Danse Macabre, Michelle Msami

Michelle Msami’s Danse Macabre presents a series of paintings engaging with art historical tradition and spirituality through figurative portraiture. Using dramatic compositions shaped by light and fabric, Msami’s works personify life and death as counterparts bound in a cyclical choreography. Drawing on narrative painting as both a spiritual and secular visual language, the exhibition explores themes of mortality, duality, and transcendence.

Cover Artwork: Michelle Msami, Magdalene

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About the Artist

Michelle Msami is a Canada-based visual artist born and raised in Botswana. She attends the University of the Fraser Valley working towards a Bachelor of Fine Art with a major in Visual Arts. She has explored and experimented with painting, photography and sculpture, evolving to be a multidisciplinary artist whose main medium of expression is painting.

Msami is a recipient of the 2026 Kwi Am Choi Scholarship at PoMoArts.

Website: msami.art‍

Social Media: @msami.art

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About the Kwi Am Choi Scholarship

Established in 2007, the Kwi Am Choi Exhibition Scholarship is an annual award of $2,000 that recognizes an emerging BC artist between the ages of 18 and 32, and is designed to fund the costs of new artwork creations and mounting a solo exhibition at PoMoArts. This initiative provides recent graduates and students currently enrolled in Fine Arts programs at recognized post-secondary institutions in Canada with the opportunity to display their work in a public art gallery, receive curatorial mentorship, and network with other artists and art professionals. Learn more at pomoarts.ca/get-involved/kwi-am-choi-scholarship