Jaspal Birdi

Jaspal Birdi (B. 1988, Toronto) is a Canadian artist who combines photography and painting by experimenting with modern technologies. Through programming, print and paint, her practice reconstructs and examines boundaries in virtual and physical worlds. Birdi completed her BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University 2010, a Museum Internship at The Peggy Guggenheim Collection 2011, and a Master of Arts Management from Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) 2013.

Her works have earned recognition from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts, as well as several awards, including the 2013 Arte Laguna Solo Exhibition Prize, the 2017/18 Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa (BLM) Artist Residency, BLM Stonefly Art Award, the 2020/21 Fondazione Culturale San Fedele Visual Arts Fellowship and Martini International Award. In 2017 Birdi co-curated the exhibition Command-Alternative-Escape for the opening week of the Venice International Art Biennale. During the 2018 Berlin Art Week, her works were shown in Transferred Recall, a curated solo exhibition. In 2020 Birdi presented Can I Play Outside? a solo exhibition supported by the RBC Foundation Emerging Artist Residency at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery. In 2022, she exhibited Eyes Looking Without Seeing, a solo show at the Women's Art Association of Canada in Toronto. For Vancouver’s 2023 Capture Photography Festival, Birdi’s public artwork 11h02m is featured at the Canada Line Lansdowne Station, presented by Richmond Art Gallery. In September 2024, she exhibited a solo show, Between Standing and Moving, in New York City in a show between The New Other and Trotter & Sholer. She has also participated in Canada’s preeminent art fair, Art Toronto, in 2023 and 2024 with The New Other.

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