Public Art Roster

Amy (Yun Ru) Bao is a multidisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She loves interactive artworks that invite people not just to observe, but also engage. Physical interaction and playfulness drive many of her designs.

You can find Amy’s murals and public art projects across the Lower Mainland, including Vancouver, Port Moody, Richmond, Surrey, White Rock, and Chilliwack.

As a multidisciplinary artist with a background in both art and architecture, Amy’s artistic practice is focused on public art due to its ability to be truly accessible. Unlike gallery-based work, there are no physical, financial, or social barriers. She works to transform the seemingly mundane into moments of surprise with playful and beautiful social spaces. She strives to create art that combines a “wow” factor with more meaningful depth.

Amy is often inspired by local nature, wildlife, waters, skies, and layered landscapes. She paints vibrant, flowing organic shapes that fill her artworks with movement. Her style is dynamic and eye-catching. She has a soft spot for unconventional surfaces and geometries, using her architectural thinking to make full use of every odd shape, nook, and cranny to emphasize the immersion of her designs.

Artist Website: amybao.ca

Andrea Wan is a Vancouver-based visual artist born in Hong Kong and raised in BC, whose practice has been shaped by living between cultures. She studied in Denmark before spending eight years based in Berlin, experiences that deepened her exploration of identity and place.

A wanderer of both inner and outer worlds, Andrea’s work explores identity beyond the bounds of culture, into the terrain of the psyche, dreams, and the unseen. Through ink drawings, sculptures, and large-scale public artworks, she channels intuitive imagery that speaks to the interconnectedness of nature and human consciousness.

Her visual language draws from mystical and psychological landscapes, reflecting the ongoing evolution of self. She sees art as a vessel for healing, connection, and listening inward.

Artist Website: andreawan.com

Angie Quintanilla (keen-tah-knee-yah) Coates is a visual artist born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, based in Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada.

Angie didn’t discover her art practice until later in life. Growing up in Mexico, art seemed like a luxury, and certainly not a viable vocation. Not until coming to Canada and finding sobriety did Angie return to art, realizing that creating had never been a luxury. It’s a necessity.

Repetition plays a central role in Angie’s practice. Inspired by her love of Mexican tile design, she uses repetition not just as a visual structure, but as a way to build movement, connection, and intention. The act of repeating becomes an insistence—each geometric piece a bold claiming of space.

In her work, colour becomes a language, one that’s both cultural and deeply personal. Rooted in her Mexican heritage, known for its unapologetic, defiant optimism, and shaped by her own path toward healing, her pieces become conversations in that language. Through them, she invites viewers to pause—if only for a moment—for a sense of respite, a celebration through shape and colour, and an open invitation to anyone who needs it to get a dose of what she calls dopamina mexicana.

Artist Website: angieqcoates.com

Atheana Picha is a Salish artist from the Kwantlen First Nation, and her grandmother was from Tsartlip. Atheana was given the name Nash’mene’ta’naht by Gerry Oleman from the St’at’imc First Nation, which translates to “Go-getter Woman”. Born in Vancouver, she grew up and works out of Richmond, BC. Atheana has been doing two apprenticeships learning Salish wool weaving with Musqueam weaver Debra Sparrow since 2019, and learning silver engraving, wood carving, and tool making with Squamish artist and educator Aaron Nelson-Moody since 2018. Atheana’s practice is grounded in learning more about Salish design through studying the old pieces, observing nature, and learning from her elders and teachers.

Atheana studied Fine Art at Langara college for three years, with a focus on ceramics, intaglio printmaking, and wood carving. Then in 2021, she focused on screen printing and drawing. She is engaged with public art through her mural work throughout the greater Vancouver area since 2018, and more recently with banner and vinyl mural installations. Atheana is a two-time recipient of the YVR Art Foundation Emerging Artist scholarship, and has works in the collections at the Museum of Vancouver, Burnaby Art Gallery, Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art.

Artist Website: atheanapicha.work

Carolyn Wong is a Chinese Canadian illustrator and mural artist based in Vancouver. She has collaborated with a wide range of commercial clients and brings a deep love of storytelling to vibrant illustrations that celebrate nature and community.

