Graduate students

Lucia Anaya

Lucia Anaya

Multidisciplinary
Lucia Anaya is a visual artist from Mexico. Her artistic practice is intimately related with nature and ecology. She uses various media such as drawing, printmaking, sculpture, video and urban interventions. Wild flora that inhabits the city is a constant character in her visual narrative. She is currently working with an art that is hand in hand with cultivation and organic materials. She is interested in involving the community to generate a proposal that can propitiate more sustainable practices in society and a conscience of care for nature.
Charlie Martey

Charlie Martey

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Grace Dillon

Grace Dillon

Multidisciplinary
I have always been an observer and when I visualize my practice, I see maps, webs, trails. Drawn to the odd tendencies of people and my surroundings, I use “visual sticky notes” to collect memories and feelings that connect us without words. I curate this material into complex juxtapositions: sweet vulgarity, comedy hiding tragedy, disturbing harsh textures and layers with dreamy smooth vocals. These melodic memories of personal and public past come together in the form of short films, performance and video installations.
Kosar Movahedi

Kosar Movahedi

Multidisciplinary
Kosar Movahedi is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores space and time in relation to visual perception. Current work revolves around the relationship of image and experience through photography, video, and mixed-media installation. Kosar holds a BSc in Architecture from University of Tehran and is an MFA candidate at the University of Victoria, Canada
Liz Bentley

Liz Bentley

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Liz Bentley is a painter whose practice examines the connections between memory, storytelling, and domestic architecture. In the same way that memories are often flawed and wobbly, so too are these stripped-down spaces. Emotions, conversations, and the ghosts of people (and their objects} are embodied with bright colours; all rendered organic and softly shaped.  They received their BFA at the University of Victoria in 2021 and have been working out of Victoria the past few years.

Lucas Glenn

Lucas Glenn

Multidisciplinary
Lucas Glenn’s research-creation aims to collapse the binary of human and nature. This collapsed-space offers utopian and dystopian proposals for human-nonhuman kinship. Glenn employs materials like plant matter, snowmobile parts, aluminum, hiking supplies and electronics. Though his installations are sometimes playful, they explore material realities of climate crisis, colonization, and resource extraction. His subject matter pulls from fantasy and science-fiction in film, literature, and video games.
Max Keene

Max Keene

Multidisciplinary
Keene’s practice examines our contemporary visual culture by looking at what it negates, the imagery and sensibility that is not algorithmically favoured and or approved by a focus group and is subsequently redesigned, painted over or left to fade in the sun. He focuses on the uncanny, unprofessional, unclear, uninviting, and unconventional to produce work that treats visual refuse and debris with a precise consideration.
Maryam  Tavakoli

Maryam Tavakoli

Multidisciplinary
Maryam Tavakoli is a multidisciplinary artist based in Victoria, BC. Her practice questions the relationship between Identity, memory, and time. In her current works, she makes use of a variety of materials that can embody the vague distorted reflections of memory on identity through a combination of practices involving drawing, installation, and sculpture. She seeks to explore the concept of Identity through memories of lived life experiences, personal traumas, and the social/cultural structure of her home country. 
Nicole Mandryk

Nicole Mandryk

Multi-disciplinary

My name is Nicole Mandryk and I am a queer artist of Anishinaabe, Irish and Ukrainian descentMy traditional Anishinaabe name is Niibinobinesiik, which translates to summer thunderbird and comes from the loon. I do not yet know my clan or the First Nation my family descends yet I am working to reclaim my families identity outside colonial understandings of Indigeneity.

My sister and I were born and raised on the on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen, Esquimalt, and WSANEC nations. I am a grateful guest on these territories and raise my hands to the caretakers of the land, skies and waters.  

I am a visual artist who is dedicated to the resurgence of my familial cultural lineages. Art has been a place to transcend and heal the disconnection my family has experienced through colonial laws. Thus, I have been very inspired to express myself artistically through integrating Anishinaabe and Ukrainian stories, art, land, language, and songs into my practice. I am also interested in the knowledge that presents itself through dreams and seek to weave this knowledge respectfully into my beadwork, performance art and songs I compose. I hope my masters can be a space to expand the mediums and size I work in. Further, I want to engage in meaningful collaborations and create sites of discussions for socio-political issues that impact the communities I am a part of. 

Ryland Fortie

Ryland Fortie

Sculpture, painting, and video
Visual Arts
Ryland Fortie utilizes sculpture, painting, and video, while often employing tactics found in fantasy and science-fiction to interrogate contemporary life. He received his BFA in 2016 from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, and has been based in Edmonton for the past several years. His recent exhibitions include group shows with Prometheus Projects in Montreal, at The Plumb in Toronto, and Lowlands Projects in Edmonton. 
Sina  Khatami

Sina Khatami

Multidisciplinary
Sina is a multidisciplinary Artist whose practice ranged from kinetic sculptures to paintings and anything that suits his ideas-based projects. He is interested in the universality of the object and its relations to our unique subjective perspectives. His approach to this is that he likes to exclude unique elements from his subjects to reach an abstract image of an impulse. Sina holds a bachelor of arts in sculpture from the University of Tehran.