Negar Pooya
Windows of Memory | Vaughan/Toronto, Ontario
Negar Pooya is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Ontario, Canada. With a BA in Painting and an MFA with honours in Fine Art, her practice spans photography, painting, printmaking, collage, and digital art. Drawing on her lived experience as an immigrant woman and over three decades of artistic practice, she explores themes of identity, memory, displacement, and humanity’s evolving relationship with nature. Her layered photo-based works, shaped by a painter’s eye, use symbolism and emotional nuance to reflect the tension between natural and urban spaces. Negar’s work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions.
About the Project
Windows of Memory engages immigrant elders in Ontario to reflect on their journeys of arrival and belonging. Through guided workshops and conversations, participants will transform their life stories into visual narratives using collage, archival photographs, letters, and symbolic objects. The final works will be presented in public spaces, inviting the broader community to connect with untold stories of migration, identity, and resilience. By transforming personal memories into shared experiences, the project fosters inclusion, activates public spaces through art, and creates a space for intergenerational dialogue and recognition.