Aadila Munshi
Toronto, ON, Canada
Aadila Munshi is a contemporary artist living in Toronto, Canada. She is known for her painted abstr...
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Aadila Munshi
Joined In 2015
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About the artist
Aadila Munshi
Joined In 2015
(2 Followers)
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Aadila Munshi is a contemporary artist living in Toronto, Canada. She is known for her painted abstractions of distressed urban environments. Fascinating urban textures and grunge are uniquely contrasted with soft, elegant marks and letters. Composed intuitively, her abstract expressions emerge as visual representations of her perception of the push and pull between struggle, hope, and the ability to rise above.
A former Criminologist, Aadila grew up in South Africa during the apartheid regime. She studied painting in the studio of a local artist in her town. In 2000, she moved to Toronto permanently, where she studied further at the Toronto School of Art and established her painting practice. Relocating third world sensibilities to the first world strongly informs her work.
2016 - Non-Objective Painting, Lila Lewis Irving (trained by Helen Frankenthaler)
2014 - Abstraction in Acrylic, Visual Arts Mississauga
2009-2010 - Fundamental Acrylic & Studio Practice, Toronto School of Art
2001-2002 - Abstraction, Toronto School of Art
1995-2000 BSocsc(Hons) Crim, University of Cape Town
2022
Artist Project Toronto. Queen Elizabeth Building, Canadian National Exhibition. April 21-24, 2022.
2021
‘Urban Edgy’, Group Exhibit, ARTA Gallery, Distillery District, Toronto, August 31 - September 23, 2021
Summer Highlights’, Group Exhibit, Artwrk Gallery (Online), August - September 2021
Summer Group Show, Blue Crow Gallery, Toronto, July 9 - September 3 2021
Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (60th Anniversary Show), July 2-11
The Artist Project 2021, Exhibit: Screen Time - ‘Her Perspective’. Online, May 20-28, 2021
Singulart – Europe’s premier online gallery, featuring emerging and established artists. Ongoing.
Artfully.ca - Canada’s finest online gallery, featuring emerging and established Canadian artists. Ongoing.
2020
Artfully.ca - Canada’s finest online gallery, featuring emerging and established Canadian artists. Ongoing.
Resilience, Solo Show curated by Alissa Sexton, Nov 27- Dec 3, 2020, Artwrk.ca.
Singulart – Europe’s premier online gallery, featuring emerging and established artists. Ongoing.
Summer Smalls Show, Blue Crow Gallery, Toronto,
The Artist Project 2020, Better Living Centre, Toronto, 20-23 February, 2020
2019
Summer Smalls Show, Blue Crow Gallery, Toronto, Ju...