Faculty of Art
Cross-Disciplinary Art: Life Studies
Meet the Artist
Aysia
Tse
Cross-Disciplinary
“In her thesis work BODY, GRATE AND TILE, Tse traces how bodily politics ripple through athletic environments, revealing the complex entanglements of queerness, mental health, discipline, and the physical and emotional labour of the performing body.”

Aysia Tse (b. Singapore) is an interdisciplinary artist, arts worker and community organizer whose practice includes movement-based work, performance and multimedia installations that engage themes relating to madness, queerness, and her mixed diasporic identity. She is currently developing projects that dive into the intersections of water, embodied movement, identity, and bodily politics.Aysia has worked with various arts organizations including Workman Arts, MABELLEarts, the Creative Research and Inclusive Practices (CRIP) Lab, Arts Etobicoke, STEPS Public Art and Femme Art Review. She has exhibited work at Trinity Square Video, Xpace Cultural Centre, Ignite Gallery, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Long Winter TO and the Rendezvous with Madness Festival. Aysia is grateful to have participated in residencies with the Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT), the Public Visualization Lab in collaboration with Duplex Artists Society and the Shoes Off Collective. She is currently an Artist-in-Residence with the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC).
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Art & Social Change
Minor Completed, 2023
Time-based Media Sculpture and Installation Performance
2025, Interwoven Identities: Intersectionality in Asian Mental Health
Asian Arts and Culture Trust (AACT)
2024, An irritant sweet as a grain of sand
Xpace Cultural Centre
2024, Deciphering as Material
Ignite Gallery
2024, When the Sun is Above the Horizon: Stories from Asian Diaspora
Trinity Square Video
2025, Peer Wellness Excellence Award
Office of the President, OCAD University
2025, Beautiful Trouble Award
OCAD University Faculty Association (OCADFA)
2023, Wendy Coburn Scholarship for Art and Social Change
Faculty of Art, OCAD University

Mixed Media
BODY, GRATE AND TILE: The Politics of Pool, Sport and Space
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