Bio

Mya Naidoo is a Toronto-based artist working with both painting and drawing. Her work explores the subconscious distortions of memory and familiar imagery, as a journal through her life. She is currently in the last year of her Drawing and Painting BFA at OCAD University and will be graduating in the Spring of 2025. Naidoo has exhibited work at the Ottawa Art Gallery (Ontario, Canada) and in Gladstone House (Ontario, Canada) with upcoming exhibitions at the Ontario Court of Justice (Toronto, Canada) and Artist Project (Toronto, Canada).

Instagram: @mya.naidoo.art

Email: myanaidooart@gmail.com

Artist Statement

My paintings explore my relationship with the sun in nature, evoking the essence of each environment without merely depicting it. These distortions reflect the evolution of memory, becoming more visually abstract while maintaining emotional intensity. Thinly layered on the canvas, the oil paint acquires a sinuous quality, giving the composition quiet, organic movement. When the viewer becomes immersed in the work’s intricacies and finds calm in its moments of rest, I know it is complete.

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Recent Publications:

 2024 - Petal Projections Magazine, Toronto, Canada

 2024 - Meet Mya Naidoo, Canvas Rebel Magazine, Los Angeles, United States

Collections:

2024-2025 - Gladstone House, Toronto, Canada

Group Shows:

2025 - Artist Project, Toronto, Canada

2025 - Extreme Abstraction (OCAD University), Toronto, Canada

2024 - Five Years of Drip, Drip House, Ottawa, Canada

2024 - Toronto Outdoor Fair (Gladstone House Award Winner), Toronto, Canada

2023 - UNSEEN: Group Exhibition, Blitz Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2022, 2023 - Pancakes and Booze, Revival Event Venue, Toronto, Canada

2019 - Capital Pride Art Show, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

Markets:

2024 - WISA Market and Showcase, Toronto, Canada

2023 - In the Trenches Market, Toronto, Canada

2023 - Made for Me Marketplace, Toronto, Canada

2023 - The Market Market, Toronto, Canada

2023 - HER Market, Toronto, Canada