Embassy Cultural House
The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is non-hierarchical and inter-generational, which paves the way for inclusive and open opportunities for artists, writers, cultural workers and other cultural advocates. Our most recent publication is Not/For the Money, launched January 22nd, 2026, is an extension of our online exhibition of the same title. In 2024, the ECH published an anthology, An Alternative Cultural History of London, Ontario: Art & Activism. This anthology introduces important and essential cultural material to a generation that has not had access to such documents. Since January of 2021 the ECH has published 10 publications.
Zi Wang
Wang Zi 王紫 (born in Nanjing, China) is a Tkaronto/Toronto-based artist-educator whose interdisciplinary practice spans print-based installation, performance, sound, and socially engaged art. Her research draws on domestic archives and diasporic experience to explore cultural memory, object-biography, and mistranslation as methods of inquiry. Wang has exhibited at the Ontario Legislative Assembly, Métis Space (HK), and Art Bank Canada, and facilitated programs with the ROM, CAMH, and public libraries across Ontario. Her work is supported by SSHRC, the Toronto Arts Council, and the Ontario Arts Council. She is also a recipient of the Guggenheim Bilbao Scholarship.Find out more
Dee Dee Decay
With an emphasis on play, Dee Dee Decay works with sculpture, performance, video, and the tender processing of materials. The close relationship they hold with their grandmother directly informs their practice through manual labor, slowness, repetition, and care, whether they find themselves at the metal studio or by claybeds of the Humber River. For Dee, creating from a land-based practice becomes the connective tissue that brings together their cultural investigations and reverence of death in the form of a tangled fruit net. This past year, they’ve developed an affinity for white swiftlets and the unique nature of their nests. Ongoing research explores colonial histories in South Asia and their personal experiences with homebuilding and migration. Dee is a queer Chinese-Viet…Find out more
Anika Iyer
Anika Iyer is a multidisciplinary artist, exploring themes of ineffability and the limitations of language. Her work asks: how do we give voice to the unnamed? How does the world occur to a child before they have words for their experience? Through experimental film and video installation, Iyer engages with ephemera, using light as her primary medium. Working in analog film, she surrenders to slowness, the process demanding patience and ritual repetition. At this deliberate pace, time becomes her collaborator. She believes connections emerge through deep looking and listening, bringing viewers into her world of introspection and contemplation. To Iyer, presence and attention are prayer; a radical act in our attention-grabbing world. Ironically, her moving images invite the viewer to…Find out more
Hala Alsalman
Hala Alsalman is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker with a background in journalism. Her work investigates political power, history-making and gender relations through video, collage and ceramics. She graduated with SSHRC funded MFA from OCAD University in 2024 and was recently awarded a research-creation grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.