ILSA AHMAD
the L word, oil on wood, 16x20”, 2023
INTERVIEW:
do you wanna hear a secret, oil on wood, 16x20”, 2023
opening, oil on wood,16x20” ,2023
I Love My Portal: pop-up cards. (found stock photos and old internet ephemera, created digital collage prints, stickers and various papers). Edition of 10, 2023
Ilsa Ahmad (b.2000) is an emerging multidisciplinary artist currently living in amiskwaciywaskahikan/Edmonton, Alberta. Working in painting and new media, Ilsa explores the vanishing boundaries between digital realms, divine spaces, and their own emotional body. Pulling non-linear and sometimes nonsensical narratives from her dreams, lived experiences and stream of consciousness writing, Ilsa mythologizes these confessions/offerings as a form of storytelling, investigating the implications of radical honesty in all realities.
Recent exhibitions include I don't know how, but I'm taller at FAB Gallery (2023), these bodies heal slowly and in our own time at McMullen Gallery (2023), and the soil between plants at Latitude 53 (2022). Ilsa co-curated Growing Pains at dc3 Art Projects (2023) with Amanda Komarniski and Lisa Bourque.