Annie Canto
Continuing Studies Instructor and Sessional Faculty
- She/They
- acanto@ecuad.ca
Bio
Annie Canto is a visual artist and educator living on the unceded homelands of the hənqəminəm and Skwxwú7mesh speaking peoples in Burnaby, British Columbia. The underpinnings of Annie’s socially engaged art practice use critical race theory and women of colour feminist theories to question the complex systems that govern our relationships.
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Research Interests
In comic, installation, social practice and print-based practices, Annie is interested in exploring experiences of social rupture and its flipside of kinship and belonging; misconnections, halting attempts, the fault lines, the absurd, all those unintentionally telling moments that expose the things we simultaneously fear and long for. Annie is interested specifically in how these moments are inspired by cultural histories and stories of migration. Alongside these art and teaching practices, Annie supports the creation of co-ops by and for racialized and migrant communities at Solid State Community Industries in Surrey, B.C.