Ada Denil (she/her) is a visual artist working primarily in sculpture and installation, at this time. She also engages in drawing and printmaking practices, painting, animation and any other ways of making she can, when she can. Her recent installation work contemplates interpersonal relationships and sensory experience between bodies in shared spaces, as well as the physically defined elements which constitute these environments.

She has shown work locally in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia at the Corridor Gallery, Argyle Fine Art, the Company House, and the Chester Arts Center. In 2021 she received the 2011 Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence Award (NSTT), and was shortlisted for the NSCAD Student Art Awards in both 2020 and 2022. She has also received support for her work in sculpture, printmaking and drawing from the NSTT, the AJC, and NSCAD University.

Her artistic practice is balanced with an interest in facilitation of youth programming in the arts: She has facilitated several youth workshops and stop-motion animation programs at Artech Camps from 2012-2020, and was a guest artist and facilitator at the Lunenburg Documentary Film Festival in 2013.

She grew up in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia on the south shore, and now lives, studies and works both on the shore and in Kjipuktuk/Halifax.