Arts for Equity Exhibition

February 13 - March 7, 2026

Arts For Equity

Arts for Equity was exhibited at 235 Water Street, in the Scotiabank Building from February 13 – March 7, 2026 as a part of Eastern Edge’s Arts for Equity project.

This exhibition was curated by Bruno Vinhas, and included work by:

Aidan Payne, Aldo Cinco, Anastasia Tiller, Anne Cortez, Brian Amadi, Echo Henoche, Emily Andrea Best, Ernest Boateng, Gaayathri Sukantha Murugan, Ginok Song, Hadiza Bello, Linh Pham, Ismael Gomezcana Cuevas, Jennie Williams, Jessica Brown, Jessica Winters, Megan Samms, Leah Osmond, Mavis Penney, Melissa Samms, Nasim Makaremi Nia, Nikita Sachdeva, Pete Barrett, Quasi M. Abrar, Regan Edmunds, Shania Sanderson, Stephanie Brant, and the students of Meleny Yetman-Holloway’s Grade-12 art class at Holy Heart of Mary High School.

To learn more about the exhibition and read all artists’ bios and statements, click here.

Quote from the curator:

“When I was invited to curate the Arts for Equity exhibition, I came with an understanding that curating is never neutral. It is a practice shaped by power, by proximity, and by responsibility. Curating this project’s exhibition has been a simple yet powerful exercise of breaking down the barriers of art spaces, with the understanding that inclusion is more than a word on a grant application and equity is a basic living right in, and outside of the white cube. Working beyond the curatorial frame requires one to listen to the artists and their work, to remain attentive to the relationships and the unspoken, powerful language of the visual elements. If Arts for Equity offers at least one thing to the art world, it is an invitation forward. An invitation to institutions, audiences, and curators to reconsider how power is held and shared, how representation is shaped, and how belonging is practiced beyond symbolic gestures. To move beyond the curatorial frame is to accept that equity is never complete; it must be practiced again and again, imperfectly and collectively. This project closes not with certainty, but with possibility, with the hope that what has been held here might continue to unfold elsewhere, carried forward through relation, accountability, and care.”

– Bruno Vinhas, Curator (Click here to reach Bruno’s full curatorial essay.)

Photo Documentation

Photo Credit: Shireen Merchant