Venus Fest 2025 Visual Artist

SUKAINA KUBBA




Sukaina Kubba is an Iraqi-born Toronto-based multi-disciplinary artist whose work is rooted in material and cultural research, material experimentation, storytelling and drawing connections. In 2025 Kubba has exhibited at two seven two gallery, Toronto, Western Exhibitions, Chicago and Patel Brown, Montreal.  Her work has been shown in Toronto at Patel Brown (2024), Greater Toronto Art Triennial at MOCA (2024), Mercer Union SPACE Billboard Commission (2023-24), the plumb (2023), The Next Contemporary (2023), Art Gallery of Ontario (2019), and Aga Khan Museum (2017); and in Scotland at Dundee Contemporary Arts (2024), Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2016), Glasgow International (2016 and 2014) and Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2013). Kubba has upcoming exhibitions at Carleton University Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries, and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, her first institutional solo in Canada. Kubba has recently completed residencies at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York and La Wayaka Current, Chile. She is a sessional lecturer in Visual Studies at the University of Toronto, and was previously a curator and lecturer at The Glasgow School of Art (2013–2018).