geetha thurairajah

geetha thurairajah is from Waterloo (ON. She lives and works in Brooklyn (NY). Her practice relies on allegory gleaned from art history, personal narrative and observations of modern life to recreate spaces that defy hierarchies of genre. thurairajah studied at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Wilfrid Laurier University. In 2018, she received an Honourable Mention at the RBC Painting Competition. Recent exhibitions include Suspended Disbelief, Arsenal Contemporary Art (Toronto) (2021); Soothsay, Unit 17, Vancouver (2020); Migration is more momentous than ancient invasions, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery; No body to talk to, Invisible Exports, New York; Downward Flower, Fourteen30, Portland (all 2019); An Assembly of Shapes, Oakville Galleries (2018); Mingling with flowers panthers’ eyes, The New Gallery, Calgary; Here’s Looking at You, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm (both 2017) and Goodbye here no matter where, 8eleven, Toronto (2016).