Meet the Artist

Timo

Cheah

Interdisciplinary

“My practice engages the “third space” of diasporic experience through material systems that traverse geographic and metaphysical distances. ”

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Connecting a biotech ethos between found material and place, I attempt to perforate and mend processes within my lived experience of remote forest, distant farm and local city. I restitch as an active contribution to a wide array of dialogues rooted in, and extending beyond, a conglomerate of approaches to kinship. I loop this cycle in tangible forms with the foundational guidance of queer phenomenology and xenofeminism. Ripples of forest fire evacuation, goat birth assistance / emergency care / cremation, and intersectional discrepancy magnifications manifest in my work as movement remains at the core of my practice. Ecological systems in areas significant to me surface in my chosen mediums, as I reference the rafflesia arnoldii (dubbed the ‘corpse flower’) from Malaysia (linked to my paternal ancestry) and plant the homogenous forests I am contracted to in Canada.
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Major Completed, 2026
George Brown Polytechnic
Architecture Technology
Major Completed, 2019

Interdisciplinary Fabrication Painting Sculpture/Installation

2026, Grad Ex 111 Thesis Exhibition
OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2025, To Solve To Rot
Dragon City Mall, Toronto, ON
2025, Below Our Feet and Above Our Heads
Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
2025, Ontario Court of Justice Drawing & Painting Exhibition
Ontario Court of Justice Toronto, Toronto, ON
2025, For Better or So Much Worse
She Said Gallery, Toronto, ON
2024, deciphering as material
Ignite Gallery, Toronto, ON
2024, Circles
Chinatown Centre, Toronto, ON
2024, A Winter Exhibition
Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
2024, Chosen Family (with Shoes Off Collective)
Bevy Space, Toronto, ON
2023, Paraline (with Shoes Off Collective)
Midnight Arcade, Toronto, ON
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