Christeen Awad is a Canadian mixed media painter whose vivid, expressive work explores individuality, society, nature, and chronic illness; considering their interrelationships. She paints outdoors and in-studio; balancing spontaneity with discipline. Her chosen medium diverges between acrylic, oil, and gouache, but she often chooses to practice with mural work, painted animation, and public installation.
Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at age 10, her art became a way to process pain and connect with herself and her relationship with her somatic, emotional, and mental experience. She also uses her work to contemplate her interconnection with the living spaces and people around her; which includes both natural and digital landscapes.
Her interdisciplinary practice is a hybrid of surrealism, abstraction, and impressionism to explore how environments shape and reflect our inner emotional landscapes, and how our inner worlds seek to shape the environment in return.
“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
-Vincent Van Gogh
contact@christeenawad.com
Artist CV
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Christeen Awad
Visual Artist
Toronto, Ontario
contact@christeenawad.com
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Honours Bachelor of Illustration
Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
Thesis: Who are We, Canada?
Narrative Thesis: A Rusty Tinmaiden
2017-2021
Visual and Creative Arts
Sheridan College, Oakville, ON
High Honours
2015-2017
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Co-op on the Edge
Summer 2020 Program
The Sheridan Board Undergraduate Certificate: Creativity and Creative Problem Solving
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October 2023-Present
Private Painting Instructor
June 2022 - 2024
Art Instructor
The Studio Paint Bar
January 2015 - present
Visual Artist
Self-Employed
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Finalist, 2025 Artists Beyond Barriers Award | Barrie Art Awards
Selected as 1 of 3 finalists presented to an artist who has demonstrated creative originality through a body of work despite living with a chronic disability.
Uncloseted Pride Festival Live Painter
June 2023 & 2024
Bird is the Word Art Fundamentals Art Auction
November 14 - November 21 , 2021
Online fundraiser auction
Diva Day International
Flow Fest June 2019
Flow Fest 2.0 August 2021
Co-op on the EDGE
certificate of recognition - most effective entrepreneurial mindset
August 2020
Charity Chibis
Fundraiser for Starlight Children’s Foundation
July 2018 & 2019
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Gallery 222, Toronto
“Inward & Outward” Solo Exhibition
June -July 2025
Brightening Barriers, City of Barrie
Public art installation group exhibition
May - September 2025
Hotel Leone, Montelparo, Italy
Group exhibition
October 2024
The Yoga Nook, Barrie
Group Exhibition
October 2024
The Spare Room, Barrie
Meet the roomies group exhibtion
July - September 2024
Northern Contemporary , Toronto
All The Small Things: Small Works Show
June 22 - July 4th, 2023
Go Fish! Art Auction
Online auction - November 13 - November 20, 2022
Bird is the Word Art Auction
Online auction - November 14 - November 21, 2021
KMM Manor, Cambridge
Solo Exhibition May 1- May 7, 2021
Sheridan College, Oakville
Honours Bachelor of Illustration Graduate Online Exhibition April, 2021 - present
Liberty Coffee Bar, Toronto
January - March, 2020
Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Oakville
Fantasia exhibition September 19- November 10, 2019
Funkyture.ca: A Marketplace for Creative Arts, Toronto
opening reception September - October, 2018
Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Oakville
"Work in progress” exhibition March 15, - May 18, 2018
Sheridan College, Oakville
VCA Graduate Exhibition April, 2017
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Brightening Barriers, City of Barrie
2 separate 4’x8’ painted marine grade plywood outdoor public art installations
“Shadow of a Doubt” album cover, Spotify
EP by Melanie Swan
May 2025 - present
8’x8’ Custom Mural, Brampton
Private Dental Office
October, 2024 - present
“Orbit “ album cover, Spotify
EP by L V N A
August, 2019 - present
10’x8’ Custom Mural, Angus
Private Home
February 2017 - present
I host painting workshops, take commissions, and live paint! If you would like to collaborate, please feel free to contact me.
