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