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We collect only what’s needed to process your order, respond to your inquiries, and improve your experience. No spam, no selling your info, and no sneaky tracking - just respectful, transparent data handling.
The artwork is sold as-is, and you’re welcome to resell it anytime - just no reproductions, edits, or commercial use; unless it's a Digital Download. Your wall, your vibe, but the artist keeps the copyright.
Collaboration, but no long-term partnership. We protect creative work, communication, and mutual trust. You’ll know what to expect, how licensing works, and how we resolve hiccups - all simply and well-documented.
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2020
Merging Seemingly Opposites
Published in the winter 2020 digital edition of PhotoEd magazine's Risk Takers - Blurred Lines issue
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Toronto, Canada
November 2019
2019
Merging Seemingly Opposites
Artscape Youngplace Hallway Galleries
Gallery 44 group show, Spectra, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
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Toronto, Canada
May 21 - June 1
2021
Nebula
Published in the winter 2021 digital edition of PhotoEd magazine's Beautiful Black & White - Where Art + Photography Meet issue
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Toronto, Canada
November 2020
2019
Completion
G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
Gallery 44 Annual Members',365, exhibition
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Toronto, Canada
July 12 - July 27
2019
Leaf
Propeller Gallery​
Blue Impulse exhibit
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Toronto, Canada
February 13 - March 3
2019
Life
Physical Grain website (www.physicalgrain.com)
Black & White Film Photography feature
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worldwide web
February 2019
2018
Life
G44 Centre for Contemporary Photography
Gallery 44 Annual Members', 365, exhibition
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Toronto, Canada
July 13 - July 28
Artist Bio
Christina Shivcharan
I was raised among analogue treasures:
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a rotary phone without telecom sevice,
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my father’s metalsmithing tools shaping gold into art,
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grandmother’s pedal‑driven sewing machine waiting in a room without electricity.
and then there were scrap metal piled beside trees, flowers, butterflies, turtles, and birds - these creatures taught me respect long before I had words for it.
Growing up with very little, I learnt to create from whatever I had - Scraps of fabric, scraps of metal, scraps of meaning, without TV to inform, and only daylight to see with.
Over time, that way of surviving became my way of making art. Instability never became oppression for me; it became expression; I expose it. I let seams show. I let fragments speak.
My practice sits naturally within a deconstructivist mindset - not by theory, but by lived experience.
Now as a self‑taught photographer, I work within a similar almost falling apart system:
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vintage cameras that refuse perfection
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darkroom processes that reveal the beauty of unresolved edges
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merging photographic prints with illustration, metal, fabric, paint, making each artwork one-of-a-kind.
Through 8x10 Dot Photography, I offer these pieces to those who value creative integrity and honour the tools that shaped generations of makers before us.
In appreciation of art connoisseurs, I also offer complimentary access into The Artist Studio - a glimpse into the process, the fragments, and the de/reconstruction behind each work.
March 28, 2026