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Nava Waxman is a Canadian visual artist who lives and works in Toronto. In her artistic practice, Waxman combines a range of media, including performance, drawing, and photography.

With an emphasis on process, gestures, and documentation, Waxman explores a different kind of temporalities, various forms of body movement, sometimes camera movement, as well as the use of sequential imagery, or the effect of blurring and erasure. She uses various choreographic methods to generate, construct, and repeat movements in a desire to explore multiple modes of body inscription, themes of ritual, continuity, and change.

Investigating ideas of movement, transition, and temporality, with notions of identity from both personal and cultural context, Waxman introduces contemporary attitudes to mark-making and gestures as an integrated art form. The main focus of her artistic practice is on the interpretation of gesture through subtle variations that are repeated in time and space.

Waxman’s work has been exhibited nationally and abroad. She holds a BA in Social Science and communication, and currently an MFA Candidate at York University, Toronto. Waxman is a recipient of grants from the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and the SSHRC Joseph Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship.