Hi, and thanks for visiting my website! I’m Bareket—my name means emerald in Hebrew, reflecting the vibrant energy I bring into everything I create.

As a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, I’m passionate about using art as a powerful vehicle for community healing, radical self-love, and mindfulness. Rooted in my intersectional identity as a queer, neurodivergent artist, my practice blends mural-making, mindfulness, and collaborative creativity to cultivate inclusive spaces filled with compassion, gratitude, and belonging.

My murals and community-engaged projects—rich with bright colours, joyful patterns, and bold typography—are intentionally designed to spark delight and encourage thoughtful reflection. I deeply believe in “colour as medicine,” creating art installations that nurture collective healing and foster meaningful connections.

Committed to nurturing connected and inclusive communities, I frequently collaborate with schools, arts organizations, and healthcare institutions such as Baycrest Health Sciences, CAMH, Toronto Public Library, StreetARToronto, and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Each collaboration celebrates creativity, mental wellness, and collective empowerment.

In 2017, I founded Women Paint, a celebrated street-art initiative amplifying the resilience and diverse narratives of women, non-binary, and gender non-conforming artists and community members. As its creative director, I’ve produced over 100 murals, supported emerging artists through mentorship, and led youth-focused mural camps.

I’ve had the honour of partnering with renowned clients and institutions, including The New Yorker, Tourism Canada, City of Toronto, Union Station, Luminato Festival, Gallery Stratford, The Bentway, Airbnb, and Stackt Market, creating impactful public artworks and installations in New York, Miami, California, Bali, and across Canada.

Beyond my artistic practice, mindfulness, yoga, and plant medicine deeply inform my work. Gardening nourishes me, and cultivating relationships with the natural world enables me to share valuable lessons from plants and fungi—encouraging reciprocal healing between people and nature.

My work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Globe and Mail, CBC Arts, Toronto Life, and others.

I warmly invite you to connect, collaborate, or simply start a conversation. I'd love to hear from you!

With gratitude,
Bareket

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* I acknowledge that Toronto, has been the traditional land of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples and is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. I also acknowledge that Toronto is Dish With One Spoon Territory, and covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands. I recognize that as an immigrant, I have directly benefited from the colonization and genocide of the original caretakers of this land. I am grateful to have the opportunity to create on this land and am committed to continuing to unlearn and decolonize spaces I live, play, and work in.

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MA in History of Design and Curatorial Studies, Parsons the New School for Design/Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institute.

Honours Bachelor of Design, York University/Sheridan Institute.

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