Group Exhibition
In Her Image
Opening reception
Thursday, November 19, 2026
7–10 PM
Black Rabbit Gallery, 35 Tubman Avenue, Toronto. Enter through the Ratna Lane courtyard.
The space between being seen and being known.
On view November 19 – December 17, 2026
- Ghazaleh Rastgar
- Aichoucha Haidara
- Leone McComas
- Ayesha Raza
- Victoria Sequeira
- Daniella Williams
Curatorial Statement
Presence
and the image.
In Her Image brings together six women artists working across painting, photography and textiles to explore the relationship between being seen and being known.
Across intimate encounters, imagined environments and moments of everyday life, the works consider how images shape presence. Figures return our gaze, turn inward or remain partly obscured. Pattern, gesture and material draw us close while leaving something beyond our reach.
Visibility does not necessarily lead to understanding. The exhibition brings personal privacy into conversation with social recognition, asking how attention is given and what a picture can reveal about a life.
At its centre is authorship. Each artist makes choices about how to construct an image, where to draw attention and what to withhold. In Her Image brings these ways of seeing into conversation while preserving the differences between them.
Exhibiting Artists
Six distinct practices.
Personal memory, cultural inheritance, intimate observation and the experience of everyday life enter the exhibition through different materials and approaches to image-making.
Artist 01 of 06
Ghazaleh Rastgar
Persian visual culture, personal memory and cultural inheritance.
Ghazaleh Rastgar, also known as Ghazaraza, is a Toronto-based Iranian-Canadian multidisciplinary artist. Born in Shiraz and educated at OCAD University, she works across painting, murals, textiles and digital media.
Her practice draws on Persian visual culture, personal memory and the experience of diaspora. Bold colour, expressive figures and traditional motifs explore identity and belonging, informed by love, feminism and spirituality. Her work also extends into public murals and community arts programming.
Artist 02 of 06
Aichoucha Haidara
Ancestral knowledge and contemporary storytelling.
Aichoucha Haidara is a multidisciplinary artist working between Bamako, Abidjan and Toronto. Her practice spans textiles, jewellery, illustration, ceramics, painting and moving image, drawing on Sahelian history, traditional craft and contemporary African life.
Following nearly a decade abroad, her return to West Africa deepened her engagement with Bogolanfini, indigo dyeing, weaving and metalwork. Bringing ancestral knowledge into dialogue with personal storytelling and experimentation, Haidara explores memory, identity, grief, resilience and cultural continuity.
Artist 03 of 06
Leone McComas
Connection, transformation and the pursuit of light.
Leone McComas is a Toronto-based artist and designer whose practice centres connection, transformation and renewal. An OCAD University B.Des graduate, she has exhibited in Canada, Italy and South Korea.
Guided by faith, honesty and a pursuit of light, her painting process uses transparency to build detailed, saturated oil paintings with an internal luminosity. Her murals and installations extend this inquiry into shared spaces, responding to community stories and the character of neighbourhoods. Her practice has been supported through grants and the AKIN x MOCA Residency.
Artist 04 of 06
Ayesha Raza
Distance, everyday life and the limits of visibility.
Ayesha Raza’s photographs explore the distance between being visible and being known. People appear from behind, from above or within environments that partly obscure them. Their presence is registered through position, gesture and what they carry.
Her contribution to In Her Image considers the visible and invisible, including the social invisibility of working people. The photographs invite attention while leaving the lives beyond each encounter open.
Artist 05 of 06
Victoria Sequeira
The traces people leave and the moments that endure.
Victoria Sequeira is a Toronto-based contemporary figurative artist working in acrylic and oil. Her paintings explore the traces people leave behind and the ways lives shape one another.
Imagined scenes bring simplified figures together with familiar rituals and everyday objects, suspended outside a specific place or time. Through these encounters, Sequeira considers how meaning passes between people and why certain moments endure. Her work invites viewers to recognise each person as a world extending beyond the roles through which they are known or remembered.
Artist 06 of 06
Daniella Williams
Intimacy, observation and the body in its surroundings.
Daniella Williams is a Toronto-based Canadian figurative painter. Working primarily in oil, she draws on lived experience and everyday gestures to create scenes that move between the familiar and the psychologically unresolved.
Williams holds a BFA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Guelph and has undertaken residencies in Canada, the United States and Mexico. A 2025 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant recipient, she has exhibited at Sixteen Eleven Studios, The Drake Hotel, Gagné Contemporary and Black Rabbit Gallery.
Collector Information
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Spend time
with the work.
In Her Image
November 19 – December 17, 2026
Opening reception
Thursday, November 19
7–10 PM
Black Rabbit Gallery
Ratna Lane Courtyard
35 Tubman Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
Please use the gallery entrance in the Ratna Lane courtyard.
For visiting enquiries and private appointments:
info@blackrabbitgallery.ca