Misha Hunter is a painter based in Hamilton, Canada. His current practice questions our relationship with the material world, the absurdities within this world, and its connection to the spiritual realm. Capturing innate mundane objects and scenes of absurd depictions stems from Hunter's own experiences and anxieties about mental health, past trauma, and addiction. Searching for parallels and connections amidst our human experience, spiritual existence, and the material world, Hunter is able to explore concepts of epigenetic’s (nature vs nurture), the human impact on our surroundings, and whether or not our environments become a product of us or vice versa.

Hunter’s work finds connections and explores past memories that always will be associated with a time and environment that has highly symbolic and nostalgic material elements linked to it. The only constant and certainty in life that we know of is that morality comes to an end at some point. Even with this knowledge widely accepted among us, Hunter examines how humans still search for an irrelevant satisfaction and purpose through the material world more so than ever before. The importance of material success becomes existential validation. 

“I often consider the images I draw inspiration from as ridiculous historical relics in which an alien civilization, or future humans will look back on in absolute confusion, humor, or even disgust when we are all gone."

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Contact: misha.hunter.art@gmail.com

Instagram: @misha.r.h