Ramolen Laruan
Individual
Roles
Artist, Educator, WriterBiography
Ramolen Laruan is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto, ON. Her non-medium specific practice explores displacement, migration, and politics of knowledge with questions relating to notions of truths, memory work, and failure tactics through sculpture, collage, print, textile, installation, moving image, and sound. They have received support from the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts and have exhibited throughout Ontario. Select exhibitions include Double-Edged at Xpace Cultural Centre (2022); still, unfolding at Zalucky Contemporary (2020); an intimate index at Latcham Art Centre (2022); and Precarious Joy at Hearth Garage (2021). In 2021, Laruan participated in R.A.R.O, an artists-in-residence program in Barcelona, Spain funded by the CCA. Laruan was selected to participate in RBC Emerging Artist Program at The Power Plant in 2022. Laruan holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Queen’s University, and a Masters of Fine Art from the University of Western Ontario.Ramolen Laruan, 2024