The Ontario Heritage Trust is committed to respecting how artists choose to identify themselves and recognizes these as deeply personal decisions. These artist bios are written by the artists in their own words.

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Rachel Rozanski (she/her) — Montreal, Quebec

As an interdisciplinary artist, Rachel Rozanski creates surrealist documentary pieces through the mediums of drawing, photography and video. Her creative research unravels cultural fantasies of restoration and repair in environments and in bodies, borrowing from scientific fields to trace planetary disablement through the study of air, sea and stone. Through residency projects in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Iceland, she has collaborated with researchers and has been inspired by studies of permafrost degradation, pollution, extinction and adaptations for the Anthropocene. Rozanski’s work as a PhD student and member of Access-in-the-Making Lab portrays the creative survival of people, plants and animals in both sick bodies and sick lands. Her work has been exhibited in galleries internationally and across Canada, including PAVED Arts, Circuit Gallery @ Prefix ICA, Two Rivers Gallery, the Âjagemô art space at the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Artspace Gallery for the CONTACT Photography Festival. Website

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Linda Lang (she/her) — Windsor, Ontario

Linda Mackey Lang is an expedition artist who first travelled to the Arctic in 2002 as Doris McCarthy’s studio assistant. What was supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime trip led to 17 polar expeditions and many climate-change paintings. Using a paint box that McCarthy had given her, Lang paints en plein air and creates larger canvasses in her studio that tell the story of her experiences. Lang is an elected Signature Member of Artists for Conservation, former Art Liaison for International Polar Year, founder of Polar Artists Group and the Arctic Quest 2006 project. She represented polar artists at the launch of the International Polar Year in Paris in 2007, participated in the Circumpolar Artists Round Table discussions at the United Nations Office in Geneva and, in 2008 and 2009, represented Canada at the Northern Lights Festival in the Russian Arctic. She has taught art workshops for the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB), the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and Climate Change expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica for Students on Ice. Lang’s painting Follow Your Dreams was presented to Ontario’s then-Lieutenant Governor James Bartleman in 2006 by the TCDSB. Three other paintings are in the personal collection of Governor General Mary Simon. Website

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Deepikah RB (she/her) — Toronto, Ontario

Deepikah is an Indian interdisciplinary artist based in T’karonto. She graduated from OCAD University with a Master of Fine Arts degree in interdisciplinary arts. She creates speculative installations about ecology, climate crisis and perception — in collaboration with materials like algae, plants, gelatine, and more than humans. She recently won the second prize in the visual arts category at the 2024 Scarborough Arts Annual Juried Show. Her thesis show, "a place to fall apart," was exhibited at Ignite Gallery in April 2024. Deepikah was part of the juried shows at the Propeller Art Gallery and the 2024 Geary Art Crawl (Toronto) and has exhibited across Canada, India and Mexico City. She was selected to present her work at Salón Acme in Mexico City in February 2025. Website

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Kyle Alden Martens (he/him, they/them) — Montreal, Quebec

Kyle Alden Martens is an artist, based in Montreal, who works in sculpture, installation, performance and video. They graduated from the NSCAD University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Intermedia and is a 2022 Master of Fine Arts graduate in sculpture from Concordia University where they were supported by the Dale and Nick Tedeschi Arts Fellowship, the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec — Société et culture. Martens has exhibited with Bradley Ertaskiran, Pangée, Circa Art Actuel and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery in Montreal, AXENÉO7 in Gatineau, as well as The Khyber Centre for the Arts in Halifax. Their exhibition PORTABLE CLOSETS has been shown nationally at Stride Gallery, Centre Clark and Eastern Edge gallery. Martens is a current laureate of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art at Concordia University. They are represented by the Patel Brown gallery in Toronto, where they recently exhibited a solo show of sculptural suit jackets, ropes, gloves and shoes titled Spun Through the Heel. Website

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Gwen Aube (she/her) — Maynooth, Ontario

Gwen Aube is a writer living in Montreal. Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming from LittlePuss Press. She is the author of the chapbook pulp necrosis (from above/ground press), and her work has appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review, Expat Press, Room Magazine, HAD and Filling Station. Alongside Simina Banu, she is co-editor of Maybe Mag. Originally from Windsor, Ontario, Aube lived for many years in the House of Lamb, a transsexual punk house and artist's incubator project. Aube is grateful to have received project grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, as well as a decade of generous support from the Ontario Works welfare program. Website