About

Gizem Candan is a Turkish-Canadian visual artist and curator based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke, working across painting, installation, earth and botanical pigments, bioplastics, compost, and ecology. Her curatorial and artistic practice explores the tensions and interactions between human and non-human figures and their environments, employing both natural and synthetic elements as materials and motifs; it envisions a reimagined harmony grounded in identity, culture, and individual experience.

Candan has exhibited internationally at spaces such as London Design Festival, UK; Articule; Sivarulrasa Gallery; Cedar Ridge Creative Centre; TD Gallery at Toronto Reference Library, Canada; Elgiz Museum; Pera Museum; Akbank Sanat; Arkas Art Center; and Cermodern, Turkey. She has also curated exhibitions at Ignite Gallery; Xpace Cultural Centre; and Onsite Gallery, Toronto, received Onsite Gallery's Delaney Family Emerging Curator’s Prize in 2025, and participated in NAMARA | projects’ curatorial residency in 2026. She is founder of Project Decaying Palette, and co-founder of the GAS Collective with curator Steffi Ng.
Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support.