Erika DeFreitas’ multidisciplinary practice includes performance, photography, video, installation, textiles, drawing and writing. Placing emphasis on gesture, process, the body, documentation and paranormal phenomena, DeFreitas mines concepts of loss, post-memory, legacy and objecthood. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Project Row Houses and the Museum of African American Culture, Houston, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, and Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita. She is a recipient of the 2016 Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Prize Finalist and the 2016 John Hartman Award. She was also longlisted for the 2017 Sobey Art Award. DeFreitas holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. Website