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Jeffrey Gibson’s work fuses his Choctaw-Cherokee heritage and experience of living in Europe, Asia and the USA with references that span club culture, queer theory, fashion, politics, literature and art history. The artist’s multi-faceted practice…

Working across a diverse range of media including painting, drawing, print, textiles, sculpture and furniture, Tal R questions our conceptions of and presumptions about our surrounding reality – what we’re seeing and where its meaning lies. With…

Hana Miletić reflects on issues of representation and social reproduction, by making linkages between photography and weaving. The artist models her woven textiles after her photographs that document repairs in public space. Miletić uses the weaving…

Sheila Hicks was born in Hastings, Nebraska and received her BFA and MFA degrees from Yale University. She received a Fulbright scholarship in 1957-58 to paint in Chile. While in South America she developed her interest in working with fibers. After…

Olga de Amaral spins base matter into fields of color and weaves tectonic lines through space, unselfconsciously testing the borders between crafted object and the work of art. From the flat surfaces of tapestry through to resolutely…

Reto Pulfer’s immersive installations often involve fabrics and threads that create rhizomatic spaces and shelter objects and traces of his interest in metamorphosis. Reto Pulfer considers his installations in terms of their mnemonic and imaginary…

Colleen McCarten is a material-based visual artist and educator residing in Toronto. She studied Textiles at OCAD University, Fashion Design at George Brown College, and Landscape Design at Niagara College. McCarten has taught textile programs…

Ayan Farah's practice reflects upon themes of identity, visibility and oppression in a global world, often drawing upon her Somali-Swedish heritage and itinerant outlook. Within each painting disparate world-views merge, oppose each other, or…

Goshka Macuga (Warsaw, Poland, 1967) brings into focus the relationships between art, power, and history in her practice. Her works comprise large installations that mix her own pieces with material found in archives and collections to explore new…

Adrien Vescovi lives and works in Marseille since 2017 after a long practice installed in the mountains of Haute-Savoie. The artist reinvests with contemporary issues the question of the fee canvas and a painting thought at an architectural and…