Meera Sethi

Meera Sethi is a contemporary visual artist with a interdisciplinary, intuitive, and research-based practice that moves across painting, drawing, fibre, illustration, performance, and social practice.

Her work sits at the intersection of the subjugated body and histories of cloth with a particular focus on South Asia and it’s diasporas. She is interested in the making, wearing, and disposing of cloth; clothing as a form of self-expression and resistance; and the ways textile is constituted over vast geographies.

Through her work, she delves deep into the ways we understand and appreciate the self, the body, cloth and clothing including it’s histories, resonances, and possibilities.

Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Royal Ontario Museum and the Wedge Collection. It has been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of multiple awards from the Toronto, Ontario and Canada Arts Councils, the Textile Museum of Canada, University of Toronto, Inter Access, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.

She lives and works as an immigrant-settler in Tkaronto (Toronto, Canada), the traditional territory of the Anishnaabe, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and Mississaugas of the Credit River.