Kaya Panthier is a Dominican-Canadian artist working in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Strongly rooted in her Caribbean heritage, Panthier’s work explores diaspora and familial
connections with an emphasis on how migration, relationships to land and labour, and
intergenerational memory shape identity. Panthier’s work reimagines the landscape of the tropics as one which conceals, protects, and houses spirit. Through a study of incalescence, revolt, exaltation, and haunting on the island of Dominica, her current practice blends a reverence for personal legend with an interest in Caribbean folktales. Panthier graduated from Mount Allison University in May 2025. Her current body of work references found and personal family photographs to explore childhood memory, multicultural upbringing, family history, gender, and migration.