About the Artist

Taja Jinnah is an interdisciplinary artist who grew up on Nexwlélexwm/Bowen Island the ancestral and unceded territory of the Squamish Nation. They found constant joy in nature and inevitably their art often expresses a love for local ecology. They now live and work in Vancouver. Taja graduated in 2021 from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. They have a passion for ceramic sculpture, collective art making, and illustration/painting. Their past work includes experience in outdoor installations and social practice. Past projects have involved training in sustainable methods of making, and the integration of activism for a positive social impact. It’s always important to think about the contexts in which we live and make art and who our systems empower/disempower. Their art often draws on lived experience. Some themes they have explored include functionality, body, composite ways of living, wildlife conservation and climate education, how we form pedagogies, cyborg, the queer art of failure and more. Taja loves birding, criterion channel movies, sculpting and reading nature memoirs (& maybe wants to write one of their own someday)

Thanks for visiting my site! I’m still emerging into my practice and this is just the beginning of all that I hope to make 🌿🦫🦆🪐