Sahil Mroke

Sessional Faculty Co-Lead, Shumka x Strawberry Hill Shopping Centre
Faculty Lead, Pathways for Creative Futures Resources
Designer, Design for Startups, 2018

Sahil Mroke is an artist, designer, researcher, and educator based in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. His practice explores creativity as a shared and social process, bringing together artists, designers, and communities to uncover new ways of working collaboratively across disciplines.

Working across public art, design strategy, research, and cultural production, Sahil develops projects that connect people to place, culture, and one another. His work often begins with listening and observation, translating local stories, ecologies, and everyday experiences into visual forms, installations, and participatory artworks. Through these approaches, he is interested in how creative practices can surface hidden narratives and create opportunities for collective imagination.

Alongside his independent art commissions, Sahil runs Motor-Way Studios, a creative production platform that supports artists and cultural organizations through consulting, design, fabrication, and shared studio infrastructure. The studio functions as a collaborative hub where ideas can move from early concept through to physical realization.

Sahil also teaches within design and research programs, where he encourages students to see creativity not only as an individual skill, but as something that emerges through dialogue, experimentation, and collaboration. His teaching and research draw from his graduate work at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, which examined the conditions that allow meaningful creative collaborations to flourish.

As an artist, educator, and facilitator, Sahil is interested in building environments where creativity can surface in unexpected ways, and where artists and designers are supported in bringing their ideas into the world.