CV

Education:

2025 - BFA Drawing and Painting, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada

2021 - Visual Arts Specialization, Canterbury High School, Ottawa, Canada

Recent Publications:

2025 - 101 Art Book: Nature Edition, Arts to Hearts, Agra, India

2024 - Petal Projections Magazine, Toronto, Canada

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

Group Exhibitions:

October 2024 - October 2025 - Gladstone House, Toronto, Canada

July - August 2025 - Fresh Paint / New Construction – 21st edition, Art Mûr Gallery, Montreal, Canada

April - August 2025 - Abstraction Exhibition, Ontario Court of Justice, Toronto, Canada

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

Awards & Grants:

2025 - Carl and Trudy Michailoff Award in Drawing & Painting, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada

2024 - Gladstone House Award TOAF, Toronto, Canada

2021 - Alma Duncan Visual Arts Award, Canterbury High School, 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

Reverie

This series of oil paintings entitled Reverie, explores how the human mind can wonder into new creations from a single image. All these paintings are derived from continuously zoomed in aspects of the smallest, initial composition. Reverie, meaning “a state of imagining or thinking about pleasant things, as if you are dreaming,” describes the viewers experience of being drawn into a work, subconsciously creating their own worlds within the image in front of them. This body of work is a display of what thoughts and visualizations can be triggered in one’s mind, as they peer closer into the details of a painting. Thinking more broadly about this concept, begs the question of what miniscule elements lie within our daily lives, going unnoticed until we’re willing to see them.