Meenakashi Ghadial (b. 2001) is a visual artist and educator from Brampton, Ontario currently based in London, England. She creates representational oil paintings on non-traditional substrates that explore themes of marriage, love, intimacy, grief and sexuality. She presents the car as a multifaceted liminal space that functions as a safe space for her as a Punjabi-Canadian lesbian. Her inspiration draws from personal experience navigating her queer identity as a second-generation immigrant in her family. Through the use of current documentation as well as archival family material, Meenakashi creates narratives that explore the particularities of intergenerational experiences.

Ghadial received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) with a Minor in Art History, as well as a Bachelor of Education from Queen’s University. Meenakashi is currently working towards starting a new body of work inspired by her recent trip to Punjab inspired by the South Asian lesbian experience in India and the diasporic community.