Michelle Peraza – Tú eres mi otro yo: Mundos, Mundo, Worlds

July 4, 2026 - October 3, 2026

Michelle Peraza, Implictus and Incognitus Inter-Cosmologies (detail), 2025. Mixed media. Courtesy of the artist.

Tú eres mi otro yo: Mundos, Mundo, Worlds presents new works by Michelle Peraza, a second-generation Latin American Canadian of Cuban and Costa Rican descent whose practice explores postcolonial identity, interconnection, and transformation. Developed during a two-year period of recovery following a serious car accident, the works emerge from Peraza’s personal journey of healing and draw on Curanderismo, a traditional healing approach that blends Indigenous Mesoamerican, African, and European medicinal knowledge with spiritual beliefs and ceremonial practices.

Using amate paper, medicinal plants, precious metals, hand-dyed textiles, and hand-stitched fibres, Peraza creates intricate works that speak to repair, resilience, and care. Guided by Mesoamerican worldviews and a deep reverence for celestial and earthly rhythms, she approaches artmaking as a process of re-worlding—extending personal healing into a broader consideration of how individuals, communities, and the natural world might heal, reconnect, and flourish together.

About the Artist: Michelle Peraza (b. 1991) is a visual artist of Cuban and Costa Rican descent. She holds a BA from Western University, a BFA from OCAD University and an MFA from York University. She has completed residencies at Mauser EcoHouse (Costa Rica), Vermont Studio Centre (United States), Arquetopia (Mexico), Art Gallery of Ontario (Canada), Sustainable Colour Lab Summer Institute at OCAD University (Canada), and Gibraltor Point Centre for the Arts (Canada). She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including support from Craft Ontario, Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Arts Council, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Joe Plaskett Foundation. She has exhibited in public and artist-run galleries including Maison de la Culture Claude-Léveillée, Niagara Artists Centre, Cambridge Art Galleries, Sur Gallery, TAP Centre for Creativity, Guelph Civic Museum, Tom Thomson Gallery and upcoming at Neutral Ground. She teaches in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University and works and lives in Toronto/Tkaronto.

Opening Reception: Saturday July 11, 2026 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm