Parumveer Walia (b. Chandigarh, India) is a visual artist working across photography and film. His practice expands the image-based into video, installation, and object forms, examining the peripheral as subject, aesthetic, and culture. Working between India and Canada, Walia’s projects interweave archival research, socio-political episodes, and his lived experience to generate unstable, hybrid narratives.

Walia was a finalist for the 2024 Philip B. Lind Prize, Canada’s largest award for emerging artists. His work has been widely exhibited, including The Polygon Gallery (Vancouver), TRAPP Projects (Vancouver), Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver), Democracy Xchange (Toronto), Gallery 44 (Toronto), BINNAR Arts Festival (Portugal), and the Paxos Biennale (Greece), among others. Walia was a finalist for the Audain Travel Award (2024) and the Inaugural Kirloskar Art Award (2025). He was recently appointed the 2026 Fellowship by the Jeffrey Ahn Jr. Foundation. Upcoming projects include Afterimage, Vancouver (August 2025) NOCTURNE, Halifax (October, 2026), Eye of a Promise, PoMo Arts (March 2027), and Shadow Fields, his next publication with Soft Grain Books (January 2027).