About

Marjan Verstappen works across installation, drawing, photography, and performance. Her artistic inquiry centres on the cultural fallout from European expansion and colonization — in particular, its effect on agriculture and trade.

She develops distinct bodies of work, often speculative, examining how colonization influences land use, food systems, and human coexistence with other species.

Raised in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Verstappen relocated to Canada in 2012 and currently resides in Toronto/Tkaronto.

• Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood — Art Gallery of Ontario
• INSTRUMENTA II — National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta
• Atlas of Nowhere — Ashburton Art Gallery, New Zealand
• Know The Ways — Flux Factory, NYC

Post-OCAD University graduation (2014), Verstappen co-founded Younger Than Beyoncé (YTB) Gallery with three collaborators to support emerging Generation Y artists. She also teaches community arts across Toronto/Tkaronto, where long-term, reciprocal relationships with communities are central to her practice.