As a first-generation Chinese Canadian, her work draws on both Eastern and Western influences, weaving nostalgic themes that resonate with diaspora communities. Through colourful graphic forms and dynamic natural elements, her artwork highlights the beauty of the natural world while exploring identity, belonging, and shared cultural experiences through playful, expressive visual storytelling.

Artist Website: seeroro.com

Francisco-Fernando Granados was born in Guatemala and divides his time between Toronto, Dish With One Spoon Territory and New Westminster on the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Halkomelem speaking peoples. Since 2005, his practice has traced a movement from Convention refugee to critical citizen, enacting abstraction site-specifically and relationally to create projects that challenge the stability of practices of recognition. His work has developed from the intersection of formal painterly training, working in performance through artist-run spaces, the study of queer and feminist theory, and early activism as a peer support worker with immigrant and refugee communities in Coast Salish Territories. This layering of experiences trained his intuitions to seek context-responsive approaches, alternative forms of distribution, and the weaving of lyrical and critical propositions. 

Key projects include 'confluence' (2021-26), a permanent public artwork located at the Cumberland St. entrance of Bay Station on the TTC in Toronto; ‘who claims abstraction?’ (2023-24) a solo exhibition and artist book produced with SFU Galleries for its downtown Vancouver campus; and ‘foreward’ (2021-23), a series of site specific installations in dialogue with the permanent collection at The MacLaren Art Centre (Barrie ON). 

Janet Wang is a visual artist and educator working within a traditional painting practice, integrated with sculptural installation practices and digital media. A second-generation settler of Chinese heritage, she is based in Vancouver, Canada, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. 

The artist received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia and her Master of Arts in Studio Practice from the University of Leeds in England.  She is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

The artist’s practice explores the construction of identity through the appropriation and disruption of social patterns and familiar gestures. The artist pays homage to the canons and traditions of history, both the artistic and the quotidian, in order to use the familiar as a meeting point with the viewer.

Residencies have included the Arts Council of England, ArtStarts, Artscape Gibraltar, Deer Lake AIR, Artist for Kids with the North Vancouver School District, the Wassaic Project, Willapa Bay AIR and Haystack Open Studio Residency.  Her projects have received support from the Vancouver Foundation, BC Arts Council, the Canada Council of Arts and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

Artist Website: janetwang.com

Joshua Watts is a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Nuu-Chah-Nulth artist whose work bridges cultural tradition and contemporary expression. Over the past 12 years, his practice has grown to encompass large-scale public artworks, carvings, prints, and paintings that serve as both cultural landmarks and spaces for reflection.

Rooted in the teachings and knowledge of his community, Joshua’s art is guided by a deep respect for traditional forms and stories, while continually exploring how they live and evolve in the present. His work moves fluidly between monumental and intimate scales—ranging from towering totem poles and expansive murals to finely carved masks, installations, and traditional dugout canoes. Each piece carries a sense of story, identity, and continuity, connecting the past to the present and inviting dialogue between cultures.

Joshua’s public works have become touchpoints for community gathering and storytelling, designed not only to be seen but to be experienced. His creative approach balances reverence and innovation, demonstrating how Indigenous art continues to shape and speak to contemporary spaces. Whether carved from cedar or rendered in modern materials, his works embody resilience, connection, and transformation.

Linfeng Zhou was educated in architecture and industrial design. He often wanders across industries and cultures in search of new possibilities to expand the realm of wonder. His work is centered on creating objects and spaces that exalt their original contexts and foster positive interactions among people, connecting more deeply to environments and the present moment.

Artist Website: lfzstudio.com

Luke Ramsey is a multidisciplinary visual artist currently living on the Sunshine Coast, BC. His work is a combination of design, freehand drawing, painted nature landscapes and public art. Luke was recently awarded a BC Arts Council Pivot grant, with plans to connect with more students and schools around the province.

Artist Website: lukeramseystudio.com

Ronnie Dean Harris, is a Stō:lo/St’át'imc/N’laka'pamux father and artist based in New Westminster, B.C. Beginning in music, he has explored various mediums such as TV, film, visual + sound design along side various research subjects including history, cosmology, genealogy and Indigenous policy.

As a designer, Ronnie has contributed to numerous multimedia projects ranging from TV/Film, mural installations, branding for organizations + festivals, clothing design, illustration and other multimedia applications. Ronnie has showcased in the Vancouver Mural Festival and Chilliwack Mural Festivals as well as gallery + museum installations.

