Poonam Khanna - Toasting Twilight - Acylic on canvas mounted on a panel

Poonam Khanna is an award-winning, emerging Toronto-based artist who discovered her love of painting nine years ago at a paint night event she attended. Since then, she has been passionate about her pursuit of painting, making it an almost daily practice. Poonam began exhibiting her work in 2021, and has appeared in more than 70 group shows, including the Square Foot Show, the Society of Canadian Artists’ 2025 Open International Online Juried Exhibition and the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. She was juried into the Federation of Canadian Artists as an elected member in 2023 and had her first solo show in that same year. In 2024, Poonam was named the 2nd Runner Up in the Arts to Hearts Project Emerging Woman Artist of the Year Fall Artprize. She also received an honourable mention for her painting, Out for Delivery 2, in the Federation of Canadian Artists’ Scenes from Canada 2025 exhibit. Poonam was juried into the Society of Canadian Artists in 2025 as an elected member. Her work has appeared in Create! magazine, Art Seen magazine, Modern Impressionist magazine and in Women Artists on the Rise 2024 Fall Art Prize..

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Acylic on canvas mounted on a panel