water of my ancestors (the smell of roses) Painting

Katrina Jurjans is a Toronto-based artist whose work is inspired by emotional narratives, boundaries – spatial, temporal, bodily – and magical realism. Through fragmented compositions of intricate pattern and vibrant colour, her work plays with the shift between real and imagined, present and past, memories and dreams. As backgrounds bleed into foregrounds and figures hover in spatial ambiguity, she presents the world as a continuously transforming and reshaping entity, often existing in many places at once. Primarily a painter, recent endeavours in installation have become more frequent in both her independent practice as well as with the multidisciplinary artist collective, elsewhere, of which she is a founding member. Her work has been generously supported by the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts. Notable past exhibitions include solo shows at Untitled Space, New York City and Coldstream Fine Art, Toronto (2020) as well as group shows at Gallery 1888, Toronto (2025) Shin Gallery, New York (2022, 2024) and Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2022, 2023, 2024) among others. Her work has been featured in a number of contemporary art fairs including SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, Los Angeles (2022) and The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles (2019) and Brooklyn (2018). She has participated in art residencies in Denmark, Mexico, and Canada.