Vanessa Godden (they, them) is a queer Indo-Caribbean and Euro-Canadian artist, educator, and arts worker based in Toronto. Godden’s transdisciplinary practice explores how personal histories and the body in relation to geographic space can be conveyed through oral and somatic storytelling in art. They draw from their multi-ethnic diasporic experiences to build multi-sensory performances, video installations, and mixed media works that unfurl the impacts of trauma on the body, connections to community, and tethers to culture. Over the past six years, they have been teaching sessionally across the University of Toronto (Daniels and UTSC), TMU, and York as well as running independent curatorial projects through Diasporic Futurisms. They recently became the Executive Director of SAVAC. Godden holds a PhD from the Victorian College of the Arts, an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a BFA from the University of Houston.
