Kaya Joan

Kaya Joan is a multidisciplinary Afro-Caribbean (Jamaican/Vincentian)-Indigenous (Kanien’keh :ka) artist living in T’karonto (Dish with One Spoon treaty territory). Joan earned their BFA in OCAD University’s Indigenous Visual Culture program, where the artist was the recipient of the Indigenous Visual Culture Medal. Their work has been shown at the Images Festival, Xpace Cultural Centre, Durham Art Gallery, and Cooper Cole Gallery, among others.

Kaya Joan
Kaya Joan, Fugitive Wanderer, installation at Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, 2021. Photo: Polina Teif. Courtesy of the artist

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