Sandra Brewster is a Canadian artist based in Toronto whose practice explores identity, memory, movement, and the experiences of the Caribbean diaspora. A child of Guyanese parents, Brewster considers how histories and identities are carried and transformed across generations, geographies, and time. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University and a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto.
Brewster’s work has been presented in major institutional exhibitions, including Alliance, Infinity, Love – in the Face of the Other at Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2026); Sandra Brewster: FISH at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (2025–26); Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2024–25); By Way of Communion: DENSE and A Place to Put Your Things at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (2022); and Sandra Brewster: Blur at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2019). Her work has also been presented at Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles (2022), the Havana Biennial (2019), and LagosPhoto Festival (2018).
Brewster was a finalist for the 2025 Sobey Art Award, with her work exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. She is the recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Photography Prize (2024), the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award (2024), the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Prize (2018), and the Gattuso Prize for Outstanding Exhibition at CONTACT Photography Festival (2017).
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