Meera Sethi: Facing Material

Latcham Art Centre

Meera Sethi: Outerwear, installation view at Cambridge Art Galleries, Queen’s Square, 2023. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.

Meera Sethi
Facing Material

September 16 – October 26, 2026
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 16, 7 – 9pm
Latcham Art Centre, Stouffville
All are welcome, and admission is free.

In Facing Material, Meera Sethi asks us to consider what it means to make contact with material as a carrier of history, memory, place, grief, and resilience.

Across a range of media, Sethi’s methodology of deep investigation into cloth takes us from playful surface ornamentation into interrogations that reveal themes of connection, labour, craft, and community.

The exhibition includes soft sculpture installation, paintings, drawings, and the artist’s most recent tape-based Draweaves. Immersing viewers in an intricately constructed and richly patterned world, Sethi’s work reframes textile as a mode and metaphor of communication, focusing our attention toward interlaced narratives.

Latcham Art Centre gratefully acknowledges the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville for their generous support of this exhibition.

Meera Sethi, Block Print after Sushma (detail), 2026, Washi tape on plexiglass and paper. Courtesy of the artist.

About the Artist

Meera Sethi is a Toronto-based artist with a process-oriented, interdisciplinary, and research-based practice that moves between painting, drawing, sculpture, illustration, performance, and social practice. Her work sits at the intersection of the body and cloth, with a particular focus on South Asia and its diasporas. She references histories of gender, labour, environment, and colonization.

Sethi’s work can be found in the permanent collection of the Royal Ontario Museum and the Wedge Collection. In Canada, it has been exhibited regionally at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Cambridge Art Galleries, The Art Gallery of Burlington, and The Aga Khan Museum among other national venues. She is the recipient of multiple awards and residencies from the Toronto, Ontario and Canada Arts Councils, the Textile Museum of Canada, University of Toronto, Inter Access, The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Mount Allison University, and The University of Winnipeg.

She lives and works as an immigrant-settler in Tkaronto (Toronto, Canada), the traditional territory of the Anishnaabe, Haudenosaunee, Wendat, Chippewa, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

About Latcham Art Centre

Latcham Art Centre is a public art gallery that inspires the community to engage with arts and culture through dedicated exhibitions of contemporary art that reflect a range of artistic media and the cultural diversity of our province. Latcham Art Centre offers vibrant education programs that cultivate creativity and experimentation through classes, workshops, artist talks, and tours. Latcham Art Centre is located in Stouffville, Ontario, 45 minutes northeast of Toronto with free parking and is accessible via GO Transit. The Gallery is open to the public and admission is free.

Latcham Art Centre is accessible.

Gallery Hours:
Monday: 10am – 5pm
Tuesday: 10am – 8pm
Wednesday: 10am – 8pm
Thursday: 10am – 8pm
Friday: 10am – 5pm
Saturday: 10am – 5pm
Sunday: Closed

For more information please contact:
Jeff Nye, Curator
Latcham Art Centre
jeffrey.nye@latchamartcentre.ca

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