Art Creates Change: Sandra Brewster

Installation view of Blur, 2022, photo-based gel transfer on wall, H: 96in., Arles 2022. Photo: Aurore Valade / Rencontres d’Arles 2022

OCAD University’s Faculty of Art presents:
Art Creates Change
The Kim Pruesse Speakers Series

Sandra Brewster

Artist Talk & Reception: Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 7 pm
OCAD University Auditorium (Room 190), Toronto

Free to Public
Wheelchair accessible
ASL provided

Art Creates Change is a long-running lecture series, almost 20 years, sponsored by the Faculty of Art at OCAD University. The series focuses on artists whose work engages and challenges the conventions of creative practice and political imperatives, and their various locations of agency.

Sandra Brewster’s work employs a visual poetic, often using photographic transfer mediums and other multidisciplinary methods, to engage concepts of movement that express an internal relationship with identity. Her material practice leads to visceral images and surfaces that suggest a collision of place and time, most especially of and for diasporic Black communities.

Brewster is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. She has exhibited internationally from Los Angeles to Lagos to Brazil, and at many galleries and festivals. She was awarded the Gattuso Prize for outstanding featured exhibition at the CONTACT Photography Festival, the Toronto Friends of Visual Arts Artist Prize, and the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award in 2024. Sandra Brewster received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University and a Masters of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. She is represented by Olga Korper Gallery.

Co-sponsors:
OCAD U Art & Social Change
Centre for Studies in Black Canadian Diaspora

OCAD University
Auditorium, Room 190
100 McCaul Street
Toronto, ON M5T 1W1
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2025 Co-programmers: b.h. Yael & Min Sook Lee