About Me

I am a craft artist and educator born in Pakistan and based in Toronto. My practice is rooted in textiles, a medium that carries histories of labour, migration, and cultural knowledge. I honour and revive slow craft traditions through collaboration with audiences and technologies. My work investigates transformation and memory, with a growing focus on how personal and cultural narratives migrate and shift across generations and geographies.

My specialization in textile arts is needlework: embroidery, quilting, patchwork, appliqué, bead embroidery, and basic sewing. I marry these slow hand-craft techniques with the immediate and chance-based outcomes of digital manipulation methods using a photo scanner.

I obtained my MFA from Concordia University in Montréal (2023) and a BFA from OCAD University in Toronto (2020), both focusing on textile practices. I am grateful to have received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts to pursue my craft practice. My art has been exhibited in Canada, the USA, Australia, and Austria, and received recognition through awards from Craft Ontario (2019 and 2020) and the Surface Design Association (2020).  My art has also been published in magazines, books, and conference papers in Canada (Canadian Craft Federation, 2020 and 2021; UPPERCASE Magazine, 2021; Mipsterz, 2022; OCAD University, 2022; more), the USA (the Surface Design Journal, 2020), and Prague (TEXTile Manifestos, 2022).

I am currently a full-time Artist-in-Residence at Harbourfront Centre.

E-mail: khadija@khadijaaziz.com View CV here.

Recently on Instagram:

My February workshops are already starting to fill up! If you’ve wanted to learn embroidery in a small group workshop, this is your sign ✨ 🔗 Link to register in my bio or https://linktr.ee/_khadija_a_ ✨ #ToDoToronto #LearnEmbroidery #Embroider
Gathering Light💡20 hours of hand-stitching on linen, combined with lighting designed and built by @kilowattkate, to softly hold and diffuse light. Made for the All Light exhibition curated by @kilowattkate and @commongoodstudio for @designtofestival
I am so grateful to have engaged 340 people in textile art workshops this year. So much gratitude to everyone for your love and support, including all the spaces that invited me in their communities to teach. Lots of exciting workshops are in the wor