Wrik Mead

wmead@ocadu.ca
Associate Professor, Tenured
Faculty of Art

Wrik Mead has accumulated a unique body of more than fifty animated miniature narratives: queer fantasies, parables, dreams, and even documentaries. His films are psycho-dramatic by inclination, first person narratives of desire and accommodation. They're a mix of painstaking animation, fairy-tale allegory and queer-identity.
His films have screened worldwide including festivals like the Berlinale, The Sydney International Film Festival, The San Francisco International Film Festival and several films presented at the Toronto International Film Festival. His print works have also exhibited widely in galleries such as PayneShurvell Gallery in London, UK, Optica Gallery in Montréal, and Mercer Union in Toronto.
He graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1988 with honours and returned to his studies in 2004 to receive his MA Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). He currently lives and works in Toronto and teaches in the Experimental Animation Department at OCADU.