Boat

36 x 60 in. (91.4 x 152.4 cm)

Kaelin Palcu is an acclaimed interdisciplinary artist born in Toronto in 1994. Her training spans a BFA in Sculpture and Installation from OCAD University, studies at the Florence Academy of Art and Barcelona Academy of Art, and an MFA in Drawing from the New York Academy of Art, where she received multiple honors including the Sculpture Scholar Award, David Schafer Artists of Excellence Scholarship, Service Scholar Award, Parton Scholarship, and LCU Scholarship. Palcu has exhibited internationally and earned an Honorable Mention in the 2023 ARC Salon competition. Her public commissions comprise the Waterton National Park Visitor Centre, Reconciliation Totem Pole at UBC, and Shaman's Dream at the University of Manitoba. Palcu spent her life in a state of transience as her father, a physicist, had a job that moved her family across the world. She developed an obsessive curiosity about people and intimacy through the lens of an observer. The isolation of frequent moves meant much of her time was spent alone, learning about her own experience through her hands - one of her few constants. Palcu's work investigates themes of contact, touch, isolation, anonymity, sensuality, relationships, pleasure and the body.