Meet the Artist

Cissy

Shi

Painting and Cross-Disciplinary Art

“I am not only a painter, I am a dream maker.”

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Cissy Ruoyao Shi was born in China in 2000, she is a Toronto-based cross-disciplinary contemporary artist specializing in drawing, oil and acrylic painting. She also works with sculpture and video installation. She graduated from Dawson college’s visual arts program in 2020, and she graduated from OCAD University drawing and painting program in 2023. Through her art, she dedicates to express emotions through a mixture of abstract and realistic images in the paintings. She uses color and composition to render the atmosphere and create psychological spaces representing dreams and memories. She believes only when a piece of art can move artists themselves, it can move people. Therefore, sex, sexuality, personal experiences, dreams, memories, and mental health are the most common themes of her works.
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Major Completed, 2023
Dawson College
Visual Arts
Major Completed, 2020
2023, Awenda Inspired!
Ada Slaight Gallery OCAD University, Toronto
2023, Archiving Nostalgia
great hall OCAD University, Toronto
2023, OCAD U annual silent auction exhibition
great hall OCAD University, Toronto
2023, Spring Proofs group exhibition & print sale
great hall OCAD University, Toronto
2023, GradEx108
OCAD University, Toronto
2023, A Worthy Contemplation: Exhibition of Sketches
Ada Slaight Gallery OCAD University, Toronto
2022, Eudaimonia
Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery Dawson College, Montreal
2022, A Step Back to Yesterday
Ada Slaight Gallery OCAD University, Toronto
2022, Introductory Fragments
Ada Slaight Gallery OCAD University, Toronto
2022, Abstract
Ada Slaight Gallery OCAD University, Toronto
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