Sierra Tasi Baker, MSc, BEnvD is an award-winning Squamish Nation, Coast Salish, Kwakwaka’wakw, Tlingit, Haida & Hungarian designer, community consultant, entrepreneur, artist, and storyteller. Her work focuses on furthering Indigenous design and research methodologies whilst focusing on daylighting hidden histories and reconciliatory narratives.

Griffin Art Projects is pleased to welcome our first Emily Carr University Studio Residency Award Recipient, Sara-Jeanne Bourget, to our residency studio. Bourget was born in Lévis, Québec in 1988.

Emily Rosamund is a writer and artist, whose research stems from an interest in how historically situated performances of self are intertwined with developments in financial and informatic infrastructures. Her current work focuses on the implications of financialization and metrification for recent art practices that explore online identity and selfhood.

“I want to create layers of meaning, not just by building relationship, making connection and creating dialogues of the art works, but also by bringing alight the invisibles, the gaps or intervals, and the mystery. It is achieved by expanding the dimension of time and space in my works.”

Adrian Norvid was born in London, England and lives and works in Montreal. He received his MFA from York (Toronto) and has a BFA in Music also from York. Norvid has shown widely in Canada including solo shows at Galerie B312 (Montreal), AXE Neo7 (Gatineau), La Mussee de Joliette (Joliette), AKA (Saskatoon) and Julia Garnatz (Cologne.)

Zoe Kreye creates interdisciplinary art projects that explore transformation, embodiment and collective experience. Recent projects include De Fem (WAAP, Vancouver), Make Our Own Air (SPACE, London), Our Missing Body (Hochparterre Berlin, Western Front, Kamloops Art Gallery), FutureLoss (grunt gallery), Unlearning Practices (Unit Pitt , Goethe Satellite, %3Crotor%3E Graz).

Mahdyar Jamshidi is a photo-based artist and researcher who works and resides in Tehran, Iran. He received his Bachelor of Photography from Islamic Azad University in Tehran in 2007 and his Masters in Studio Art (Photo-Media) from the University of Sydney in 2012, and his Doctoral of Business Administration from the University of San Jose Recoletos, Philippines in 2016.