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Lina Wu

Artist member since 2020
Toronto, Ontario

Lina Wu (BDes OCAD U) is an illustrator by trade based in Tkaronto/Toronto. More accurately, she is an enthusiastic cultural worker by day and a misfit artist by night. Lina loves to draw, write, and play in a way that combines softness and strength. Her work grapples with self-perception, mythology, queer theory, diaspora, mental health, and adolescence, twisting across highbrow and lowbrow aesthetic traditions.

Select Past Exhibitions
2019

Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
Recess

Accolades
2021


401 Richmond Studio Career Launcher Prize

2021


OCAD U Career Launcher Prize

2020


Ross Mendes Memorial Scholarship

2019


David Barker Maltby award, Gallery 44

2017


Linda and Robert J. Goldberger Scholarship

2017


Don Mills C.I. CyberARTS Award

2016


Applied Arts Student Award

2020


Broken Pencil Zine Award Nominee

Press
2018

Artsy
7 Zines That Helped People Work through Mental Health Issues

Residencies
2021

Toronto Animated Image Society
TAIS Microresidency Program

2019

Canada Comics Open Library, Toronto
Creator Residency

Education
2021

OCAD University
BDes, Illustration (Minor, English)

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