Lotus Che
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Lotus Che (they/them) is a Chinese-Canadian, queer, neurodivergent artist and mother based in Toronto. Their work moves between worlds, where the psychic meets the political, myth bleeds into memory, and the body carries what culture refuses to name.
Rooted in ritual and forged through lived experience, Che’s practice explores what it means to be whole a fractured world. Spanning drawing, sculpture, painting, photography, textiles, ritual performance, and writing, their work moves between the material and the metaphysical, translating the unspeakable into form. They engage themes of the shadow self, the erotic, and the ancestral as living forces, mapping intergenerational trauma, sovereign body-knowing, and the invisible architectures of survival.
Their practice is not decorative but devotional. Che’s art is made as ceremony. Each work becomes both personal excavation and collective offering, a visual language of rupture, resistance, and return. Intimate, unflinching, and spiritually charged, the work is an embodied refusal to shrink. Rather than seek resolution, Che transforms pain into monument and selfhood into myth. It is not made to soothe but to summon.
As a critical essayist and cultural theorist, Che’s writing interrogates human connection, emotional economies, and technology through a matriarchal, somatic, and politically embodied lens. Their essays have introduced original terms such as synthetic warmth syndrome, algorithmic intimacy, and empathy simulation fatigue, helping reframe how we understand pain, consent, and relationality in the age of AI.
As a curator, Che extends their artistic vision into immersive, experiential exhibitions that provoke self-reflection and challenge traditional modes of engaging with art. Their curatorial approach is both schematic and intuitive, creating spaces where viewers are not just passive observers but active participants in their own journeys of contemplation and self-actualization.
Che has exhibited, worked, and undertaken residencies & workshops internationally across Portugal, Costa Rica, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, London, Toronto, Mexico City, New York, and in Los Angeles, California. They hold a Bachelor of Design from Toronto Metropolitan University and have spoken at Elevate Conference, Human-Centred AI, and W3B World Conference. They have been featured in international press including Art NYC, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The National Post, NOW Magazine, Metro Newspaper, and other notable media. Across mediums, Che’s evolving practice pushes the boundaries of artistic expression while deepening a commitment to expanded consciousness, spiritual metamorphosis, and radical remembering.
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Copyright © Lotus Che, Inc. 2025.
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