Biography

Rae RezWell (she/her) is a Deaf Dominican-Canadian Mixed Media Photographer who expresses her intersectionality in her artwork as a voice. Rae holds a BFA, a Major in Photography from NSCAD University and Creative Photography Diploma from Humber College. Rae focused on digital photography and traditional photography like cyanotype, lumen prints and other alternative processes. She does a variety of skills other than photography like painting, videography, graphic design, printmaking, sculpture, new media, and more. However, Rae includes merging with other art materials and/or techniques like acrylic paints, graphite pencils, video, 3D printing, papermaking, and more. She mostly expresses experiences from her childhood of being multi-racial and Deaf culture, heritage, and trauma in the artwork. The reason why it is relatable to her art and concept is that it matches her identity. She values finding art materials that can express and resonate with her feelings, and perspective, seen as colours, and felt with texture, heard with vague sound and vibrations of what Rae remembers from the moment. Also, she is motivated to participate and collaborate with astounding artists and teams to create innovative and creative artwork because in her Caribbean culture, Rae learned that it is valuable to share bonds that create something that is not common and a piece of art can be an impactful result.