Collective Members
Pearl Van Geest
Pearl Van Geest (she/they) is a distinguished queer Canadian artist, writer, and arts educator with a prolific career since graduating from OCAD in 1996. Holding a BSc, MFA, and BEd, Van Geest's work graces private and public collections, including the Canadian Arts Council’s Art Bank, and has garnered support from grants by the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. A finalist for the RBC Painting Prize in 2003, she has led workshops in various public art galleries and curated the acclaimed Creative Dissent at the Art Gallery of Guelph in 2023. Having held residencies in Guelph, Kitchener-Waterloo, and attended programs like Banff Centre and Est-Nord-Est, Van Geest is also a skilled art writer, earning the Canadian Art Foundation’s Art Writing Prize in 2015. Currently, she serves as sessional faculty in the Visual Arts Department at Brock University and contributes to the Throbbing Rose collective, exploring themes of queer ecology.
