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Salbhi Sumaiya
Native to Bangladesh, Salbhi Sumaiya is a Conceptual and Visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. While she has a pallet of skills, her main focus remains in Fine Arts. She majored in Fine Arts and completed her Hon's in Graphic Design and Multimedia at SMUCT, Dhaka. She also managed to land jobs at some of the top advertising firms in her country. She has won RBC awards, Newcomer and Refugee Artist Mentorship and Grants from Toronto Arts Foundation and Ontario Arts Council.
She is spreading her footprint through exhibitions in Canada, South Africa, Poland, Japan, Bangladesh and India. Thanks to such opportunities, she now has awards and credentials to show at both at a national and international level.
She is an innovative conduit for social and political change. Her themes are usually based on raising awareness on various contemporary issues, faced in today's world. Some of the previous themes in her body of work are on the mass extinction of animals caused by human interference and the calamities faced by Myanmar's atrocities against Rohingya population.
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