b. 1984, Perú
www.lwrds.ca

lwrds duniam (they) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, researcher, educator, and 2019 OCAD University graduate (BFA Integrated Media) living and creating in Tkaronto. Born in Callao, Perú in 1984, lwrds has been calling Turtle Island home since 2002. With a studio practice guided by Afrodiasporic and Indigenous Cosmologies, their ARTivism is grounded in disability justice, Decolonial Critical Theory, and is anti-racist, anti-oppressive, sex-positive, and trauma-informed.

lwrds has presented work nationally and internationally, and attended international residencies in Brazil, Czechia, Ireland, Mexico, South Africa, and the US. In 2024 they won the Transformative Territories award of the COAL Prize—Creative Europe Programme and were invited to produce site-specific work at ArtMill in Czechia (2025). They are a founding member of the Trans Africa Collective and recently joined the international action group Broken Forests—Fireweed.