Bio
Pixel Heller is a multidiciplinary artist based in Toronto whose work spans performance, photography, textiles, ceramics and painting. Influenced by her Afro-Canbbean heritage, her practice engages with themes of Black identity, cultural preservation and carnival masquerade. Pixel’s art explores the complexities of heritage, tradition and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She graduated from OCAD University in 2024 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Cross-Disciplinary Studies with a specialization in Life Studies.
Pixel's work reimagines ancestral narratives within a contemporary framework, bridging past and present. Through masquerade, she explores the resilience and evolution of Black culture, shaping costume, sculpture, and performance into reflections of history and acts of resistance. Her practice serves as both an homage and a reinvention, an ongoing dialogue that honors the endurance of Black identity while inviting new possibilities for the future.
Pixel has exhibited at Gallery 44, MCA Gallery, Meridian Arts Center, Sankofa Square, Gallery 1313 and internationally at the Black Brazil Art Biennial. She has artwork in The Wedge Collection and won the OCAD U Medal for Cross-Disciplinary Art. She has done performances at the ROM, Artist Project, BMO Field and the Waterloo Region Museum. Pixel was a part of Vibe Arts NExT: Cohort 5.0 and now is an artist in residence at the Robert McLauchlin Gallery.