Elsa Hashemi

Elsa is a visual artist whose main focus is Photography and Calligraphy-Painting. She has been working as an artwork/mural-documentation photographer in the city of Toronto, and a freelance Calligrapher. She also teaches visual arts to kids. Her artistic practice mainly involves in conceptual art, portraying the concepts she has always concerned like Migration, Being a Woman, Immigration, and Quarantine in the past years. Through her images and her calligraphy-painting art, she always tells stories of people, believing that realities in life mostly get too complicated that we could form them through stories.

In addition, she has been the recipient of the Space Award with Toronto Art Council and Akin Studios in July 2022; the recipient of RBC Mentorship Award with Neighbourhood Arts Network in December 2018; and the recipient of RBC Access Funds with Neighbourhood Arts Networks in October 2017.

She has had Solo shows in North York Library, Queen Gallery, Art Square Gallery; and has been pat of around twenty group shows in Canada and elsewhere.

https://www.elsahashemi.net

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