ABOUT THE ARTIST
Naomi Grace (she/her) is a multisensory artist born and currently living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, Canada). With formal education in music, she spent over a decade as a professional musician and arts educator across Western Canada before a major life event in 2019 shifted her focus toward visual and interdisciplinary arts. That transition opened her practice into a wide-ranging field spanning painting, photography, collage, mixed media, living sculpture, culinary ritual, and sound. She is currently expanding her work into interactive installation and digital media, seeking new ways for audiences to enter her art through multiple senses. Her semiotic visual practice is defined by bold contrasts of shadow and light, radiant colour palettes, and intricate surface detail, with influences of folk art and psychedelic aesthetics.
A self-described “multisensory medicine-maker and artsy-fartsy rabble-rouser,” Naomi’s work is deeply entwined with plants and fungi, which she engages as material, symbol, and source of knowledge. Visually, her large-scale pieces unfold in prismatic colour fields, pointillist textures, patterned surfaces, and stained-glass-like luminosity. Sacred symbology runs throughout, drawing from intercultural traditions to hold memory, mark transitions, and speak across boundaries of language and identity.
Naomi approaches art as both ritual and medicine: a way of documenting histories, honouring ancestral and intergenerational wisdom, and opening portals for collective imagination. At the heart of her practice is a devotion to the feminine principle and matriarchal ways of knowing, centering women and African diasporic foremothers as leaders, visionaries, and catalysts for change. Food, fire, story, and song recur as grounding motifs, linking contemporary expression with ancient practices of gathering, survival, and celebration. Engaging themes of Afrofuturism, matriarchy, and the reclamation of sacred rites, her work treats creativity as a vital force for shifting consciousness and restoring connection
Recognized with awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Arts Council, and the City of Vancouver Cultural Services Artist Studio Award (current), Naomi Grace reclaims art as sacred medicine: a practice of memory, imagination, and resilience that restores connection to ourselves, to each other, and to the living world.