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Zana Wensel

Artist member since 2019
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Edmonton, Alberta

Zana Wensel is a multidisciplinary artist, queer ecologist, and somatic practitioner, who lives and practices on Treaty 6 Land in Edmonton, Alberta. Throughout her artistic practice, she explores the interrelationship between trauma, healing, and the body, and examines the ways in which our most-inner and outer experiences are connected. Informed by various levels of interoception (the sensing of the internal body state), Zana employs hand and body-based practices such as sewing, writing, drawing, and performance as a way of bringing consciousness to the body’s otherwise unconscious experiences. Through these means, she explores the body as both a site and conduit for self-realization, (re-)connection and healing, and weaves these threads into the greater landscapes of neurobiology, ecology, and spirituality. In doing so, she creates interactive and sensory installations that aim to re-embody viewers, and gives voice to the fabric of our human existence.


Inside the Studio

Upcoming Exhibitions
2024-01-05

Harcourt House, Edmonton
The Thread That Runs Through Me

Select Past Exhibitions
2022

Latitude 53, Edmonton
Schmoozy

2022

DC3, Edmonton
Blur

2021

Multicultural Heritage Centre, Stony Plain
The Thread That Runs Through Me

2020

CARFAC, Edmonton
Perspectives from Within

2020

Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, Edmonton
RBC Emerging Artists Project: As We Travel Through

2019

OCAD U, Toronto
GradEx

2019

187 Augusta, Toronto
Textile Dialogue

2018

Ghost FX, Toronto
Art After Dark, Queen West Art Crawl

2018

OCAD U, Toronto
Conquering Me

2017

Redhead Gallery, Toronto
Who Are You, Nuit Blanche

2014

The Works Art & Design Festival, Edmonton
Making Space

2014

Victoria School of the Arts, Edmonton
Art 30 IB Exhibition Show

Accolades
2022

Edmonton Arts Council
Artist's Grant

2021

Canada Council for the Arts
Artist's Grant

2020

RBC Emerging Artists Project
Apprenticeship

2019

OCAD U Center for Emerging Artists and Designers
Career Launcher Fund

Press
2022

Edmonton Journal
Mile Zero Dance’s upcoming show blur formed a new collective of artists

2022

Edmonton Journal
Three to See: Zana Wensel’s art, Schoen Duo and some Orthodox Christmas

2021

Edmonton Journal
Three to See: Nina window gallery, Smokey sings and virtual Metro

Residencies
2024

Keremeos
Similkameen Artist Residency

2023

Canada
newlocation

Education
2019

OCAD U
BDes

2014

Victoria School of the Arts
High School Diploma, Honors with Distinction

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