Gillian Haigh

Born in Calgary, Alberta, Gillian Haigh is a visual artist based in Los Angeles. Gillian holds a BFA from Emily Carr University and is an MFA candidate at UCLA. Her work has been featured in exhibitions across Canada including; Canton-Sardine (2023); Monica Reyes Gallery (2023); the Banff Centre (2022); the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (2019); and Headline Gallery (2021). In 2022, Gillian was selected for a residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity via the Jim Dinning and Evelyn Main Endowed Scholarship for Visual Artists. Grounded in painting, her practice exists within a larger framework of queer theory and feminist thought which pursues the boundary of perception and interpretation. Embracing both abstraction and figuration, her visual vocabulary is a spectral blurring of traditional structures of representation.