Tristan Baia

Tristan Baia (b.1999) is a queer, nonbinary artist (they/them) who is currently studying in their fourth year of Fine Arts at Wits University. Their work draws on personal experiences of their identity, specifically themes of gender dysphoria, assigned sex, sociopolitical trauma and healing, while simultaneously engaging in themes of catharsis and disruption. They work primarily in two methodologies – glitch art and textile art – and enjoy understanding and navigating the queer energy that these mediums evoke, and their infinite potentiality for catharsis and disruption.