Bareket Kezwer
Bareket Kezwer (she/they) is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, muralist, and facilitator whose work explores how art can foster connection, reflection, and collective care in public space. Working across large-scale murals and participatory installations, they create vibrant, bold, and uplifting works that invite people to pause, notice, and engage.
A student of mindfulness and meditation, and deeply inspired by the natural world, their practice is shaped by an ongoing attention to cycles of growth, tending, and care. Time spent gardening informs how they approach both materials and people, with an emphasis on patience, responsiveness, and creating the conditions for something to emerge collectively.
Bareket approaches creativity as a response to the epidemic of loneliness, using art to gather people and make space for shared experience. Their projects often take shape through workshops and exchanges where participants contribute stories, gestures, and marks that become part of the final work. Colour, joy, and gratitude are central tools in this process, used intentionally to support mental wellbeing in the city. Their artworks act as invitations to imagine more connected and compassionate communities.
Over the past decade, Bareket has led public art and community-engaged projects across Canada and internationally, including collaborations with CAMH, StreetARToronto, and Luminato Festival. Alongside their studio practice, they mentor emerging artists, supporting them in developing their voice and navigating the realities of public art.
A student of mindfulness and meditation, and deeply inspired by the natural world, their practice is shaped by an ongoing attention to cycles of growth, tending, and care. Time spent gardening informs how they approach both materials and people, with an emphasis on patience, responsiveness, and creating the conditions for something to emerge collectively.
Bareket approaches creativity as a response to the epidemic of loneliness, using art to gather people and make space for shared experience. Their projects often take shape through workshops and exchanges where participants contribute stories, gestures, and marks that become part of the final work. Colour, joy, and gratitude are central tools in this process, used intentionally to support mental wellbeing in the city. Their artworks act as invitations to imagine more connected and compassionate communities.
Over the past decade, Bareket has led public art and community-engaged projects across Canada and internationally, including collaborations with CAMH, StreetARToronto, and Luminato Festival. Alongside their studio practice, they mentor emerging artists, supporting them in developing their voice and navigating the realities of public art.
FEATURED IN
Luminato at Lower Jarvis
