Christian Piasentin (b. 1997, Toronto) is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in illustration and ceramics. In their ceramics practice they hand-build utilitarian pieces, decorative vessels and small sculpture. Their work explores themes of transformation and identity, drawing on their experiences as queer and non-binary, while examining the importance of ritual objects we use and covet in daily life. Their work often blends personal narratives of transformation of identity and gender with influences from the Art Nouveau movement, emphasized through organic forms, flowing lines, anthropomorphism, and representations of nature. Their work is a reaction to their own over-stimulation in the tech/digital world, and a return to nature and the human form.

They are a graduate of OCAD University in Toronto and they build and fire their work out of their private studio in the Roncesvalles Village.

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