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Bianca Daher is a multidisciplinary artist from Southwestern Ontario, Canada, currently studying in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her BFA in Visual Arts with Honours from the University of Windsor, School of Creative Arts in 2024. She works in oil and acrylic paint, alongside drawing and various image transfer techniques. Extracting figures from family photographs, she works to depict or omit their likeness, creating ghost-like overlapping figures. This allows her to explore new ways of retelling her family’s narrative and map-making by combining the figures’ outlines with the topographic features of both Italy and Lebanon: her ancestral countries. In her home town of Windsor, Ontario, she led multiple student and youth-based artist groups, providing emerging artists with resources to succeed. In 2024, she was interviewed by Canvas Rebel Magazine on being an emerging creative, and held her first solo show—Tending to Time—at ArtSpeak Gallery in Windsor, Ontario. She’s shown her work at Art Windsor-Essex, and exhibited at Shō Gallery, Nancy John’s Gallery and Phog Lounge. She has received multiple grants and awards from the University of Windsor, including the President's Renewable Entrance Scholarship, the Women's Auxiliary Award in Visual Arts, the Dennis Knight Award of Excellence in Visual Arts and became a Gold LEAD Medallion Scholar. She is currently fulfilling an MFA in Studio Art at Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts.