Biography

Ada Denil is a visual artist. Mainly working in sculpture and installation, she also engages with drawing, printmaking, painting, mixed-media, animation, or whatever she has at hand. Ada grew up on the south shore of Nova Scotia, and currently lives, makes art, and works in the same community.

Ada has exhibited artwork across Canada, with shows spanning from her home province to as far west as Saskatchewan. In 2025 she was the Artist is Residence at the Lunenburg School of the Arts, and had a solo exhibition the following Spring at the LSA Gallery. In 2021 she received the 2011 Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence Award, and was shortlisted for the NSCAD Student Art Awards in the category for sculpture in 2020, 2022, and 2023. She has received extensive support for her work in sculpture, printmaking and drawing from the Luneburg School of the Arts (LSA), the Nova Scotia Talent Trust (NSTT), the Atlantic Jewish Council (AJC), and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University.

Ada’s work aims to call attention to how active presence, awareness, and action can alter our perception of the environments in which we find ourselves, as well as our place in them.

Ada received her BFA from NSCAD University in 2023 with a major in Fine Arts (Sculpture), and a minor in Art History.