Sandra Brewster

Sandra Brewster is a Canadian artist based in Toronto whose work employs a range of media to engage concepts of movement that express an internal relationship with identity. Her practice is grounded in people of the Caribbean diaspora, who maintain a relationship with “back home”. Born to Guyanese parents, she is interested in a multilayered sense of being made up of a collision between geographies and temporalities. She expresses these complexities via the unfixed nature of her work’s materiality and presentation.

Sandra’s work has been featured internationally. Recent group and solo exhibitions have been held at Remai Modern (Saskatoon), Art + Practice (Los Angeles), Kenderdine Art Galleries (Saskatoon), Art Gallery of Guelph, Leonard & Bina Art Gallery (Montreal), Les Rencontres d’Arles – Méchanique Générale, Hartnett Gallery (Rochester), The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (Toronto), OPTICA, centre d’art contemporain (Montreal), MCA Chicago, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Gallery of Ontario, Or Gallery (Vancouver), Rajko Mamuzic Gallery (Novi Sad), Lagos Photo Festival.

Sandra Brewster is a recent residency fellow of Artpace San Antonio, Loghaven Artist Residency in Knoxville and Sacatar Brazil. She has been awarded the Gattuso Prize for outstanding featured exhibition of CONTACT Photography Festival 2017, the Toronto Friends of Visual Arts Artist Prize in 2018, a finalist for the 2023 Scotiabank Photography Award, and the recipient of the prestigious

Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award in 2024.

Sandra received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University and a Masters of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. She is represented by Olga Korper Gallery.

Photo: Jalani Morgan

Exhibitions

THE ARMORY SHOW

Lullaby of Birdland

Northern Exposure | L.A. Art Week

Take a Little Trip

News Stories

Available Artworks

Blur 20, 2021

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper, edition of 3 42.5" x 37"

Blur 21, 2017

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper, ed. of 3 45.75" x 38.25"

Blur 23, 2021

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper, edition of 3 42.5" x 37"

Blur 24, 2021

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper, edition of 3 42.5" x 37"

Claudia Jones, 2021

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper, edition of 3 45.75" x 38.25"

Frantz Fanon

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper, edition of 3 45.75" x 38.25"

Josephine Baker, 2021

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper, edition of 3 45.75" x 38.25"

Salome Bey, 2021

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper, edition of 3 45.75" x 38.25"

Minnie Riperton, 2021

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper, edition of 3 38.25" x 39"

Jean Michel Basquiat, 2021

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper, edition of 3 36.25" x 39.5"

artwork detail

Essequibo, 2019

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on mylar, acrylic paint, set of six, various sizes

Token (Handkerchief with Man), 2019

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper 7" x 10"

Untitled (token jewelery case), 2018

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper 7” x 10”

Token (Dominican mask), 2018

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper 10" x 7"

Token (Shield), 2019

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on archival paper 10" x 7"

artwork detail

In Queu / Shadow Dancing

Sandra Brewster
photo-based gel transfer on wood, 9" x 12" each (13-parts). Panels are sold individually, inquire for list of available panels