Katrina Jurjans

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 Ot...

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
[s] solo, [d] duo, [g] group, [f] art fair, [c] with elsewhere collective

2025
Summer Show [g] Shin Gallery, New York City, USA
Featured Artist [g] Gallery 1888, Toronto, Canada
2024
Round A/Void [c], Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
hence living, hence magical [s] The Untitled Space, New York City, USA
Summer Show [g] Shin Gallery, New York City, USA
The Case at Harbourfront [c] Harbourfront Center DesignTO, Toronto, Canada
2023
Crack in the Case [c] Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
2022
loom (at Trinity) [c] Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
Of The Shape We Inhabit [d], Shin Gallery (Shin Haus), New York City, USA
New Light [g], Project Gallery V, virtual
Hell(o) Arcadia? [g], Springbreak Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA
2021
When Words Fail [g] Visionary Art Collective, virtual
Variance [g] I like your work podcast, virtual
2020
loom [c] DesignTO, Toronto, Canada
Art Gallery of Hamilton [g], virtual
2019
momentarily i take the shape of a flower [s] Coldstream Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
The Other Art Fair [f] Los Angeles, USA
The Artist Project [f] Toronto, Canada
2018
in all forms love is reshaped [s] Vuco Artspace, Toronto, Canada
The Other Art Fair [f] Brooklyn Expo Center, New York City, USA
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibitio...