Ada Denil is a visual artist. Mainly working in sculpture and installation, she also engages with drawing, printmaking, painting, mixed-media, animation, or whatever she has at hand. Ada grew up on the south shore of Nova Scotia, and currently lives, makes art, and works in the same community. Ada has exhibited artwork across Canada, with shows spanning from her home province to as far west as Saskatchewan. She has shown work locally at the Lunenburg School of the Arts, the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Corridor Gallery, Argyle Fine Art, the Company House, the Chester Arts Center and in Point Pleasant Park. In 2021 she received the 2011 Canada Games Young Artist of Excellence Award (NSTT), and was shortlisted for the NSCAD Student Art Awards in 2020, 2022, and 2023. She has received support for her work in sculpture, printmaking and drawing from the Lunenburg School of the Arts (LSA), the Nova Scotia Talent Trust (NSTT), the Atlantic Jewish Council (AJC), and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) University. Ada’s work (often) aims to call attention to how active presence, awareness, and action can alter our perception of the environments in which we find ourselves, as well as our place in them. Ada received her BFA from NSCAD University in 2023 with a major in Fine Arts (Sculpture), and a minor in Art History.