Meenakashi Ghadial (b. 2001) is a visual artist and educator from Brampton, Ontario currently based in Katarokwi/Kingston. 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 queer Punjabi-Canadian woman. 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 and is currently working towards her Bachelor of Education at Queen’s University. She is an active member of the Ontario Kingston Women Artists Association. Currently, she is completing her second artist residency in Kingston at the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning from April - June 2024 where she plans to explore themes of memory, movement, and queerness through more interdisciplinary approaches.