JANUARY 3, 2025
Submissions open
May 31, 2025 8pm PDT
Submissions close
Week of July 14, 2025
Finalists Announced
September 27, 2025
Exhibition and voting opens
October 17, 2025
Voting closes
October 18, 2025
Winners announced
$3,000.00
Size
40" x 30"
Medium
Flashe, gouache and colouring pencil on wood panel
This work continues my exploration of a vibrant limited palette of blues, magenta, violet and ecru. Born in Karachi to a Pakistani father and a Chilean mother, I straddle two different cultures and religions while living in a third. I pay tribute to my Pakistani heritage by fusing elements of the country’s material culture with personal imagery in my visual vocabulary. My hybrid identity is manifested through the vibrant colour palette, patterns, and themes I use to create my works. My nuanced relationship to this identity is nostalgic, holding on to a past as memories of it recede.
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Shazia AhmadBrossard, Québec
Shazia Ahmad (she/her) is a half-Pakistani, half-Chilean painter and printmaker living in Brossard, Québec. Her work explores themes of home and belonging, reflecting on the broader concept of otherness shaped by her interfaith and mixed-race background. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (Edmonton, 2025), Le Centre Culturel Georges-Vanier (Montréal, 2025), The Rooms (St. John’s, NL, 2023); Grenfell Art Gallery (Corner Brook, NL, 2024), and Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (2022), among others. She has received several grants, including one from the Canada Council, and is currently an artist-in-residence at JANO Gallery in Montréal.