SHORT ARMS. BIG WORK.

Zandra Xōchitl (b. 1974, Canada) is a LatinX Canadian artist whose attention is snagged by the crunch and grit of urban spaces. As a modernist, she juxtaposes pastel colours with the gorgeous filth of texture, and old collage materials. The result is bold and layered hard-edged abstracts that are aged yet contemporary.

An autodidact, Zandra briefly studied printmaking at the Victoria College of Art, after working as an advertising Art Director for over a decade. She was the only Canadian whose work was selected for the 249th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in London, where she was also featured in the BBC’s annual documentary about the exhibition. In 2019 she was one of five finalists for Art at the Airport, an initiative of the Victoria International Airport, for which she proposed a 40-foot installation. She is represented in London, UK by After Nyne Contemporary.

She lives and works in Victoria, British Columbia the land of the lək̓ʷəŋən People, known today as the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations.