Parumveer Walia

Canadian artist Parumveer Walia (b. Chandigarh, India), is a visual artist working across text, photography, and film. Walia graduated from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design with a minor in Curatorial Studies and was a finalist for the 2025 Philip B. Lind Prize, Canada’s largest award for emerging artists. Exhibitions include The Polygon Gallery, TRAPP Projects, Gallery 881, and Capture Photo Festival (Canada), BINNAR Arts Festival (Portugal), and the Paxos Biennale (Greece), IMI (India), among others. Walia was a finalist for the Audain Travel Award (2024) and the Inaugural Kirloskar Art Award (2025). He was a Writer-in-Residence at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in 2024 and later served as the Executive Director and Curator of Unit 302 from 2024-25. Upcoming projects include Proof 32 at G44, Toronto (2026), and a public art commission with the City of Vancouver (2026).

DXC Artwork Title: Untitled (Future Studies)

Medium: video, installation, and object

Artist Statement: My practice expands the image-based across video, installation, and object forms to examine queerness as subject, aesthetic, and culture. Through sustained research into archives and socio- political episodes, I interweave historical material with my lived experiences to generate unstable, hybrid narratives that collapse distinctions between docu/fiction, still/moving, image/object, and past/present into a language understood as a ‘Third Space’.

Website: https://www.parumveerwalia.com/

Instagram: @parumveerwalia / @parumveer.art

DXC 2026 will open with Utopia Rewired: Creative Visions for Democratic Futures, a bold new exhibition spotlighting emerging artists from Canada and the European Union, on April 16. Presented in partnership with the European Union through its Delegation to Canada, the exhibition invites audiences to explore how art can reimagine democratic life—and the economic systems that shape it.