Grace Sun (she/her) is a Toronto-based new media artist creating in the intersection of interactive/creative technology and dance.
Grace specializes in real-time movement and audio interactive design for:
- Theatrical and live performance projection
- Public-facing exhibitions and activations
- Simple motion capture setups for film
Through her practice, she aims to create and explore a symbiotic relationship between performer and technology, questioning how they affect and control each other.
Her movement and creative tech explorations are informed by her years of experience as a dancer and choreographer.
Through her practice, she aims to create and explore a symbiotic relationship between performer and technology, questioning how they affect and control each other. What can we learn from each other? Who is shaping who? How do we preserve the human-ness and heart of traditional arts like dance, using technology to extend and enhance instead of erase?
She imagines her projection and video work as an expansion of a dancer’s creative limits, allowing them to imagine and play beyond the confines of their physical bodies.
Inspired by her experiences navigating identity, culture and community as a queer first-generation Chinese Canadian woman, she embraces creating from a space of uncertainty, curiosity, and in-between.
Her work as an artist is shaped by her love for the in-between, inspired by her experiences navigating identity, culture and community as a queer first-generation Chinese Canadian woman. she embraces creating from a space of uncertainty, curiosity, and in-between.
What happens when we embrace the unknown? When we combine our loves and our passions? What intersects, overlaps, what creates dissonance? What can we learn?
Image Credits: Ivan Ceria, Drew Berry, Jessica Berger, Abbey Richens
Dancers: Amelie Mah, Zoë Guthrie, Julia Mak, Averil Dubois, Maya Gale-Buncel
She primarily works in interactive projection design and live VJ-ing, bringing her expertise to theatre, film and exhibit design. Her work has been exhibited at local and international exhibitions including Long Winter @ Geary Art Crawl, Seasonal Activities (Frog in Hand), Vector Festival 2025 (InterAccess), NYE Art and Dance Party (MakeRoomInc x Loveu4ever @ Illuminarium), SeenTO Festival 2026, Phantasia 2025, Emergence, and NE2 Gallery Squared.
Projection design credits include Umsamo (Mafa Dance Village, Arts Orillia), Seasons of Souls (Kier Collective, Toronto Fringe), and Cues and Waves (whengracecreates, Mav Moves).
Online, Grace shares her process and work through Instagram and TikTok (@whengracecreates), garnering over 1M views in the past year.
On a larger scale, she co-directs the art collective Confluence with dancer Zoë Guthrie, producing community activations, theatrical productions and film productions at the intersection of creative technology and dance.
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