and private and collections.
Hau Pham
Hau Pham (she/her) is an emerging Artist, Educator and MFA candidate at York University, She has worked at various institutions with a primary focus on coordinating arts education and creative programming. As an oil painter, her practice focuses on exploring constructed, naturalized, and inherited identities. Her current research investigates nationalistic and patriotic structure and culture in Canada and Vietnam. Pham has exhibited nationally at galleries, artist run centers, and art fairs, including at The Plumb (2021), Xpace Cultural Centre (2023), and Afternoon Projects (2022). Her work was additionally presented at the Independent Palace in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2023)
Jordyn Julianna
Jordyn Julianna (b. 2001) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in soft sculpture and painting. She is currently based in “Vancouver” on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. In 2025, she graduated from Emily Carr University of Art & Design with a BFA in Visual Arts. Driven by a Lynchian approach, she marries the uncanny with the sweet through her delicate yet idiosyncratic work involving a menagerie of animal motifs. Her practice explores interconnections between human and more-than-human bodies, drawing on vulnerability, objectification, and love. In her work, a sense of gentleness and aggression intermingle, creating spaces where the viewer is invited to navigate these tensions and take from them what they choose.
Nick Lakowski
Nick Lakowski (b.1980 Duncan BC) is a painter based in Vancouver. Beginning as a mural artist in the late 90's Lakowski has been exhibiting, collaborating, teaching, and volunteering locally for nearly 30 years. Most recently his work focuses on the experience of browsing images online and how it feels to make paintings in relation to the overwhelming volume of visual media produced each day.
Nicole Bie
Nicole Bie is a Filipino artist residing on the lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaʔɬ peoples. She works with a diverse range of media and strategies including ceramics, textiles, sound, installation, sculpture, collaboration, and writing. Her practice currently explores sculptures that are offerings/altars to memory and desire across oceans. Nicole holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she received the Vancouver Biennale Art Attack Award for Excellence in Visual Arts (2025).
Parumveer Walia
Parumveer Walia (b. Chandigarh, India) is a visual artist working across photography and film. His practice expands the image-based into video, installation, and object forms, examining queerness as subject, aesthetic, and culture. Working between India and Canada, Walia’s projects interweave archival research, socio-political episodes, and his lived experience to generate unstable, hybrid narratives. Walia was a finalist for the 2025 Philip B. Lind Prize, Canada’s largest award for emerging artists. His work has been widely exhibited, including The Polygon Gallery (Vancouver), TRAPP Projects (Vancouver), Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver), Democracy Xchange (Toronto), BINNAR Arts Festival (Portugal), and the Paxos Biennale (Greece), among others. Walia was a finalist for the Audain Travel Award (2024) and the Inaugural Kirloskar Art Award (2025). He was recently appointed the 2026 Fellowship by the Jeffrey Ahn Jr. Foundation. Upcoming projects include Proof at Gallery 44, Toronto (June, 2026), NOCTURNE, Halifax (October, 2026) and a public art commission with the City of Vancouver (May, 2026). His next publication, Shadow Fields, is set to release with Soft Grain Books in Fall 2026.
Sophia Boutsakis & Anais Casselman-Green
Sophia Boutsakis is a visual artist based in Vancouver, BC, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Boutsakis received a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2022 and currently works from a studio at the historic Parker Street Studios building in East Vancouver. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and print media, Boutsakis’s multidisciplinary practice explores transformation through recurring symbols, evolving ideas, and the distillation of form. Recent work focuses on sculptural applications of stained glass and wire, drawing from traditions of craft and decorative arts. Exhibitions include Ham on Ham, Kasko Gallery, Vancouver (2026); Portal Pop-Up Window Gallery, Vancouver (2026, with Ideet Sharon); Again and Then, The 525 at Another Studios, Vancouver (2025); Window Artist Residency, Zebraclub, Vancouver (2025, with Paige Elton); Interplay, The Art Shop, Vancouver (2024); Mirrored Hearts, The Art Shop, Vancouver (2024, solo); and Familiar Faces, The Art Shop, Vancouver (2023).
Anais Casselman-Green, born and raised on the prairies, is now a Vancouver-based visual artist with a primary focus in functional ceramics and print media, holding a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Anais opened CLAE Studio in 2022 to nurture her ceramic practice and facilitate group clay workshops alongside a community of ceramic artists. Her work draws attention to creating accessible space to learn, create, and converse, whether it be around the dinner table or in a clay workshop. Anais’ main focus is teaching and sharing her love of clay, while also producing a line of handcrafted ceramic tableware that draws attention to time, process, change, and food accessibility. Clae Studio respectfully acknowledges that we create, share, and connect on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. We honour the generations of artists and makers who have long cared for this land.
Taaye
Taaye (b. Hong Kong, based in Vancouver and Hong Kong) is a painter that uses East Asian mineral pigments (iwaenogu in Japanese), watercolor, and printmaking as her medium. She holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has exhibited across Canada and internationally. Recent exhibitions include "Fluttering Stillness", Centre A, Vancouver (2026); Art Next art fair, Hong Kong (2025); and "The Fragment of Minerals", ba'd arts, Hong Kong. Her work is included in the permanent collection of Burnaby Art Gallery. Her work has been recognized with multiple grants, including the Canada Council for the Arts (2024, 2025, 2026), the BC Arts Council (2025), and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Emerging Artist Grant (2025). She is currently a board member at Access Gallery in Vancouver.