Art born
at the edge
of medicine
& science

Evan Sharma grew up on the shores of Lake Ontario. At ten, watching Exit Through the Gift Shop changed the terms of his attention. He started tagging walls and painting on cardboard boxes — anything he could find.

At twelve, he became the youngest exhibitor at The Artist Project, one of Canada's most respected contemporary art fairs. A prominent collector purchased his portrait of Bob Dylan that day and hung it alongside their Picasso in Los Angeles.

Sharma is now a medical student at the University of Ottawa. What he encounters in the cadaveric lab and the emergency room has begun to appear directly in the paintings: figures rendered as white outlines against vivid terrain, their interior architecture — vascular, cardiac, skeletal — visible beneath the surface, held within the same gestural urgency as the burning skies above them.

His 2050 Series grew from his own award-winning research into methane emissions, envisioning landscapes altered by the green technologies we still have time to adopt. His earlier series, The Last Year, traced the final months of a patient with terminal neurological disease.

Sharma works in acrylic with considerable force — colour pushed beyond observation, form distilled to its emotional and structural essentials. A scientific fluency that makes the distortion feel less like style and more like evidence.