OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce Luisé Cineros as the recipient of the 2024 Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Awards Statue Call for Artists Career Launcher!
Luisé Cisneros is a Mexican-Canadian artist who moved to Canada in 2005 from Mexico. A year later, ze sold hir first piece to the city of Toronto. In 2015, Luisé won the Los Diez Award at the Latin American Ilustración, and has exhibited in New York City, Brooklyn, and Bogotá, Colombia. Ze received the Jurors’ Choice Award twice at the Pride London Festival Art Show in 2017 and 2018. Most recently, in 2023, ze won the Craft Ontario Community Award for hir solo show, "Queer Quinte: Memory and Celebration," at the Quinte Arts Council in Belleville. Currently, ze is in hir final year at OCAD University, where ze predominantly creates works in sculpture, installation, and wearable art. Through these mediums, ze critiques the barriers, discrimination, and violence faced as a BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ+ individual living in the diaspora, while also celebrating hir Mexican heritage, cultural traditions, and identity as a Canadian immigrant.
Website: www.luisecisneros.com
Instagram: @luisecisnerosart
The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) represents more than 2,500 professional English-language screenwriters in Canada — the creators of entertainment watched around the world. The WGC administers contracts and advises producers on how to engage professional screenwriters, and celebrates and promotes its members by hosting the annual WGC ScreenwritingAwards, as well as events and panels on the craft and business of screenwriting. The WGC is the voice for Canadian screenwriters.
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