Biography
Domina is a Canadian contemporary artist based in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, working across painting, sculpture, and performance. Her practice explores the complex relationships between care, vulnerability, power, and control.
Her figures maintain an unnerving composure as eyes multiply, faces fragment, and familiar symbols of comfort become suspect. The paintings leave uncertain where protection ends and possession begins.
Her expanding multidisciplinary practice incorporates sculptural objects and performance, extending these investigations into questions of institutional authority, artistic identity, and the politics of interpretation.
Domina has exhibited internationally, including presentations in the United States, Canada, and Asia. Her solo exhibitions include Feminine Pollution (2026), Eat Your Heart Out (2024), and Origin Stories (2022) at Haven Gallery in New York. Her forthcoming solo exhibition, Love Me While You Can, opens at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles in April 2027.
Artist Statement
My work examines the uneasy relationship between care and compliance. Through painting, sculpture, and performance, I explore a system of emotional triage in which protection, vulnerability, and authority become entangled.
Recurring figures appear as caregivers, patients, guardians, and witnesses. Their bodies carry evidence of injury, repair, and transformation. Familiar symbols of comfort and safety become unstable, revealing the uneasy boundaries between tenderness and control.
Repetition, fragmentation, and distorted perception interrupt the viewer’s ability to establish a singular reading. Familiar faces become increasingly difficult to locate, even as they demand recognition.
At the centre of my practice are questions of authority: who determines what constitutes care, who receives it, and what is demanded in return?
