Emma Nishimura & Linda Sormin: Gestures of Remembering

Emma Nishimura is a Toronto-based artist who works with a range of media, including printmaking, photography, sculpture and installation and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work is in a number of public and private collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Japanese Canadian National Museum and the Library of Congress. She is the recipient of the Queen Sonja Print Award 2018. Emma Nishimura received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her BA from the University of Guelph, and is an Assistant Professor at OCAD University.

Born in Thailand, Linda Sormin immigrated to Canada at the age of five. Sormin lives and works in New York City, and is Associate Professor of Studio Art at New York University. She has taught ceramics at Emily Carr University, Rhode Island School of Design, Sheridan College and Alfred University. In 2023, Sormin presented an immersive multi-media installation on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston as part of 'Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence' which then toured to the Seattle Art Museum. Sormin's work has recently been shown at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA, and Peach Corner Gallery in Copenhagen, and Messums in Wiltshire, UK. Notable collections include the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, NY,  Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington DC, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and The Gardiner Museum, Toronto.