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Hello! I believe that art and creativity is part of our everyday experience. Thanks for coming to my page. I hope that my art inspires and interests you. Alongside my artistic, writing and teaching, I organize, curate and host events and exhibitions. I love everything I do and I want to share my practice. |
Kyla Bourgh
Kyla Bourgh is a visual artist, writer, curator and educator. A graduate of the Master of Visual Arts program at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2020, Bourgh engages in a range of projects. She was co-editor of The Post Feminist Post (2015-2017) with Leela Blaney. She is director and curator of a hidden art gallery called Atelier 8.18 (2020-2025) which hosted 3 world collage days and promoted numerous local and international artists. Bourgh is running and facilitating a supportive critique group called CRIT since 2021 and she mentors artists through art coaching.
Bourgh fuses her writing and visual arts practices to create artwork with a deep thread of social engagement. The events she organizes events and brings people together to facilitate conversations around themes of cultural location and belonging. Bourgh’s family beginnings reach both South Asia and Scandinavia. In 2018 she collaborated with photographer Geoffrey Wallang in a series called "What are you" which explored ambiguous cultural identity. She encounters and contends with the visual ambiguity of her roots, and explores this through her artistic practice. Her work also encourages insight through pushing perspectives about the topics of gender and racial inequality.
As a writer, Bourgh published a series of short stories and poems in France in 2025 under her pen name with publisher Jean-Eude Masy -Placenta Sous Le Manteau. She published her first illustrated book French Ending, a meta-fiction inspired by her experiences that summer during her art and writing residency. French Ending is bilingual in French and English with a version to be released in 2027 in English and Spanish. The book was created collaboratively with book designer, illustrator and graphic designer Viviana Maidanik, from Argentina and her publishing house Claraquel Edicione. The collaboration combined collective skills sets and connections. The book will tour France, Canada (Montreal and Vancouver) and Argentina (Buenos Aires)
Kyla Bourgh loves to travel and finds her home Vancouver BC Canada where she lives and works as a teacher. She exhibits both locally and internationally.
Kyla Bourgh is a visual artist, writer, curator and educator. A graduate of the Master of Visual Arts program at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2020, Bourgh engages in a range of projects. She was co-editor of The Post Feminist Post (2015-2017) with Leela Blaney. She is director and curator of a hidden art gallery called Atelier 8.18 (2020-2025) which hosted 3 world collage days and promoted numerous local and international artists. Bourgh is running and facilitating a supportive critique group called CRIT since 2021 and she mentors artists through art coaching.
Bourgh fuses her writing and visual arts practices to create artwork with a deep thread of social engagement. The events she organizes events and brings people together to facilitate conversations around themes of cultural location and belonging. Bourgh’s family beginnings reach both South Asia and Scandinavia. In 2018 she collaborated with photographer Geoffrey Wallang in a series called "What are you" which explored ambiguous cultural identity. She encounters and contends with the visual ambiguity of her roots, and explores this through her artistic practice. Her work also encourages insight through pushing perspectives about the topics of gender and racial inequality.
As a writer, Bourgh published a series of short stories and poems in France in 2025 under her pen name with publisher Jean-Eude Masy -Placenta Sous Le Manteau. She published her first illustrated book French Ending, a meta-fiction inspired by her experiences that summer during her art and writing residency. French Ending is bilingual in French and English with a version to be released in 2027 in English and Spanish. The book was created collaboratively with book designer, illustrator and graphic designer Viviana Maidanik, from Argentina and her publishing house Claraquel Edicione. The collaboration combined collective skills sets and connections. The book will tour France, Canada (Montreal and Vancouver) and Argentina (Buenos Aires)
Kyla Bourgh loves to travel and finds her home Vancouver BC Canada where she lives and works as a teacher. She exhibits both locally and internationally.