Ronnie served as Indigenous Cultural Developer at Massey Theatre in New Westminster focusing on cultural + social activations through research and programming. He also sits on the board of directors for the 2 Rivers Remix Society and is the MC for many of the 2RMX events.

You can also hear Ronnie as the voice of Dad/Walter on the Emmy Award winning PBS/WGBH series Molly Of Denali.

Ronnie is currently working on various research + design projects around the Lower Mainland.

Artist Website: ostwelvemusic.com

Sandeep Johal is a Canadian visual artist, advocate, and leader whose practice engages drawing, collage, textiles, and large-scale murals. Through her Indo-folk feminine aesthetic, she confronts themes of bleakness, despair and ugliness with their dissonant opposites: brightness, hope and beauty.

Johal has worked on a number of notable site-specific commissions with the Confederation Centre of the Arts, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Mural Festival, Burrard Arts Foundation, and Indian Summer Festival. Her clients include Apple, the Vancouver Canucks, the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Holt Renfrew, and Estée Lauder Canada.

Johal has been a co-mentor at the Tony Onley Artist Project (2025), and an artist-in-resident at the Confederation Centre of the Arts (2026), Burrard Arts Foundation (2021) and Indian Summer Festival (2018). Her work is held in corporate, private, and institutional collections, including the TD Bank Collection, the Surrey Art Gallery, and the Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art.

Johal holds a Diploma in Fine Arts (honours) from Langara College (2007) and a Degree in Education from the University of British Columbia (2002). She lives and works in Vancouver, BC.

Artist Website: sandeepjohal.com

Sora Park (she/her) is a Korean-Canadian interdisciplinary artist living on the traditional territories of the q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), Máthxwi (Matsqui) and Se’mya’me’ (Semiahmoo) First Nations, also known as Langley, BC.

She received her BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver and an MA in Fine Arts from Bergen Academy of Art and Design in Bergen, Norway.

She is a grant recipient from BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts and Arts Council Norway. Her works have been shown in various spaces in Canada and internationally.

In her free time, she likes going to movie festivals, hanging out with my lazy dog, listening to Bachata, and playing and watching tennis.

Artist Website: sorapark.ca

Sus Cho - Randall Bear Barnetson is a Transgender, Two Spirit, multidisciplinary Northwest Coast Indigenous artist. Sus Cho is a member of the community of Nadleh Whut’en, the Dakelh nation, and of the Duntem’yoo Bear clan. The Artistic practice of Sus Cho interprets matters of mental health and wellbeing, identity, culture, and spirituality, through the framework of Northwest Coast Indigenous art forms. Sus Cho was born and raised in the urban Indigenous community of the Downtown Eastside in “Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada”. East Van is the Unceded Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Coast Salish peoples. Sus Cho is a grateful guest of these communities that have sustained her Being. Within Coast Salish territory is Vancouver’s YVR international airport, from which Bear received the Emerging Indigenous Artist of the Year award in 2022. Sus Cho spent her upbringing and professional career serving with missions on the 100 block of Hastings providing essential services to community members of the Downtown Eastside throughout her lifetime. Upon leaving frontline community engagement Sus Cho completed her Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2024. Sus Cho now has a full time studio practice in East Vancouver.  

Artist Instagram: @sus_cho_art

Born in Kingston, Jamaica. Tafui’s work spans various media, which includes fine art and product design.

She holds a D.E.C in studio arts from Dawson College & a B.F.A. in Design from Concordia University. Her work is inspired by deconstructing cultures into their base elements and symbols, looking for the similarities and relationships they share. Upon researching her ancestral history, She was led to study pre-colonial groups from West Africa and began to notice the similarities of indigenous cultures throughout the globe. The use of pattern-making and symbolism as a sconce of storytelling was not only in Africa but worldwide.

Her public art experience includes the City of Vancouver, Vancouver Mural Festival & Winter Arts Festival. She has exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery and is a part of city of Ottawa and the Bank of Jamaica Public Art collection.

Tafui's work speaks to the Jamaican motto, “Out of many, one people” and how that outlook aligns with all people. Understanding of our histories and shared experiences, we become united, as people, as cultures, and to the earth.

The use of a minimal colour palette, primarily black and white, gives access to people who are colour blind or have limited vision.

Artist Website: shoptafui.com