CV
EDUCATION
BFA OCAD U Indigenous Visual Culture program,
AWARDS
Indigenous Visual Culture Medal
Nora E. Vaughan Award
Akin Studio's Career Launcher 2020
2020
editor for issue 3 vol. 7-9 of Together Apart x Grunt Gallery
exhibition review for Tau Lewis @ Cooper Cole Gallery
illustration for 2020 Wordfest
Durham Art Gallery Digital Residency
"Part Three" @ Images Festival, Light Year Festival, TQFF in partnership with Indigenous Curatorial Collective and Big Art TO
illustration for “Culture, Connection, and Resurgence”x Design de Plume x Mastercard Foundation
2019
"Part Three" premired @ TQFF
"Together Apart:Indigiqueer Firsts" zine contributor
mural in partnership w/ SKETCH x Liberty Village BIA
"Not For You" zine contributor
illustration for Three Sisters Soup for the Spirit
2018
illustration in Three Sisters Soup for the Spirit
illustration for The Peak
Weave and Mend collective garden project
All LitUp header
2017
2015
two illustrations published in Shameless magazine
mural for Edge West (Davenport Perth Community Centre)
SHOWS
2020
2019
vendor @ Xpace Cultural Centre Holiday Market
vendor @ 2SQTBIPoC Arts and Zine Fair (Fall)
Weave and Mend Harvest Celebration @ SKETCH (organizer)
Shapeshifters (Bi Arts Festival) @ Beaver Hall
BIPOC Art Gallery at Wilfrid Laurier University's Social Justice Forum
Between Ice and Earth @ Xpace Cultural Centre
I Keep My Heart Wrapped In Leather @ gallery 1313
Dundas West Fest x The Rude Collective @ soso foodclub
Weave and Mend Garden Opening
Free Money Comic Book Launch @ Toronto Media Arts Centre
vendor @ 2SQTBIPoC Community Arts/Zine Fair (Spring)
Black Richness the Untapped Potential of Our Ancestry @ OCADU
2018
Weave and Mend Launch @ Artscape Youngplace
curated "Bodies of Water" instillation @ Children's Peace Theatre
Indigenous Visual Cultures end of year show "Flux Refusal" @ OCADU
"Dreams" curated by Razan Ali @ 187 Augusta
2017
‘Terra Incognita’ @ daneil spectrum artscape
Indigenous Visual Cultures program graduate show ‘Arrive” @ OCADU
“Anywhere Anytime” @ 442 Dufferin St
2016
vendor @ Feminist Art Conference w/ collective MAYAKAYA @ OCAD
vendor @ Death Cookie Soup Collective w/ collective MAYAKAYA @ Dundas Video
2013
nuit blanche @ gladestone hotel
WORKSHOPS
2020
Etobicoke Arts Mural Workshop series
Weave and Mend Online Beading workshop
2019
zine workshop @ Ryerson PowWow
Rivers Rising Brainstorming/Illustration workshop @ Gledhill Public School
2018
zine workshop - Indigenous Education Week @ University of Toronto
zine workshop - Willows for Wellness
2017
zine workshop @ gardiner museum
2014
co-facilitated graffiti workshop at Niagara Junior Public School
INTERVIEWS
http://www.xpace.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/External-Space_Kaya-Joan_Essay-1.pdf
https://www.sketch.ca/2019/10/sketch-colours-liberty-village/
https://uofrpress.ca/Books/B/Black-Writers-Matter
https://thepublicstudio.ca/news/a-labour-of-love-kaya-joan
https://www.revibe-to.com/tvo-april-kaya
http://canadianart.ca/features/looking-damn-fine/
COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
PERFORMANCES
2019
Weave and Mend Garden Opening
2018
Kali Ma EP by Myst Milano release @ gladstone hotel
2017
languages of the land festival @ childrens peace theatre
featured artist partnered w/ the community creative