artist, designer, photographer, illustrator, researcher, video producer, painter, printmaker, actor, musician, jester,
Hello! I’m Mia (they/them), an experimental multidisciplinary artist from Toronto, Ontario. From university degrees in Fashion (BDes 2021, MA 2024) to working over 7 years as a multimedia freelancer, I’m now working in creative marketing and communications for two local arts-based organizations. I offer freelance services across all my disciplines; some notable past clients are Museum of Toronto, Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre (PARC), Toronto Metropolitan University, Queens of Dim Sum, various local drag performers, and more. Born and raised in Toronto, I share a sentimental relationship with my community, love working close to home, and greeting familiar faces every day.
Working over 7 years in my field, I’ve experienced countless permutations of the “creative” role, sometimes all at the same time. My varied experience has taught me the skills of a producer, copywriter, social media manager, event planner, researcher, and so much more. I’m passionate about the creative process; I do my best work when I understand the moving parts and how my role affects others. As a result, I gravitate towards creative leadership roles for my strengths in conceptual thinking, organizational planning, and collaboration. My skill for problem solving is innate and automatic, and I put a lot of time and effort into mapping all possible pathways. With high confidence in my skills, experience, intentionality, and accountability, I bring a confident and reliable voice to any project.
I’ve been a practicing artist for over 10 years. Since high school, I’ve dreamed of ways to bring my artistic practice to life, and often got to execute them. In my practice today, I prioritize the creative process, experimentation, and the joy of creating. My style is balanced within its colourful and striking aesthetic, considerate of texture, composition, contrast, and negative space. Everything has a purpose, even if it’s to be left open for interpretation, or simply for joy. I thrive in the spaces between juxtapositions to bring balance to the random and unexpected, pairing design principles with absurdist creativity. Art and design go hand in hand in my work.
My work grows and changes with me because it’s an inherent part of who I am. The constants in all these variables are my attraction to sharp shapes and colours, and hopefully something that appeals to the human part of all of us. I feel like we’re often put into situations that repress our humanity. I would like my work to reject that, and say: “You’re welcome here, as you are.” When I’m not busy working, I’m usually ideating, working on a backburner project, playing video games, strumming my guitar, making art, singing in the shower, or plotting ways to resist and abolish systems of oppression!
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