About Me
Sierra Peca is a Canadian painter 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 also 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, ON
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Faces in Places, VAM Creative Resident Show, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
World Art Day, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
Why Do You Create? Juried Show, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
2023
Portraits of Mississauga, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
Instructors Show, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga ON
The Middle Child, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto, ON
Aurora Exhibition, Health and Humanities, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON Everyday Encounters: Recent Points of View, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, ON Chromafilia, Erindale Theatre, Mississauga, ON
Why Do You Create? Juried Show, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
2022
Raw Artists Portal, Exhibition Place, Toronto, ON
The Middle Child, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto, ON
2021
PandeMINIum, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
RESIDENCIES
2024
Gozo Contemporary Residency, Gozo, Malta
Visual Arts Mississauga Creative Residency, Mississauga, ON
CURATION
2024
World Art Day, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
Now Streaming, Visual Arts Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
2023
Chromafilia, Erindale Theatre, Mississauga, ON
2022
Art at Hart, Hart House Art Committee, Toronto, ON
Arbour Room Magazine, Hart House Art Committee, Toronto, ON
The Middle Child, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto, ON
PandeMINIum, Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
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