During her residency, Haley Uyeda will produce new works on paper, photo-based works, and site-specific paintings. Considering the premise that we each hold distinctive postures towards, and awarenesses of, our inner and outer worlds, her explorations will centre around the question: how are personal sensibilities formed? As someone who is half-Japanese and half-Newfoundlander, with two artist sisters, she will ponder the forces of predestination and cultivation when it comes to her own sensibility by thinking about her experiences navigating and responding to the world; cultural, social, aesthetic inheritance; decision making; as well as personal inclinations, preferences, morals, and sensitivities.

Artist Bio:

Haley Uyeda holds a Master of Fine Art from York University and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours from the University of Guelph. She has worked as a sessional instructor at York University and exhibited work in Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. Her work can be found in both private and public collections. Haley currently lives and works in Durham Region.