Zeesy Powers’ work explores how the unstated rules of society shape our experience. For over a decade, she has worked across media to create interactive works for performers and audience participants. Her performances, videos and installations have been exhibited internationally. Powers has been artist-in-residence at CCA Kitakyushu (Japan), Palomar5 (Berlin), the Banff New Media Institute, Studio XX (Montreal) and the Toronto Public Library. She was the 2017 National Artist-in-Residence at the Toronto Animated Image Society, for which she produced This Could be You, an interactive piece exploring practices of confinement in VR. In Toronto, Powers has worked on several community-based projects with children and youth in partnership with organizations like UrbanArts, Axis Music Scarborough and the Toronto Public Library. As a facilitator of Wikipedia workshops in Canada and the United States, Powers works with individuals and communities to expand the public knowledge base of underrepresented artists, particularly women and marginalized peoples. Powers has been an invited observer and participant in international telecommunications and cybersecurity conferences for military-industrial, corporate and activist realms. She is a recipient of numerous grants for her artistic works. A nominee for the 2017 Transitio_MX award and 2015 and 2017 K.M. Hunter Awards, Powers is also a 2018 Chalmers Fellow. Through this she continued her research into how our digital tools shape the ways we relate to ourselves and others. Powers lives and works in Toronto.

Artist Code: 1030