Pavitra Wickramasinghe is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice reimagines the moving image and challenges conventional ways of seeing. Her work explores migration, transformation, and the reinvention of objects, often addressing themes of travel, fluidity of place, and memory. Pavitra’s work has been exhibited across Canada, the USA, Europe, Sri Lanka, Japan, and South Korea, among others. Pavitra has participated in numerous local, national, and international residencies, and has received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and she is the recipient of The Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art in 2011.
Since 2010, Pavitra has been a long-time collaborator with artist Amélie Brisson-Darveau. Their joint projects have received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Foundation PHI, and Place des Arts. Their work has been exhibited in Canada, the USA, France, Finland, and Germany.
Born in Colombo, Pavitra now lives and works in Tio’tia:ke/Montréal, on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka.
CURRENTLY :
2024 Umbra, l’obscurité et l’absence de lumière, Place des Canotiers, Québec
UPCOMING :
2026 TBD, La galerie McClure, Montréal [TWO-PERSON EXHIBITION]
2025 Mini golf d’art contemporain, Ateliers Belleville, Montréal, Québec [GROUP EXHIBITION]
RECENT :
2024 Les habitats de l’ombre, Mosaïque d’écrans de l’Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme, la Place des Arts, Montréal, Québec [SOLO EXHIBITION/COLLABORATION with Amélie Brisson-Darveau]
2024 Umbra, l’obscurité et l’absence de lumière, STUDIOTELUS, Grand Théâtre de Québec, Manif d'art 11 - La biennale de Québec, Québec [SOLO EXHIBITION], February 28 - May 28, 2024
2023 Les contours de l’oubli, Fondation PHI pour l’art contemporain, Montréal, QC [SOLO EXHIBITION/ COLLABORATION with Amélie Brisson-Darveau]
2023 L’envol du printemps, Centre sportif de Mont-Tremblant, Mont-Tremblant [PUBLIC ART PROJECT]
2022-23 PHI Montréal Residency, Fondation PHI pour l’art contemporain, Montréal [RESIDENCY]
2022 La mer/In a blue while, DRAC - Art actuel Drummondville, Drummondville [SOLO EXHIBITION]
2022 Chroma, Aréna Raymond-Bourque, Saint-Laurent [PUBLIC ART PROJECT]
2022 Image Forum Festival, Tokyo, Japan (SCREENING)
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