Lotus Che
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Lotus Che (she/they), née Julia Che, is a Chinese-Canadian transdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. Their work inhabits the threshold where the psychic and the political converge—where myth is not a metaphor but method, and the body carries what culture refuses to name.
Rooted in ritual and forged through lived experience, Che’s practice is oriented toward repair without reconciliation. It spans drawing, sculpture, painting, photography, textiles, ritual performance, and writing, holding the material and the metaphysical as inseparable, translating the unspeakable into form. They engage the shadow self, the erotic, and the ancestral as active intelligences, mapping intergenerational trauma, sovereign body-knowing, and the invisible architectures that govern survival.
Their practice is not decorative but devotional. Che’s art is made as ceremony. Each work becomes both personal excavation and collective witness, 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.
Alongside their visual practice, Che is a cultural theorist and critical essayist whose writing interrogates intimacy, emotional economies, and technology through a matriarchal, somatic, and politically embodied lens. Their essays have introduced original frameworks—including synthetic warmth syndrome, algorithmic intimacy, and empathy simulation fatigue—forging new language to understand consent, pain, and relational collapse in the age of Artificial Intelligence.
As a curator, Che extends this vision into immersive, experiential exhibitions that privilege embodied encounter over passive spectatorship. Their curatorial approach is both rigorous and intuitive, creating environments that invite viewers into processes of reflection, rupture, and self-recognition rather than consumption.
Che has exhibited, worked, and undertaken residencies and workshops internationally across Portugal, Costa Rica, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, London, Toronto, Mexico City, New York, and Los Angeles. They hold a Bachelor of Design from Toronto Metropolitan University and have spoken at conferences including Elevate, Human-Centred AI, and W3B World. Che has been featured in international press including Art NYC, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The National Post, and NOW Magazine. Across mediums, Che’s practice advances a sustained commitment to freedom, embodied truth, and spiritual metamorphosis—insisting on art as a technology of remembrance and refusal.
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