About Me
I am a multidisciplinary artist and educator investigating the potential of collaboration between materials, machines, and audiences. Over the last year, I began to merge my artistic and educational practices for the first time by creating interactive art experiences inviting the audience to transform my art. By doing this, I wish to decentre myself from my art and use my privileged position to offer communities art-making opportunities. By setting up conditions of participation and collaboration, I wish to empower my audience to be their own interpreters of the art, and I aim to shift how art is engaged in professional exhibitions and installations. As an artist who grew up on the margins, my goal is to bring more marginalized communities into Canada’s professional arts ecosystem to decolonize the white cube so we can begin to see our own narratives reflected in the spaces that shape Canada’s culture and heritage on the global platform.
I have an MFA from Concordia University (2023) and a BFA from OCAD University (2020). My textile and digital art have been published and/or exhibited in Canada, USA, Australia, Austria and the Czech Republic. My artistic and community arts practices have been recognized through awards from Craft Ontario, the Ontario Museum Association, and the Surface Design Association.
E-mail: khadija@khadijaaziz.com