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Bushra | Artist at Mondoir
Nationality: Canadian
Discipline: painting, photography, installation
Based in: Edmonton, Canada
Biography
Bushra Yousaf is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist whose work explores memory, identity, and cultural transition. Working in series with acrylics and mixed media, she creates atmospheric abstract compositions shaped by layered textures and shifting tones. Deeply inspired by the sky—its changing light, colors, and moods—her palette reflects the emotional landscapes she navigates.
Born in Pakistan and having lived in Australia before settling in Canada, her cross‑continental experiences inform her exploration of belonging and self‑definition. Through her work, she translates lived experience into visual form, offering viewers a space for reflection and connection.
Artist Statement
Bushra Yousaf is a contemporary abstract artist whose work is deeply rooted in the emotional resonance of the sky. Inspired by shifting light, seasonal transitions, northern lights, and the atmospheric colors of dawn and dusk, she translates the feeling of the sky into layered textures, bold palettes, and intuitive movement. Her paintings reflect how nature mirrors our inner worlds—how a change in color or light can echo a shift in emotion. Through abstraction, Bushra creates quiet, contemplative spaces that invite viewers to pause, breathe, and connect with their own emotional landscapes.
Exhibitions
Selected
EXHIBITION
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Emotional healing through Art /Golden blue Calligraphy, and installation Calgray
2025 Emotion and imagination, ATB Place, Edmonton
2024 Golden blue Calligraphy, Calgray AB
2024 Humunity, Spruce Grove Art Gallery, Spruce Grove Alberta
2023 Humanity, THE WORKS INTERNATIONAL VISUAL ARTS SOCIETY
Edmonton City Hall, Sir Winston Churchill Square (North)
2023 Why Where When Who What , Bleeding Heart Space, Edmonton,ab
2023 Empowerment of Women, Edmonton, AB
2018 How can Art make world better place? University of Alberta ,Edmonton
2016 Peace Symposium , Edmonton, AB.
2015 Humanity First Charitable Exhibitio. Edmonton, AB.
2003 Multani Culture. Department of Fine Arts, The Women
University, Multan, Pakistan.
GROUP
2025 ‘Serenade for the Soul, Artistry Unveiled’ George Gallery Vancouver, BC
2019 Seven New Voices Oct 4 2018 – Jan 12 2019 Alberta Carfac Edmonton
2018 A Grain Of Salt Too Many Times , February 22 -May 12 at
Visual Arts Alberta Edmonton, AB
2017-18 What Have You Heard About Us? (Canada 150 Project).
Moving Exhibition. Kristina de Guzman, Joseph Karaparambil, Garett
Strawberry, Emmanuel Osahor, Fren mah. 2017: The Works Art & Design
Festival, Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, AB. 2018 August
21-September 3 at Millbourne Mall ,Edmonton. 2018 September 10-23
at Kingsway Mall,Edmonton.
2016 Creative Connection. Olesea Litvinova, Kalpa Radhakrishnan, Almira
Mikhailova, and Grigory Litvinov. Bredin Centre for Learning, Edmonton,
AB.
2004 Golden Age. The Women University, Multan, Pakistan.
2003 Peace. Government of Punjab, Punjab, Pakistan.
Oil pastel; awarded First Prize by Governor of Punjab, Pakistan.