Veronica Spiljak
Veronica Spiljak is one of the current Resident Artists participating in the City of Mississauga’s Resident Artist Program at the Living Arts Centre.
About the artist
Veronica Spiljak (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who completed her BFA at the University of Toronto Mississauga in 2021 and her MFA at York University in 2024. Spiljak has exhibited locally, including shows at the Blackwood Gallery, U of T Art Museum, Women’s Art Association of Canada, OCAD University, Propeller Gallery and Visual Arts Mississauga. She has also been granted the winner of the 2023 MARTY awards in the Multimedia Visual Arts category and the Annie Smith Graduate Scholarship from Sheridan College.
Spiljak uses weaving methodologies and familial archives among the discourse of grief, trauma, the domestic space, ritual, religion and gendered labour. Her recent projects explore subverting and incorporating found images, video, Slavic motifs, text and text(iles) in a disembodied search for identity. Through works of embroidery, image-making, performance, installation, Spiljak aims to include a “distraction-as-ceremony” based methodology, similar to weaving methodologies, as a form of reconnection to her Polish upbringing. Spiljak recreates site-specific ephemera to primarily ask how can the idea of recreating space and language bring up familiarity, intimacy or memory?
