Visual Artist
Biography
Randa Hijazi is a Syrian-Canadian visual artist based in Laval, Québec. Educated in Fine Arts and Media Studies in Damascus, her practice bridges figurative painting, organic surrealism, and cultural storytelling. Working primarily with large-scale paintings, Hijazi explores the relationship between memory, identity, migration, and human interconnectedness. Her visual language combines biomorphic forms, symbolic figures, and layered compositions that move between personal experience and collective history. Rather than documenting events literally, her paintings transform lived experience into symbolic landscapes where reality and imagination coexist. Human figures dissolve into organic structures, suggesting that identity is fluid, continuously shaped by memory, place, and emotional experience. Alongside her studio practice, Hijazi has developed ambitious public projects, most notably Timeless Tales, a monumental mural celebrating Canada’s cultural heritage through nearly 150 historical figures. The work reflects her long-standing interest in art as a space where history, culture, and collective memory converge. Her work has been exhibited internationally across Canada, the Middle East, and Europe, and has received recognition from cultural institutions for its contribution to contemporary visual art
Statement
Art begins for me where memory becomes form. My paintings investigate how human identity is constructed through memory, migration, belonging, and the invisible emotional experiences that connect us across cultures. Rather than illustrating specific narratives, I build symbolic spaces where figures, organic structures, and imagined landscapes merge into a shared visual language. Organic Surrealism has become the natural evolution of my practice. Inspired by cellular structures, the human body, natural growth, and subconscious imagery, I create compositions that exist between the physical and the psychological. Forms expand, dissolve, overlap, and regenerate, reflecting the way identity itself is constantly reshaped. Scale also plays an important role in my work. Whether creating an intimate canvas or a monumental mural, I am interested in how painting can become an environment rather than simply an image. My large-scale projects invite viewers to move through memory as a living experience rather than observe it from a distance.
Ultimately, my work asks a simple question:
How do memory, place, and human connection continue to shape who we become?
Through painting, I seek not definitive answers, but spaces for contemplation, empathy, and shared reflection.
Selected Works
