ABOUT
Ella Gonzales works between painting and Computer-Aided Design programs. Her practice explores the materiality of painting, soft architecture, and narratives of migration as related to the Filipino diaspora. She has recently exhibited at YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto (2025); Mercer Union, Toronto (2025); Unit 17, Vancouver (2024); grunt gallery, Vancouver (2024); The Power Plant, Toronto (2023); and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2022). In 2025, she was an artist-in-residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York City. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Western University and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Guelph. Gonzales is represented by Unit 17, Vancouver.
EGonzales_1: Walls Close Together, acrylic and gouache on jusi silk, 2025. From a clear veil, a group exhibition curated by Cicely Haggerty, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Photographed by Olympia Shannon EGonzales_2: Installation view of Walls Close Together, acrylic and gouache on jusi silk, 2025. From a clear veil, a group exhibition curated by Cicely Haggerty, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Photographed by Olympia Shannon EGonzales_3: Wall, Window, Fold, acrylic and gouache on jusi silk, 2021. Installation view of Dumating at Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, ON.