Haley Meyer

Haley Meyer (b. 2000) is an emerging oil painter based in Toronto. Her work explores the connection between memory loss and transitional places, using fleeting images taken while in transit to reflect how memories slip, fade, and blur over time. The world seen from these spaces is impermanent and distorted, mirroring the way memory loss fractures and reshapes past experiences. Drawing from her experience with memory loss, she paints artificial lights against dark spaces, creating an uncertain atmosphere marked by the urge to remember fading moments. Painting from photographs helps her to organize, preserve, and remember fading experiences. The slow act of painting extends the moment, turning vague memories into tangible objects on canvas. In 2025, Haley was awarded the Arts & Letters Club of Toronto Foundation Ina Gilbert Visual Arts Award. She graduated from the Drawing & Painting program with a minor in Printmaking & Publications from OCAD University.