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Kelcy Timmons Chan
Kelcy Timmons Chan (they/them) is a Cantonese Canadian American queer pop artist and mural painter based in Toronto. Through their lens as a biracial gender-fluid immigrant, Kelcy explores what it feels like to find belonging and have cultural pride. They examine how food is a universal love language. They amplify stories of family-owned restaurants and queer spaces highlighting how our places of belonging directly tie us to our history, the land we live on, and our communities.
With the artist’s signature motif, the little purple people, Kelcy whimsically exemplifies the presence of the LGBTQIA+ community everywhere, and in many of their pieces spotlights the intersection of their Asian heritage and queer identity.
By using little purple people, Kelcy creates intricate, bustling scenes representative of immigrant and queer spaces. They invite the viewer to consider how their experiences with their community and with food have contributed to what home and belonging feel like.
