Meera Sethi

Meera Sethi is a New-Delhi born, Toronto-based visual artist with a process-oriented, interdisciplinary, and research-based practice that moves between painting, drawing, fibre, illustration, public art, performance, and social practice.

Her work sits at the intersection of the body and cloth with a particular focus on South Asia and it’s diasporas. She references histories of gender, labour, textile, environment, clothing, and migration among other interests.

Since 2023, over a series of residencies, Sethi began developing an abstract language of weaving with adhesive tape. These new works carry the memory of cloth in their grid structure, however, gesture towards concerns such as memory, history, and the passage of time.

Her 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.