Parumveer Walia is an artist and writer with a lens-based practice examining Queerness as subject, aesthetic, and culture. Expanding photography across video, installation, and other media, Walia researches archives and socio-political episodes to interweave historical accounts with his lived experiences. Walia works between India and Canada and is graduating from Emily Carr with a Bachelor in Fine Arts and a minor in Curatorial Studies. He is a finalist for the Philip B. Lind prize, Canada’s largest prize for emerging artists, and is Executive Director and Curator at Unit 302 for 2025.