Portraiture for Social Change
Karen Tsui (she/they) is a second-generation Chinese immigrant-settler situated on unceded Coast Salish territory, including the lands of the the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Indigenous peoples. Primarily using acrylic paints, she is interested in exploring portraiture as a tool of social change by which Othered bodies are represented. Her paintings are informed by her experiences as a racialized person of colour living, working, and creating on stolen land. Karen is a graduate of the UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice (B.A., 2020).
