Nashid Chroma
Toronto, ON
Booth 228
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Nashid Chroma is a Bengali-Canadian artist based in Toronto, ON. He holds a BFA with a minor in Psychology from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Architecture from the Daniels Program at the University of Toronto. His work is rooted in diasporic experience—shaped by being a Bengali immigrant raised primarily in Canada—and explores themes of identity, memory, and fragmentation. Working across both traditional and digital media, his imagery is often veiled, obscured, or incomplete, reflecting a fractured sense of self formed through frequent displacement. Between the ages of five and fifteen, he attended ten different schools, a period during which social anxiety intensified alongside a deepening reliance on art as both refuge and language. While much of his work over the past five years has drawn from music as a grounding and restorative force, his current practice has become more introspective. Using himself as reference, he examines lived experience and metaphysical questions surrounding alternative timelines, identity formation, and the infinite possibilities of becoming.
