Khadija Aziz is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. A love for playfulness, patterns, collaboration and spontaneous art-making processes fuels her creativity. She investigates the making and transformation of patterns through the play of analogue and digital processes. Aziz creates installations, digital images, animations and Augmented Reality (AI) experiences by marrying slow textile-making techniques and tools with spontaneous digital manipulation methods.
As an educator, she has been creating community art experiences and teaching art workshops to Toronto’s underserved communities for over ten years. She is truly an interdisciplinary artist with an MFA from Concordia University in Montréal (2023) and a BFA from OCAD University in Toronto (2020) specializing in textiles. Her artistic and community arts practices have been recognized through awards from Craft Ontario (2019 and 2020), the Ontario Museum Association (2019) and the Surface Design Association (2020). Her art has been published and exhibited in Canada, the USA, Australia, Austria and the Czech Republic. Her former artist residencies include the Younger Than Beyoncé Gallery (Toronto, 2016), Harbourfront Centre’s Craft & Design Studio (Toronto, 2019), Pix Film Collective (virtual, 2021) and the Estonian Academy of Arts (Tallinn, 2022). Aziz is an Artist-in-Residence at Harbourfront Centre’s Craft & Design Studio (Textiles) in Toronto.