About Me
Sierra Peca is a Canadian artist and art historian. She is pursuing graduate studies in Art History at the University of Toronto with an interest in feminist and decolonial theory. With a focus on oil painting, Peca's art practice combines and is influenced by painting, drawing, print, and photography to reflect on her cultural identities, nostalgia, and banality. Though often exploring figures in situ, the artist also seeks to explore nature and textiles in more recent work. Her art has been exhibited at the Women’s Art Association of Canada, the Blackwood Gallery, Erindale Theatre, and Visual Arts Mississauga. She has held residencies at Visual Arts Mississauga and Gozo Contemporary (Valletta Contemporary) and was a finalist for the Emerging Visual Artist category at the Mississauga Arts Awards.
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EDUCATION
2025 – University of Toronto, MA, Art History
2023 – University of Toronto, HBA in Art & Art History and Professional Writing & Communication
2023 – Sheridan Institute of Advanced Learning, Diploma in Painting (Art & Art History, joint program)
2016 – Academy of Art San Francisco, Pre-College Art Experience Certificate
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
The Fragility of Identity, Ascent Gallery, Toronto, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Shifting Forms, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
2024
Faces in Places, VAM Creative Resident Show, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
World Art Day, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
Why Do You Create? Juried Show, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
2023
Portraits of Mississauga, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
Instructors Show, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
The Middle Child, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto, Canada
Aurora Exhibition, Health and Humanities, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada
Everyday Encounters: Recent Points of View, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada
Chromafilia, Erindale Theatre, Mississauga, Canada
Why Do You Create? Juried Show, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
2022
Raw Artists Portal, Exhibition Place, Toronto, Canada
The Middle Child, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto, Canada
2021
PandeMINIum, Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada
RESIDENCIES
2024
Gozo Contemporary Residency, Gozo, Malta
Visual Arts Mississauga Creative Residency, Mississauga, Canada
CURATION
2024
World Art Day, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
Now Streaming, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
2023
Chromafilia, Erindale Theatre, Mississauga, Canada
2022
Art at Hart, Hart House Art Committee, Toronto, Canada
Arbour Room Magazine, Hart House Art Committee, Toronto, Canada
The Middle Child, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto, Canada
PandeMINIum, Sheridan College, Oakville, Canada
AWARDS
2024
Dr. Annie Smith Graduate Scholarship, Sheridan College
Finalist, Emerging – Visual Arts: Traditional Forms, Mississauga Arts Awards (MARTYS)
2023
Faculty Award for Excellence in Painting 4, University of Toronto and Sheridan College
2020-23
Dean’s List Scholar, University of Toronto
2022
Faculty Award for Excellence in Painting 3, University of Toronto and Sheridan College
Dr. Annie Smith Travel Scholarship, University of Toronto and Sheridan College
ART PUBLICATIONS
2021-24 – BUFF
2023 – Aurora Exhibition Guidebook
2021 – Arbor Room Magazine