Grace Qian is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York and Toronto, Canada. She graduated with honors and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2024. She was awarded an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2023. Her solo exhibitions include Becoming More at Arts Etobicoke Storefront Gallery, Toronto, Canada, and Brief Encounters at SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY. Selected group exhibitions featuring her work include Liminal: Interstices Between and Betwixt at Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, Canada, the 2022 Artist Project Art Fair, Toronto, Canada, and Make Yourself at Home at Fragment Gallery, New York, NY.

Qian’s paintings explore moments when intimacy within one’s built environment is disrupted and redefined. Through formal and structural manipulations, they reveal the tension between how spaces are constructed and how they are lived in. By doing so, Qian frames the relationship between self and environment as a continuous negotiation.