Deepikah

We invite all the members at @uaacaauc for Manifesting Reciprocity: fertile practices of engagement with the more-than-human world Oct 17 at 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM ACW 104 @yorkuniversity (Partially outside depending on weather) @jessica___barr @yanikong @she.who.gleams @alanabartol @dani.hagel

This Sunday April 12th from 12pm to 2pm, Capsules invites you to join a speculative fiction writing workshop in our studios at 1213 Bathurst Street. The workshop will be led by ‘on earthing & petrichor’ artist @deepikah and hosted by exhibition curator @royadelsol Deepikah RB is an Indian interdisciplinary artist based in T’karonto (Toronto), Canada. She graduated from OCAD University with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts. She creates speculative installations about ecology, climate crisis, and perception in collaboration with materials like algae, plants, gelatine, and more than humans. She recently won the second prize in the visual arts category at the Scarborough Arts Annual Juried show 2024. Her thesis show, “a place to fall apart,” was exhibited at Ignite Gallery in April 2024. Deepikah has exhibited at Propeller Gallery and the Geary Art Crawl 2024 (Toronto) and has exhibited across Canada, India & CDMX at fairs like TOAF, Salon Acme, Gender Bender and more. Her work has been published in CBC Arts, The Art Newspaper, Hyperallergic and StirWorld. All attendees will participate in writing exercises alongside the artist — please bring your writing tools of choice! Power outlets are limited so we recommend pre-charging laptops, AND encourage analog writing! Google form in bio for attendees, for 12 spots total. 💊💊💊

It's been a hard winter. I am always looking for grounding totems when I can no longer see the ground and only snow. Sometimes it's fire, sometimes steam and other times a shiny object. Signs of reality. Lessons and learnings in how to live when there is so much death and doom. There is always another war looming. There is grief for all the lives we didn't live, but gratitude for the rest of the one life I am about to.

P00rna: Simulations of the whole 2025 Salon Acme, Mexico City, Mexico I received two grants from @ontarioartscouncil for this very expensive (emotionally, physically, and financially) self-funded research project, which I packed into a suitcase and flew to Mexico. Thank you, @ontarioartscouncil and @maritstiles , for helping me offset the costs of customs, transport, and more. It feels great to be recognized. I want to thank @gendaigallery and @interaccessto for being my third party recommenders and getting me $500 and $600 from OAC. P00rna has been my most difficult and most critical installation so far. I wouldn't change anything! Read more about it on my website, epikah.co P.S: This year's @salonacme is going to be awesome. Ask me for tickets if you are going. <3 ::Update- gone!

Finally learnt how to do winter right.. Now there is polar vortex coming in! NEVER. A. DULL. MOMENT. stay warm dost. Calling in spring. Felt cute. Will delete soon. Every day I cosplay as a professional yearner.

I turned 40 on October 26, 2025. So of course I threw an art bash/ festival with all my friends! It was such a wild night that I forgot to document my paintings. Please curate me into your shows. This is me begging 🙏 Art from @badmamaproject @2kulit2kuwit created a beautiful spread with a mustard ham and golden berries. @secretagentkr brought in the vibes DJing @m0nsense made some crazy henna tattoos @camillekiku played a 40 min guitar solo!! @raquelmendes.art did a durational performance piece for an hour or more! @enoki_heals did climate comedy! @haz.bin helped me curate the show @moh_nahii helped with coordinating! We raised 250 dolla for mutual aid networks for Palestine. Thanks @sixteeneleven.studios for support and venue.

I was invited to be the educator-in-residence at @dmg_utsc this fall to create programming that engages with @rajniperera 's Futures. For the first event, I collaborated with a dear friend, the legendary @yogayrajah from @spectrumsoundbath , to create a sound bath in the gallery. (October 2025) The sounds reverberated through the paintings, and we had a soundtrack for the travellers in Rajni's paintings. It was such an enriching experience. I am so grateful to have been a small part of it. Thank you, Erin Peck, Marilyn, @enoki_heals , and several others who helped make this a core memory.

I have been experimenting with Chai to explore performance and relational praxis. This was a short excerpt from a seminar on Food, Land and Culture taught by Marth Steigman, where I made chai and blabbered on. It was a lot of fun. I also did a similar performance in @natureswildthebook 's workshop course on Performance art. I am learning: 1)No two performances can ever be the same for me. 2)I am fickle and hate repetition. 3) The people attending this performance can change the narrative entirely. 4) I love making chai for everyone.

Expanding on care as praxis, here is programming I created as educator in residence at @dmg_utsc Champi: an intergenerational gathering on care, rest, and resistance On November 17, 2025, I collaborated with @zeni.shariff to create a space to slow down, remember, and tend to each other through the practice of champi: gentle oiling and hair braiding. In response to @rajniperera 's exhibition "The Futures," this gathering explored how embodied care practices carry ancestral knowledge tied to land, migration, and sustenance. We invited mostly South Asian diasporic communities to share stories about who gave us massages, what our grandmothers told us while braiding our hair, and how these sensory memories connect us across generations. There was gossip, actual chai, and pakoras. Thanks for helping us create such a great space, Erin Peck @dmg_utsc .

I spent the summer of 2025 in Kerala, with backwaters on one side and the Arabian Sea on the other. It was very healing. Some artworks I had made earlier were followed by daily meditations on life forces. I found the hungry caterpillar sleeping inside the lotus flower. 🪷 Conclusion: take naps.

It's almost the end of the year; I did some cool things with friends and colleagues. @rgwunderinkart invited me to speak about @badmamaproject at this powerful panel @uaacaauc 2025 at @yorkuniversity Bonus: a clip from the panel if you swipe right. I am talking about parenting being a pedagogical project, citing Julietta Singh. This paper would be published soon.

Deepikah, an Indian immigrant and interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, holds an MFA from OCAD University and is pursuing a PhD at York University. Her work explores nature, care, hope, and nonhuman agency through biomaterials, encouraging a shift from human-centered narratives to multispecies kinship amid ecological crises. 👁️LW 14.2 🗓️ Saturday, December 6, 2025 ⏰ 8PM Doors 🪽LOCATION: Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields 📍 103 Bellevue Ave. Toronto, ON 💸 Limited advance tickets (skip the line!) are available for purchase via the link in our bio. As always, pay-what-you-can tickets will be available at the door. ♾️ Always all-ages 🍺 19+ bar 🛞 Accessibility: For this event, we’ll primarily be receiving guests via the main entrance on College Street. Ramped entry at College and Bellevue is also available upon request (please no DMs—email contact [at] torontolongwinter[dot]com or flag staff regularly checking on the line). Washrooms are all-gender, including an accessible washroom. The venue can be easily accessed by foot, TTC and bicycle lanes. There is no venue-specific parking, but street parking is available on College, Bellevue, Augusta, Oxford, and throughout the surrounding area. 😷 Cold season sucks, and so does COVID. Please consider wearing a mask to this event. If you aren’t feeling well, stay home! WE TAKE CARE OF US. 🎨 Poster illustration by @ghc.champ 🌊 LINEUP MUSIC: Indian Giver STELLA Wanda Toronto Experimental Translation Collective ART: Deepikah RB Tamara Jones Kat Estacio & Nerupa Somasale 🩵 Very special thanks to @shows.at.ststephens and our beverage sponsor @lostcraftbeer This event is made possible with funding support from @torontoartscouncil , @canada.council , @cdn.heritage , and your pay-what-you-can donations.