About

Yuki Kéké Tam (she/they) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator of Chinese descent living in the land known as Canada. She is pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts at Concordia University with a concentration in Print Media. She received her Bachelors of Arts from York University with a double major in Human Rights & Equity Studies and Fine Arts. She comes from a long line of makers and thinkers who believe that art is a democratic and social practice. She is interested in developing pedagogies of care in her teaching and studio work. You will find her frequenting cafes as an ex-barista and unqualified coffee enthusiast.

Utilizing image and written word, Kéké examines every day tasks and objects, contending that they constitute meaningful practices of resilience. She believes that even the most ordinary objects and actions have the potential of storytelling. Her often philosophical and sometimes didactic works investigate how fragmented memories can retain information. She focuses on autofictive retellings of intimacy, persistence, and how love always lingers. The works are autofictive, in that they are simultaneously autobiographical and fictitious. She uses play and parody to require attentiveness and vulnerability from the viewer. While many works make evident negative emotions and displeasure to dismantle myths of colonialism and multiculturalism, her research-creation is a process of healing and deep medicine.

Selected Exhibitions

2023 Group show. Altered States (Hollowing Caves with Feathers of Air), Gales Gallery, York University, Toronto ON.
2023 Group show. Paperweight: Print Media Area Show, Special Projects Gallery, York University, Toronto ON.
2023 Solo show. Flowers and Band-aids. Special Projects Gallery, York University, Toronto ON.
2022 Group show. Opening Exhibition. Creative Genius Academy HQ, Markham ON.
2022 Group show. Parts. Special Projects Gallery, York University, Toronto ON.
2022 Two-Person show. Terminal Station. Gales Gallery, York University, Toronto ON.
2022 Group show. Artists’ Books and Multiples. VAAH Artspaces (Online)
2020 Group show. Ephemeral. Gallery 1313, Toronto ON. Contributors: York University Visual Arts Students Association