Paintings that move you — Gaya Kairos
Gaya Kairos is an award-winning, multi-disciplinary artist working between Toronto, Canada and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where she opened Gaia Galeria in the heart of the city's art district in 2022.
Over two decades of practice, Gaya has developed a body of work that moves fluidly across painting, ceramics, and performance — from expressive figurative work and bold abstracts to intimate florals and instinctual ceramic sculptures. Her work reflects a deep fascination with organic and man-made forms, the human body in motion, and the emotional landscape of everyday life.
Gaya's paintings have found homes with private collectors in Canada, England, United States of America, Switzerland, and France. She has exhibited extensively across Toronto and Puerto Vallarta, with solo exhibitions at Benitto's (Marina Vallarta), and group shows at Gaia Galeria, Qulture Gallery, Emotions by Corsica Gallery, Magic Colors Gallery, Golden Section Gallery, Arte Vallarta Gallery, Arta Gallery Toronto, Leslie Grove Gallery, and Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, and Etobicoke Civic Centre Art Gallery, where she curated and produced a group exhibition in 2019.
A recipient of Special Merit and Special Recognition Awards from Light Space & Time Gallery, and semi-finalist at Art Battle Toronto, Gaya's art has been featured in "Out and About PV" magazine and "For the Love of Arts" online magazine and selected for the feature film Her & More (2022).
Since 2015 she has developed a live Synesthesia performance practice — at the intersection of sound, color, and sensory experience — performing for the cities of Toronto and Mississauga.
To get this world that I live in
I take the brush, and I delve in
To get through layers of my skin
To heart that’s beating there within,
To fight the Fear, be exposed
like naked leaf, but not through words…
To grow, to feel, to sort all out -
I take the brush and I start out
It’ 's very simple - can’t you see
I turn off Head, Allow Soul in,
And good and bad Is all stirred in...
The Transcendental thus begins.
I find the brush to find myself
And that is why I do create.
Poem by Gaya Kairos, 2014