Artist
Mina Keykhaei (Persian: مینا کیخایی) is a visual artist and researcher based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her practice repurposes discarded textiles into works that interrogate waste as sites of memory and resistance, foregrounding stains and tears as traces of labor and displacement. Through material reclamation, she disrupts commodified notions of value, transforming overlooked fabrics into critical archives that challenge erasure under globalization.
She holds a Master of Arts in Fashion from Toronto Metropolitan University, where her work on sustainable art received the Value Village Sustainable Graduate Award (2024). Her practice has been supported by grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts (2025). She has published in Fashion Studies Journal (2025) on textiles as narrative tools.
She lives and works on Treaty 13 territory, traditional lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishinaabeg, Chippewa, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat peoples, within the Dish With One Spoon Covenant—committed to decolonial solidarity in her explorations of labor and memory.