About
Soraya Farha is a multi-dimensional artist who uses painting, writing, and poetry. She explores colour and form in abstraction, working with multimedia including acrylic, pastel and oil stick. In addition to her endeavours in the visual arts, she has published fiction and poetry and is in the process of writing a non-fiction book on sisterhood and loss. Soraya’s painting Los Troncones is the cover art for Something about Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, which won the 2024 National Book Award (Poetry) and has publishers in the US and UK. Her work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Europe and North America, and is held in private collections in Canada, France and the US.
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Exhibitions:
Solo Art Feature, helloart at Epic Investment Services Head Office, Toronto, 27 May - 26 August, 2026
Group Exhibition, “Eureka,” Propeller Art Gallery, Toronto, 11 February - 1 March, 2026
Group Exhibition, “Think Pink”, Leslie Grove Gallery, Toronto, 7 - 25 January, 2026
Group Exhibition, “Common Ground: What Unites Us”, Leslie Grove Gallery, Toronto, September 3 - 21, 2025
Solo Exhibition, “Infinite Beauty” Mitfar Cafe and Gallery, Toronto, June - September 2025
Group Exhibition, “You Do You” Leslie Grove Gallery, Toronto, February/March 2025
Solo Exhibition, “At the Edge of the World” www.artwrk.ca, November 2024
Group Exhibition "Journeys" Avenue Road Arts School, Youngspace, Toronto, October 2024
Group Exhibition "Interconnecting Lines" Artio Gallery at One Art Space, New York City, October 2023
Group Exhibition, "Hideaway", Monat Gallery, Madrid, Spain, September - October, 2023
Group Exhibition, Luxembourg Art Fair, represented by Monet Art Gallery, September 15 - 17, 2023
Group Exhibition, "ARAS Now" Avenue Road Arts School, Toronto, August 2023
Group Exhibition, “Forest Spaces” Photography Exhibition (Kidner Gallery), Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival May 2022
Awards:
Recipient, The Denis Diderot Grant. Awarded by the Château d'Orquevaux Artists & Writers Residency in Champagne-Ardenne, France for attendance at the Residency in June, 2025
Women United Art Prize 2024, Painting and Drawing Category, Longlisted
Publications:
Cover Art ("Troncones"), Something about Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (Awarded 2024 National Book Award, Poetry, by the US National Book Foundation, nominated for PEN Heaney Prize 2025), published by University of Akron Press, April 2024 and the87press (UK and Ireland), 2025
Education and Residencies:
Château d'Orquevaux Artists & Writers Residency in Champagne-Ardenne, France, June 2025
Art Fuel Retreat, Spain, October 2024
Art2Life Creative Visionary Program, 2022 and 2023
