Claudia Sánchez Daza was born in Bogotá, Colombia, and immigrated to Canada with her family more than two decades ago.

As a painter her artistic practice emerges from the space between displacement and belonging, where personal experience becomes a lens through which she engages with global issues. She explores the idea of diaspora through a self created, pseudo-fantastical world where deep personal beliefs, memory, and human emotions are layered onto larger narratives of crisis, migration, and transformation. The visual space becomes the place where all collides, overlaps, and reveals unexpected connections.

Her practice is rooted in the act of juxtaposition, where like in a Collage, fragments of ideas, stories, histories, emotions and perceptions are brought together as visual elements to generate meanings that emerge and are made visible.

This process reflects both the complexity of cultural navigation and the unpredictability of the world we inhabit. She aims to invite viewers into a layered experience where the personal and the global intertwine, and where revelations emerge intuitively from the tension of what is placed side by side.

In her studio practice there is search for resonance, and empathy. Where the diasporic perspective is transformed into a personal visual language that aims to act as an invitation to see each other as equals in the planet we share.

Sanchez Daza is a visual artist based in Airdrie, AB, Canada. She holds a BFA with distinction from Alberta University of the Arts, and a MFA in Studio Arts from Maine College of Art and Design.