Kelcy Timmons Chan

Toronto, ON

Booth 405

Main

Kelcy Timmons Chan (they/them) is a Cantonese Canadian American queer pop artist and mural painter based in Toronto. Through their lens as a biracial gender-fluid immigrant, Kelcy explores how food is a love language. They amplify stories of immigrant and family-run restaurants and highlight how our cultural foods directly tie us to our history, the land we live on, and our communities. With the artist’s signature motif, the little purple people, Kelcy whimsically exemplifies the presence of the LGBTQIA+ community everywhere, spotlighting the intersection of their Asian heritage and queer identity. Using food and little purple people, Kelcy creates intricate, bustling scenes representative of immigrant and queer spaces, inviting the viewer to consider how their experiences of food have contributed to what home and belonging feel like.