Meet the Artist

Zavia

Forrest

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Zavia Forrest is a fifth-year Integrated Media student at OCAD. Coming from a film background and transferring to OCAD from UBC's Film Production program, Zavia expanded her practice to include digital media, sculpture, and installation work. Zavia's work focuses on Black womanhood and fertility, and explores the complexity of the Black femme body and its relationship to the society it lives and exists in. Zavia's works, Oasis and Over(sexualized)stimulated are smaller projects that culminate towards her broader study that will be expanded on in the fall. Zavia starts her Master's in Interdisciplinary Studies at OCAD in Fall 2024.
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Integrated Media
Major In progress, 2024
University of British Columbia
Film Production
Major Transferred, 2021

Digital Media (film, photo & video) Sculpture Installation

2024, GradEx 2024
Toronto, Ontario
2018, United Nations & PLURAL+ CHINH Award
United Nations
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