About the Artist
Michelle Msami is a visual artist born (b. 2000) and raised in Botswana. She resides in British Columbia, Canada, where she attends the University of The Fraser Valley, studying for a Bachelor’s in Fine Art with a major in Visual Arts. She has explored and experimented with painting, photography, sculpture and short films, evolving to be a multidisciplinary artist whose main medium of expression is painting.
These mediums have assisted her in her creative practice, to conceive ideas, integrate them and learn from them. She has shown her works in the galleries in Botswana, Canada and England.
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2017 - IBDP, Westwood International School, Gaborone, Botswana.
- 2019 - BFA (pending), University of the Frser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada (expected 2025).
EXHIBTIONS 2025
- Becoming, Art on Demand 11.2, The Reach Museum Gallery, Abbotsford, BC, Canada.
- Interpret Festival, Graduating Exhibtion, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, BC, Canada.
2024
- 56 Artists to Celebrate 56 Years,Langley Arts Council, Langley, BC, Canada.
- See Me Now, The Cultch Theatre Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- SENSES, The Holy Art Gallery, London, England, UK.
- Open Space Gallery, Senior Studio Group Exhibtion, Abbotsford, BC, Canada.
2023
- Vancouver Mural Festival, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- BLM Social Justice Art Project, Selected Group Exhibition, S’eliyemetaxwtexw Art Gallery, Abbotsford, BC, Canada.
2019
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Culture Art Café, Selected Group Exhibiton, Gaborone, Botswana.
- Thapong Art Gallery, Selected Group Exhibtion, Gaborone, Botswana.
2025
- Artist Talk: Celebrating Black Artists for Black History Month, The Reach Gallery Museum, C3 Community Out Reach Program, Abbotsford, BC, Canada, February 5th.
- Louden Singletree, Cover, Issue #17, Winter 2025
2021- 2022
- Black Lives Matter Social Justice Project
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BLM art exhibit calls out systemic racism — works are on
display in Abbotsford locations. UFV today, March 4, 2022.
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BLM art exhibit calls out systemic racism. CHASI website, February 28 2022.
- CityStudio Hubbub student showcase launches April 27. UFV Today, April 2021.
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BC, Canada
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I, Michelle Msami, acknowledge that I am working, living and creating on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Stó:lō, Semá:th (Sumas), Mathxwí (Matsqui), and Leq\'á:mel First Nations.
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