Huda Salha
Stained, 40 x 30 (102 x 92 cm) Acrylic on Canvas 2016
Huda is a Palestinian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto. She has worked in a variety of media including oil and acrylic painting, bronze casting, sculptural installations and film production/video art.
Her work addresses issues of identity, displacement, and memory. She is intrigued by the way identity and memory are interwoven with place through political and cultural boundaries. Her visual narratives are informed by childhood memories, family anecdotes, and historical and geographical references. In an attempt to approach representations of self and the surrounding, she employs visual vocabulary consisting of lines, colours and forms, drawn from her lived experiences, ancestral heritage. She has explored artworks and artifacts as sites of memory and knowledge producing pedagogical tools through art-based storytelling.
Huda holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design from OCAD University, a BFA Honors from York University, Toronto, and she is currently working on her PhD degree at University of Toronto.
Huda has participated in many art exhibitions, regionally and internationally. Her artworks were published in online galleries as well as several magazines, newspapers, and art books such as in The Big Art Book published by the Scarborough Arts Council (SAC), 2017 & 2020. She has received numerous awards, the most recent are a global award from Britain for political and social change, the “Forget me Not” award of Excellence from the Art Guild of Scarborough (AGS), and Honorable Mention – SAC’s 34th Annual Juried Exhibition. Her short film, It’s a Matter of a Phone Call was screened at the TPFF, 2019 and Internationally 2020.
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Lighting #1, 36 x 36 (92 x 92 cm) Oil on Canvas 2017
Lighting #2, 36 x 36 (92 x 92 cm) Oil on Canvas 2017
Behind the Wall, 36 x 36 (92 x 92 cm) Oil on Canvas 2017