Parumveer Walia (b. Chandigarh, India) is a visual artist working across photography and film. His practice expands the image-based into video, installation, and object forms, examining queerness as subject, aesthetic, and culture. Working between India and Canada, Walia’s projects interweave archival research, socio-political episodes, and his lived experience to generate unstable, hybrid narratives that collapse distinctions between docu/fiction, still/moving, image/object, and past/present into a language that he describes as the ‘Third Space’.

He holds a BFA with a minor in Curatorial Studies from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and was a finalist for the Philip B. Lind Prize, Canada’s largest award for emerging artists. Walia’s work has been presented at The Polygon Gallery (Canada), TRAPP Projects (Canada), Capture Photography Festival (Canada), BINNAR Arts Festival (Portugal), and the Paxos Biennale (Greece), among others. He later served as the Executive Director and Curator of Unit 302 from 2024-25, and was the Writer-in-Residence at Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art in 2024. Walia was a finalist for the Audain Travel Award (Canada, 2024) and the Inaugural Kirloskar Art Award (India, 2025), and published his first photobook, At The Edge of Water, with the Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship. Upcoming projects include a public art commission with the City of Vancouver (Spring 2026), Proof at Gallery 44, Toronto (Summer 2026), and his next publication, Hold me like you love me, is scheduled for release in 2027. He is currently the Collections Manager for The Price Collection and a Visiting Lecturer with the Feminist Lecture Program in London.