July 25 | Artist in the Gallery with Hayley Chi Hay Chiu
Saturday, July 25, 2026
2 PM
Free | Registration not required
About the Program
Join exhibiting artist Hayley Chi Hay Chiu for an in-gallery conversation exploring the ideas, materials, and processes behind her work. Presented in an interview-style Q&A, this informal discussion offers visitors an opportunity to learn more about the artist’s practice and the themes explored in the exhibition, followed by an opportunity for audience questions.
This program is funded by the TD Group, Jackman Foundation, Canada Summer Jobs, and the Varley-McKay Art Foundation of Markham.
About the Artist
Hayley Chi Hay Chiu (b. 2001) is a Markham-based, second-generation Chinese Canadian painter. Working primarily in oil, she holds a BFA in Drawing and Painting from OCAD University (2023). Her practice traces an ongoing journey of becoming and a search for “home,” reimagining personal narratives through fable and fantasy.
Chiu’s work features surreal depictions of the body and its environment, exploring themes of in-betweenness, desire, and inherited cultural imagery. By layering realism with fragmented and overlaid elements, she disrupts the illusion of direct representation, instead creating painterly worlds that reflect the mythologies we construct to find meaning within the everyday.
